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Odd Families, Quirky Characters
Wry stories of the daily life involving families and people who are a little (or a lot!) off the beaten path (i.e. Anne Tyler)
Authors & Titles
- Antoni, Brian: South Beach
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- Baker, Tiffany: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
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- Barker, Nicola: Behindlings
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- Barkley, Brad: Money, Love
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- Barrows, Annie & Shaffer, Mary Ann: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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- Bausch, Richard: Thanksgiving Night
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- Berne, Suzanne: A Crime in the Neighborhod
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- Blackston, Ray: Flabbergasted
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- Block, Francesca Lia: Quakeland
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- Brookner, Anita: Brief Lives
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- Brookner, Anita: A Closed Eye
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- Brookner, Anita: Falling Slowly
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- Brookner, Anita: Fraud
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- Brookner, Anita: Incidents in the Rue Laugier
- Brookner, Anita: The Misalliance
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- Brookner, Anita: A Private View
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- Brookner, Anita: Undue Influence
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- Brookner, Anita: Visitors
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- Brown, Carrie: The Hatbox Baby
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- Burcham, Carl: White Dolphin Blues
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- Cameron, Peter: The City of Your Final Destination
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- Campbell, Bonnie Jo: Q Road
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- Carey, Edward: Observatory Mansions
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- Cartwright, Justin: The Promise of Happiness
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- Chabon, Michael: Wonder Boys
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- Cheever, John: Wapshot series
- The Wapshot Chronicle
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- The Wapshot Scandal
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- Christensen, Lars Saabye: The Half Brother
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- Cohen, Paula Marantz: Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan
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- Connelly, Neil O'Boyle: Buddy Cooper Finds a Way
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- Cook, Thomas H. & King, Larry: Moon Over Manhattan
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- Cooper, Douglas: Amnesia
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- Crandell, Doug: Beauty Knows No Pain series
- The Flawless Skin of Ugly People
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- Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed
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- Crusie, Jennifer: Faking It
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- Darling, Julia: Crocodile Soup
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- Davies, Robertson: Rebel Angels series
- The Rebel Angels
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- What's Bred in the Bone
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- The Lyre of Orpheus
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- Dawson, Carol: Body of Knowledge
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- Denby, Joolz: Borrowed Light
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- Downes, Frank: The Long Snake Tattoo
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- Drury, Joan M.: Those Jordan Girls
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- DuFresne, John: Louisiana Power and Light
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- Elkin, Stanley: Mrs. Ted Bliss
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- Enright, Anne: The Wig My Father Wore
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- Fields, Jennie: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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- Fisher, Carrie: Delusions of Grandma
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- Fisher, Carrie: Surrender the Pink
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- Fitzgerald, Penelope: At Freddie's
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- Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Beginning of Spring
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- Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Bookshop
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- Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Gate of Angels
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- Friend, Dorie: Family Laundry
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- Garfield, Henry: Room 13
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- Gilbert, Elizabeth: Stern Men
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- Hagen, George: The Laments
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- Hamilton, Jane: The Book of Ruth
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- Handler, Daniel: Watch Your Mouth
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- Heinemann, Larry: Cooler By the Lake
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- Helnwein, Mercedes: The Potential Hazards of Hester Day
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- Hite, Sid: Dither Farm
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- Huneven, Michelle: Round Rock
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- Irving, John: The 158-Pound Marriage
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- Irving, John: The Cider House Rules
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- Irving, John: The Fourth Hand
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- Irving, John: The Hotel New Hampshire
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- Irving, John: Last Night in Twisted River
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- Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
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- Irving, John: A Son of the CIrcus
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- Irving, John: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
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- Irving, John: A Widow for One Year
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- Irving, John: The World According to Garp
- Jewell, Lisa: Roommates Wanted
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- Kay, Terry: Taking Lottie Home
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- Keyes, Marian: Watermelon
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(NOTE: This title is part of the Walsh Sisters series, listed under Ties That Bind: Sisters)
- Kimmel, Haven: The Solace of Leaving Early
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- Kimmel, Haven: The Used World
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- King, Larry & Cook, Thomas H.: Moon Over Manhattan
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- Kowalski, William: Eddie's Bastard
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- Kraft, Eric: Peter Leroy series
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- Little Follies
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- Herb 'n' Lorna
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- Reservations Recommended
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- Where Do You Stop?
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- What a Piece of Work I Am
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- At Home With the Glynns
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- Leaving Small's Hotel
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- Inflating a Dog
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- Passionate Spectator
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- Taking Off (Flying Trilogy #1)
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- On the Wing (Flying Trilogy #2)
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- Flying Home (Flying Trilogy #3) (not available in a separate edition)
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- Lavalle, Victor: The Ecstatic
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- Lipman, Elinor: The Inn at Lake Devine
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- Lipman, Elinor: Isabel's Bed
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- Lively, Penelope: According to Mark
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- Lively, Penelope: Cleopatra's Sister
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- Lively, Penelope: Heat Wave
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- Lively, Penelope: Moon Tiger
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- Lively, Penelope: Next to Nature, Art
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- Lively, Penelope: Passing On
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- Lively, Penelope: The Road to Lichfield
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- Lively, Penelope: Spiderweb
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- Livesey, Margot: Banishing Verona
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- Lynch, Sarah-Kate: Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
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- Mandelbaum, Paul: Adriane on the Edge
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- Mandelbaum, Paul: Garrett in Wedlock
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- Martinez, Nina Marie: ¡Caramba!
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- McCall-Smith, Alexander: 44 Scotland Street series
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- 44 Scotland Street
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- Espresso Tales
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- Love Over Scotland
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- The World According to Bertie
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- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
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- McCall-Smith, Alexander: Corduroy Mansions
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- McCown, Clint: War Memorials
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- Mendelsohn, Jane: I Was Amelia Earhart
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- Meno, Joe: Tender as Hellfire
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- Monahan, William: Light House
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- Mosher, Howard Frank: The Fall of the Year
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- Murdoch, Iris: The Green Knight
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- Murdoch, Iris: Jackson's Dilemma
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- Nissen, Thisbe: The Good People of New York
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- Ozick, Cynthia: Heir to the Glimmering World
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- Pearson, T.R.: True Cross
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- Portis, Charles: Gringos
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- Powell, Anthony: A Dance to the Music of Time series
- A Question of Upbringing
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- A Buyer's Market
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- The Acceptance World
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(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
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- At Lady Molly's
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- Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
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- The Kindly Ones
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(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement
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- The Valley of Bones
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- The Soldier's Art
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- The Military Philosophers
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(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
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- Books Do Furnish a Room
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- Temporary Kings
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- Hearing Secret Harmonies
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(above three titles also published in one volume as A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
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- Pritchard, Sara: Crackpots
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- Proulx, E. Annie: The Shipping News
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- Pym, Barbara: Crampton Hodnet
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- Pym, Barbara: Quartet in Autumn
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- Pym, Barbara: Some Tame Gazelle
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- Reiken, Frederick: Rubin Family series
- The Odd Sea
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- The Lost Legends of New Jersey
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- Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping
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- Rogan, Barbara: Café Nevo
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- Rosenfeld, Arthur: A Cure for Gravity
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- Schmidt, Heidi Jon: The Bride of Catastrophe
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- Schweighardt, Joan: Homebodies
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- See, Carolyn: The Handyman
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- Shaffer, Mary Ann & Barrows, Annie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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- Shearn, Amy: How Far is the Ocean From Here
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- Simpson, Mona: Anywhere But Here
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- Simpson, Thomas William: This Way Madness Lies
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- Smiley, Jane: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
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- Smiley, Jane: Barn Blind
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- Smiley, Jane: Duplicate Keys
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- Smiley, Jane: The Greenlanders
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- Smiley, Jane: Horse Heaven
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- Smiley, Jane: Moo
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- Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres
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- Smith, Lee: Family Linen
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- Stella, Leslie: The Easy Hour
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- Stoner, Tom: Comfort of Our Kind
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- Sucher, Dorothy: The Invisible Garden
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- Toby-Potter, Ellen: The Average Human
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- Trevanian: Hot Night in the City
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- Tyler, Anne: The Accidental Tourist
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- Tyler, Anne: The Amateur Marriage
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- Tyler, Anne: Back When We Were Grownups
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- Tyler, Anne: Breathing Lessons
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- Tyler, Anne: Celestial Navigation
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- Tyler, Anne: The Clock Winder
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- Tyler, Anne: Digging to America
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- Tyler, Anne: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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- Tyler, Anne: If Morning Ever Comes
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- Tyler, Anne: Ladder of Years
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- Tyler, Anne: Morgan's Passing
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- Tyler, Anne: Noah's Compass
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- Tyler, Anne: A Patchwork Planet
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- Tyler, Anne: Saint Maybe
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- Tyler, Anne: Searching for Caleb
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- Tyler, Anne: A Slipping-Down Life
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- Tyler, Anne: Tin Can Tree
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- Virtue, Noel: Lady Jean
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- Wagman, Diana: Spontneous
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- Wagner, Bruce: I'll Let You Go
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- Weller, Anthony: The Siege of Salt Cove
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- Wells, Kellie: Skin
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- Wilkins, Damien: Little Masters
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- Wolfe, Thomas: The Good Child's River
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