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by Sharon Guskin
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsNoah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.
by Daniel Levine
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsA reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster's perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain.
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsIn her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores a girl's descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.
by Helen Garner
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsA powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two womenone dying, the other called to care for herfrom an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author.
by Jenny Downham
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsThe story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live ... a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet life-affirming.
by Lori Lansens
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsMeet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her autobiography, it inevitably becomes the story of her short but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. From their awkward first steps--Ruby's arm curled around Rose's neck, her foreshortened legs ...
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest work.
by Chris Bohjalian
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsA family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.
by Anita Shreve
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsA powerful exploration of the music and silences of family life, the unhinging forces of desire, the wrenching power of secrets unrevealed, and the bewildering territories of betrayal and loss.
by Alice Hoffman
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances?
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