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From National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful— whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large.
Over the course of a thirty-year career, Jean Thompson has been celebrated by critics as "a writer of extraordinary intelligence and sensitivity" (O, The Oprah Magazine), "an American Alice Munro" (The Wall
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Travis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone--playing like a pro. In astonishingly short order, Travis is catapulted into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round. And while his wife,...
65) An untamed heart
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Norway, 1878. Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever. Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests that she leave Norway...
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"Chiaverini has once again written an intense and beautiful book-so much so that readers will almost hear the hollow echo of the fife and drum as they immerse themselves in every compelling page . . . Truly unforgettable."—BookPage
In 1862, the men of Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, rally to President Lincoln's call while Dorothea Granger marshals her friends to "wield their needles for the Union." Meanwhile, Anneke Bergstrom hides...
In 1862, the men of Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, rally to President Lincoln's call while Dorothea Granger marshals her friends to "wield their needles for the Union." Meanwhile, Anneke Bergstrom hides...
67) Need you now
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When big-city life threatens the safety of one of their three teenagers, Brad and Darlene Henderson move the family to tiny Round Top, Texas. The adjustment is difficult for the kids, and when Darlene takes an outside job for the first time, tension rises. The widowed father of one of her students is paying too much attention to her. Trouble is, Darlene feels like someone is listening to her for the first time in a long time. If Darlene ever needed...
68) The GQ candidate
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"After a sex scandal brings down a local politician, Luke Cooper finds himself catapulted into the Michigan Governor's mansion, making him one of the few black and--by virtue of adoption--Jewish elected officials to hold such an office. His national celebrity is increased when he heroically saves the life of an avowed racist, and his good looks and charm earn him the nickname "The GQ Candidate." One day Luke stuns his inner circle by informing them...
69) Jo's boys
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Jo and Professor Bhaer arrange a reunion for the March family and the original twelve boys of Plumfield.
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"An epic saga about a Trinidadian family spanning WWII to the early Sixties. Told in alternating voices, the author recounts the story of Marcia, our fierce heroine, who leaves her island home in order to protect the man she's loved for years, and finds herself isolated in a strange land but with the determination to survive and rebuild" --
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In Fairbrook, a town tailor-made for Christmas, The Diamond Lils, a ladies group who meet weekly to play poker and socialize, decide to do some good deeds and wealthy widow Lynette thinks that a little matchmaking between single mom Carly Westbrook and Grant Barrows is the perfect place to start.
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Lucy Marinn es una artista vidriera que vive en la mística y hermosa Friday Harbor, en el estado de Washington. Se ve pillada por sorpresa y queda atónita ante la traición más amarga de todas: su prometido, Kevin, la ha dejado por su nueva amante, que no es otra que Alice, la propia hermana de Lucy. Para Lucy es otra desilusión que se suma a una vida amorosa signada por sus decisiones equivocadas. Pese a la severa desaprobación de los padres...
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A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence.
78) Child of mine
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"Desperately clinging to the hope of finding her long-lost daughter, will Kelly miss out on the chance to find love--and a family--once more?"--
79) Tony and Susan
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While reading the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel, a thriller involving a math professor whose ordinary life careens off violently off course, Susan Morrow is plunged back into the past and forced to confront her fears.
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