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My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Book
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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... |
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French Braid
Anne Tyler - Knopf
Format: Book
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The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband,... |
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Flight
Lynn Steger Strong - Mariner Books
Format: Book
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It’s December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry’s house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother’s Florida house. Over... |
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The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas... |
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Commonwealth
Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Book
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Commonwealth is the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed... |
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All Adults Here
Emma Straub - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what... |
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Daughters Beyond Command
Véronique Olmi - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback
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An absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters during a decade of radical societal transformation.
Three sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the eldest, dreams of an artist’s life in Paris; Hélène,... |
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Anissa Gray - Berkley
Format: Book
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The Butler family has had their share of trials—as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest—but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives.
Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with... |
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Every Time You Go Away
BETH HARBISON - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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In New York Times bestselling author Beth Harbison's most emotional novel ever, a fractured family must come together at a beach house haunted by the past.
Willa has never fully recovered from the sudden death of her husband, Ben. She became an absent mother... |
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