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Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison Publisher Comments This fiercely moving, unforgettable first novel tells the story of Ruth Anne Boatwright--called Bone by her family--a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Bone's story is inseparable from that of her family, the...
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Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award 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...
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White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
by Janet Fitch Publisher Comments A bestselling first novel about a young woman growing up the hard way, this is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, and the search for love and identity. When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her...
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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...
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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...
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Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons Publisher Comments Kaye's wonderful and beloved first novel....
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Paper Moon
by Joe David 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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