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Published Jan 2017
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Published Jul 2013
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by Lorna Landvik
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThe View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landviks delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life.
by Diane Hammond
Published Mar 2005
Read ReviewsAn evocative debut novel about life in a small town and of two women testing their own limits. A moving and deftly told portrait of the hard-scrabble life.
by Lisa Tucker
Published May 2003
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