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  • Open House
    Open House
    by Elizabeth Berg
    Hardcover: Jul 2000
    Paperback: May 2001
     
    A love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.
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  • The Opposite of Everyone
    The Opposite of Everyone
    by Joshilyn Jackson
    Hardcover: Feb 2016
    Paperback: Oct 2016
     
    A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story and ...
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  • The Orchard
    The Orchard
    by David Hopen
    Hardcover: Nov 2020
    Paperback: Aug 2021
     
    A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself.
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  • Ordinary Heroes
    Ordinary Heroes
    by Scott Turow
    Hardcover: Nov 2005
    Paperback: Oct 2006
     
    Turow has penned a searing story of World War II. An extraordinary, unforgettable novel, which was inspired by his own father's military experiences.
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  • Ordinary Life
    Ordinary Life : Stories
    by Elizabeth Berg
    Hardcover: Feb 2002
    Paperback: Jun 2003
     
    In this superb collection of short stories, Berg takes us into the times in women's lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change.
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  • An Ordinary Man
    An Ordinary Man : An Autobiography
    by Paul Rusesabagina
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    The riveting life story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina who, as his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, sheltered more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged ...
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  • Ordinary Wolves
    Ordinary Wolves
    by Seth Kantner
    Hardcover: May 2004
    Paperback: Aug 2005
     
    'I've not read anything that so captures the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. Ordinary Wolves is painful and beautiful'.. Louise Erdrich.
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  • Orfeo
    Orfeo
    by Richard Powers
    Hardcover: Jan 2014
    Paperback: Sep 2014
     
    The National Book Award–winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
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