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Learning to Swim: A Novel

by Sara J. Henry

Published: 2011-02-22

Kindle Edition: 304 pages

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Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award   When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she...

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Learning to Swim: A Novel

by Sara J Henry

Published: 2011-02-22

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"If I'd blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn't, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted toward the water."When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain,...

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Leave It to Cleavage

by Wendy Wax

Published: 2004-08-03

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Leaving Atlanta: A Novel

by Tayari Jones

Published: 2003-08-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.

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Leaving Before It's Over: A Novel

by Jean Reynolds Page

Published: 2010-08-10

Paperback: 368 pages

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From the author of The Space Between Before and After comes a compelling novel that explores the true meaning of family. When Roy Vines married his wife, Rosalind, he traded his family and his inheritance for love?a painful choice that has blessed them with years of joy nestled in rural...

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LEAVING CHEYENNE : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2002-08-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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My foot's in the stirrup, My pony won't stand; Goodbye, old partner, I'm leaving Cheyenne. -- Old cowboy song Leaving Cheyenne, Larry McMurtry's second novel, traces the loves of three West Texas characters as they follow that sundown trail: Gideon Fry, the serious rancher; Johnny McClo...

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Leaving Church

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Published: 2009-10-13

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By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the sam...

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Leaving Cold Sassy

by Olive Ann Burns

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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Anyone who came under the spell of Olive Ann Burns’s classic novel Cold Sassy Tree will delight in Leaving Cold Sassy, which returns to the story of the unforgettable Will Tweedy. In 1917, twenty-five-year-old Will now faces the complexities of adult life. He grapples with the influences...

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Leaving Gee's Bend

by Irene Latham

Published: 2010-01-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but she can still put in a good stitch. Ludelphia sews all the time, especially when things go wrong. But when Mama goes into labor early and gets deathly ill, it seems like even quilting won?t help. That's when Ludelphia decides to do something d...

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Leaving Home: Short Pieces

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2012-10-01

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Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, “Weights and Measures,” deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and...