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In case we're separated
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Alice Mattison |
The author brings together 13 connected tales that trace a family of women across generations. |
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Stay up with me
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Tom Barbash |
A newly single mother wrestles with the evidence of her son's love life during his Christmas vacation; an anxious husband persists in playing the host at his annual drinks party even though his marri… |
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American wives
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Barbara H. Solomon |
408 p. ; 18 cm |
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The fruited plain
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Alvin B. Kernan |
"The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's … |
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Patchwork Planet
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Anne Tyler |
One of five Anne Tyler novels reissued in stunning new jacketsBarnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time he had a hom… |
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Among the missing
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Dan Chaon |
In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident b… |
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Life, Letters and Journals
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Ednah Dow Ednah Dow Cheney,Ednah Dow Littlehale 1824-1904 Cheney,Louisa May Alcott,Ednah D. Cheney,Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney,Ednah Dow 1824-1904 Cheney |
Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts. |
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Northern borders
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Howard Frank Mosher |
Austen Kittredge recalls his boyhood when, in 1948, at the age of six, his widowed father sent him away to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in northern Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. H… |
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William Faulkner's As I lay dying
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Eric F. Oatman |
A guide to reading "As I Lay Dying" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tes… |
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Private woman, public stage
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Mary Kelley |
"Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new… |
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As I Lay Dying
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William Faulkner |
Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordan… |
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The Missing
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Beverly Lewis |
Readers anxiously await the second book in this moving series filled with mystery and family secrets, love and loss, heartbreak and healing.Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing m… |
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