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Product Description: From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking...read more

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9781770890039 | House of Anansi Pr, September 9, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year.

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Product Description: A riveting novel in which an engaging and wildly irreverent woman is in complete denial about herself her drinking and her love for a man she s known all her life Hildy is a successful real estate broker good neighbor mother and grandmother She s also a raging alcoholic An exceptional novel that is at turns hilarious and sobering Hildy Good is a townie A lifelong resident of a small community on the rocky coast of Boston s North Shore she knows pretty much everything about everyone And she s good at lots of things too A successful real estate broker mother and grandmother her days are full But her nights have become lonely ever since her daughters convinced their mother was drinking too much sent her off to rehab Now she s in recovery more or less Alone and feeling unjustly persecuted Hildy finds a friend in Rebecca McAllister one of the town s wealthy newcomers Rebecca is grateful for the friendship and Hildy feels like a person of the world again as she and Rebecca escape their worries with some harmless gossip and a bottle of wine by the fire just one of their secrets But Rebecca is herself the subject of town gossip When Frank Getchell an old friend who shares a complicated history with Hildy tries to warn her away from Rebecca Hildy attempts to protect her friend from a potential scandal Soon however Hildy is busy trying to protect her own reputation When a cluster of secrets becomes dangerously entwined the reckless behavior of one person threatens to expose the other and this darkly comic novel takes a chilling turn The Good House by Ann Leary is funny poignant and terrifying A classic New England tale that lays bare the secrets of one little town this spirited novel will stay with you long after the story has ended NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERA RIVETING NOVEL IN WHICH AN ENGAGING IRREVERANT WOMAN IS IN COMPLETE DENIAL ABOUT HERSELF HER DRINKING AND HER LOVE FOR A MAN SHE S KNOWN ALL HER LIFE Th...read more

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9781250015549 | St Martins Pr, January 15, 2013, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Now a New York Times Bestseller!

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9781250043030 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, October 1, 2013), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A riveting novel in which an engaging and wildly irreverent woman is in complete denial about herself her drinking and her love for a man she s known all her life Hildy is a successful real estate broker good neighbor mother and grandmother She s also a raging alcoholic An exceptional novel that is at turns hilarious and sobering Hildy Good is a townie A lifelong resident of a small community on the rocky coast of Boston s North Shore she knows pretty much everything about everyone And she s good at lots of things too A successful real estate broker mother and grandmother her days are full But her nights have become lonely ever since her daughters convinced their mother was drinking too much sent her off to rehab Now she s in recovery more or less Alone and feeling unjustly persecuted Hildy finds a friend in Rebecca McAllister one of the town s wealthy newcomers Rebecca is grateful for the friendship and Hildy feels like a person of the world again as she and Rebecca escape their worries with some harmless gossip and a bottle of wine by the fire just one of their secrets But Rebecca is herself the subject of town gossip When Frank Getchell an old friend who shares a complicated history with Hildy tries to warn her away from Rebecca Hildy attempts to protect her friend from a potential scandal Soon however Hildy is busy trying to protect her own reputation When a cluster of secrets becomes dangerously entwined the reckless behavior of one person threatens to expose the other and this darkly comic novel takes a chilling turn The Good House by Ann Leary is funny poignant and terrifying A classic New England tale that lays bare the secrets of one little town this spirited novel will stay with you long after the story has ended NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERA RIVETING NOVEL IN WHICH AN ENGAGING IRREVERANT WOMAN IS IN COMPLETE DENIAL ABOUT HERSELF HER DRINKING AND HER LOVE FOR A MAN SHE S KNOWN ALL HER LIFE The

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9781427228888 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, January 15, 2013), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: "Fresh, sharp and masterfully told, Hildy's tale is as intoxicating as it is sobering.

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9781611737035 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, April 1, 2013), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Good House tells the story of Hildy Good, who lives in a small town on Bostons North Shore.

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9780062115355 | Original edition (Harpercollins, February 7, 2012), cover price $14.99

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Product Description: Hope—a new beginning, a new life in a new place. Pinewood Lake held that for my family. It was perfect, idyllic. I would be able to write. We would enjoy nature. But then the ugly truth reared its head: ALCOHOLISM. A nasty disease, a destroyer...read more

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9780312857745 | Forge, January 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Writer Johnnie Paul moves to Pinewood Lake with his wife, Angela, hoping to help her recover from her alcoholism and work on his fiction.

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9781466201606 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 3, 2011, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Hope—a new beginning, a new life in a new place.
9780812588798 | Reprint edition (Forge, November 1, 2002), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Struggling writer Johnnie Paul moves to Pinewood Lake with his troubled wife, Angela, hoping to help her recover from her alcoholism and work on his fiction.

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9781439193310 | Washington Square Pr, June 7, 2011, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Leah Thornton’s life, like her Southern Living home, has great curb appeal. But a paralyzing encounter with a can of frozen apple juice in the supermarket shatters the façade, forcing her to admit that all is not as it appears...read more

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9781426702273 | Abingdon Pr, February 1, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Leah Thornton’s life, like her Southern Living home, has great curb appeal.

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9781565124714 | Algonquin Books, June 24, 2008, cover price $13.95

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In the conclusion of the Garnethill trilogy, Maureen O'Donnell faces all new threats as she deals with a lack of money, her abusive father, and the approaching trial of psychologist Angus Farrell for the murder of her boyfriend, and now an elderly stallholder at the local flea market is beaten to death, and Maureen suddenly finds her own life in danger. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780316016827 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, November 15, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In the conclusion of the Garnethill trilogy, Maureen O'Donnell faces all new threats as she deals with a lack of money, her abusive father, and the approaching trial of psychologist Angus Farrell for the murder of her boyfriend, and now an elderly stallholder at the local flea market is beaten to death, and Maureen suddenly finds her own life in danger.

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Product Description: Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic, owns and lives in an apartment on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles. She leases parking space and the use of the rooftop helicopter pad to nearby businesses.

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9781590583463 | Poisoned Pen Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic, owns and lives in an apartment on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles.

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Haunted by the death of her daughter, reporter Carson Lynch, self-medicating herself with vodka, karaoke, and work, returns home to Mississippi, where she lands a story that might save her career--and end her life--when she becomes obsessed with a twisted serial killer. Original.

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9780778324171 | Mira Books, September 1, 2007, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Haunted by the death of her daughter, reporter Carson Lynch, self-medicating herself with vodka, karaoke, and work, returns home to Mississippi, where she lands a story that might save her career--and end her life--when she becomes obsessed with a twisted serial killer.

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Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her sales job, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with alcoholic Robert, as she looks to find happiness in an ultimate altered state.

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9781400043644 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her sales job, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with alcoholic Robert, as she looks to find happiness in an ultimate altered state.
9780224062589 | Vintage Uk, September 2, 2004, cover price $24.90 | About this edition: From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah Luckraft travels beyond her limits, beyond herself, in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise.

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9780224084604 | Large print edition (Vintage Uk, July 19, 2007), cover price $24.65
9781400079452 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 14, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her humdrum job selling cardboard boxes, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with Robert, a man addicted to drink, as she pursues her quest for the ultimate altered state in which she can find happiness.

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Six after leaving her husband and young daughter behind--hoping to spare them from her drinking, depression, and a legacy of self-destruction--to seek refuge to a coastal town in Maine near Bride Island, her family retreat, Polly Birdswell has put her life back together and hopes to reunite with her child, but family squabbles over Bride Island could threaten everything she loves. Original.

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9780452288348 | Plume, June 26, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Six after leaving her husband and young daughter behind--hoping to spare them from her drinking, depression, and a legacy of self-destruction--to seek refuge to a coastal town in Maine near Bride Island, her family retreat, Polly Birdswell has put her life back together and hopes to reunite with her child, but family squabbles over Bride Island could threaten everything she loves.

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Product Description: Gretta Bitsilly, a gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing just outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her—as a wife, as a writer, as a skeptic in "the other land of Zion," Utah...read more

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9780874216547 | Utah State Univ Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Gretta Bitsilly, a gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing just outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her—as a wife, as a writer, as a skeptic in "the other land of Zion," Utah.

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Product Description: A unique combination of compelling narrative educational fiction, and lesbian erotica. the story of a young lesbian and her first year in Alcoholics Anonymous.

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9781560234685 | Harrington Park Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A unique combination of compelling narrative educational fiction, and lesbian erotica.

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Learning that her estranged daughter has disappeared, recovering alcoholic Wanda Hunter sets out in search of Kendall in the hope of repairing their relationship; while sheriff's detective Bruce Yeats, struggling with a separation and an angry teenage son, works to identify a murdered woman's body. Original.

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9780801064258 | Baker Pub Group, December 1, 2002, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Learning that her estranged daughter has disappeared, recovering alcoholic Wanda Hunter sets out in search of Kendall in the hope of repairing their relationship; while sheriff's detective Bruce Yeats, struggling with a separation and an angry teenage son, works to identify a murdered woman's body.

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When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends--Kate, Annie, and Oola--become determined to turn the tables on the stalker, in a chilling debut novel. Reprint.

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9781880909546 | Baskerville Pub, February 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker

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9780312974152 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends--Kate, Annie, and Oola--become determined to turn the tables on the stalker, in a chilling debut novel.

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Product Description: Fiction. DREAMING UNDER A TON OF LIZARDS is an illuminating novel about addiction and recovery, lesbian love and longing, camaraderie and courage. More than that, it demonstrates the importance of the search for one's identity and the need for friendship and community, not only in discovering who we are, but who we can be...read more

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9781883523343 | 2 edition (Spinsters Ink, September 1, 1999), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

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Product Description: When Gwen's alcoholic father died, she was seventeen. Now as she nears thirty, her father still haunts her life. She falls in love with a man who is twenty years her senior and her sister's father-in-law.

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9780939149315 | Soho Pr Inc, February 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Thirty years old and very much the successful modern woman, Gwen still lives in the shadow of her long-deceased alcoholic father and expresses her discontent by falling in love with her sister's new father-in-law

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9780671709914 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When Gwen's alcoholic father died, she was seventeen.

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Cassie Barret, a desperate and frustrated suburban housewife, pursues her alcoholic search for self into the psychiatric ward of Cleveland's General Hospital and out again, as she fights her way to sanity and self-certainty

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9780815972051 | Devin-Adair Pub, June 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Cassie Barret, a desperate and frustrated suburban housewife, pursues her alcoholic search for self into the psychiatric ward of Cleveland's General Hospital and out again, as she fights her way to sanity and self-certainty

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