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by Jeannette Walls
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsJeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsFrom San Francisco to Savannah, Montana to Texas, Amanda Eyre Wards characters are united in their fervent search to find a place where they truly belong. Her stories are imbued with humor, clear-eyed insight, and emotional richness.
by Nick Hornby
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsIntense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.
by Trezza Azzopardi
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsSeventy-two-year-old Winnie, homeless and abandoned time and again by those shes trusted, is catapulted out of her exile when a young girl robs her. Winnie embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life.
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 Jennifer Weiner
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsWeiner's witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine, a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life's priorities.
by Margaret Atwood
Published Aug 2001
Read ReviewsThe Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience, told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s.
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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