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Parenting & Families (fiction & non-fiction)
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from books about parenting, family and relationships
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The Cat's Table: A Novel
by Michael Ondaatje
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 12 Jun 2012
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| A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage. |
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In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
by Fabio Geda
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 12 Jun 2012
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| When a ten-year-old boy's village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal. |
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The Astral: A Novel
by Kate Christensen
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 12 Jun 2012
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| From the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn. |
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Turn of Mind
by Alice LaPlante
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 27 May 2012
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| A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired surgeon with dementia who clings to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame and unspeakable loss. |
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Vandal Love: A Novel
by Deni Y. Béchard
Paperback: 15 May 2012
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| In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. |
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Enchanted
by Alethea Kontis
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 28 May 2013
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| It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true... |
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See You at Harry's
by Jo Knowles
Hardcover: 8 May 2012
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| Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges - until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal. |
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A Greyhound of a Girl
by Roddy Doyle
Hardcover: 1 May 2012
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| Four generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out. Perfect for thoughtful middle-graders and young teen girls. |
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