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  • In the Memorial Room
    In the Memorial Room
    Janet Frame
    Paperback: 12/16/2014
     
    A wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a ...
  • The Lonely Polygamist
    The Lonely Polygamist
    Brady Udall
    Paperback: 05/09/2011
     
    Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable ...
  • Mr. Chartwell
    Mr. Chartwell: A Novel
    Rebecca Hunt
    Hardcover: 02/08/2011
     
    In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel about Mr. Chartwell, a upright walking, talking ...
  • Curse of the Pogo Stick
    Curse of the Pogo Stick
    Colin Cotterill
    Paperback: 08/01/2009
     
    In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill's unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos, A Pogo Stick Brings a Curse...
  • Paradise Park
    Paradise Park
    Allegra Goodman
    Paperback: 04/01/2002
     
    With an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager possessions (a guitar, two Indian gauze skirts, a macrame ...
  • Big Girls Don't Cry
    Big Girls Don't Cry
    Fay Weldon
    Paperback: 10/01/1999
     
    Chronicles five women's attempts and failures to create a new life. A farcical story about women who - new...

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