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Two Lives
by Vikram Seth
Hardcover: Nov 2005
Paperback: 13 Jun 2006
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A heartrending new book - the story of a marriage and the story of two lives - from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy.

Family and Other Accidents
by Shari Goldhagen
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 4 Apr 2006
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A finely nuanced, universally resonant portrait of the ties, however strange or awkward, that bind two brothers and their families together through the decades.

The Hummingbird's Daughter
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 3 Apr 2006
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A spectacular novel as grand as a western sunset, the story of a girl coming to terms with her destiny, with the miraculous, and with the power of faith. It is the tale of a father discovering what true love is and a daughter recognizing that sometimes true love requires true sacrifice.

Gilead : A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
Hardcover: Nov 2004
Paperback: 1 Jan 2006
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"Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle but never muted when they come, and the careful telling carries the breath of suspense....Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic."

Baker Towers
by Jennifer Haigh
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 27 Dec 2005
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A compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.

The Family Tree
by Carole Cadwalladr
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 29 Nov 2005
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At once nostalgic and refreshingly original, The Family Tree is a sophisticated story of one woman and the generations of women who came before her and whose legacy shaped her life and its emotional landscape.

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