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• Oona Out of Order

  Montimore, Margarita,

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  "It's New Year's Eve 1982 and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics or remain at home in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rules of Civility

  Towles, Amor,

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  "Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hunting Party

  a Novel

  Foley, Lucy (Novelist),

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  "During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they've chosen an idyllic and isolated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Midnight With You

  Low, Shari,

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  "What would you do if you had just twenty-four hours to change your life? Ailish Ryan has been in hiding since her husband's affair ended their marriage. But when a friend forces her to face her new reality, will she choose to revisit the past or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Long Way Down

  Hornby, Nick

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  "Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Party

  Mackintosh, Clare,

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  "At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. It's the party to end all parties....but not everyone is here to celebrate. On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

  Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-

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  "She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it." Now it's the last…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Time Next Year

  Cousens, Sophie,

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  "Down-to-earth baker Minnie Cooper knows two things with great certainty: that her New Year's birthday has always been unlucky, and that it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Minnie and Quinn were born at the same hospital just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rewind

  Scotch, Allison Winn,

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  "When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation, they vowed to never speak to each other again. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Death of the Year

  Hannah, Sophie, 1971-

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  "New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the tiny Greek island of Lamperos to celebrate the holiday with what turns out to be a rather odd community of locals living in a dilapidated house. A dark sense of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Same Time, Next Year

  Macomber, Debbie,

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  "James Wilkens was almost a Manning groom-because he almost married one of the Manning sisters. With that broken engagement behind him, he spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas…where he meets Summer Lawton. She's just suffered a painful betrayal, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Year's Quilt

  An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

  Chiaverini, Jennifer

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  "As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can truly delight in her present happiness, she must face the sorrow hidden in her past -- her own role in the tragic circumstances that left…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Year's Eve

  Todman, Sarah

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  "Being born on the last day of the year has never done Eve Anderson any favours, but this year her birthday set off a series of rolling explosions rather than fireworks. An affair with a married man just crashed and burned, her career is in tatters,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bridget Jones's Diary

  a Novel

  Fielding, Helen, 1958-

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  "This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional…Read moreRead more of this annotation