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Hazel Russon's life in 1882 Utah territory is defined by three things: the Mormon church, polygamy, and the men who control both. She knows she's supposed to suppress her sinful dreams of a monogamous life with her sweetheart, and her desire for the freedom to play her beloved piano. Every Mormon woman's duty is to live obediently and meekly, devoted to her husband and her calling as a sister wife. Her eternal salvation depends upon it. Commanded...
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"In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted sign: Miss Edie, Psychic. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she's going to lose them both. Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to her, yet hope and clients are dwindling. . . ....
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"The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail 'from the future and the past simultaneously' and who 'reenchants the air' when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas's house...
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Sybil tiene setenta y tres años y se encuentra en el ocaso de su vida. Siempre ha comprendido el mundo escribiendo cartas, y a través de esta novela epistolar vemos cómo se reconcilia con su pasado y su presente y aprende a perdonar.
Sybil is seventy-three years old, in the winter of her life. Sybil has always made sense of the world through writing letters and through this epistolary novel we see how she comes to terms with her past and present...
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Amira Abadi thought she had a strong, loving marriage--until her husband's sudden death reveals his layers of secrets and lies. As Amira looks for answers by retracing her husband's final days, she must balance protecting her devastated children against the cost of the truth.
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