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Parenting & Families (fiction & non-fiction)
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Father of the Rain: A Novel
by Lily King
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 10 May 2011
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| Award-winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychological portrait of a wildly charismatic patriarch as seen through the eyes of his daughter. |
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What Becomes: Stories
by A.L. Kennedy
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 5 Apr 2011
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| Powerful and funny, intimate and profound, the stories in What Becomes capture the spirit of our times with dark humor, poignant hopefulness, and brilliant evocation of contemporary social and spiritual malaise. |
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Solace of the Road
by Siobhan Dowd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 5 Apr 2011
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| Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. |
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Rat: A Novel
by Fernanda Eberstadt
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 22 Mar 2011
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| With Rat, Eberstadt has found a new setting she knows well, the South of France, and the story she tells is original, powerful, and heartrending—about a child’s search for a father she has never known. |
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Making Toast: A Family Story
by Roger Rosenblatt
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 15 Feb 2011
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| When his daughter, Amy, died suddenly of a heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. His story tells how a family makes the possible out of the impossible. |
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Amaryllis in Blueberry
by Christina Meldrum
Paperback: 8 Feb 2011
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| Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the complexity of human relationships through the haunting voices of Dick and Seena Slepy and their four daughters in a soulful novel which weaves together the past and the present of a family harmed—and healed—by buried secrets. |
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The World Beneath
by Cate Kennedy
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| A compassionate and unswerving portrait of a broken family whose members go to extraordinary lengths to reclaim their lives and relationships from the mistakes of the past. |
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Annabel: A Novel
by Kathleen Winter
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 4 Jan 2011
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| Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community in the 1960s. |
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