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Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh

Baker Towers

by Jennifer Haigh
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  • Jan 1, 2005, 352 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Dec 2005, 368 pages
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Sandy straightened. The spot on his trousers was brown, not red as he would have thought. His mother would know he’d touched the glass.

He took his coat from its peg near the door. Joyce would know how to get rid of the spot. He ran out the back door, across the new snow, down the hill to the school.

The foregoing is excerpted from Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission from HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street , New York , NY 10022

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