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  • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
    All the Ugly and Wonderful Things : A Novel
    by Bryn Greenwood
    Hardcover: Aug 2016
    Paperback: Oct 2017
     
    A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the troubled Midwestern backdrop of their lives.
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  • All Woman and Springtime
    All Woman and Springtime : A Novel
    by Brandon W. Jones
    Hardcover: May 2012
    Paperback: Mar 2013
     
    This spellbinding debut, reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, depicts, with chilling accuracy, life behind North Korea's iron curtain.
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  • All You Have to Do Is Call
    All You Have to Do Is Call
    by Kerri Maher
    Hardcover: Sep 2023
    Paperback: Aug 2024
     
    A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller.
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  • The Almost Sisters
    The Almost Sisters
    by Joshilyn Jackson
    Hardcover: Jul 2017
    Paperback: May 2018
     
    With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the ...
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  • Alone With You
    Alone With You : Stories
    by Marisa Silver
    Hardcover: Apr 2010
    Paperback: Apr 2011
     
    Eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself.
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  • Amaryllis in Blueberry
    Amaryllis in Blueberry
    by Christina Meldrum
    Paperback: Feb 2011
     
    Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the complexity of human relationships through the haunting voices of Dick and Seena Slepy and their four daughters in a soulful novel which weaves together the past and the present of a family harmed—and healed&#...
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  • The Amateur Marriage
    The Amateur Marriage
    by Anne Tyler
    Hardcover: Jan 2004
    Paperback: Oct 2004
     
    A rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations.
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  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
    by Michael Chabon
    Hardcover: Sep 2000
    Paperback: Aug 2001
     
    A serious but never solemn novel about the American comic book's Golden Age, from the late 1930's to the early 1950s. 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
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