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by Ann Napolitano
Published Jun 2012
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by Harry Bruinius
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsCharts the little-known history of eugenics in Americaa movement that began in the early twentieth century and resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans.
by Sue Miller
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsA stunning, kaleidoscopic evocation of a family in crisis, written with delicacy and masterful care - a rich and gorgeously layered tale of a family breaking apart and coming back together again.
by Elizabeth Berg
Published Jun 2003
Read ReviewsIn this superb collection of short stories, Berg takes us into the times in women's lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change.
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.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it
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