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  • Across the Nightingale Floor
    Across the Nightingale Floor : Tales of the Otori, Volume I
    by Lian Hearn
    Hardcover: Aug 2002
    Paperback: Jun 2003
     
    A world-wide sensation, this first book of The Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale of war, passion, and intrigue, evoking the spirit of medieval Japan.
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  • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
    Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
    by Ruth Rendell
    Hardcover: Feb 2002
    Paperback: Jan 2003
     
    With consummate skill, Ruth Rendell pulls the colorful strands of this harrowing story ever tighter, increasing the tension page by page.
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  • After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
    After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
    by Evie Wyld
    Hardcover: Aug 2009
    Paperback: Nov 2010
     
    Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.
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  • After the Last Border
    After the Last Border : Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
    by Jessica Goudeau
    Hardcover: Aug 2020
    Paperback: Aug 2021
     
    The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America.
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  • After This
    After This : A Novel
    by Alice McDermott
    Hardcover: Sep 2006
    Paperback: Sep 2007
     
    A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
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  • Afterlife
    Afterlife
    by Julia Alvarez
    Hardcover: Apr 2020
    Paperback: Apr 2021
     
    The first novel for adults in almost fifteen years from the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies follows Antonia Vega, a retired English professor struggling to deal with the death of her husband, the appearance of a ...
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  • Age 16
    Age 16
    by Rosena Fung
    Hardcover: Jul 2024
     
    A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about how mothers and daughters pass down—and rebel against—standards of size, gender, race, beauty, and worth.
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  • Age of Vice
    Age of Vice : A Novel
    by Deepti Kapoor
    Hardcover: Jan 2023
    Paperback: Jan 2024
     
    This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill.
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