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A Girl Named Zippy : Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana
by Haven Kimmel
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: 1 May 2002
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This witty and lovingly told memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period--people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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Rebecca, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother, is caught unawares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it--how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been--is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.

The Price of Motherhood : Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
by Ann Crittenden
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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Bold and galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, The Price of Motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job. 

Paris To The Moon
by Adam Gopnik
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: 1 Sep 2001
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With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.

Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
by Dan Kindlon , Michael Thompson Ph.D.
Hardcover: Apr 1999
Paperback: 1 Apr 2000
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Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever change the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become happy and fulfilled young men.

Where The Heart Is
by Billy Letts
Hardcover: Jun 1995
Paperback: 1 May 1998
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Novalee may be homeless and jobless, living secretly in a Wal-Mart, but she's beginning to believe she may have a future. Through all the touching and surprising adventures that lie ahead, she's going in the right direction.

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