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The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye GibbonsA sequel to Ellen Foster finds fifteen-year-old Ellen settling into a permanent home with a new mother, where she manages conflicted feelings through her ritual visits to the county fair, her poetry, and her growing relationship with marriage-oriented Stuart.
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Flora
by Gail Godwin
Isolated in a decaying family home while her father performs secret work at the end of World War II, ten-year-old Helen, grieving the losses of her mother and grandmother, and bonds with her sensitive young aunt
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things : A Novel by Alice HoffmanThe daughter of a curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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Small Victories : Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne LamottThe New York Times best-selling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow presents this collection of essays that focus on hope and discuss how prevailing over life's hardships can transform our perceptions and our lives.
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Is This Tomorrow : A Novel by Caroline LeavittTwelve-year-old Lewis and his divorced, working mother Ava Lark move to a desirable, but inhospitable Boston suburb, where Lewis befriends two other fatherless children, but when one of them goes missing, Lewis and Ava are further ostracized
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Made in the U.S.A. by Billie LettsFending for themselves after the death of their mother and the abandonment of their fortune-seeking father, fifteen-year-old Lutie and twelve-year-old Fate flee their hometown in order to avoid becoming wards of the state. .
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The Lake Shore Limited by Sue MillerAn insightful story examines how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz comes to write a play about the terrorist bombing of a train, how the work is then created anew by the actors and the director and how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters’ lives.
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A Year After Henry : A Novel by Cathie PelletierA year after Henry Munroe's fatal heart attack, his doting parents, prudish wife, rebellious son, wayward brother, and former mistress all continue to grieve and grapple with their own lives
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The Stone Diaries by Carol ShieldsFrom her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life
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Gee Whiz
by Jane Smiley
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz
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South of Broad : a novel by Pat ConroyThe beloved best-selling author returns with a sprawling tale set mostly in Charleston, South Carolina, where, after his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship rears its ugly head in San Francisco.
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Dear Life : Stories by Alice MunroA new collection of stories by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The View from Castle Rock illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate, and is set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron.
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The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James WallerOn assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with Iowa native Francesca Johnson during four days of love, magic, and beauty
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Flight Behavior : A Novel by Barbara KingsolverTired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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Casebook : A Novel by Mona SimpsonSpying and eavesdropping on his separating parents at the side of his best friend, young Miles wonders about a stranger's role in his parents' lives before acquiring knowledge that has consequences for the whole family.
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A Dangerous Age : A Novel by Ellen GilchristChronicles the strength and devotion of the women of the Hand family, Louise, Winifred, and Olivia, a group unwittingly on a crash course with a distant war
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More Home Cooking : A Writer Returns to the Kitchen by Laurie ColwinThe late author of Home Cooking combines her writing skills with her love of cooking in a collection of essays on food and entertaining that discuss the challenges of being a working mother.
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Tumbledown : A Novel by Robert BoswellA young, seemingly-successful young therapist tries to put his life back on track while falling in love with another woman and struggling with financial woes in this new novel from the author of Century's Son.
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The Round House by Louise ErdrichWhen his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
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Ordinary People by Judith GuestSeventeen-year-old Conrad Jarrett returns to his parents' home and tries to build a new life for himself after spending eight months in a mental institution for attempted suicide
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Maya's Notebook : A Novel by Isabel Allende and Anne McLeanAfter the death of her beloved grandfather, 19-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Stone Mattress : Nine Tales by Margaret AtwoodThe award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire.
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Tapestry of Fortunes : A Novel by Elizabeth BergSelling her home and taking time off from her career as a successful motivational speaker, Cecilia Ross moves into a beautiful old house in St. Paul and bonds with three roommates, including one who would reconnect with a daughter she gave up for adoption, one who would visit her long-absent ex and a professional chef who would find inspiration from other restaurants.
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Laura Rider's Masterpiece : A Novel
by Jane Hamilton
After twelve years of marriage, Laura Rider decides to stop sleeping with her husband Charlie and write a book, a decision that prompts her to push Charlie into a romance with local radio show host Jenna with comical results.
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Benediction
by Kent Haruf
A terminally ill cancer patient is attended in his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a neighbor who has recently lost her mother
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The Accursed by Joyce Carol OatesIn 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingWhile playing baseball in the summer of 1953, Owen Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother, and he becomes convinced that he is an instrument of God.
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The Winters in Bloom : A Novel by Lisa TuckerWhen their beloved young son disappears from their home, Kyra and David Winter struggle to safeguard their family while combing through their respective pasts to figure out whether David's troubled ex-wife or a member of Kyra's estranged family may be responsible.
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Pocketful of Names by Joe CoomerComfortable with her life as a dedicated and solitary artist living on an island off the coast of Maine, Hannah is increasingly disturbed by and forced to adjust to a series of unexpected and uninvited visitors, including an abandoned dog, a teenager running from an abusive father, a half-sister in trouble, a needy mainland family, and a trapped whale.
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State of Wonder by Ann PatchettA researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh must step out of her comfort zone when she is sent into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna QuindlenThe Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life presents a candid and whimsical personal account that explores what matters to middle-aged women and how they regard life stages.
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