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Harpercollins. 07/01/1999. A bestseller in Ireland, this wild and humorous novel is the story of Claire Webster, who is dumped by her husband after the birth of their daughter. She flees to Dublin, where her eccentric family take her in, and finds a new lover. Then her husband wants to come back. Originally published at $6.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/2003. 256 pgs. Robert Elgin has been involved in Republican party corruption in Michigan and fears repercussions. Possessed of a new identity, he deserts his wife and daughter and starts over in New York City, where he falls in love with a woman named Carla. He returns to Michigan one last time to bid his wife good-bye, and days later he is dead in an accident on the streets of New York--an event that begins the novel, which is told in flashbacks. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 12/01/2000. 192 pgs. When 13-year-old Sister's mother abandons the care of her children, Sister must not only look after her three siblings but cope with the unwanted attentions of a local businessman. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2002. Reprint. 288 pgs. William is terminally ill and his family has abandoned him. Only his closest friends, Susan and Henry, can care for him as he grows worse. Yet Willam grows ever more afraid that they, too, will leave him. It is not a simple loving friendship he requires, but a pledge of loyalty till death, a handing over of their lives to him. Jones explores the outer limits of friendship, the ties that bind and strangle, ridden with ambivalence and redemption. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2001. The characters in this novel include a weed killer, a photographer of pornography, a wild-boar farmer, and a hemophiliac adolescent. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1994. Reprint. After 20 years of marriage, Laura's husband, Jeff Forge, disappears. As Laura searches for him, she learns that Jeff had a secret life and that she must rebuild her life as her own. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 05/01/1996. Reprint. 185 pgs. Aharon Appelfeld's third novel is about the simpleminded and mute daughter in a large Jewish family. Set against the background of the Holocaust, the story takes the eponymous Tzili through a world she is unable to understand. Abandoned when her family flees the Nazis, Tzili endures a life of hardship, finally meeting up with a bizarre, mentally defective young man named Mark, who becomes her lover. Together they produce a child, and Tzili becomes able, after years of horror, to find some feeling in her heart. But what is most striking about Appelfeld's novel is the extent to which history controls us all, and the way a powerful world can gradually be created that, in the end, swallows up the unwitting people caught in it. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1999. 191 pgs. Graham Greene's 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies, and Maurice comes into possession of her journal, which provides an explanation that is hardly less perplexing to him than the original mystery itself. The novel is permeated with the concepts of sin, guilt, and redemption, and is considered one of Greene's most "Catholic" works, though Greene himself rejected that label. The story is drawn partly from his 10-year affair with Catherine Walston, a married woman (and convert to Catholicism) he met in 1946. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1995. Reprint. The story of two women who meet and exchange life lessons while volunteering at an Ohio hospital to rock babies too small or damaged to survive without added human contact. Winner of the 1995 American Book Award. Originally published at $11.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/2005. Reprint. 271 pgs. A baby girl is mistakenly abandoned in a bus station restroom; Ewan and Mollie adopt her, but the biological parents are searching for her. Margot Livesey explores the lives and relationships of the five people who are ultimately involved in the story, examining themes of how people who are trying to do the right thing somehow wind up doing exactly the opposite. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1980. Reprint. Inspired by an anecdote told to George Eliot by her aunt, ADAM BEDE is notable for its extraordinarily realistic characters and convincing depiction of English rural life, complete with the earthy Derbyshire dialect of the title character. It is the story of Hetty Sorrel, the dairymaid who spurns the working-class Adam, a carpenter, for the faithless lord of the manor, and is abandoned by him after she becomes pregnant. When it was first published, in 1859, the book earned praise for its nuanced and unflinching description of a young woman's fall from grace and for Adam's simple righteousness. But George Eliot's choice of this scandalous subject matter for her first novel also met a great deal of adverse criticism, and only reaffirmed her decision to publish her novels under a pseudonym rather than as Mary Ann Evans, her given name. ADAM BEDE has also become famous for Eliot's groundbreaking defense, in chapter 17, of realism in art: "I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective….but I feel as much bound to tell you, as precisely as I can, what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box narrating my experience on oath." In this same section, she also makes a plea that her readers "tolerate, pity, and love" their fellow mortals despite their faults and sins--a sentiment that is embodied most vividly in ADAM BEDE. Originally published at $8.95 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1999. Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife's past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec's seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel's destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city's ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy's fiction. Originally published at $7.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 02/01/2000. In medieval Japan, a young boy in a fishing village learns about evil when a ship bearing a deadly cargo is wrecked just off the shore. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Pocket Books. 02/01/2000. 376 pgs. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/1993. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Palgrave Macmillan. 04/01/1993. Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife's past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec's seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel's destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city's ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy's fiction. Originally published at $49.95 You save 98% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/1998. 246 pgs. After the death of her husband, Lee McNair forces her four children to promise never to let a stranger touch her dead body. When she dies soon after, the children are scared both to break their promise and to be sent to foster homes. They bury mom in the backyard and pretend she's still alive to neighbors and friends. But the facade eventually breaks down, and the children begin to lose their grip on reality. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/1999. 314 pgs. The eponymous hero leaves his wife and four daughters on their New Zealand farm to seek his fortune in England. In a desperate attempt to do so, he becomes butler to a fat heiress named Blanche Lovelace, hoping to con her out of her money. Blanche, of course, falls in love with him--and Palliser, to his shock, finds himself warming toward her. Meanwhile, back on the farm, his wife struggles to stay afloat, eventually teaming up with a wealthy local man in a wine-making business. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/2000. 243 pgs. Greg's mother abandoned the family years ago. Now, when Greg becomes engaged to Adrian, the woman he thinks is his dream girl, his long-lost mother turns up and reconciles with Greg's father--and Greg struggles to understand why she had to leave. Then he discovers some unsettling things about Adrian. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1996. Mercedes Sebastian de Alvarado was married at 17 to the disinterested Lucero before he went off to war. Now he has returned. But while he looks like Lucero, he is unexpectedly gentle and tender. He turns out to be actually Lucero's lookalike half-brother Nicholas Fortune. Originally published at $5.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/2002. Reprint. 198 pgs. This novel, by a Canadian-born woman who has lived in Paris most of her life, is about a dancer named Lin who is driven by her career to desert her husband, Derek, and two daughters. The repercussions of this act echo through the decades, as Derek remarries, the girls grow up, and Lin's career becomes derailed because of an injury and also her recurrent guilt. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 08/01/2003. 304 pgs. Catriona's mother abandoned her when she was 13. Now, years later, she starts getting postcards from her mother, who wants to reconcile. This couldn't have come at a worse time: Cat's young daughter has some sort of stomach ailment that the doctors can neither diagnose nor cure--and seem to consider to be psychosomatic, and probably Cat's fault. Has her own childhood trauma somehow been passed on to little Daisy? Gradually, her husband stops believing in the illness--but another man is more sympathetic. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 05/01/1998. Reprint. Narrated by a woman who has lived a long and tumultuous life, this novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published in 1986. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 04/01/2000. 373 pgs. Blue Calhoun is a recovering alcoholic who has turned his life around--until he falls for a 16-year-old girl. Their passion, however, is not a temporary fling; it lasts for the next three decades. Blue's moral dilemma as he abandons his wife and daughter is at the heart of this unusual novel, in which the consequences of Blue's actions continue to affect his family, eventually even including his young granddaughter. Originally published at $13.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 02/01/2002. 215 pgs. A photographer named Gideon is obsessed with the memory of his wife, who disappeared suddenly without explanation on the sixth birthday of their daughter, who is in a coma after falling into freezing water. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 04/01/2002. Reprint. Macon Leary, the middle-aged author of a series of books for armchair travellers, has recently had his grief over the murder of his son compounded by the breakup of his marriage. He begins to descend into obsessive behavior and must soon take refuge with his unmarried sister, who is already occupied with the two other Leary brothers, both of whom are also divorced. Macon's unlikely rescuer is Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer who tames Edward, the increasingly obnoxious corgi left to Macon by his son. Macon transcends his own social class prejudice to find that he has a lot to offer Muriel and her disabled son Alexander, and that they have much to offer him as well. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Warner Books Inc. 11/01/1998. Reprint. 288 pgs. A debut novel set in the west of Ireland. William Coughlin, an unhappy civil servant in Dublin, decides to abandon his wife and family and move to a remote coastal village to become a painter. Eventually, when his work becomes well-known and respected, one of his paintings is awarded to Muiris Gore, a schoolteacher on a small island off Galway. Through flashback and anecdote, we learn the stories of Coughlin and Gore--their loves, family lives, desires, and frustrations--and see the common elements they share. Originally published at $13.99 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 04/01/1996. 247 pgs. John Moon, abandoned by his wife and infant son, supports himself by doing odd jobs and poaching off a neighbor's land. One morning he is out hunting deer. Hearing a rustle in some branches, he fires a single shot which, he is horrified to discover, kills a teenage girl. In his attempts to investigate the girl's identity and why she was in the woods, Moon uncovers a pattern of evil in his town. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1999. 301 pgs. In alternating points of view, Haruf chronicles several lives in a small town in Colorado. The plot involves Tom Guthrie, whose wife leaves him with their two little boys; a young pregnant girl who is thrown out of her house by her mother; the elderly McPheron brothers who take her in; and Maggie Jones, Tom's kindhearted colleague. Originally published at $27.50 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 07/01/1998. Reprint. 358 pgs. Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, she reveals her secret to Olivia--she has visions and communicates with ghosts. Many years later, Kwan tries to encourage Olivia not to give up on her marriage to Simon and convinces them both to travel to China with her. In this evocative setting, Kwan has her most disturbing and revealing visions about her own and her sister's past lives. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/2002. Reprint. 398 pgs. An insomniac in Cambridge, Massachusetts--a deserted single mother with a troublesome dissertation that doesn't seem to get written--enters a seemingly scientific study of sleeplessness. She begins taking an experimental drug, and her life improves dramatically--or does it? A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1997. Reissue. In Godwin's novel, a woman named Margaret Gower, abandoned by her mother at the age of 6, has been raised by her Episcopalian priest father. As an adult, Margaret feels she must care for her chronically depressed father, understand the flaws in her parents' marriage that led to her mother's flight, and find her own place in her family and in the world. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/1997. A novel about a black orphan, 8-year-old Shelton Lafleur, who falls out of a tree and is crippled for life. Now an old man and famous painter, Shelton looks back on his life with the family that adopted him, and at his own haunted past. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1998. In this novel about a troubled family on the eve of the presidential election in a Caribbean republic, a nine-year-old boy sees ominous visions after being struck on the head by an ax, and an angry mob burns down his family's home. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/2000. Reissue. 372 pgs. One year ago, Devon Marshall, Viscount Huxhold, and the ravishing debutante Leah Carrollton found themselves attracted to one another. But Leah's ill-planned engagement to an evil man placed a barrier between her and the amiable aristocrat. Now, however, Leah has escaped the clutches of her groom-to-be--but not without consequence. She has not only scandalously disobeyed her family, but also conceived a child outside of marriage--a crime that would throw most young ladies into poverty and shame. But Devon is set on preventing Fate from dealing Leah that sort of blow. In order to save her skin--and to rebel against the social mores he detests--he has agreed to marry her. Soon, however, Devon discovers that his act of pity and rebellion has turned into an act of love--one that he is determined to protect no matter how bitter the scandal. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2001. Fannie Mourne's mother abandons her, and then begins calling her daughter every evening, telling her the strange history of their family--and gradually, the two become closer as the stories become more bizarre. The author's diagrams and family photographs illustrate. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 05/01/1994. Reprint. Ivy Slovak is raising her baby, Bobby, alone in New York City. In the night, awakened by her child's cries, Ivy is haunted by the memory of her mother's abandonment of her, when she was seven. In the dark, Ivy remembers traveling with her father across the Southwest, searching for her mother; now she begins to look again, and wonders if she, too, may also abandon her child. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 02/01/1993. When Tom Harper and his two children are abandoned by his wife, they are devastated. Then free-spirited Renata Handy moves to town with her terminally ill daughter, Millie. At this crisis point in all their lives, the two families form an unlikely union. Originally published at $19.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 02/01/1997. 208 pgs. Eighteen-year-old "Buzzy Digit" relates the story of his short life growing up in a Chicano community in El Paso, Texas, as he waits in his coffin to be shipped home from the Vietnam war. Originally published at $21.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 04/01/1997. 191 pgs. A novel set in Hawaii, narrated by a deserted wife. When her husband returns to the island, newly remarried, she finds herself unable to give up the relationship. Originally published at $21.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 08/01/1996. 207 pgs. Jane is 12 when her mother takes off for New York City and Aunt Iris's family, which appears to be everything Jane's isn't. A summer trip to the city, however, reveals to Jane exactly what's going on at her aunt's plush home. Originally published at $22.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/1993. Reprint. In Mona Simpson's second novel, about a young anorexic woman's obsession with her absent Egyptian father, the protagonist is again Ann Stevenson of ANYWHERE BUT HERE, Simpson's first novel. Now a medical student named Mayan, she uses up her money, her emotional energy, and possibly her sanity in a quest for the father who let her down--the first in a long series of unreliable men. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 01/01/1992. Originally published at $19.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 09/03/1998. 187 pgs. Frank Reid, living in Moscow, is abandoned by his wife, and must cope with his floundering business and the welfare of his children. The novel is set in 1913, before the Russian Revolution. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 12/01/1999. 310 pgs. Hoffman's novel tells the story of two women. Rae is pregnant, and lonely, abandoned by her lover; Lily is a fortune teller whose life has ben haunted by the daughter taken from her years ago-and whom she is now determined to find as she relives the sorrows of her past through her friendship with Rae. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 05/01/1997. 207 pgs. Sage Taylor is the daughter of a white mother and a black father who abandoned the family before she was born. She lives at her college, in a dormitory room she has not left in weeks, and dreams obsessively of meeting her father. Outside, Sage imagines that she sees someone stalking her, and her paranoia combines with her already-confused identity to drive her deeper and deeper into a terror of despair. When her brothers and sisters realize what is happening to her, they attempt to organize a plan of rescue. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 05/01/2002. 228 pgs. Mabel and Lily Rollow have had a tough time: their mother abandoned them after their father committed suicide, and all they have is the store their grandmother left to them. When Lily (the pretty one) takes off with the man they both love, Mabel (the sensible one) must come to terms with her losses and try to go on. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 11/01/1998. 384 pgs. Originally published at $5.99 You save 71% off the cover price!

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Warner Books Inc. 10/01/1977. In this novel about romantic love as savior and destroyer, Jane Grey, deserted by her husband and expecting her second child, falls in love with James, her cousin's husband. The story is told with a shifting point-of-view: Jane's thoughts and feelings, in the first person, alternate with a more objective third-person account. Originally published at $2.75 You save 49% off the cover price!

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Warner Books Inc. 07/01/1996. Reissue. Novalee Nation heads this first novel. A feisty young woman who is seven months pregnant when she leaves her Tennessee trailer park with her boyfriend, she is abandoned outside a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma. Living on canned goods and sleeping behind the water heater, Novalee carries her pregnancy to term, and her child becomes known as the Wal-Mart baby. Novalee eventually gets a job at the Wal-Mart, and makes a life for herself and her child. Originally published at $7.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Xlibris Corp. 01/01/1995. Reprint. An allegorical novel set in New York City about a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, a shoe repair salesman who carves angels that resemble his missing wife, and an evil intruder who tries to exploit them both. Originally published at $16.99 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 04/01/1996. When Hollis's ex-husband, Sam, dies in a mysterious boat explosion, she is forced to deal with his family, something she had managed to avoid during their month-long marriage. But then she's forced to deal with Sam again as well--after he turns up as a ghost, peering over shoulder, and telling her where to look to investigate his murder. Originally published at $5.50 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 04/01/1996. Reprint. Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, abandons her family impulsively in search of an entirely new life a few miles from home, becoming secretary to a lawyer. Gradually, she begins to return to her old life--first for her daughter's wedding, then for small occasions, finding that the people she left behind have changed as much as she has. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 02/01/1993. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 08/01/1996. Anthropologist Iris Lanier is on the verge of a major discovery in the Central American rain forest when she receives an urgent call from New York. Her father has been viciously shot and lies in a coma. When police are unable to solve the savage crime, Iris enters a world of lies and long-buried secrets surrounding her mother's abandonment and subsequent disappearance. Before she can put all the pieces of the puzzle together Iris must confront an unknown enemy who will stop at nothing to prevent her from discovering the truth. Originally published at $6.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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