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The Roots of the Olive Tree: A Novel

by Courtney Miller Santo

Published: 2013-04-23

Paperback: 336 pages

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An extraordinary new voice in contemporary woman’s fiction, Courtney Miller Santo makes her magnificent debut with The Roots of the Olive Tree, a novel that will delight fans of Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and the works of Kristin Hannah.Se...

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Down at the Golden Coin

by Kim Strickland

Published: 2012-03-20

Kindle Edition: 155 pages

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During the horrible recession, former airline pilot, Annie Mullard, feels she has sunk to a new low when she’s forced to go to a run-down laundromat, the Golden Coin, after her washing machine breaks, but it’s here she meets a messiah. Even though twenty-something, blue-haired Violet can read minds,...

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Falling Together Target Edition: A Novel

by Marisa De Los Santos

Published: 2012-09-21

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Loving (Bailey Flanigan Series)

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2012-03-21

Paperback: 346 pages

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The answers Bailey Flanigan once longed and prayed for are finally becoming clear. In Loving, the fourth and final book in the Bailey Flanigan Series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Bailey is planning a wedding and making decisions that will shape her future. Bailey e...

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The Reading Promise: 3,218 Nights of Reading with My Father. Alice Ozma

by Alice Ozma

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 275 pages

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When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become their reading ritual. They decided...

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Leaving (Bailey Flanigan Series)

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2011-03-13

Paperback: 328 pages

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The Bailey Flanigan series begins with Bailey leaving Bloomington for the adventure of a lifetime. She has won an audition for the ensemble of a Broadway musical in New York City. She's determined to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but is she really ready to leave f...

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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

by Robyn Scott

Published: 2009-03-31

Paperback: 452 pages

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An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talentWhen Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn changed forever. In this wild and new lands...

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Jezebel (Vintage International)

by Irene Nemirovsky

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of s...

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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

by Oliver Burkeman

Published: 2012-11-13

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy. And t...

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My Mother's Wars

by Lillian Faderman

Published: 2013-03-05

Hardcover: 264 pages

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An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New ...