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by Jan Ellison
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsWith the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman's reckoning with a youthful mistake.
Named one of the best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle
by Akhil Sharma
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsHeart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival.
by Ann Patchett
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsSet over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met.
by Brian Strause
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsBy turns humorous and heartbreaking, personal and sweeping, familiar and extraordinary, Brian Strause's first novel takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey into America's heartland.
by Kim Barnes
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsBy turns darkly violent and heartbreakingly tender - a work of extraordinary emotional power from an astonishingly original writer.
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing novel about women with extraordinary gifts coping with loss, finding forgiveness and especially, learning to forgive themselves. Kidd's strong, irresistible voice catches us up and doesn't let go.
The Girl's Guide To Hunting & Fishing
by Melissa Bank
Published May 2000
Read ReviewsOne of the most eagerly anticipated books of the season - funny, sexy, wise fiction from the freshest new voice in women's writing.
by Allegra Goodman
Published Aug 1999
Read ReviewsGoodman's deft sense of character brings alive an appealing and engrossing cast, fleshed out by nuances of place and time.
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