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A beautiful first novel about a young woman growing up the hard way, this is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, who is a beautiful, headstrong poet, in a loving but isolated relationship. The two are inseparable until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid becomes one of the thousands of foster children in Los Angeles....
3) The reader
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For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal....
5) Paradise
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A.A. Knopf
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"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed...
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CHAPTER ONE: The Flowering of Human Consciousness - CHAPTER TWO: Ego: The Current State of Humanity - CHAPTER THREE: The Core of Ego - CHAPTER FOUR: Role-Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego - CHAPTER FIVE: The Pain-Body - CHAPTER SIX: Breaking Free - CHAPTER SEVEN: Finding Who You Truly Are - CHAPTER EIGHT: The Discovery of Inner Space - CHAPTER NINE: Your Inner Purpose - CHAPTER TEN: A New Earth - Notes - About the Author
7) Midwives
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Vintage Books
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In the winter of 1981, trapped by unpassable roads, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes a life-altering decision when she performs an emergency cesarean section on a woman she fears has died of a stroke.
8) Love warrior
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Flatiron Books
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Traces the author's journey of self-discovery after the dissolution of her marriage, revealing how she found healing by rejecting gender standards and refusing to settle for a "good-enough" life.
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