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Children's Books

Macmurray & Beck Communication

In this brave and affecting novel, the mother of three adopted Korean children tries to help them discover their birth parents. But what factual information she's provided doesn't coincide with what the oldest child remembers - and knows is true. It is painfully clear that the children's history is lost. 
From this powerful beginning, Joanna Catherine Scott takes us back to Korea and the history these will never know. And she tells the heartbreaking story of the young woman who was their mother, whom circumstance betrays. 
The Lucky Gourd Shop is a tapestry of voices and histories, a gentle reminder that we are more than where we began; that the world is everywhere uneven in it sympathies; that the compassion we engender and the love we inspire are in part ours to create. It is a work of honesty, empathy and great power - a captivating tale of the human spirit.

The Lucky Gourd Shop: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Joanna C.

Genre Fiction

An impressive overview of a writer whose career is still climbing, Worship of the Common Heart allows us a rare opportunity to observe twenty years in the evolution of a writer of uncommon talent and heart. Emotionally complex, achingly real, these nineteen stories focus on the everyday, defining moments of life, celebrating the unsung and calling attention to the ignored. A young woman comes to an absolute and sad realization about her relationship at the very moment she gives birth. A woman enamored of younger men stumbles upon joy in the most unlikely place. A young nun takes a vacation with her earthy, unpredictable sister and learns a lesson in worship. Told with stunning confidence and honesty, the stories in Worship of the Common Heart revel in sensuality and the complexity of longings

Worship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories

Henley, Patricia

Contemporary

For Men Only: How to Love a Woman Without Losing Your Mind

A men's guide to women contends that loving a woman is the most important thing a man can do and argues that men should recognize their own needs as separate from their mate's. Original.

Angelo, Joseph

Parenting & Relationships

Changing Woman: Changing Work

Business & Money

Krebs, Nina Boyd

Job Hunting & Careers

A revolutionary and practical guide for women trying to survive in the male-dominated workplace considers the issues of maintaining integrity and fitting a woman's way of working into the new corporate world. Reprint. IP.

Changing Woman Changing Work

Clare Nichols faces a series of crises in her fortieth year--doubts about her husband, attraction towards Nate, a younger man, and uncertain feelings about her daughter's reaching womanhood

Summer of Rescue: A Novel

Nelson, Barbara

United States

A quixotic first novel encompasses two parallel love stories, traveling through fires, carnivals, dust storms, New Mexico motels, atomic test sights, and desert towns strung together by highways. IP.

Rocket City: A Novel

Alpert, Cathryn

These killings were neat and professional, and Burl had to acknowledge that his appetite was largely unaffected. He ran through the local possibilities in his mind: the kitchen at Terrell's would be closed by now, Ho Sai Gai was closed for sure, he was never really welcome at the Chateau, and fast food was hateful to him, if for no other reason than the uniformity and skimpiness of the seating, which seemed such an apt metaphor for the whole experience. He'd been stuck once in one of those neocolonial swivel chairs that are attached to the plastic tables at McDonald's. He could cook - Burl liked to cook - but there was nothing in the house on the scale of what he'd promised himself, and anyway, it was exhausting to consider at this hour. His lower back, often sore by this time of day, radiated protest at the very thought. He waited behind a narcotized-sounding pregnant woman who spoke with excruciating slowness about the arrest of someone named Jimmy, and when she was finally finished with the phone he deposited a quarter and called Sally, whom he loved.

St. Burl's Obituary

Akst, Daniel

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