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What do readers say about We Are Water?
absolutely breathtaking and engaging family secrets and dysfunction families and secrets multiple first-person narrativesA disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.
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Viveca’s wedding dress has a name: Gaia. It’s lovely. Layers of sea green silk chiffon, cap sleeves, an empire waist, an asymmetrical A-line skirt with the suggestion of a train. I forget the designer...
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What do readers say about I Know This Much Is True?
offers stories within stories accessible yet sophisticated the last paragraph long, sustained stories#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection
"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling-with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossibl... More details on I Know This Much Is True
On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was ab...
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What do readers say about Summer Hours at the Robbers Library?
libraries bring people together the characters were likeable a quiet novel quick, lighthearted readLibraryReads Selection
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create.
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So in our county they have this thing called kids’ court, which is how I ended up at the library for summer vacation, even though I don’t have summer vacation since I’m no-schooled. No-schooling is wh...
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What do readers say about The Ministry of Utmost Happiness?
evocative and beautiful india, pakistan and kashmir the writing is beautiful the first partNational Bestseller
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor
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She lived in the graveyard like a tree. At dawn she saw the crows off and welcomed the bats home. At dusk she did the opposite. Between shifts she conferred with the ghosts of vultures that loomed in ...
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What do readers say about Gap Creek?
the imagery was amazing sad and dark simple but eloquent wording wisdom and gentle humorJulie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie a... More details on Gap Creek
I know about Masenier because I was there. I seen him die. We didn’t tell anybody the truth because it seemed so shameful, the way he died. It was too awful to describe to other people. But I was ther...
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What do readers say about Under the Influence?
an engrossing story gripping page turner with emotional depth very gloomy an absorbing portrait of complex characters confronting real problemsThe New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning—and the true price—of friendship.
Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring ar... More details on Under the Influence
It was late November, and for a week solid the rain hadn’t let up. My son and I had moved out of our old apartment back before school started, but I had left it until now to clear the last of our belo...
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What do readers say about The Simplicity of Cider?
lovely and uplifting more bucolic women's fiction feel good romance type books with a food themeFall in love with The Simplicity of Cider, the charming new novel about a prickly but gifted cider-maker whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome man and his young son at her family's careworn orchard by the author of The Coincide... More details on The Simplicity of Cider
Sanna Lund’s thoughts of apple blossoms and new cider blends stuttered to an end with the grunt of her dad’s snore. Einars rumbled from the squashy armchair in front of the huge fieldstone fireplace f...
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What do readers say about Far from the Tree?
having so many examples very thought provoking book identity, challenge and disability identity and childhoodSolomon's startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition-that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or ... More details on Far from the Tree
I HAD DYSLEXIA AS A child; indeed, I have it now. I still cannot write by hand without focusing on each letter as I form it, and even then, some letters are out of order, or left out entirely. My moth...
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What do readers say about Everybody's Fool?
hilarious and slapstick an ugly murder case I bit slower hilariously poignant and perfectNational Bestseller and a New York Times 2016 Notable Book
In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody's Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police ... More details on Everybody's Fool
HILLDALE CEMETERY IN North Bath was cleaved right down the middle, its Hill and Dale sections divided by a two-lane macadam road, originally a colonial cart path. Death was not a thing unknown to the ...
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What do readers say about South of Broad?
interesting and complex first person narration timeless southern literature sweeping family sagas#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage" (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered-and shadowed-by tra... More details on South of Broad
Nothing happens by accident. I learned this the hard way, long before I knew that the hard way was the only path to true, certain knowledge. Early in my life, I came to fear the power of strange conve...
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