Carla Jean Whitley
Content by Carla Jean Whitley
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Prune, an unpretentious, 30-seat restaurant in New York City’s East Village, drew attention upon its 1999 opening.
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Ava Lark is different. She’s divorced, an unusual state of being in 1956, and one that the women at her part-time job and in her neighborhood treat as though it’s a contagious disease.
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Elm Howells led a charmed life. As a member of the Tinsley family, she found use for her art history degree through employment at the family’s prestigious New York City auction house.
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Jesse Bennett’s life changes dramatically during the summer she’s 13. It’s a difficult age for anyone.
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Honor Tait was a Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent during the first half of the 20th century, renowned for her incisive journalism but also recognized for her beauty and romantic entanglemen
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Rules of Imaginary Friends:
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Josh Ritter is a writer’s writer, a singer-songwriter whose lyrics have always reflected a love of reading and enthusiasm for learning.
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Lila Nova needs some beauty in her life.
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In 1927, the Mississippi River broke free of its banks and flooded parts of its namesake state.
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Many people in new relationships tiptoe around discussion of past love.
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In Goodbye for Now, Seattle author Laurie Frankel (The Atlas of Love) tests the limits of social media with the story of Sam Elling, a software engineer at an online datin
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It isn’t surprising that Ella Beene’s husband, Joe Capozzi, dies within the first 10 pages of The Underside of Joy.
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After spending college in her best friend’s shadow, Wendy Murman has emerged into adulthood as the more successful of the pair.
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Baking Cakes in Kigali begins as a series of vignettes, with author Gaile Parkin introducing characters and plot elements through visits to cake baker Angel Tungaraza’s apart
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In his powerful debut novel, Bruce Machart has created characters who are as unforgiving as the blazing heat in which they toil. A father who works his sons like horses.
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The fictional American singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe achieved critical success in the 1980s with the classic breakup album Juliet.
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Richard Middlestein showed his future wife incredible compassion on their first date, a setup.
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Sunny Mann seems to lead a perfect life. She's married to her childhood sweetheart, who has become wealthy thanks to immense success in his field.
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Ellie Lerner is devastated when her best friend Lucy is murdered while walking her eight-year-old daughter Sophie to school.
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Buell, Pennsylvania, is a dying town. Though it was once home to a thriving steel industry, the mills have closed, the workers have been laid off and the remaining residents are just trying to get by.Or get out, in the case of Isaac English and Billy Poe.
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Although it’s been eagerly anticipated as a debut, the epic novel Roses isn’t the first outing for author Leila Meacham.
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Marisa de los Santos has established herself as a deft chronicler of human emotion.
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“A love story—your own or anyone else’s—is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention.
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Rosemary Cooke is, in many ways, an ordinary girl raised in an ordinary family.
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One of the spring's most buzzed-about debuts, Bill Cheng's Southern Cross the Dog is the story of Robert Chatham, who was just 8 when the 1927 Mississippi flood destroyed his home and his family.
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Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter has built a following on the strength of his literary song lyrics, which tackle such subjects as the parallels between science and relationships, the difficulties of l
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Jess Hall will never forget what he saw while peering into the church that day. Sheriff Clem Barfield is determined to find out exactly what happened inside those walls.
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The Rovaniemis are an unusual family. That’s obvious at first glance; modern-day American families rarely include nine children.
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Jesmyn Ward's second novel, a stirring tale of one family's survival in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, won the National Book Award for Fiction on November 16.
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It’s 1983, the third year of the Iranian Revolution. Azar and her husband, both political activists, have been captured and are being held separately at Evin Prison.
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Tia, Caroline and Juliette live in various neighborhoods and suburbs of Boston, but their worlds are farther apart than the miles would suggest.
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No one in the tony town of Fox Glen reads for pleasure.
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It’s 1919, and Vivien has spent 13 years mourning the loss of her life’s love.
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“Everything counts.” The opening line of Addition is an appropriate mantra for Grace Vanderburg’s life.
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Harvard psychology professor Dr. Alice Howland is only 50 years old when she begins to experience frequent and unusual memory loss.
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In his lyrical debut, A Land More Kind Than Home, North Carolina au
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