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Spinning at the Edges, Coming May 12, 2026
Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for AS CLOSE TO US AS BREATHING Elizabeth Poliner’s SPINNING AT THE EDGES, set in Amsterdam, Washington, D.C., and small-town Connecticut, involving a county judge with a troubled past and a Dutch refugee from German-occupied Amsterdam with unresolved grief who, upon saving the life of a despairing teenager, begin a process of transformation toward fuller
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As Close to Us as Breathing
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Mutual Life & Casualty
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2005
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Spinning at the Edges: A Novel
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What You Know in Your Hands
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2015
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Wie der Atem in uns: Roman
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Sudden Fog
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2011
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“What about love?” My father laughed wearily. “Love is putting up with a whole lot. Putting up with it and feeling good about it. Howard, my son,” he said, gripping his shoulder, “that’s love.”
― As Close to Us as Breathing
― As Close to Us as Breathing
“But such is the way of family: we are what they tell us we are, and part of life’s great struggle, it’s always seemed to me, is to know oneself despite that imposing collective definition.”
― As Close to Us as Breathing
― As Close to Us as Breathing
“Of the rules in this house, spoken and unspoken, ancient and new, religious and secular, visible and invisible - of the mob of rules that controlled a given moment - the one about sandy feet was perhaps the one most strictly enforced.”
― As Close to Us as Breathing
― As Close to Us as Breathing
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The Hurricane Sisters
by Dorothea Benton Frank Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.
by Dorothea Benton Frank Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.
Julia's Chocolates
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by Cathy Lamb Filled with warmth, love, and truth, Julia's Chocolates is an unforgettable novel of hope and healing that explores the hurts we keep deep in our hearts, the love that liberates us, the courage that defines us, and the chocolate that just might take us there.
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free.
by Sue Monk Kidd Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free.
Those Secrets We Keep
by Emily Liebert When these three women unite for a three-week-long summer vacation in beautiful Lake George, New York, even with the idyllic location as their backdrop, the tensions begin to mount. And they quickly discover that no secret can be kept forever...
by Emily Liebert When these three women unite for a three-week-long summer vacation in beautiful Lake George, New York, even with the idyllic location as their backdrop, the tensions begin to mount. And they quickly discover that no secret can be kept forever...
As Close to Us as Breathing
by Elizabeth PolinerA multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely"
by Elizabeth PolinerA multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely"
The Lovesick Cure
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by Pamela Morsi Between folk remedies and a "no strings attached" romance, Jesse is beginning to think she's found her own brand of lovesick cure—because there's nothing like a pinch of confidence and a dash of attraction to mend a broken heart.
Save the Date
by Mary Kay Andrews A wedding florist finds love and trouble in this delightful new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Ladies' Night.
by Mary Kay Andrews A wedding florist finds love and trouble in this delightful new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Ladies' Night.
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