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A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty, he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time, he had a home, a loving wife, a little family of his own; now he has an ex-wife, a 9-year old daughter with attitude, a Corvette Sting Ray that's a collector's item but unreliab ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And y ...Show more
Back When We Were Grown-ups by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca, it was at a party at the Davitch home - a crumbling nineteenth-century house in Baltimore where giving parties was the family business. Young Rebecca looked to Joe like the girl having more fun than anyone in the room and he wanted some of that happiness to spill over ...Show more
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that li ...Show more
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies ...Show more
Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Arena Bks. | Reading Level: very good - near fine
"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."--PEOPLE Magazine Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life in ...Show more
Ladder Of Years by Anne Tyler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her family's knowled ...Show more
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny little out of town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on the first night, tucking himself in tightly ... and wakes up in hospital una ...Show more
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When eighteen year old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Consumed by guilt Ian finds the hope of forgiveness at the Church of the Second Chance, and leaves coll ...Show more
Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tells of the Peck family's search for its own deepest roots, from the ragtime era at the end of the last century to small-town America in the mid-Seventies. This is a story of growing up and breaking away, of rebellion and acceptance.
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage - and its consequences. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore ...Show more
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron ...Show more