Mothers

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“a rich and important novel with unforgettable characters who spell out a critical message.

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“Sullivan is a strong writer, and each of her separate narratives is interesting in and of itself.”

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Reading The Singer Sisters, what comes immediately to mind is not the soap-opera-like drama of Fleetwood Mac circa 1977’s Rumours, but the thinly veiled miniseries made of those s

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“a page-turning exploration of love, motherhood, and secrecy.”

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Based on the saga of the Jews emerging from the Holocaust and their determination to inhabit a land to call their own, The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner is an epic retelling of

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Meagan Church begins her historical novel about the Baby Scoop of the sixties in the summer of ’64 with a drowning.

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“Despite its flaws, the book ultimately succeeds in getting the reader to root for Grace.”

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“this novel asks one of humanity’s most important questions . . .”

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With her provocative, yet tasteful and gripping writing, in Such a Pretty Girl, T. Greenwood tackles the tragic impact on lives of sexual predation in the movie and modeling industries.

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“Pure pleasure from first page to last. . . . All the joys of writing are richly displayed here, as is all their power to evoke and hold close.”

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“Brilliantly conceived. . . . There are court intrigues, whispered rumors, a clever subplot about the power of painting, what it reveals as well as what it hides . . .

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“an intellectually engaging and psychologically probing novel about a family returning from a dark place to a better one.”

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“tightly crafted women’s fiction, with a sensitive look at love, conscience, and loyalty.”

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Lizzie and Dan Fulton are barristers in the United Kingdom. While Dan, a defense attorney, handles a job Lizzie could never imagine doing, she deals with custody issues.

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One Italian Summer tells a story of grand proportions in which love transcends all things.

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In this debut, Huisman has already given her readers a richly textured portrait of an enthralling woman you might love as a dinner companion—but never as your mother.”

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“eminently readable, and its emotional effects linger beyond the last page.”

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“eminently readable, and its emotional effects linger beyond the last page.”

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“Thanks to its fascinating premise and to the strength of chapters told from her point of view, the book succeeds by constantly keeping the main character off balance as the moments from th

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“a chilling story of identity and what happens when a person’s self-reality is voluntarily submerged with another’s.”

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“You’ll open this novel because of history, read on because of story, and close it knowing more about your own life, right here, right now.”

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A new entrant in the unlikely but burgeoning genre of Holocaust romance fiction . . .”

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The Friendship List is a sassy, sensuous tale about two women who discover their femininity for the first time.

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This is an unexpected novel, full of philosophical questions about how we become who we are, what it takes to become someone else, and how much power others hold

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Lane Meckler is a columnist known as “Ask Roxie” in which she gives advice to help people online with problems.

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