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A Novel
by Francisco Goldman
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by Isabel Allende
Published Sep 2018
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by Helen Macdonald
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2015 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.
The Still Point of the Turning World
by Emily Rapp Black
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother's journey through grief and beyond it, re-examining our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent, to be a success, and to live a meaningful life.
by Claire Messud
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
by Kevin Brockmeier
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsFrom best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all.
by Roger Rosenblatt
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsWhen his daughter, Amy, died suddenly of a heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. His story tells how a family makes the possible out of the impossible.
by Danny Scheinmann
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsBased on real family events, Danny Scheinmanns novel paints a dramatic portrait of two apparently unconnected epic love stories.
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
Read Reviews'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
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