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10 best books like Big Girl Small (Rachel DeWoskin): The Talk-Funny Girl, The Borrower, Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life, Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love, Orientation: And Other Stories, Someday This Will Be Funny, The Year We Left Home, A Small Hotel, In Zanesville

The Talk-Funny Girl
AuthorRoland Merullo
ISBN0307452921
In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again.  For seventeen-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with in her own home, every day. ...
The Borrower
AuthorRebecca Makkai
ISBN0670022810
Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate...
Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life
AuthorKyran Pittman
ISBN1594488002
Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.

In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids...
Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
AuthorPriscilla Warner
ISBN1439181071
Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...
Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love
AuthorAndrea N. Richesin
ISBN0373892330
Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection.Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking...
Orientation: And Other Stories
AuthorDaniel Orozco
ISBN0865478538
Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation,...
Someday This Will Be Funny
AuthorLynne Tillman
ISBN1935869000
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...
The Year We Left Home
AuthorJean Thompson
ISBN1439175888
From National Book Award–finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful—whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large.
In The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together...
A Small Hotel
AuthorRobert Olen Butler
ISBN0802119875
A Small Hotel is a beautifully told story of love, loss, and redemption. Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, the novel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage.
The book begins on the day...
In Zanesville
AuthorJo Ann Beard
ISBN0316084476
The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.

Luckily,...
Once Upon a River
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN0393079899
Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.

After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her...
American Salvage
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...
Next to Love
AuthorEllen Feldman
ISBN0812992717
Beautifully crafted and unforgettable, Next to Love depicts the enduring power of love and friendship, and illuminates a transformational moment in American history.

Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose lives...
You Know When the Men Are Gone
AuthorSiobhan Fallon
ISBN0399157204
Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of interconnected short stories.

In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know...
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