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The seduction of water
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Carol Goodman |
Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he like… |
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Eva moves the furniture
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Margot Livesey |
On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by… |
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A year and a day
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Leslie Pietrzyk |
Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unex… |
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Undressing the moon
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Greenwood, T. |
"As a child, Piper Kincaid always felt her mother was on the edge of leaving. And then the summer Piper turns fourteen, it really happens. Devastated by this loss, and the rejection she feels from he… |
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Gone
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Elisabeth Sheffield |
"Elisabeth Sheffield's novel Gone juxtaposes the manic, run-on confession of Stella Vanderzee, California freeway flyer, with a series of cryptic letters from her Aunt Juju. This interwoven, doubling… |
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A complicated kindness
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Miriam Toews |
"A 16-year-old rebels against the conventions of her strict Mennonite community and tries to come to terms with the collapse of her family ..."--Publishers Weekly. |
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The seduction of water
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Carol Goodman |
"Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), has just turned forty, lives in Manhattan, and works three teaching jobs to support herself. Recently she's felt that the "buts" are taking over her life… |
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Baroque-a-nova
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Kevin Chong |
"Meet Saul St. Pierre, teenage son of the once famous St. Pierres, a forgotten seventies folk sensation enjoying a revival thanks to a German techno group's remake of their hit song "Bushmills Threno… |
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Separation
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John Bowlby |
Provides a comprehensive report on the mother-child bond and the emotional effects of and behavioral response to maternal deprivation.
A young child when removed from his mother and placed with stra… |
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Attachment and loss
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John Bowlby |
theories of child attatchment by john bowlby, very useful in child care |
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The Watermelon King
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Wallace, Daniel |
"The Watermelon King brings readers to Ashland, Alabama - immortalized in Big Fish - a fictional town whose reputation is based on its long-ago abundance of watermelons.".
"Thomas Rider knows almost… |
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Running Back to Ludie
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Angela Johnson |
The narrator of a collection of bittersweet verses lives with her father and aunt, but will soon visit the mother she has not seen in years and rediscover how it feels to be her mother's daughter. |
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