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Published Nov 2017
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by Elizabeth Strout
Published Apr 2014
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by Maggie O'Farrell
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsA spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
by Marilynne Robinson
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsHome parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.
by Ethan Canin
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsA stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young mans life.
by Alice McDermott
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
by Joanna Trollope
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsTrollope explores the complexities of twenty-first century family life.
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
by Ayelet Waldman
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsWith wry candor and tender humor, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.
by Elizabeth Berg
Published Mar 2006
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by Sue Monk Kidd
Published Mar 2006
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