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A Novel
by Margot Livesey
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by Elizabeth Strout
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
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 Julia Glass
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsWhen a piece of her coconut cake is served to the governor of New Mexico, he woos Greenie Duquette, a Greenwich Village pastry chef away from the life she knows to become his chef a change that sets in motion a period of adventure and upheaval not just for Greenie but for many others around her.
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsFew writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists.
by Alice Hoffman
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA magical story of loss and renewal and illuminates the bonds and mysteries that connect mother and daughter, sister and brother, woman and man.
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