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By Andre Dubus III
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis....
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By Maeve Binchy
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children...
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By James Frey
An uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and reconstructed, and a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery....
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By Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter....
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By Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives, even destroy them....
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By Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky....
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By Alan Paton
This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century...
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By Kaye Gibbons
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was a carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny...
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By Kaye Gibbons
When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy....
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By William Faulkner
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his heart's darling, the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers....
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By Janet Fitch
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty...
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By Ernest J. Gaines
Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only...
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By Lalita Tademy
It is on a medium Creole plantation owned by a family named Derbanne that the stories of four astonishing women who battled vast injustices to create a legacy of hope...
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By Melinda Haynes
Set in small town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters...
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By Christina Schwarz
Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart...
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By Robert Morgan
There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Greek. Julie Harmon works hard, hard as a man, they say, so hard that times she's not sure she can stop...
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By Elizabeth Berg
Samantha Morrow's husband has left her, and now she must strive to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son...
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By Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up, and it's especially hard for 10-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan suffering from undiagnosed Tourette Syndrome...
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By Joyce Carol Oates
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet: a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter...
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By Jonathan Franzen
After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease...
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