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	The Great Pretenders 3.71 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoir Club 3.39 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosette: The Sequel to Les Miserables by Laura Kalpakian (Goodreads Author), Victor Hugo 3.35 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educating Waverley 3.70 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Cookery 3.57 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family 3.65 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graced Land 3.88 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Latter Days 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India by Laura Kalpakian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meena Alexander (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caveat 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family

tags: california

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“When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

tags: expectation, taste

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“She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

tags: language, maturity

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