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A Novel
by Joyce Maynard
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by Alex George
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsAn uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.
by Jo Baker
Published Dec 2012
Read ReviewsThe American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century - a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past.
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 Elizabeth Berg
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsThe Year of Pleasures is about acknowledging the solace found in ordinary things: a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music, friends, and art.
by Jeannette Walls
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
by Jodi Picoult
Published Jul 2002
Read ReviewsJack buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger who has appeared out of the blue. Addie, desperate for answers, must look into her heart -- and into Jack's lies and shadowy secrets -- for evidence that will condemn or redeem the man she has come to love.
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.
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