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by Joyce Maynard
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives.
by Emily Chenoweth
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsIn a single week, a family leaves behind its past and a daughter awakens to the future in Emily Chenoweths intimate and beautifully crafted debut novel.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest work.
by Lolly Winston
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsFilled with laugh-out-loud humor, struggles, triumphs, and plenty of midnight trips to the fridge, Good Grief is a funny, wise, and heartbreakingly poignant novel from one of fiction's freshest and most exciting new voices.
by Julia Glass
Published Apr 2003
Read ReviewsElegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, this is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart, and how family ties, both those we're born into and those we make, can offer us redemption and joy.
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