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3) Tara Road
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A tender novel of the pleasures and pitfalls of friendship Tara Road is an ultramodern love story for women, about women, between women that is sure to delight.”—Newsday
New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy has captured the hearts of millions with her unforgettable novels. Binchy's graceful storytelling and wise compassion...
New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy has captured the hearts of millions with her unforgettable novels. Binchy's graceful storytelling and wise compassion...
4) Home fires
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Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on Salt Whistle Raod that has always meant shelter, security, family and love. When she awakens one snowy night to a fire that roars through the old house, Anne escapes—but runs back into the blaze to...
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Winner of the National Book Award, the long-awaited novel from the author of the acclaimed collection, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, is an unusual and wonderful novel that is somehow able to be at once bleak and hilarious, light-hearted and profound.
It's the story of two sisters. Abigail Mather is a woman of enormous appetites, sexual and otherwise. Her fraternal twin Dorcas couldn't be more different: she gave up on sex without
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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In the title story, a young girl-out walking with her only friend, a cow named Mistress Moolly-finds the nest of a rare bird. When a handsome young hunter passes by, she must decide whether or not to reveal the nest to him. Other charming, luminous stories of New England village life include "The Gray Man," "Farmer Finch," "Marsh Rosemary," "The Dulham Ladies," and more.
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W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Furniture specialist Maggie Hammond inherits a house on a New England island and becomes involved in the community. The characters include a sheriff and his abused wife, a dog trainer, a promiscuous nurse and an ecologist to whom Maggie is attracted.
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Linked stories ... of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after divorce. Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to unmade beds of strangers, these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of understanding herself"--Page 4 of cover.
17) Lucid stars
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Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1988.
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English
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The coming apart of what we've come to call the "intact nuclear family" is by now, at the end of the 1980s, familiar territory. But in this passionate and impressive debut we travel where we've never been before--into a world that has no name. What can we call the sum total of these strange recombined patterns of stepparents, half sisters, and understandings that spring up between ex-wives?
No one like Benjamin Day has come close to Penny Webb's...
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University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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The adventures of a traveling portrait painter in 19th century New England. They include abduction and months of captivity at the hands of a wealthy man seeking intimacy. She escapes and travels to Italy, where she meets art critic John Ruskin and becomes famous.
20) Little women
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English
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"For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...