Presents twenty-two short stories of American life.
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Author: Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:Genre: Short stories
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Author: Tatlock, Ann.Summary:
11-year-old Rosalind finds 70-year-old Tillie on her front porch--again. Wanting to die in the place where she lived for half a century, Tillie continues leaving her senior living complex and...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Rule, AnnSummary:
When 32-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was found dead by gunshot, her mother Barb Thompson never believed the theory that she committed suicide--and neither did Detective Berry, a ballistics expert,...
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Author: Fluke, JoanneSummary:
Haunted by her dreams. Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley, living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for...
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Author: Adler, DavidSummary:
When Cam and Eric go on a field trip to the museum with their fifth grade class, Cam-with her photographic memory-makes an interesting discovery: dinosaur bones are missing from one of the...
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Author: Binchy, MaeveSummary:
Set in Lough Glass, Ireland, The Glass Lake is an incandescent novel of family love, belonging, and secrets that flourish in the human heart. Lough Glass is the lake at the heart of the small...
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Author: Oke, JanetteSummary:
The love of Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney has healed their adopted son Henry's painful memories and helped him grow into a man of character. But when his job as a Royal Canadian Mountie brings...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Krauss, NicoleSummary:
It has been decades since Leo Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a book about it--at the tender age of 10--and he's been in love with the same person ever since. Leo believes his...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: Peterson, TracieSummary:
24-yearold Cassandra works for a wealthy Philadelphia widow who treats her with grandmotherly kindness. But Cassie's 1857 life takes an unexpected turn when a Boston investigator asks her to...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the...
Genre: Essays, Literary arts -
Author: Berg, ElizabethSummary:
Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul,...
Genre: Road fiction -
Author: Coolidge, SusanSummary:
Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Peterson, TracieSummary:
Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Teams Up with Kimberley Woodhouse for a Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her family...
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Author: Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary:
The lives of three women on turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her...
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Author: Hanff, HeleneSummary:
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-...