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The Forever Marriage

by Ann Bauer

Published: 2012-06-14

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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"Phenomenal" (Garrison Keillor) storyteller Ann Bauer brings to life the tale of one faithless widow. Carmen wishes Jobe, the husband she never loved, dead --only to fall in love with him after he is gone. As she helps her three children grieve, she discovers, after a tryst with her most r...

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The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel

by Flannery O'Connor

Published: 2007-06-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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First published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the...

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A Month in the Country

by J. L. Carr

Published: 1983-09

Hardcover: 111 pages

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In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside...

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My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity

by Nancy Friday

Published: 1997-09-08

Paperback: 448 pages

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When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970’s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work ...

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Pint-Sized Ireland

by Evan McHugh

Published: 2005-03-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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Guinness was very much an acquired taste for Evan McHugh, an Australian raised on Vegemite, but set out to acquire it he did with his travelling companion Twidkiwodm (the-woman-he-didn't-know-he-would-one-day-marry). As they hitch around Ireland, Evan meets unforgettable characters. He goes rowing with...

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The Good House (Platinum Readers Circle)

by Ann Leary

Published: 2013-04

Hardcover: 415 pages

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"Fresh, sharp and masterfully told, Hildy’s tale is as intoxicating as it is sobering."—People magazine A riveting novel in which an engaging and wildly irreverent woman is in complete denial—about herself, her drinking, and her love for a man she’s known all her lifeAnn Leary's ...

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My Life Next Door

by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Published: 2012-06-14

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A gorgeous debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another ?One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything the Re...

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Welcome to Harmony

by Jodi Thomas

Published: 2010-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Never-before-published-from the New York Times bestselling author of Rewriting Monday Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to ...

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Color Me Jazzmyne

by Marian L Thomas

Published: 2009-02-25

Paperback: 292 pages

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Naya Monà is a woman, a jazz singer and a wife. Jonathan is the son, she never got a chance to name. They will meet for the first time in her lavish home. A home he never got a chance to play in. As this dramatic confrontation opens up, Naya is forced to travel back into her painful past...

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Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

by Bart D. Ehrman

Published: 2012-03-20

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Large numbers of atheists, humanists, and conspiracy theorists are raising one of the most pressing questions in the history of religion: "Did Jesus exist at all?" Was he invented out of whole cloth for nefarious purposes by those seeking to control the masses? Or was Jesus such a shadowy ...