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"Judy Doenges's first novel is the story of Robin Simonsen, a girl growing up in the 1960s and '70s on the wrong side of a Chicago suburb. After the death of her young mother, Robin is left with her kind but irresponsible father - a junkman turned drug dealer - and her grandmother, a retired Vegas showgirl, both of whom draw local fixers and ex-cons into the Simonsens' increasingly shady home.
Bright, wise, and observant, Robin is the quiet outsider...
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Cassie Parker has grown used to denying her sexuality. Her father, the fire-and-brimstone Reverend Parker, has made that a necessity. Raised in a web of secrets, sadness, and under the heavy hand of her father's righteous wrath and intolerance, Cassie turns to her art to fill the hole in her heart and erase the memory of a mother who abandoned her in childhood. Then Luke Winston enters her life. Strong, mysterious, and beautiful, Luke sparks Cassie's...
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Marine biologist Ben Ransome understands the sea, but not people. His 16-year-old daughter Caddie is coming to stay the summer, but the sweet, happy child he remembers has been replaced by a wounded, angry stranger who resents everything about her father. Hudson Jones has come to Monterey to find answers. The young, ambitious graduate student believes he's found a lost Steinbeck novel that hints at the author's love for his best friend. Ben and Hudson...
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The story of two women, Rose and her partner Adelle; they have lived together for eight years and they have made accommodations that all long-term partners do. Then Adelle's doctor finds a mass in her breast. ... Rose copes with her increasing fear by doing all the things she does best, and the one thing she does best is cook. A story of how a couple cope with news no one wants to hear.
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"This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns...