Author:
Narrator: Martha Plimpton
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Sep 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $39.95
Discs: 9
Alice McDermott's sixth novel begins shortly after the end of WWII and shows a young woman unexpectedly meeting the man she will marry. With her typically masterful storytelling, McDermott tracks the woman and her family through the tumult of children, war, and the 1960s.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the Civil Rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a...
This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a...
Jennifer Weiner’s talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of...
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novela story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35...
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva...
Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her...
Cal Stephanides, hermaphrodite, recounts the history of his family, starting in 1922 in Smyrna, from where his grandparents embark for America, moving...
" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect...
"Christina Baker Kline is a relentless storyteller. Once she sets her hook and starts reeling you in, struggle becomes counterproductive. The...