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The Story of Beautiful Girl - Rachel Simon
It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. D...[more]
The Swaddling Cloth: A Christmas Story - Nan Pamer
Though raised by loving parents, when Riel, a beautiful Jewish girl, is orphaned, circumstances force her to work as a servant at the inn of Bethlehem. Her dreams of a better future seem impossible when her harsh master exposes a shameful secret from...[more]
June Bug - Chris Fabry
June Bug believed everything her daddy told her. That is, until she walked into Wal-Mart and saw her face on a list of missing children. The discovery begins a quest for the truth about her father, the mother he rarely speaks about, and ultimately he...[more]
Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.

When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take gua...[more]
Sarah's Key 1st (first) edition Text Only - Tatiana de Rosnay
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Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was ...[more]
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) - Gregory Maguire

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what i...[more]