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Firestarter - Stephen King
SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably t... -
Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
Amazon.com ReviewFelicia's Journey is a simple tale told with a subtle complexity. Felicia is an Irish country girl who has come to England to look for her jilted lover. Hild... -
Factory Girls_ From Village to - Leslie T. Chang
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Review"This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want to ride off into the sunset with."–Thomas Pynchon "The best fiction, ... -
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
From Publishers WeeklyTalk about story arc: poor girl from rural China auditions for a job as royal concubine, winds up as emperor's wife number four, gives birth to the "last Empe... -
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced th... -
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie - Jordan Sonnenblick
SUMMARY: From first-time novelist Jordan Sonnenblick, a brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh and break their hearts at the same time. Thirteen-year-old Steven has... -
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011: See's Dreams of Joy picks up the story of sisters Pearl and May where Shanghai Girls lef... -
Dragonspell - Donita K. Paul
From School Library JournalGrade 4-8–After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon's egg. Since she found it, the village elders ha... -
Delta Girls - Gayle Brandeis
SUMMARY: The disparate lives of two women—a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her game—entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmt...