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The Heart Goes Last
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Margaret Atwood |
"Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs.… |
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Bertie's guide to life and mothers
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Alexander McCall Smith |
"Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The lon… |
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Lesson plans
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Suzanne Greenberg |
"Lesson Plans is a captivating and funny novel centered on the lives of three families, each of which has chosen to homeschool for a different reason. Suzanne Greenberg weaves her tale through the pe… |
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Our spoons came from Woolworths
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Barbara Comyns |
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried" begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from maudlin, despite the ostensibly harrowing ordeals its hero… |
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Make something up
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Chuck Palahniuk |
"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (… |
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King maybe
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Timothy Hallinan |
"Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong. After barely escaping, … |
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Standard deviation
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Katherine Heiny |
"The celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow, returns with her debut novel--a rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Divorcing his wife to marry his girlfriend, A… |
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The someday jar
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Allison Morgan |
"Fans of Sophie Kinsella and the Shopaholic series will fall in love with Lanie Howard-young, fabulous, and desperate to transform her life-in this funny, quirky, and endearing story about finding pe… |
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Portrait
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Antoine Laurain,Jane Aitken,Emily Boyce |
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Hunger Point
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Jillian Medoff |
"My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush… |
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