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If You Like...Jodi Picoult
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Before You Know Kindness: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
After a decade of spending the delightful summer week at their country house in New Hampshire, the members of the extended Seton family are confronted by a terrible accident when a partially loaded hunting rifle in the wrong hands leads to tragedy, testing the values, convictions, and relationships that hold the family together.
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The Silent Sister
by Diane Chamberlain
Settling her late father's affairs only to discover evidence that contradicts understandings about her sister's suicide 20 years earlier, Riley MacPherson learns that her sister is still alive and has been on the run from dangerous family secrets.
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The Good Mother
by Sue Miller
Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful -- and sexual -- for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new "family" ... that force her to prove she is a good mother.
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A Theory of Relativity
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
When his beloved sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car accident, Gordon McKenna assumes he will help raise their orphaned baby daughter, until the child's paternal grandparents launch a scandalous custody battle.
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Mothers and Other Liars
by Amy Bourret
Taking in a baby abandoned at a rest stop, Ruby is forced to make a wrenching decision when she learns years later that the beloved child she raised as her own may have been kidnapped and that her birth parents are still searching for her.
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Every Last One: A Novel
by Anna Quindlen
An everyday suburban family is shattered by the unanticipated consequences of seemingly casual decisions, in a latest work by the Pulitzer-winning author of the best-selling Rise and Shine.
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Before and After
by Rosellen Brown
Beautifully written, compassionate and wise, Rosellen Brown's novel is the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of a tragedy. Before and After centers on Carolyn and Ben Reiser and their two children, Judith and Jacob, who live comfortably in a small New England town. When the chief of police comes looking for seventeen-year-old Jacob to question him about the bludgeoning to death of his girlfriend, the Reisers' lives are changed forever. With a flawless ear for dialogue and profound understanding of character and motive, Rosellen Brown has written a heart-wrenching novel that questions the very nature of violence in our society and our ability to ever really know our children.
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Testimony: A Novel
by Anita Shreve
A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in which participants were caught on videotape, a situation that derails the innocence and best intentions of students, parents, and others in life-shattering ways.
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Home Safe: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
After the death of her husband, Helen Ames is shocked to discover that her husband spent the couple's retirement savings before he died, but what Helen's husband did with their money turns out to be provocative and revelatory, leading Helen and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa to embark on new adventures.
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Fragile: A Novel
by Lisa Unger
When her rebellious teenage son's girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from 20 years earlier that involved her police officer husband.
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While My Sister Sleeps
by Barbara Delinsky
When her sister Robin suffers a massive heart attack that leaves her in a coma from which she may never wake up, Molly Snow and her family struggle to cope with the tragedy as their relationships are put to the ultimate test and Molly is forced to make some tough decisions, as she makes some surprising discoveries about the sister she thought she knew.
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Halfway House
by Katharine Noel
Angie Voorster is a diligent student, all-star swimmer, and Ivy League-bound high-school senior, but her entire world changes when she dives to the bottom of the pool during a swim meet and it becomes apparent that she was stricken with a mental illness, in a story of how families live through crisis.
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The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta
Teaching human sexuality from a perspective that information and pleasure are top priorities, divorced mom Ruth Ramsey butts heads with the local soccer coach, a divorced former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom. By the author of Joe College.
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The Red Thread: A Novel
by Ann Hood
After the loss of her daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens an adoption agency to place baby girls from China with American families and discovers the painful and courageous journeys of both adoptive parents and birth mothers.
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