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WINNER OF A 2023 AMERICAN FICTION AWARDSHORT LISTED FOR A CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDTroubled family relations, modern social justice issues, deeply personal choices. Activist Xander Wallace and his straitlaced father do not have an easy relationship. Jim's views on race, immigration, gender, sexuality and even Millennials alienate his son no matter how hard Xander tries to find common ground. Toss in Jim's second marriage ten months after...
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**Book Title: "Kindergarten Chronicles: A Journey of Growth and Discovery"Description: "Kindergarten Chronicles" is a heartwarming narrative that follows the adventures of Lily, a curious and spirited young child, as she navigates her way through the transformative landscape of kindergarten. Through vivid storytelling and immersive descriptions, the book invites readers to join Lily on a journey of growth, friendship, and discovery. From the nervous...
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"The Able McLaughlins" is a novel by Margaret Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. It follows a family of Scotch Covenanters who settled the American prairies in the 1860s. The McLaughlin's oldest son Wully has just returned from the Civil War planning to marry his sweetheart Christie McNair, but for some reason, she won't talk to him anymore. Wully finds himself hurt and perplexed until he finds out that the cause of her rejection is the terrible...
44) The Bulwark
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Rufus and Hannah Barnes are good Quakers, highly respected in their new community of Dukla, Pennsylvania and strictly loyal to their faith. They pass this loyalty on to their children, including Solon Barnes, who must hold on to his Quaker convictions while living in an increasingly materialistic modern society. After falling for the lovely Benecia_x2014_a daughter of the wealthy Wallin family_x2014_Solon is given a position at her father's bank in...
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A Thousand Acres and Empire Falls meet during the present hydro-fracking controversy as a beleaguered patriarch must decide the fate of his land and children in this enveloping family drama
The Joyner family sits atop prime Marcellus Shale. When landmen for the natural gas companies begin to lease property all around the family's hundred acres, the Joyners start to take notice. Undecided on whether or not to lease the family land, Frank Joyner must...
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The reclusive Harriet Wolf, revered author and family matriarch, has a final confession-a love story. Years after her death, as her family comes together one last time, the mystery of Harriet's life hangs in the balance. Does the truth lie in the rumored final book of the series that made Harriet a world-famous writer, or will her final confession be lost forever?
Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the moving story of the unforgettable...
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3 Short stories - all different! A woman finds her husband in bed with her friend. She kicks them out and then he steals all their money and leaves the country. Follow her as she rebuilds her life. The car races away from her with her baby girl in the car seat! A man stops to help and they give chase, rescuing the daughter and arresting the cuplrits. She sets up a new happy life there in that town - until her ex-husband breaks out of jail! A lawyer...
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Escape the rat race by heading to the Yorkshire Moors in Jane Lovering's funny, warm and magical new novel.
Needing an escape, Dora swapped city living for life as a shepherdess on her grandad's Yorkshire farm. More than a decade later Dora is still there, now farming the fifty acres and caring for the one hundred rare sheep by herself. She never hears the call of the city, but instead relishes the peace and simplicity of life on the Moors.
When Dora's...
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"The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn't write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn't write that he wants to break the father clause. Instead, he writes: Welcome, Dad. Hope you had a good flight."
A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby...
50) Ash
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Thea lives under a mountain – one that' s ready to blow.A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss' s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy.But something is shifting in Thea – ...
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The story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in an unforgiving new world, Under This Unbroken Sky is a mesmerizing and absorbing first novel of love and greed, pride and desperation. Award-winning writer Shandi Mitchell based this evocative and compelling narrative of struggle and survival on the Canadian prairie on her own family history.
52) Heart and Soul
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A woman envies her sister's glamorous world-until she becomes part of it-in a novel of loss and self-discovery by the author of Local Knowledge. After a lifetime in the shadow of the incomparable Miranda, Cassie believes she can never measure up to her sister. Rather than compete, she withdraws, and the two remain estranged-until a phone call from Miranda changes everything. At Miranda's insistence, Cassie flies to New York City for a visit, where...
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El desengaño y la frustración provocan que Aitor se convierta en un hombre escéptico. La política, la abogacía y la cultura son sus principales inquietudes, pero su personalidad egocéntrica y su ensimismamiento le han condenado a una soledad casi permanente, incapaz de establecer relaciones duraderas. Sin embargo, después de conseguir un nuevo empleo como abogado en un prestigioso despacho de Pamplona, se integrará en una cuadrilla de personas...
54) Ending: A Novel
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Hilma Wolitzer's acclaimed first novela powerful portrait of a family coming to terms with grief At night, Sandy feels the pain of separation most deeply. As she settles into bed, she misses the sounds Jay used to make as he emptied his pockets and undressed. She misses the way a playful nighttime conversation could become significant in an instant. She misses his touch. To fall asleep, she imagines Jay's voice, imagines their loving exchangesbut...
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Jessica's scheme was supposed to get her a new baby-but she didn't count on getting an entire family Jessica was living the perfect London life, with a great job at an auction house and a striking Italian boyfriend, Rudi. Only one thing was missing: a baby. Despite numerous visits to the doctor and repeated efforts to conceive, the couple was having no luck. That is, until Brenda, Jessica's secretary, became pregnant. Jessica's plan is as dishonest...
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From the author of 365 Days comes a poignant, personally inspired tale of a rookie doctor fighting for the life of a desperately ill young girl-a story that grows ever more relevant in this world of increasingly sophisticated and technical medical care In this riveting and passionately rendered novel, an intern faces the harsh realities of his profession, and the overwhelming highs and lows for which medical school was unable to prepare him. The...
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Bestselling author Fay Weldon delivers a scathing satire about society's obsession with female weight and beauty in the 1960s, as relevant today as when it was first published After a lifetime of gorging herself, Esther Wells has an epiphany: She and her husband, Alan, are going on a diet. Dedicated foodies throughout their marriage, they are about to discover what happens when new passions supplant old. Deprived of the meals he loves, Alan, an...
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Memory-and the tenuousness of life-is the theme of this deeply moving novel by Jane Rule When the novel opens, Diana's twin brother, David, a widower in his mid-sixties, is looking back on his life. As memories swamp him, he decides to take a critical step: to beg for his sister's forgiveness. Diana has never met David's two daughters. She has no idea how many grandchildren he has. David doesn't know Diana's longtime lover, Constance, housebound...
59) The Italian Girl
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A poignant portrait of a family's struggle for redemption The funeral of Edward's mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood home, it also triggers a resurgence of the family tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edward becomes tangled in his family's web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos. The Italian...
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Sheila Bosworth's enthralling debut novel is a vibrant, heartrending story of love and loss set in "the City That Care Forgot" Constance Alexander and Rand Calvert fall in love on Mardi Gras night. She is eighteen years old, the beautiful, privileged daughter of a Louisiana Supreme Court justice. He is a dashing young artist, the son of a family "long on name but short on money." Their desire for each other is intense and irresistible, and when...
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