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2000

House of
Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus
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Dubus tells
his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries, Behrani
and Kathy. To both of them, the house represents something more than just
a place to live. For the colonel, it is a foot in the door of the American
dream; for Kathy, a reminder of a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is
simple yet evocative, House of Sand and Fog builds to its
inevitable denouement, one that is painfully dark but unfailingly honest.

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Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz
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Drowning Ruth's plot revolves around a
mystery, which is well handled but secondary to the characters' development. In 1919, when
unmarried Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee under duress, she goes home
to her sister, Mattie, and three-year-old niece, Ruth, in rural Wisconsin. One bitter
winter night shortly before her wounded husband, Carl, is due to return from WWI, Mattie
falls through the ice and drowns in the lake that surrounds their island farm. In the
years that follow, Carl and Amanda share responsibility for raising Ruth, maintaining an
uneasy truce even as he struggles against her evasions to understand exactly how and why
Mattie drowned.

Open House
by Elizabeth Berg
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Samantha is abandoned by her
husband in the opening pages of this three-handkerchief special, and the resultant tremors
keep her off-balance for most of the novel. There are practical problems aplenty, of
course, including a shortage of money and an 11-year-old son to raise. But Sam's sense of
emotional bereavement is far worse, despite the fact that her husband had been giving her
the conjugal cold shoulder for years.

The Poisonwood
Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
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In Barbara Kingsolver's
novel, A Baptist missionary family enters the Congo, circa 1959, where their faith in
Jesus, democracy, and what we call civilization is severely challenged. The five female
narrators range from a teenaged Malaprop pining for soda pop and the bunny hop to a child
prodigy who comprehends words, phrases and whole books backwards and forwards.

While I Was Gone
by Sue
Miller
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Jo Becker has everything a
woman could desire: a loving spouse, contented children, and a nice dog or two. When her
New England veterinary practice takes on a new client, however, her past comes back to
haunt her. Long ago, it seems, Jo had escaped her family and identity for a commune in
Cambridge. Her Aquarian illusions came to an abrupt, bloody end when one of her housemates
was brutally murdered.

The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
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This is the story of
eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond,
blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so
that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be
different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the
tragedy of its fulfillment.

Back
Roads
by Tawni O'Dell
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With his mother in jail for
killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and
the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the
Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him
range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the
sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs
just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode.
But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and
erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters.

Daughter
of Fortune
by Isabel Allende,
Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza
Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned
Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and
falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for
Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every
stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaqun takes off for San Francisco
to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.

Gap
Creek : A Novel
by Robert Morgan
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Whatever trials Job suffered were
nothing compared to the tribulations that befall Julie Harmon Richards. Following the
deaths of her younger brother and father, 17-year-old Julie takes one look at 18-year-old
Hank Richards and falls in love. Following their marriage a month later, the two move from
their North Carolina homes to Gap Creek, South Carolina, where Hank works at a cotton mill
and Julie cooks and cleans for a Mr. Pendergast in exchange for room and board. Pendergast
is fatally injured trying to rescue his hidden savings during a devastating fire, and
Julie, now pregnant, gives all of Pendergast's money to a man who tells her he is the
lawyer for the bank that holds the mortgage on the house. Gap Creek floods and the house
is ruined. Julie's baby lives only for a few months. Finally, Pendergast's heirs show up,
so Hank and Julie, now pregnant again, leave Gap Creek for an uncertain future.

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