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by Joyce Maynard
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives.
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 Nancy Zafris
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsBy turns meditative and funny, frightening, witty and refreshingly wise, Lucky Strike explores the ways that language simply put can mine the inexpressible. In the process, a young widow and her two children learn much about uranium but even more about the nature of the love that binds them.
The Saints and Sinners of Okay County
by Dayna Dunbar
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsA funny and poignant first novel about a woman struggling to liberate herself in small-town America.
by Jeanne Ray
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsWise, funny, and impossible to put down, Step-Ball-Change is peopled with characters you feel you have known your whole life. It's the kind of book that you can't bear to see end.
by Kent Haruf
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.
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