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by Ethan Canin
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsA stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young mans life.
by Jane Urquhart
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsJerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers the body of an old man, Andrew Woodman, frozen in the ice. One year after the body is discovered, Sylvia Bradley a withdrawn, sheltered woman whose secret affair with Andrew changed her world forever decides to learn more about her lovers mysterious disappearance. She...
by Nancy Reisman
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsSet in Buffalo, New York in the 1930s and '40s, The First Desire is a book of great emotional power that brings to life the weave of love, grief, tradition, and desire that binds a family together.
by Anne Tyler
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsA rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriageand its consequences, spanning three generations.
by Jane Smiley
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsIn her funny and moving new novel Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts, comic timing, empathy and emotional wisdom, to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game.
by Caroline Leavitt
Published Sep 2003
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