The Book of Ruth
By: Jane Hamilton
3.37
Format: 120 pages,
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confron…
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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. 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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3. 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
4. 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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"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
5. She's Come Undone
By: Wally Lamb
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journe… read more
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6. Ellen Foster
By: Kaye Gibbons
4.00
Format: 321 pages,
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and … read more
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- adult fiction
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. The Book of Ruth
By: Jane Hamilton
3.37
Format: 120 pages,
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confron… read more
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11. 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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12. I Know This Much Is True
By: Wally Lamb
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticu… read more
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13. The Pilot's Wife
By: Anita Shreve
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyon… read more
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14. The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)
By: Jacquelyn Mitchard
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a natio… read more
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15. 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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16. White Oleander
By: Janet Fitch
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleandertells the unforgettable story … read more
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17. 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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18. Bloodroot
By: Amy Greene
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a … read more
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19. 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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20. Stones from the River
By: Ursula Hegi
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palmcomes a stunning nov… read more
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21. The Lost Mother
By: Mary McGarry Morris
3.20
Format: 160 pages,
Mary McGarry Morris has achieved new heights with her riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family … read more
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