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A Novel
by Carol Rifka Brunt
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Published Jun 2026
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by Rumaan Alam
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsFrom the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep.
by Natalie S. Harnett
Published Aug 2015
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by Amity Gaige
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsAttending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.
by Eowyn Ivey
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsAlaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsMeet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art.
Anthropology of an American Girl
by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.
by Melissa Fay Greene
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA novel of tragedy and hope set in AIDS-torn Ethiopia. When Haregwoin Teferras husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her life is shattered and she becomes a recluse. But then a priest delivers an orphan to her door. The another, and another... and together they thrive.
by Caroline Leavitt
Published Sep 2003
Read Reviews"Rarely has an author succeeded so splendidly at making real the inexplicable event (here a life-threatening childbirth) while also reminding us of the struggle between sisters, the enchantment of love, and the kindness of others. Do not miss this novel!"
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