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Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Pamela Druckerman - ‎Penguin Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The secret behind Frances astonishingly well-behaved children.

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesnt aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isnt a known thing, like French fashion...

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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

M. L. Stedman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible ... seductive ... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine) .After four harrowing years...
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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

Lucy Knisley - First Second
Format: Paperback

If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything.Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything...
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The Cactus

Sarah Haywood - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

In this witty and heartfelt debut, one woman's unconventional journey to motherhood means learning to embrace the unexpectedEven the prickliest cactus has its flower ... For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal...
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Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)

Chris Bohjalian
Format: Paperback

A contemporary classic that has sold more than two million copies and was a selection of Oprah's original Book Club, Midwives is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first...
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Live Wire

Harlan Coben - Dutton Adult; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth? Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private...
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Light in August

William Faulkner - Vintage International/Random House; 1st Vintage International edition
Format: Paperback

ldquoRead, read, read. Read everythingmdashtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Yoursquoll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, yoursquoll find out. If itrsquos not, throw it out the window.rdquo...
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The Farm: A Novel

Joanne Ramos - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. "[Joanne] Ramos's debut novel couldn't be more relevant or timely." - O: The Oprah Magazine (25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019) Nestled...
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More Than It Hurts You

Darin Strauss - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover

Read Darin Strausss posts on the Penguin Blog Josh Goldins happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother,...
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The Changeling

Victor D LaValle - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle." - Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See"A dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness. The Changeling...
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