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Zeitoun (2009)
Describes how Abdulrahman Zeitoun remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent e...

Let the Great World Spin (2009)
In a tale set in Manhattan of 1974, a radical young Irish monk struggles with personal demons while ...

The Weird Sisters (2011)
Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after fam...

Flora (2013)
Isolated in a decaying family home while her father performs secret work at the end of World War II,...

Fly Away Home (2010)
A latest work by the author of Best Friends Forever finds a politician's wife retreating with her gr...

One Breath Away (2012)
When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children...

Smitten (2011)
Four authors presents novellas about how four women--Natalie, Julia, Shelby, and Reese--try to save ...

Testimony (2008)
A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in which participants were caug...

Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collec...

Shanghai Girls (2009)
Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl s...

The Christmas Chronicles (2010)
A 14th-century woodworker dedicates his life to making children happy, but when age and infirmity ca...

Exultant (2004)
In a continuing study of human evolution, a journey to the far future depicts a world in which a far...

Sarah's Key (2008)
On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an ...

The Sandcastle Girls (2012)
"Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide...

Defending Jacob (2012)
His happy life and long-time respectability as a suburban Massachusetts assistant district attorney ...

The Girl who Played with Fire (2009)
Two reporters responsible for a sex-trafficking expose are murdered, and the fingerprints on the mur...