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Where You Once Belonged

by Kent Haruf

Published: 2000-03

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In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie communi...

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The Garden of Small Beginnings

by Abbi Waxman

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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“A quirky, funny, and deeply thoughtful book”* that’s “filled with characters you’ll love and wish you lived next door to in real life”** from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.  Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in...

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Unaccustomed Earth (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 352 pages

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These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lo...

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This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever

by Rory Feek

Published: 2017-02-14

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**The story she said he was born to write.Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory.By inviting so many into the final months of Joey’s life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnos...

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ONE: The Book

by Doug Metcalf

Published: 2009-05-14

Paperback: 228 pages

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Have you ever wanted to tell someone the truth when they ask you "How ya doin"? You have just lost your spouse and they want to know how are you coping, and getting along in general. You always say, "good" and hoping that they don't press the subject. Between the covers of this book you will see how...

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In the Fall

by Jeffrey Lent

Published: 2014-06-17

Paperback: 560 pages

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?Majestic . . . epic . . . vital . . . a necessary piece in a uniquely American mosaic.”?The New York Times Book Review?Right from the start of this engrossing family saga, you know that you’re in the hands of a storyteller who knows just where he’s going. . . . You can hear echoes o...

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Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel (Egyptian Royals Collection)

by Michelle Moran

Published: 2010-07-13

Paperback: 464 pages

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From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti comes the tumultuous story of Antony and Celopatra's daughter, Selene. The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. ...

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The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism

by Mark Zwonitzer

Published: 2017-05-16

Paperback: 608 pages

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In a dual biography covering the last ten years of the lives of friends and contemporaries, writer Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and statesman John Hay (who served as secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt), The Statesman and the Storyteller not only ...

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The Talisman Cock!

by Henry Joseph Russell

Published: 2016-12-14

Paperback: 174 pages

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The Talisman Cock!, debut novel from award winning poet and short fiction writer Henry Joseph Russell, follows sixteen-year-old David Smith, a talented cross country runner from Cape Cod who believes he's living his "Personal Destiny" when he earns a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school near...

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The Day I Died: A Novel

by Lori Rader-Day

Published: 2017-04-11

Paperback: 432 pages

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From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustwo...