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Color Purple
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Alice Walker
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband ...
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Ender's Game
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Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggins was only six when he was sent for special training because of his unique talents, and he may be humanity's only hope in a war against aliens. Winner of the 1986 Hugo and the 1985 Nebula Awards.
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Peace Like a River
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Leif Enger
Reuben Land narrates this tale, looking back on his childhood to remember when he and his sister and his father tracked his brother Davy--who has escaped from prison--across North Dakota to the Badlands. As Reuben tells the story, his sister Swede is composing her own precocious adventure yarn, in rhymed couplets, about the hero, Sunny Sundown, ...
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God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy
A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997.
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I Know This Much is True
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Wally Lamb
A 40-year-old housepainter named Dominick Birdsey, from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, is the narrator of this long novel about the search for self-acceptance. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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The Godfather
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Mario Puzo
In 1969, THE GODFATHER began the American public's fascination with the Mafia. This Italian-American epic, featuring patriarch Don Vito Corleone, explores the brutal, lavish lifestyles of New York City's mob bosses: the struggles for power, the respect for family, love, and loyalty, and the consequences of life built around murder, corruption, and ...
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On Beauty
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith updates the plot of E.M. Forster's HOWARDS END to tell the comic story of two radically different British families: the arch conservatives Monty and Carline Kipps, and the bohemian, very liberal Belseys. Both men are art professors teaching at a college in Massachusetts where the two wives, unexpectedly, become close friends. Kiki ...
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Roots
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Alex Haley
An historical narrative of slavery in the American South. Based upon actual researches conducted over a period of years, Haley reconstructs the events that led to the enslavement of Kunte Kinte, the "African" identified in Haley's family lore as their founding father, and his settlement on American shores. Kinte, in his own history, becomes an ...
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Flowers in the Attic
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Virginia Andrews
The four beautiful Dollanganger children are locked in a mansion attic to keep them hidden from their fundamentalist grandfather, who would disinherit their mother if he learns of their existence. The mother, who cares more for money than her children, soon grows murderous.
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Petals on the wind
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V C Andrews
In this second volume of the Dollanger series, Cathy, Chris and Carrie have escaped the mansion where they were held captive for three years. A young doctor takes them in, and they begin to start their lives anew. But Cathy can’t forget the torturous years in the attic, or her dead brother, and vows to take revenge on her mother, who chose ...
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Kane & Abel
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Jeffrey Archer
This international #1 bestseller is an epic novel of power, jealousy, ambition and revenge. Spanning 60 years, Kane & Abel is the compelling story of two ruthless, powerful businessmen--Boston millionaire William Kane and Polish immigrant Abel Rosnovski--whose confrontation rocks the financial world.
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American Pastoral
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Philip Roth
Nathan Zuckerman, now in his early 60s, agrees to write a tribute to the dead father of an old friend and, in researching the man's life, becomes intrigued with the mystery of why someone who seemed to have been blessed in every way--with a happy marriage, successful business, good health--turned into such an intensely bitter and unhappy man ...
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Seeds of Yesterday
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V C Andrews
In this fourth volume in the Dollanger series, Cathy and Chris are unable to escape the horrors of Foxworth Hall, the family mansion where they were imprisoned as children. Now the evil that was spawned in those dark years encroaches, threatening to envelop the family in its sinister power.
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Gates of Paradise
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V C Andrews
In this fourth volume in the "Casteel" series, Heaven’s daughter, Annie Casteel Stonewall, is swept off to Farthinggale Manor after her mother’s death. Once ensconced in the shadowy mansion, Annie is curious to delve into her family’s secret past, unaware of the frightening deceptions and sinister horrors that lurk in every dark corner.
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Fallen Hearts
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V C Andrews
In this third volume in the Casteel series, Heaven returns to her backwoods hometown as a newlywed schoolteacher, hoping to prove her worth to the people who once viciously snubbed her. But during a wedding trip to visit her step-grandfather, Tony Tatterton, she and her new husband are persuaded to stay on at Farthinggale Manor, where they are ...
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Corrections
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Jonathan Franzen
The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And Denise is stuck in a destructive affair with someone very unsuitable. Enid is hoping to steal away with Alfred for ...
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Keeping Faith
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Jodi Picoult
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.
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
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Janelle Brown
Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, this novel that portrays a world that epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream is an original, utterly modern addition to the genre of suburban fiction.
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Song of Solomon
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T Morrison
In Toni Morrison's powerful 1977 novel, Milkman Dead hears a strange story: his father and his aunt Pilate witnessed their father's murder, and Pilate has carried his bones around with her for 20 years. Milkman travels south to find that this grandfather (who fled slavery and escaped, creating a myth of flight) has been immortalized in folktales ...
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The Glorious Cause
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Jeff Shaara
This sequel to "Rise to Rebellion" continues the story of America's war for independence. "Told with emotion, energy, and historical precision . . . Shaara reaches new heights here, with a narrative that's impossible to put down."--"Publishers Weekly" starred review.
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Dreaming in Cuban
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Cristina Garcia
A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.
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The Pale Horseman
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Bernard Cornwell
The sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "The Last Kingdom" continues the exhilarating adventures of Uhtred and King Alfred the Great. Uhtred discovers--in his moment of greatest peril--a newfound loyalty and love for his native country and ruler.
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Cane River
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Lalita Tademy
This saga of four generations of strong African-American women begins in 1834 on a Louisiana plantation and ends a hundred years later. The author was a successful executive who quit her job to research the history of her own family--which she has incorporated into this stirring tale.
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Fall on Your Knees
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Ann-Marie MacDonald
The considerable trials of a Cape Breton Island family in the early 20th century are chronicled in this novel: James, the father, who has an unhealthy attraction toward his talented daughters; his repressed wife who commits suicide after her daughter's death in childbirth; and three sisters.
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We Were the Mulvaneys
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Joyce Carol Oates
In upstate New York, the Mulvaneys are a wealthy and magnetic family--attractive, charismatic, promising. But after 25 years, the family begins to slide, then fragment, then shatter, and soon there is nothing left of the dynasty. Judd, the youngest of the clan, begins to search for the reasons behind the downfall, and as he uncovers family secrets ...
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