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Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Publisher Comments Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Publisher Comments Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash, thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons Publisher Comments "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club) by Janet Fitch Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb Publisher Comments "Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...." Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Things by Jenny Offill Publisher Comments Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, of fact... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother — and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson Publisher Comments Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paper Moon by Joe D. Brown Publisher Comments The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich's film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sula (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison Synopsis Written by one of the most important novelistsin America today, Sula is a rich and moving novel that traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama Publisher Comments Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bright Angel Time by Martha McPhee Publisher Comments From a gifted novelist, a writer with the ability to surprise and move us (New York Times) comes a funny and acerbic (Time) road novel set during the 1970s, in which an eight-year-old girl records her mother' s fateful dalliance with sex, drugs, and New... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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