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(2006, Non-Fiction )  

The author, a well-traveled, try-anything-once journalist,
chronicles her quest for spiritual healing. Following her divorce
and disastrous love affair, Gilbert flees New York for
sojourns to Italy, India, and Indonesia to reconnect with
a healer. Gilbert recounts her bizarre experiences and the
extraordinary people she meets in a spare, engaging style.

(2004, Fiction)

Anna was genetically engineered to be a donor for her
leukemia-ridden older sister. Now 13 year old Anna seeks
medical emancipation to regain control of her body. Picoult uses
multiple viewpoints to reveal each character's intentions
as the case goes to trial. This is a thought-provoking page turner
about an issue with no easy answers.

(2001, Fiction)  

To the list of great American child narrators that
includes Huck Finn and Scout Finch, add "Rube" Land,
the asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of this
remarkable first novel. Rube recalls the events of his childhood,
in small-town Minnesota circa 1962, in a voice that
perfectly captures the poetic, verbal stoicism
of the northern Great Plains.

(2006, Fiction)

This debut novel is a riveting family drama that explores
a parent's fears of losing a child .  The plot hinges on
the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl
with Down syndrome, and the fateful decision
made by the twins' physician father.

(2002, Historical Fiction)

 In October 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake  is asked
by the War Office to go to Burma to tune the rare piano
of Surgeon-Major Carroll. Drake accepts the assignment
and launches on a journey of self-discovery that takes him
from London to Rangoon with the help of a mysterious
Burmese woman named Khin Myo.

(2007, Non-Fiction) 

Kingsolver and her family move from Arizona to rural
Appalachia to spend a year on a locally produced diet,
paying close attention to the origins and processing
of all they consume. The book, part memoir, part recipes,
part social commentary, follows the family through the
first year of their experiment.

(2007 reprint, Fiction)

  This is a gifted novelist's account of the Nazi occupation
of France, written while it was taking place. It tells the
remarkable story of men and women thrown together
in circumstances beyond their control. In a provincial village
now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to
coexist with the enemy -- in their town, homes, even in their hearts.

(2005, Memoir)

Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn
Non-conformity were their curse and their salvation.
The Walls and their four children lived like nomads . As family dysfunction escalated, the children had to  leave home.
This gracefully written account speaks candidly about
parents and the strength of family ties.

(1997, Fiction)

The story of Dinah is one of the most shocking in the Bible.
This is a saga of women, of Dinah and her four mothers,
Jacob’s wives. The women live the most important parts o
f their lives in the red tent, where women go monthly to
have their babies, and tell their stories. Diamant is adept
at bringing biblical characters to life and evoking an ancient time.