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1) Fair peril
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The art of storytelling and the power of a mother's love imbue this feminist fantasy novel - a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince. Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their twentieth anniversary... Divorced, overweight Buffy Murphy is not a happy camper. One April afternoon, she walks into the woods... and meets a talking bullfrog. He asks her to kiss him so he can transform back into...
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Tangled, anxious thoughts relaxed when she felt the fabric beneath her fingers and remembered that she was creating something beautiful enough to delight the eyes as well as the heart, something strong enough to defeat the cold of a Pennsylvania winter night. She could do these things. She, Sarah, had the power to do these things
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Recently reunited with her estranged seventeen-year old daughter, midwife Martha Cade tries to balance her life's calling with the demands of her family while deciding if she'll risk reopening her heart to love. But faith has a way of making the impossible possible.
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Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years earlier, Genna, her former roommate, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. As she reconstructs their tumultuous freshman year at the college in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia, Genna is led also to reconstruct...
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