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by Alice Munro
Published Nov 2010
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by Alice Munro
Published Jan 2008
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by Suzan-Lori Parks
Published Apr 2004
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by Louise Erdrich
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsDrawing on her German and Ojibwe heritage, Erdrich offers another stimulating exploration into the human heart that will appeal to old fans and new readers alike. It's not exactly a breakaway, but more of the same from such a good writer is just fine.
by Anne Tyler
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsRebecca, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother, is caught unawares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it--how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been--is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsWeaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
by John Irving
Published Mar 1999
Read ReviewsRichly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.
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