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	The Great Pretenders 3.72 avg rating — 677 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 — 380 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 3.31 avg rating — 347 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
	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
	Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India by Laura Kalpakian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meena Alexander (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 28 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

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From a family archive, unexpectedly exhumed after fifty years, UNDESIRABLE tells the story of my father’s heroic efforts to secure an Honorable Discharge for my brother, Douglas Johnson. In August 1970 Doug returned from Vietnam at age twenty, a shattered man with an Undesirable Discharge. That actual document is here superimposed over a vintage photograph from the May 25 1970 issue of Time Magazi

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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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