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Book #34 was The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk. The back of the book reads: A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child she can’t fully understand. A rare novel that illuminates
Read moreBook #27 was The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. The back of the book reads: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time
Read moreBook #16 was Flowers in the Attic, the 1st book in V.C. Andrews’ Dollanganger series. The back of the book reads: The four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives — a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then Daddy was killed in a car accident, and Momma could no longer support the family. So she began writing letters to her parents, her millionaire
Read moreBook #6 was Between Friends by Debbie Macomber. Back of the book reads: Debbie Macomber tells the story of a remarkable friendship — and tells it in a remarkable way. Between Friends is a story in which every woman will recognize herself . . . and her best friend. The friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski begins in the postwar era of the 1950s.
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