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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 of it is like a tonic."-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 and her habits becoming the habits that she’s written in stone. Her “haves"-Breena Clarke, River, Cross My Heart
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1. 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
2. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
By: Pearl Cleage
3.75
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American wom… read more
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"Grown people never ask you what they should do until they've already decided for themselves."-Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
"What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight."-Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
"What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight."-Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
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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- adult fiction
- coming of age
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- african american
- book club
- drama
"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. A Map of the World
By: Frank Muller , C.J. Critt , Jane Hamilton
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper … read more
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8. 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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9. The Rapture of Canaan
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3.37
Format: 120 pages,
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3.37
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(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. 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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13. 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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14. A Virtuous Woman
By: Kaye Gibbons
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the caref… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)
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Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a natio… read more
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18. Cane River
By: Lalita Tademy
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19. Gap Creek
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21. Stones from the River
By: Ursula Hegi
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From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palmcomes a stunning nov… read more
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