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by Julia Glass
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by Joyce Maynard
Published Sep 2011
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by Margot Livesey
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsMargot Livesey skillfully reveals how luckgood and badplays a vital role in our lives, and how the search for truth can prove a dangerous undertaking.
by Ann Patchett
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsSet over a period of twenty-four hours, Run shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met.
by Joanna Trollope
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsTrollope explores the complexities of twenty-first century family life.
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 Renée Manfredi
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsThe mesmerizing story of three generations of women confronting the emotional turmoil of abandonment, and the men with whom their lives converge.
by Judith Ryan Hendricks
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsInspiring and beautifully rendered, Bread Alone is an uplifting debut novel -- dusted in the gentlest of magic, full of humor, and guaranteed to warm the heart.
by Myla Goldberg
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsNot merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity.
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