Edwards, Eldonna

Summary: Grace Carter has the Knowing. It offers glimpses of people's pasts and futures, and allows Grace to talk to Isaac, her twin brother who died at birth. To Aunt Pearl, the Knowing is a family gift; to Grace's strict Evangelical pastor father, it's witchcraft. Her sisters Hope, Joy, and Chastity enjoy a normal life. It's Grace's friendships that keeps her afloat: Lyle, a gentle, homeless man, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books 2018

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Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"</strong> The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, andunacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018

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Michaels, Fern

Summary: "The flames of memory always seem to glow a little brighter during the holidays. Perhaps that's why this time of year is so difficult for airline heiress Ivy Macintosh, as she faces thoughts of yet another festive season alone. Since the plane crash that claimed the lives of her husband and two children eight years ago, she's been submerged in grief. When eleven-year-old Holly Greenwood knocks...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017

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Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense. In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old named Jill is in thrall to an older male relative, the mysterious, attractive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017

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Quindlen, Anna.

Summary: This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As a young girl in Miller’s Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen’s novel takes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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Hassman, Tupelo

Summary: Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012

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Nabokov, Vladīmir Vladimirovich

Summary: A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 1989

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