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With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its...

In this rich and deeply satisfying new novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an...

Struggling to come to terms with her husband's abandonment, Samantha sets out to construct a new life for herself and her eleven-year-old son and to...

When Laura Bartone travels back to her home town for a family reunion, she is stunned when her sister reveals shocking and horrible truths about their...

Elizabeth Berg's previous novels about the feminine experience in its various stages of girlhood, adolescence, and adulthood have won her a loyal...

For the protagonist of Elizabeth Berg's Until the Real Thing Comes Along, the biological clock is ticking all too loudly. Alas, there are no likely...

Canadian writer Mary Lawson's debut novel is a beautifully crafted and shimmering tale of love, death, and redemption. The story, narrated by ...

Set in the turbulent summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi, a volatile time and place during the fight for civil rights, this sentimental novel...

Ellen decides that she never loved her husband Frank, and she begins an affair with Peter, the man who teaches her course in auto mechanics. But Frank...