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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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Widowed Tova Sullivan works the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium where she befriends Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened to Tova's 18-year-old son, who disappeared on a boat in Puget Sound over 30 years ago. Now he must use every trick he can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.
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Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter...