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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
SUMMARY: A spoiled and sickly orphan blossoms into a creature of loving kindness in this unforgettable classic of childhood. At her uncle's forbidding Yorkshire estate, Mary joins ... -
The Reluctant Nude - Meg Maguire
SUMMARY: Chipping away at her resistance, one touch at a time...Fallon Frost's late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous ... -
The Patriots Club - Christopher Reich
From Publishers WeeklyThomas Bolden, successful 32-year-old investment banker and Harlem Boys Club Foundation trustee, has come a long way from his turbulent childhood on the mean ... -
The New Centurions - Joseph Wambaugh
SUMMARY: In A Class Of New Police Recruits, Augustus Plebesly Is Fast And Scared. Roy Fehler Is Full Of Ideals. And Serge Duran Is An Ex-Marine Running Away From His Chicano Childh... -
The Musketeer's Seamstress - Sarah D'Almeida
SUMMARY: Second in the swashbuckling Musketeers mystery series. Aramis's lover-a Spanish noblewoman and childhood friend of the Queen-has been murdered, and the Musketeer has been ... -
The Little Prisoner_ A Memoir - Jane Elliott; Andrew Crofts
From Publishers WeeklyThe charts are full of stories of childhood abuse now, Elliott writes, and speculates that fans of childhood abuse literature want to be shocked at the start ... -
The Life You've Imagined - Kristina Riggle
From Two childhood friends reunite when stressful circumstances bring them back to their hometown. Anna, distraught over the loss of a beloved mentor, takes a leave of absence from... -
The Devil She Knows - Diane Whiteside
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Portia Townsend once nursed an intense crush on her childhood playmate, Gareth Lowell, until he shattered her hopes of a future together and blindly treated her l... -
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she po... -
Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “born in Yugos...