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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Author: Aimee Bender Category: Fiction Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 6-1-10 On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can […]

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The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Fiction Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 3-22-11 It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s […]

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