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Kristin hannah books list of books by author kristin hannah. How did the world at that time, with the political unrest and kidnappings and plane hijackings, factor into the plot. In the meantime, she wrote more than 20 other novels, including her 2015 runaway bestseller, the nightingale, a novel about two sisters in germanoccupied. The great alone is set in the turbulent world of america in the 1970s. In her bestselling the nightingale, hannah told an.
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