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1) Gilead
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As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
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In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses:...
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses:...
3) Jack
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Gilead novels volume 4
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English
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Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa'the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack'and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the...
4) Adored
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2005
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English
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The strkingly beautiful and daringly bold Siena McMahon wants to be a movie star like her legendary grandfather. Her bigshot producer father, however, wants her to be a doctor. But Siena is her own woman, and she's determined to live life on her own terms. So she strikes a chord for independence, finding success as a model, exploring her decadent taste for the opposite sex, and striving to become the biggest starlet in tinseltown
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