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  • Rescuing Patty Hearst
    Rescuing Patty Hearst : Memories from a Decade Gone Mad
    by Virginia Holman
    Hardcover: Feb 2003
    Paperback: Mar 2004
     
    A startling memoir of a daughter's harrowing sojourn in the prison of her mother's mind and a moving portrait of a young woman defined by her mother's illness -- until at last she rekindles a family love that had lost its way.
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  • Resistance
    Resistance
    by Owen Sheers
    Hardcover: Feb 2008
    Paperback: Feb 2009
     
    Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
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  • The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
    The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
    by Cherise Wolas
    Hardcover: Aug 2017
    Paperback: May 2018
     
    Epic, propulsive, incredibly ambitious, and dazzlingly written, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby is a story about sacrifice and motherhood, the burdens of expectation and genius. Cherise Wolas's gorgeous debut introduces an indelible heroine candid ...
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  • The Return of Faraz Ali
    The Return of Faraz Ali : A Novel
    by Aamina Ahmad
    Hardcover: Apr 2022
    Paperback: Apr 2023
     
    Sent back to his birthplace - Lahore's notorious red-light district - to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past.
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  • Returns and Exchanges
    Returns and Exchanges : A Novel
    by Kayla Rae Whitaker
    Hardcover: May 2026
     
    A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators.
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  • Revenge Of The Middle-Aged Woman
    Revenge Of The Middle-Aged Woman
    by Elizabeth Buchan
    Hardcover: Feb 2003
    Paperback: Jan 2004
     
    Full of humor, clever insight, and a whimsical sense of the absurd - an irresistible and finely written fantasy for anyone who ever wondered what a certain age would look like from beyond the looking-glass.
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  • The Revisioners
    The Revisioners
    by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
    Hardcover: Nov 2019
    Paperback: Aug 2020
     
    Following her National Book Award–nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the ...
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  • Rise and Shine
    Rise and Shine
    by Anna Quindlen
    Hardcover: Sep 2006
    Paperback: Apr 2007
     
    A superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.
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