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Written by the award-winning author of Little Altars Everywhere, this is a funny tour de force of women's, and especially mother-daughter, relationships. SiddaLee Walker prides herself on having escaped her Louisiana hometown and her mother, Vivi Abbot Walker, a local beauty and town character. In her brilliant balance of intergenerational transformation, Wells has created a breathtaking tale of separation and reunion.
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
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A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable--one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search...
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In the wake of her tile-maker father's untimely blindness, 16-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer, where she glimpses a world very different from her own. Griet's nuanced sense of color soon attracts the attention of the artist, who teaches her how to mix pigments as she cleans his studio. But Griet's growing bond with Vermeer does not go unnoticed by the rest of the household, and when the painter chooses her to...
7) Plainsong
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Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground....
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Yvonne Hamilton had been found in her home murdered--handcuffed and naked. The Thames Valley Police had supposed robbery, but their suspects had dissolved and all the leads had dried up. A year later, while Morse is on furlough, two anonymous calls to Chief Superintendent Strange open the possibility of a new line of inquiry. Strange wants his best man on the case. Morse, however, shows a surprising reluctance to embroil himself in what seems to be...
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"The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now restores this story - which inspired the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby Dick - to its rightful place in American history" -- Dust jacket.
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest...
12) Tough cookie
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With her catering business temporarily shut down thanks to substandard drains, Goldy gladly accepts an assignment to host a PBS cooking show filmed at a local ski resort. While there, she meets an ex-boyfriend who promptly turns up murdered. Then Goldy herself is nearly run off the road on the way home. Convinced she is on somebody's hit list, Goldy decides to investigate.
13) Gone for good
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
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