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1	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao more books like this by Junot Diaz add to wishlist Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse. see all copies from $3.87! new only from $6.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Memory Keeper's Daughter more books like this by Kim Edwards add to wishlist A doctor delivers his own twins, and upon seeing that the daughter has Down's syndrome, tells his nurse to take the baby to an institution and never reveal the secret. The nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself in this tale of redemptive love and long-buried secrets that unfolds over a quarter of a century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Keeping Faith more books like this by Jodi Picoult add to wishlist When her parents divorce, seven-year-old Faith finds a friend who supports her--a friend who may be imaginary. Is Faith a prophet or just a troubled little girl? From the acclaimed author of "The Pact" comes a provocative novel about belief, betrayal, and miracles, and the fierce love of a mother for her child. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Forgotten Garden more books like this by Kate Morton add to wishlist A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.73! \| SVS
5	One Day at a Time more books like this by Danielle Steel add to wishlist With wit and intelligence, Steel's new novel explores love in all its guises, taking readers into the lives of three unusual, but wonderfully real couples. Funny, sexy, and wise, "One Day at a Time" is utterly impossible to put down. 336 pp. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Mercy more books like this by Jodi Picoult add to wishlist Did James McDonald love Maggie so much that he killed her? The law will decide in this courtroom drama. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| SVS
7	Satanic Verses more books like this by Salman Rushdie add to wishlist Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Everything is Illuminated more books like this by Jonathan Safran Foer add to wishlist A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist and for the tales that link ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons more books like this by Lorna Landvik add to wishlist A close-knit reading group in a small Minnesota town is scornfully termed "Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons," but the five women who comprise it do much more than eat candy--and experience many more emotions than anger--during the 30 years that come and go in the course of this novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Harvesting the Heart more books like this by Jodi Picoult add to wishlist The author of Picture Perfect "explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood" (New York Times Book Review). Paige's mother left when she was five. When Paige becomes a mother herself, she is overwhelmed by the demands. Unable to forget her past, Paige struggles with the difficulties of marriage and motherhood. see all copies from $2.92! new only from $6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices more books like this by Jodi Picoult add to wishlist Back in print by popular demand, national bestselling author Jodi Picoult's acclaimed debut novel treats fans old and new to a beautiful, poignant story of family, friendship and love. Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionaly charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Amy and Isabelle more books like this by Elizabeth Strout add to wishlist Isabelle Goodrow works in a dead-end job in a self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy, trying to cope with the shame she feels about her affair with Amy's father. When Amy, frustrated by her seemingly unemotional mother, begins her own affair, the relationship between the two deteriorates. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Wednesday Letters more books like this by Jason F Wright add to wishlist Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. Theyve lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath, he scribbles his last Wednesday Letter. When their adult children arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full of love letters that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text more books like this by William Faulkner add to wishlist THE SOUND AND THE FURY, Faulkner's fourth novel (1929), is his first true masterpiece. Depicting the decline of the once aristocratic Compson family, the novel is composed of four stream-of-consciousness narratives, each told by a different character with his or her own way of relating events. The first is sweet, gentle Benjy Compson, who at the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.97! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Quilter's Kitchen more books like this by Jennifer Chiaverini add to wishlist Anna Del Maso knew she wanted to be a chef since seventh grade. "Somehow everything in my life ends up being about food," she realizes, as she begins the latest of her food-themed quilts. Her twin passions have converged with a brand new position as head chef for Elm Creek Quilts, Waterford, Pennsylvania's popular quilting retreat run by the Elm ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Geek Love more books like this by Katherine Dunn add to wishlist The story, lurid, lyrical, half-mad, of Mister Binewski, Crystal Lil and their bizarre offspring, a home-bred freakshow: Arturo the flipper boy, Siamese twins, the dwarf Albino and Fortunato the boy with psychokinetic power. A very strange parable of family happiness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Land Remembered more books like this by P Smith add to wishlist In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with ... see all copies from $2.03! new only from $4.03! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Lost Quilter more books like this by Jennifer Chiaverini add to wishlist Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson holds in her hands a quilt called by three names-Birds in the Air, after its pattern; The Runaway Quilt, after the circumstances under which it was made; and The Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to return. That quilter was called Joanna, a woman who travelled by the Underground ... see all copies from $4.80! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Hour I First Believed more books like this by Wally Lamb add to wishlist The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author and two-time Oprah's Book Club pick delivers his first novel in over a decade--an extraordinary work of prodigious scope and ambition that explores the consequences of violent events, and the chaos that ensues. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A Thousand Splendid Suns more books like this by Khaled Hosseini add to wishlist With heart-wrenching power and suspense, the bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The moonflower vine more books like this by Jetta Carleton add to wishlist A timeless American classic rediscovered--an unforgettable saga of a heartland family On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	So Brave, Young, and Handsome more books like this by Leif Enger add to wishlist Now in paperback, the new novel by Leif Enger, author of the million-copy best seller, "Peace Like a River," is a lively, big-hearted redemption tale; an unforgettable, picaresque Western yarn. In 1915 Minnesota, writer Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives simply with his wife and son until he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Lovely Bones more books like this by Alice Sebold add to wishlist This is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting. This is a novel which finds light in even the darkest of places. My name was Salmon; like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Light from Heaven more books like this by Jan Karon add to wishlist Jan Karon prepares to leave Mitford with the ninth and final installment in her bestselling series of Christian fiction. Having spent a year farm-sitting for some friends, retired but restless Father Timothy Kavanagh returns to work, bringing a long-closed, tiny mission church in the mountains back to life. Although Jan Karon wraps up her Mitford ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Shipping News more books like this by E Annie Proulx add to wishlist In this lively dark comedy, a hapless man named Quoyle is grief-stricken after his no-good wife dies in a car crash. He packs up his dog, his children, and an ancient aunt and returns to the old family home in the town of Killick-Claw, on the coast of Newfoundland, where he gets a job with the local newspaper covering the shipping news. Gradually, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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