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by Andrea Levy
Published Apr 2011
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by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Aug 2010
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by Caro De Robertis
Published Aug 2010
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by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Published Aug 2008
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Published May 2007
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by Carolyn Turgeon
Published Oct 2006
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Published May 2006
Read ReviewsBy turns humorous and heartbreaking, personal and sweeping, familiar and extraordinary, Brian Strause's first novel takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey into America's heartland.
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Nov 2002
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Published May 2002
Read ReviewsA remarkable and confident debut---an endlessly surprising tale about appetite and miracle, all four humors in abundance, and human ecstasy of every sort.
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