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Yellow Crocus: A Novel

by Laila Ibrahim

Published: 2010-12-17

Paperback: 238 pages

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Moments after her birth to the mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation, Lisbeth Wainwright is entrusted to Mattie, an enslaved wet nurse. From then on, Mattie serves as Lisbeth's stand-in mother, nursing her, singing her to sleep, and soothing her in the night. And yet mothering Lisbeth tears Mattie...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Yellow House: A Novel

by Patricia Falvey

Published: 2011-02-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working a...

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* * * Dramatic,
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel

by Michael Dorris

Published: 2003-03-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-ol...

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The Yellow Room

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Published: 1996-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 351 pages

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Discovering a murdered body in her family's summer home in Maine, Carol Spencer becomes the main suspect in the crime and begins to fear for her own life as her servants disappear, the telephones stop working, and nighttime descends. Reissue.

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

by Lewis Buzbee

Published: 2008-09-30

Paperback: 224 pages

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In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore—the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began w...

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Yellowcake: A Novel

by Ann Cummins

Published: 2008-04-30

Paperback: 303 pages

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Yellowfish

by John Keeble

Published: 2008-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and adventurer, takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged 'Hong Kong boys', one of whom is dying from an earlier stab wound; the fourth is the son of a rich...

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Yes Man

by Danny Wallace

Published: 2005-07-26

Hardcover: 400 pages

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* * * * Fantastic,
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Yes, Chef: A Memoir

by Marcus Samuelsson

Published: 2012-06-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-ren...

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Yes, My Darling Daughter: A Novel

by Margaret Leroy

Published: 2009-04-14

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Every once in a blue moon, a masterful writer dives into gothic waters and emerges with a novel that?like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Minette Walters's The Breaker, and Donna Tartt's The Little Friend?simultaneously celebrates and transcends the tradition. Welcome Margaret Leroy to the cl...