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A Novel
by Carolyn Parkhurst
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by Sara Gruen
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsAn atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932 illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.
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 Alice McDermott
Published Nov 2003
Read ReviewsMcDermott explores the mysterious depths of what seems like everyday life with unforgettable insight in this tale of a young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things.
by Anna Quindlen
Published Aug 2003
Read ReviewsA teenage couple drive up to the Blessings estate late at night, leaving a box behind them. The estate caretaker finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her; and matriarch Lydia Blessing, for her own reasons, decides to help him.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Published Aug 2001
Read ReviewsA serious but never solemn novel about the American comic book's Golden Age, from the late 1930's to the early 1950s. 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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