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Valencia

by Michelle Tea

The fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District, "Valencia" conveys a blend of youthful urgency and …
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A Soft Place to Fall

by Barbara Bretton

A Good Clean Story.
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The Little Friend

by Donna Tartt

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special …
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Ursula, Under

by Ingrid Hill

In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft—"the only sound is an …
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Those who Save Us

by Jenna Blum

A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of her own life--as well as …
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Harbor

by Lorraine Adams

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Fiction Book of the YearA tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of …
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Life Studies

by Susan Vreeland

With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist’s life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and beauty, she explores the transcendent power of …
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The Painted Drum

by Louise Erdrich

While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned …
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The Kindness of Strangers

by Katrina Kittle

A young widow raising two boys, Sarah Laden is struggling to keep her family together. But when a shocking revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds …
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The Birthdays

by Heidi Pitlor

On an island off the coast of Maine, the Miller family reunites to celebrate the father's 75th birthday. Each of the adult children is expecting a first child, and at …
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In Pursuit of Anna

by Natasha Rostova

Anna Maxwell is a pixie-like bad girl with a penchant for brawny men, determined to prove her innocence when accused of stealing from her father's company. Los Angeles-based bounty hunter …
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Ten Days in the Hills

by Jane Smiley

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this novel set in Hollywood Hills after the 2003 Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres delivers “a blazing farce, a fiery satire …
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Bad Tickets

by Kathleen O'Dell

Rebelling against her strict Catholic upbringing in 1967, teenager Mary Elizabeth sorts through her feelings about her parents and friends, and about sex, while making some decisions about the type …
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Queenpin

by Megan Abbott

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the …
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The Guardians

by Ana Castillo

From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a …
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The View from Mount Joy

by Lorna Landvik

When teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances …
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Every Past Thing

by Pamela Thompson

Pamela Thompson reveals the pain and desire of one woman, the wife of 19th Century painter, Edwin Romanzon Elmer, as she searches for her lovers in New York City over …
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The House on Fortune Street

by Margot Livesey

It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail Taylor and Dara MacLeod when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later they remain inseparable: Abigail, …
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July and August

by Nancy Clark

A funny, bittersweet, and wonderfully peopled family saga from the acclaimed author of The Hills at Home, and a fitting farewell to the Hill clan. Great-aunt Lily's pile of a …
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People of the Whale: A Novel

by Linda Hogan

“Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding. . . . [A] hauntingly beautiful novel of the hidden dimensions of life.” —Booklist, starred review Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just …
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Love Or Something Like it

by Deirdre Shaw

Shaw's emotionally honest, clear-eyed debut novel follows a thirty-something woman forced to redefine love, career, and family after her young marriage falters.
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The Confessions of Edward Day

by Valerie Martin

A brilliant new novel set in the bohemian, glamorous theater world of 1970s New York, by the Orange Prize-winning author of Property. • “One of the best novels I’ve ever …
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Becoming Jane Eyre

by Sheila Kohler

A reimagining of the life of the Brontèe sisters finds Charlotte penning her future classic against a backdrop of the deaths of family members, a father's illness, a brother's dependency, …
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Sleeping with Anemone

by Kate Collins

When an attempt is made on her life after she protests Uniworld Food's harmful farming practices, florist Abby Knight calls in her ex-Army Ranger boyfriend Marco to protect her and …