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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake : A Memoir
by Anna Quindlen
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 23 Apr 2013
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In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead - and celebrating it all - as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
by Maria Semple
Hardcover: Dec 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Love Is a Canoe
by Ben Schrank
Hardcover: 8 Jan 2013
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In Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.

The Astral : A Novel
by Kate Christensen
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 12 Jun 2012
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From the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.

No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
by Melissa Fay Greene
Hardcover: Apr 2011
Paperback: 24 Apr 2012
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A loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family with nine children as it wobbles between disaster and joy: "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers."

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise : A Novel
by Julia Stuart
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 23 Aug 2011
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Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.

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