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A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
A Short History of Women Following five generations of the Townsend family, A Short History of Women blends history and fiction to tell a beautiful and vivid story of women as they live in the present and learn from their past.
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Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire Margot Berwin's wildly original debut novel follows a budding gardener as she's swept from New York City to the far reaches of the Yucatan in a search for love, adventure, and some very rare tropical plants.
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Border Songs by Jim Lynch
Border Songs Set on the nearly imperceptible border between the United States and Canada, Jim Lynch's Border Songs is a vivid, character-driven portrait of a community as they cope with a swiftly changing world.
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Trouble By turns wry, sexy, and witty, Trouble is a unique coming-of-age novel about three women and the divergent paths they take as they approach mid-life.
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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Shanghai Girls Set in 1930s Los Angeles, Shanghai Girls follows two sisters as they build their futures in America while bound to the life they left behind.
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The Little Stranger Reminiscent of the best gothic ghost stories, Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger is unnervingly creepy as it depicts the supernatural drama at play in a crumbling English mansion.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher reveals the real story behind one of England's first detectives and the shocking investigation and trial that marked his career.
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Love Stories in This TownLove Stories in This Town is a wry and poignant story collection about women as they search for a sense of home and belonging.
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The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer's The Story of a Marriage is a finely tuned portrait of lovers and spouses, played out in a postwar America that's anything but kind.
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America America Set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, Ethan Canin's America America is a novel about family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man's life.
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Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
Downtown Owl High priest of pop culture Chuck Klosterman turns to fiction in Downtown Owl, an unpretentious, often hilarious portrait of small-town life that makes the quotidian quirky.
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The Glassblower of Murano Lena, the heroine of The Glassblower of Murano, brings the rich artisan history of Venice to life as she discovers fascinating secrets about her Venetian ancestors.
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The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on April 20. This year's winners include a surprise in fiction, Olive Kitteridge, and Annette Gordon-Reed's history of an American family, which also won the National Book Award:

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An Unquiet Mind Combining a deeply personal point-of-view with a fascinating command of psychiatric knowledge, Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind is a modern classic that has paved the way for many more writers to explore the often unfathomable experience of manic depression.

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