Fiction | Fiction
Dec.12.2011
Eve Weldon has just moved to New York hoping to make a new life for herself in the city her late mother loved, and mysteriously left, decades before. Eve’s thrilled to land a job writing at a morning show called Smell the Coffee, until she discovers that writers there are treated like the...
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Dec.01.2011
The smartest kid in Petaluma never thought seventh grade would be like this! When Norman Babbit skipped a grade and entered junior high a year early he thought his life would be great. But the school bully forces Norman to do his homework, his younger sister is a brat, his English teacher hates...
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Nov.30.2011
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well for the...
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Nov.28.2011
Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who’s suddenly everywhere, until she’s stuck in church with him one day. Then something happens—Apron’s...
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Nov.25.2011
The lives of a pre-historic couple intertwine with and influence the lives of two modern day couples with strong spiritual and romantic effects. The adventure of discovery and the search for understanding spans dozens of miles but thousands of years and connects the present to the past in...
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Nov.23.2011
It is 1998. In the safe haven of her North London flat—in a room her husband has ironically dubbed the Delivery Room—Serbian therapist Mira Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients. It’s a group that includes the Aristocrat, who battles the indignities of infertility treatment...
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Nov.03.2011
What would you do if you learned the person you were divorcing is dying?
For Anna Manning the answer involves more than just taking care of her husband.The marriages and intimate relationships her four adult children have with their spouses and significant others thread into her decision as her...
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Oct.24.2011
Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men, and doomed...
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Oct.16.2011
In the town of Bluffs Bay, Washington, a serial killer dubbed by the press as “The Woods Strangler” is killing beautiful women in the affluent neighborhood of The Woods.
In an effort to bring the community together to fight this terror, Selene Herrera, director of a local battered women’s shelter,...
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Oct.11.2011
From Publishers Weekly Quick (Northern Edge) takes readers into the cloistered world of the Ospedale della Pietà, a convent orphanage and music school. Narrator Anna Maria dal Violin, an actual violin prodigy and 18th-century resident of the Venetian Pietà, is among the orphanage girls who...
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