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Black and Blue

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Why do some seemingly solid and loving marriages break up? After she runs away from her abusive husband, Fran Benedetto lives in fear of discovery, yet also with increasing confidence, freedom and hope, as she struggles to create a new life for herself and her son. Black & Blue is a stunning novel about a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen, author of Thinking Out Loud.

She's Come Undone

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Delve into the extraordinary world of 13-year-old Dolores Price. In She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb has created a comical and bittersweet heroine who tries to come of age in the sixties, when hippies and pot are the last thing on poor Dolores' mind. No, 13-year-old Dolores has to contend with a mentally-ill mother, an abusive father and the fact that she was raped in a dog pound by a local DJ. She spends her "glorious" teenaged years eating and eating in front of the TV. When she reaches the weight of 257 pounds as a young woman, life still holds misery - but Dolores isn't going to give up that easily. She's determined to give herself one more chance to find herself and her place in the world.

Back Roads

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Nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer struggles to keep it all together. With his father dead and mother in jail for the murder, he juggles two low-paying jobs and the care of his three younger sisters. His only escape is the occasional six-pack, and the beautiful young woman whose attentions provide Harley with pretty much the only pleasure in his life.

Here on Earth

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The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon now tells her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis -- the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her -- the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark, romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you. The answers that March Murray discovers are both heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating -- for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth...

La Prisonniere

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As the daughter of the King of Morocco's closest aide, she grew up enjoying all of the privileges of royalty. But this quickly changed for Malika Oufkir when her father attempted to assassinate the king. As a result, Oufkir, her mother and five brothers and sisters must live in a desert jail for 15 years. With no contact with the outside world and living in inhumane conditions, Oufkir somehow manages to keep her sanity and sense of humour intact. La Prisonniere is her remarkable story.

Where the Heart Is

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Money doesn't pave the road to salvation - at least not for Novalee Nation. Stranded in a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Okla., with just $7.77 to keep her going and her swollen belly that holds seven months of life, Novalle must face the truth: her boyfriend left her and their dream of the good life in Bakersfield, Calif. But Novalee is about to discover the love hidden in this treasure-trove community. Swept under the guardian wings of the blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband, who delivers advice and the Bible, and the wise and elderly photographer Moses Whitecotton, she begins to feel loved. Where the Heart Is captures the warmth and tenderness of this story about love, abandonment and regeneration.

River, Cross My Heart: A Novel

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Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. River, Cross My Heart, which marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller, weighs the effect of Clara''s absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara''s sister, ten-year-old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions stirred by her sister''s death as she struggles to decide what kind of woman she will become. This highly accomplished first novel resonates with ideas, impassioned lyricism, and poignant historical detail as it captures an essential part of the African-American experience in our century.

Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage

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Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she''s not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay.

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel

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In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic political events of the twentieth century -- the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium and its devastating consequences -- here is New York Times-bestselling author Barbara Kingslover's beautiful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable epic that chronicles the disintegration of family and a nation.

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