Back Roads
By: Tawni O'Dell
3.50
Format: 218 pages,
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed fro…
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1. Drowning Ruth
By: Christina Schwarz
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisc… read more
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2. While I Was Gone
By: Sue Miller
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a… read more
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"A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight."-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
"...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them."-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
"I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind."-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
"And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,"-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
3. Mother of Pearl
By: Melinda Haynes
3.70
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s… read more
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4. Vinegar Hill
By: A. Manette Ansay
3.39
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning a… read more
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"It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else."-A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill
"If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start."-A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill
5. River, Cross My Heart
By: Breena Clarke
3.50
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed bestseller -- a selection of Oprah's Book Club -- that brings vividly to life the Geo… read more
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- coming of age
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"With these coming children we never relinquish the past. We keep seeing somebody gone in each new one."-Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart
"Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don’t let yourself have more. You can’t live off it. But just a bit …"-Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart
"But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that’s become the body that she has…"-Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart
6. Back Roads
By: Tawni O'Dell
3.50
Format: 218 pages,
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed fro… read more
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7. We Were the Mulvaneys
By: Joyce Carol Oates
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed … read more
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8. Songs in Ordinary Time
By: Mary McGarry Morris
3.37
Format: 120 pages,
Songs in Ordinary Timeis set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocenc… read more
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9. The Rapture of Canaan
By: Sheri Reynolds
3.37
Format: 120 pages,
Oprah Book Club(r) Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Alm… read more
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10. Jewel
By: Bret Lott
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
(Oprah's Book Club) Jewel and her husband, Leston, have been blessed by a fifth child, a girl they … read more
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11. Breath, Eyes, Memory
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists… read more
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12. Here on Earth
By: Alice Hoffman
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old da… read more
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13. Black and Blue
By: Anna Quindlen
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
For eighteen years, Fran Benedetto kept her secret. And hid her bruises. And stayed with Bobby beca… read more
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14. Open House
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until th… read more
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16. Midwives
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.25
Format: None pages,
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Redding… read more
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17. Cane River
By: Lalita Tademy
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York Timesbestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four gen… read more
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18. Where the Heart Is
By: Billie Letts
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation wa… read more
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19. Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
By: Ethan Rarick
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight befo… read more
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20. Gap Creek
By: Robert Morgan
3.88
Format: None pages,
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can st… read more
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21. Icy Sparks
By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio
3.78
Format: None pages,
Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of E… read more
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