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Elizabeth Strout
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Best-selling novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Strout writes quiet domestic tales that resonate with readers long after the books end. These emotionally powerful and timeless novels raise sobering issues and explore uneasy relationships-mother/daughter, husband/wife,... |
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Richard Russo
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Depressed industrial towns and blue-collar characters fill Richard Russo's contemporary novels. Lyrical prose, complex plots, intriguing characters, and humor complement these eloquent stories of friendship, family, love, and luck. While the books focus on the male characters,... |
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver's evocative prose appeals to readers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are looking for strong-willed characters, fascinating stories, or lucid observations of the natural world. Her fiction features strong women who carve out places... |
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Betty
Tiffany McDaniel - Vintage
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Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and violence - both from outside the family and, devastatingly, from within. But despite the hardships... |
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Gun Love
Jennifer Clement - Hogarth
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Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother... |
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All the ugly and wonderful things
Bryn Greenwood - Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin
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As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations,... |
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Golden Child
Claire Adam - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Book
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Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years... |
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Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper
Format: Book
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart.... |
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At the Water's Edge
Sara Gruen - Random House Large Print
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At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War II in a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year's Eve party in Philadelphia... |
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Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty - Tin House Books
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How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent... |
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Don't Know Tough
Eli Cranor - Soho Crime
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In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger... |
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout - Random House Trade
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension... |
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart - Grove/Atlantic
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Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic... |
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Against the Country
Ben Metcalf - Random House
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Against the Country is a gift for fans of Southern Gothic and metafiction alike. Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth - that... |
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Knopf
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When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of eccentric characters... |
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Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver - HarperCollins Publishers
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Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course... |
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