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by Mary McGarry Morris
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsNora Hammond is a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair, and a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force.
The School of Essential Ingredients
by Erica Bauermeister
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsA lesson in cake-making leads to reflections on a marriage; tortillas teach a girl to believe in herself. A man learns about love while creating tiramisu. The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight cooking students and their teacher in a class that meets in Lillians restaurant kitchen.
by Cate Kennedy
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsDevastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives. This arresting collection introduces a new master of the short story.
by Alice Munro
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsHere are the infinite betrayals and surprises of lovebetween men and women, between friends, between parents and childrenthat are the stuff of all our lives.
by Stephanie Kallos
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsFunny, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families, and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the worlds wrongs.
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