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Caramelo

by Sandra Cisneros

Published: 2003-09-09

Paperback: 464 pages

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Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the b...

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Smart Women

by Judy Blume

Published: 2005-10-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado-while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have a lot to learn-and they will, when B.B.'s ex-husband moves in next door to Margo...

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Iacocca: An Autobiography

by Lee Iacocca, William Novak

Published: 1986-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 365 pages

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He’s an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had urged to run for president.The son of Italian immigrants, Lee Iacocca rose spectacularly through the ranks of Ford ...

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Kinds of Love

by May Sarton

Published: 1994-02-17

Paperback: 464 pages

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Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town. Christina Chapman and her husband Cornelius, both past seventy, are "summer people"?people who come to rural New England for the summer months and go home to the city when the cold weather comes. This year, however,...

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Captains and the Kings: A Novel

by Taylor Caldwell

Published: 2017-08-01

Paperback: 816 pages

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New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steer...

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Published: 2011-02-09

Kindle Edition: 338 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Funny, heart-hammering, wise…An extremely beautiful book.” —The New York Times“A Book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.” —The Boston Globe Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three ch...

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Alive and Dead in Indiana

by Michael Martone

Published: 1984-04-12

Hardcover: 114 pages

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First edition of the author's first book.

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Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

by Erma Bombeck

Published: 1983-10

Hardcover: 177 pages

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A look at one of the toughest jobs on earth, from the woman who perfectly captures life's humor and heart. Anyone who thinks motherhood is easy has never had children. To care for children, a husband, and oneself is a superhuman task, and any woman who appears to be expert at doing all three simultaneously...

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Trio: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt : Portrait of an Intimate Friendship

by Aram Saroyan

Published: 1985-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Biography, Women's Studies, Relationships

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Lake Wobegone Days (A Lake Wobegon Novel)

by Garrison Keillor

Published: 1987-02-09

Paperback: 337 pages

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A collection of humorous stories which focus on the fictional American Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon. From the author of WOBEGON BOY, LEAVING HOME and WE ARE STILL MARRIED.