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  • Being White

    A Memoir

    by Doug Power ...
    When Dougs father refuses to return to suburban New York from one of his lengthy business trips, his mother swallows a bottle of sleeping pills and Doug and sister Constance move in with their mothers mother in Rochester, who takes them in temporarily. At the end of the school year, Constance goes on to college and Grandma unloads Doug, putting him on a plane to Chicago to live with Carleton, the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Green Doll: Mother America's Son

    by Doug Power ...
    Heres how it starts: Vardaman is chased by two older boys and he jumps into the elevator shaft and reaches for the steel cable and catches it, seven stories high, but his hands are slipping. He can barely hang on. The elevator is broken because the building is in Chicago, the Cabrini-Green projects, and because the older boys run the building no one wants to venture inside to fix things. The steel ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • She's Come Undone

    by Wally Lamb ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of three Oprah Book Club Picks including The River Is Waiting—Wally Lamb takes us on an extraordinary journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.“Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered.. ... Read more

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  • Liar's Bench

    In this coming-of-age novel, a white, small-town Kentucky teen uncovers dark secrets while investigating her mother’s suspicious death in 1972.In 1972, on Mudas Summers’s seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella’s no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did ... Read more

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  • God Still Don't Like Ugly

    by Mary Monroe ...
    Series Book 2 - GOD
    New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's heart-stopping tale about a woman who's suffered too much to give up on herself, even if everyone else has. . .Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life. Now, after decades ... Read more

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  • The Paper Mill Girl

    An emotionally gripping family saga of triumph in adversity

    by Glenda Young ...
    'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour 'Heart-warming, emotional and simply wonderful . . . If you think family sagas aren't for you, you've never read Glenda Young's books - pick one up today and you'll be converted' 5 * reader reviewIf you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you'll LOVE Glenda Young's 'a****mazing novels!' (ITV's This Morning presenter Sharon ... Read more

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  • Gypsy Girl

    A life on the road. A journey to freedom.

    A life lived on the road and a heart that will always belong thereImagine being born into a world where communities are constantly on the move, but freedom is not a birthright. Rosie grew up travelling all over England and Ireland in her family's caravan. She had an idyllic childhood roaming fields and meadows with her younger brothers and sisters - free from the trappings of modern life, but ... Read more

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  • Caucasia

    A Novel

    by Danzy Senna ...
    **From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review**Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. ... Read more

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  • Close to Home

    A heartbreaking saga of intrigue, tragedy and an impossible love

    by Pamela Evans ...
    A terrible accident. A convicted murderer. An impossible love.A heart-breaking saga from much-loved author, Pam Evans, Close to Home is a gripping tale of intrigue and love, perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin.'A compelling book' - Woman's RealmIn 1957, Ellie and Tom Hall are happily married. With a home of their own in Shepherd's Bush and a beautiful baby daughter, Ellie feels truly ... Read more

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  • A Year Down Yonder

    by Richard Peck ...
    **A Newbery Medal WinnerRichard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago**Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know ... Read more

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  • The Heavenly Table

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    From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with ... Read more

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