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A compassionate and perceptive story of a woman's effort to escape from the nightmare of alcohol addiction.

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Agoraphobic French professor Georgie Bricker hasn't left the environs of the small womens college where she teaches in yearsbut when financial scandal brings both the possibility of the schools closure and her first love to her front door, the life she's meticulously tended is abruptly upended.

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A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the ways the present is continually shaped by the past.

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Felises debtor father has disappeared on a merchant journey; her guardian is plotting to marry her to a stranger; and the Hundred Years War rages all around her. She fears that France will soon be held captive, just as she isbut when Joan of Arc blazes into history and Felises life, everything changes.

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A mothers impending death forces her three alienated middle-aged daughtersa diner waitress, a heartsick alcoholic, and a Las Vegas showgirl whose career is on a sharp declineto finally face each other and the mystery of their fathers disappearance.

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Told through multiple voices in multiple time periods--Leonora, an artist and scientist obsessed with the work of surrealist painter Adam Sinclair, in 1990s Santa Cruz, CA; Pauline, Adam's wife, in 1940s NYC; and Mimi Saucier, Adam's lover, in 1930s Paris--Adam and Leonora is a transporting work about the power of dreams, the creative process, and the surreal.

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In this rich, deeply immersive collection of thirteen stories, a diverse group of characters seeks a better lifestyle and sense of connection in todays sunny, at times unforgiving, Southern California landscape. Alls Fair and Other California Stories will leave readers feeling thoughtful and transported.

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When Liz Millanova meets two unlikely friends in a support group for stage four cancer patients, they ditch the group and form their own, aiming to enjoy life while they can. In the process, they help one another reach acceptance, resolve family issues, and find love and peace at the end of their lives.

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An entertaining novel about love, real estate and desire set in a post-traumatic, morally ambiguous America, where the heartfelt desire to do good, is constantly tripped up by the need to feel good.

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From Manhattan to theCaliforniaBay Area to the South, strandsof lynching, womens ordination,a high-profileinterracial wedding andBlack church burnings tangle with readers experience and assumptions as they shed light on usable Americanhistory.

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Against a backdrop of pagodas and enigmatic customs, Lidia De Camposa mature artist carrying a private burdentours a Southeast Asian country recently reopened to the world after a long dictatorship with a disparate group of characters; along the way, they all encounter adventures that challenge their assumptionsand Lidia embarks on a love affair with a surprising conclusion.

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Written for everyone whos had a love/hate relationship with their job, this smart, funny novel by a former Wall Street sales pro reveals what it was like for a woman to build a successful career and a satisfying personal life in the macho world of 1980s stock trading.

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The wildly entertaining new novel from the bestselling author of Water for Elephants.

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Race, class, and sex combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school's iconic humour magazine.

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Part of "Little House on the Bowery" series, this title is set in the mythological land of Dayton, Ohio. It treats the alternative American rock scene of the 90s. It is part historical novel, part science fiction, part sociological study, and part murder mystery.

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A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.

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A bisexual young man grapples with questions of integrity and masculinity as he and his unconventional sister and enslaved brother struggle for respect and a future between dark secrets and unbridled passions of two plantation dynasties.