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A Good American

by Alex George

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 432 pages

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?A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” ?Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, a...

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A Good and Happy Child: A Novel

by Justin Evans

Published: 2007-05-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a fath...

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The Good Book: A Humanist Bible

by A. C. Grayling

Published: 2011-03-29

Hardcover: 608 pages

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Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from ...

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Good Christian Bitches

by Kim Gatlin

Published: 2009-02-12

Paperback: 288 pages

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For Heaven's sake...Never let God get in the way of a good story. Good Christian Bitches is the lighthearted tale of Amanda Vaughn, a recently divorced mother of two. To get a fresh start, she moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up. In an Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Desperate...

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The Good City and the Good Life

by Daniel Kemmis

Published: 1995-09-28

Hardcover: 226 pages

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The current mayor of Missoula, Montana, offers down-to-earth commentary on the nature of citizenship and political responsibility, as he uses personal experience to explore democracy as a human enterprise. By the author of Community and the Politics of Place.

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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life

by Jasmin Darznik

Published: 2011-01-27

Hardcover: 336 pages

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We were a world of two, my mother and I, until I started turning into an American girl. That's when she began telling me about The Good Daughter. It became a taunt, a warning, an omen.Jasmin Darznik came to America from Iran when she was only three years old, and she grew up knowing very l...

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The Good Daughters: A Novel (P.S.)

by Joyce Maynard

Published: 2011-08-23

Paperback: 278 pages

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“A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed”—Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />“Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’...

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The Good Daughters: A Novel

by Joyce Maynard

Published: 2010-08-24

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives The Good Daughters They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly h...

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A Good Day to Pie (A Pie Shop Mystery)

by Carol Culver

Published: 2011-08-08

Paperback: 312 pages

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No one can die from a pie . . . or can they? Hanna Denton has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over the pie shop her Grannie Louise owned for thirty years. Grannie has now moved to the ritzy retirement community on the hill and Hanna is working her hardest to live up to G...

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A Good Death

by Gil Courtemanche

Published: 2009-07-28

Paperback: 206 pages

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On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered around the table for the obligatory dinner. The father, once an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson's. Yesterday's tyrant is now trapped inside a disintegrating body. André, the eldest child, is nearing...