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  • The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard

    A Novel

    by Erin McGraw ...
    A Kansas seamstress reinvents herself in Los Angeles, but the past comes back to haunt her, in this "superb, surprising" historical novel ( The Seattle Times).At age seventeen, Nell Plat is an unhappily married woman, quick with her needle and wit, but ill-suited to wifely duties like cooking, mothering, and tending to her boorish husband. Unable to shake her dreams of glamour and excitement, she ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Life

    Stories

    by Erin McGraw ...
    A collection of short stories that are "at once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious" (Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl)."McGraw ably leavens heartbreak with humor . . . she renders quirky, refreshingly real characters—a mediocre ballet dancer who takes in a more successful dancer's daughter; an insecure self-help author who's thrown for a loop by a visit to her parents; a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bodies at Sea

    by Erin McGraw ...
    In “Testimonial,” a young woman mordantly records the suicides occurring in her high- school classmates. “Every time I tell my mother she ruffles, squawks, refuses to let her tiny black eyes meet mine. She behaves every time as if it were unique, as if I weren’t attending funerals as regularly as a season ticket holder. She forgets them, cancels and excuses them, leaves me to keep track. Its eight ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Joy

    And 52 Other Very Short Stories

    by Erin McGraw ...
    “McGraw is wise and occasionally laugh–out–loud funny, with a seventh sense for the perfect turn of phrase . . . This quintessential collection of stories serves as an homage to the form while showcasing McGraw’s stunning talent and deep empathy for the idiosyncrasies, small joys, and despairs of human nature." —Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)In Joy, narrators step out of themselves ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Better Food for a Better World

    A Novel

    by Erin McGraw ...
    Ideals and reality collide when six college friends band together to start an ice cream store, promising "Better Food for a Better World," but finding a worse world than they had expected. It seems like a great idea: six friends from college pool their money and energy to start an ice cream store. Natural High Ice Cream: Better Food for a Better World. It's high-minded, with a wink, like the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baby Tree

    by Erin McGraw ...
    Pastor Kate Gussey, with her husband Ned, provides a home for the homeless, helps build houses for the needy, and turns a willing hand and sturdy good humor wherever there is a need. But when her ex-husband moves into her small town, then into her home, the townspeople begin to question the kind of person she really is. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Eighteen Acres

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  • Ten Thousand Saints

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    "Rarely has a coming-of-age novel captured a time and place—here the late 1980s on Manhattan's Lower East Side—with such perfect pitch. Grade: A" —Entertainment WeeklyA sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival of a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly ... Read more

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  • The Lion Seeker

    A Novel

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