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Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon

Rain Village

by Carolyn Turgeon
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  • Oct 10, 2006, 320 pages
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Turgeon's quirky first novel explores the power of secrets and how happiness is found in searching for truth
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This review first ran in the November 12, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.

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