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She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb                          

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller                                  

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III                 

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman                                     

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende                        

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier                                 

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbra Kingsolver 

Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence by Peter Mayle      

A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher                 

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume                                 

A Gathering of Angels by Katherine Valentine            

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx                             

Tales of the City (Vol. 1) by Armistead Maupin            

Further Tales of the City (Vol. 3) by Armistead Maupin

Babycakes -Tales of the City Series (Vol. 4) by Armistead Maupin

Chocolat by Joanne Harris  

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve                                       

A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon

French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasures by Mireille Guiliano

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Emma by Jane Austen

Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera

Ignorance by Milan Kundera

Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Incendiary by Chris Cleave

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

Jewel by Bret Lott

Why Do Cats Wear Pajamas? by Karen Brown

Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

 
Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife.

In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.  

Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage.

But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.

While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.

Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge in an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Sticker mark on front cover, otherwise good

Recognition: National Bestseller, Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

The bestselling author of Turtle Moon and Practical Magic tells her most seductive and mesmerizing tale yet--the story of March Murray, who returns to her small Massachusetts hometown after nineteen years, encountering her childhood sweetheart...and discovering the heartbreaking and complex truth about their reckless and romantic love.