Julia Whelan
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her fathers junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and...
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Maggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorce. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and "get back out there" sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her...
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Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Pierrot is a piano prodigy. Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. The children fall in love and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. After being separated as teenagers, Rose and Pierrot finally reunite and the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed. With extraordinary storytelling,...