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• The Wedding Party

  Liu, Xinwu,

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  Despite a multitude of guests, from anxious family members to a fretful bridal party, exasperating friends, interfering neighbors, and wedding crashers, Auntie Xue is determined to make her son's wedding day a triumph.

• Saturday

  McEwan, Ian

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  Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a successful neurosurgeon who lands himself in a minor car accident where he meets Baxter, a young man on the edge of violence, who returns later that day for Perowne's family reunion.

• River Mumma

  Reid-Benta, Zalika,

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  Alicia is out of grad school with no job prospects when the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb.

• 24 Hours in Paris

  Moondi, Romi,

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  After calling off her engagement, Mira escapes on an all-expense paid business trip to Paris where she ends up trapped with her annoying coworker for 24-hours.

• Landing on the Edge of Eternity

  Twenty-four Hours at Omaha Beach

  Kershaw, Robert J., 1950-

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  A visceral and momentous narrative of the first twenty-four hours of D-Day on Omaha the most dramatic Allied landing of World War II.

• The Work Wife

  a Novel

  Hart, Alison B.,

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  Tonight, everyone will be at the Stabler estate for the Hollywood event of the season, and if the party’s a success, that chief of staff job Zanne's been chasing may soon be hers but an unwanted guest arrives with explosive consequences.

• A Spark of Light

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  The warm fall day starts like any other at a women’s reproductive health services clinic until a distraught gunman takes everyone hostage.

• Mrs. Dalloway

  Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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  As she readies her house for a party, Mrs. Dalloway is flooded with remembrances of faraway times and reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

• Guapa

  Haddad, Saleem,

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  Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval.

• Only in Tokyo

  Two Chefs, 24 Hours, the Ultimate Food City

  Ryan, Michael,

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  From daybreak to late night, discover the creative people and compelling stories behind the restaurants, bars and tea houses of the world’s most exciting food destination with intrepid chefs Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess.

• Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

  Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-

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  It’s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish strolls through gritty Manhattan while recalling a long and eventful life and meeting interesting people along the way.

• One Day

  the Extraordinary Story of An Ordinary 24 Hours in America

  Weingarten, Gene,

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  Weingarten asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.

• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

  Turton, Stuart,

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  Evelyn will be murdered at 11pm every day until Aiden can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others.

• Ulysses

  Joyce, James, 1882-1941,

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  This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.