Barbara Taylor Bradford

UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS, 2005, 496 pp.
In this fifth entry in the Harte family saga, the descendants of Emma Harte continue to struggle with the impact of her secrets.
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Nuruddin Farah

SECRETS, 1998, 298 pp.
Kalaman is a successful Somali businessman, who turns to his family for advice when a former girlfriend asks him to father her child. That simple act begins the process of revealing a tangled web of lies.
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Beth Richardson Gutcheon

MORE THAN YOU KNOW, 2000, 269 pp.
Hannah Gray is getting old, and wants to tell the secrets of the past, concerning a malevolent ghost and thwarted love, before it's too late. Set in rural Maine.
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Julia Hamilton

FORBIDDEN FRUITS, 2002, 326 pp.
Their wealth and status has always assured the MacArthur clan a place among Edinburgh's elite. When the patriarch dies, however, and a nephew is blackmailed by the press, family secrets threaten to destroy all of them.
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Jessica Barksdale Inclan

HER DAUGHTER'S EYES, 2001, 218 pp.
A teenager hides her pregnancy from her recently widowed father, but after the baby is born, she can no longer keep the truth about the baby's father hidden.

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Elizabeth Inness-Brown

BURNING MARGUERITE, 2002, 237 pp.
Awakening on a cold winter morning to find the body of his ninety-four-year-old "Tante" Marguerite Deo lying dead outside his cabin, carpenter James Jack must confront the mystery of her death and the secrets that have impacted his own life.
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Dennis Lehane

MYSTIC RIVER, 2001, 401 pp.
A young boy is kidnapped and molested in Boston. Twenty years later, a vicious murder forces him, and his friends, to finally face what happened when they were children.
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Alison McGhee

SHADOW BABY, 2000, 243 pp.
Eleven-year-old Clara winter is bright, engaging, and unrelenting in pestering her mother for information about her dead father, grandfather, and twin sister.

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Maile Meloy

A FAMILY DAUGHTER, 2006, 336 pp.
Saints and Liars described a family in turmoil. In this companion novel, the "author" of that novel reveals the "true" events which inspired the novel.
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Ann Patchett

RUN, 2007, 304 pp.
Two families come together over a traffic accident during a snowstorm. The puzzling thing is - one of the women threw herself under a car to protect a total stranger. Unravelling this mystery leads to a profound meditation on what makes a family.
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Nancy Pickard

THE VIRGIN OF SMALL PLAINS, 2006, 335 pp.
A frozen body in a church-yard raises new questions about a twenty-year-old murder. The answers have devastating effects on three childhood friends who have drifted apart.

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Christina Schwarz

DROWNING RUTH, 2000, 338 pp.
Mattie died shortly after WWI, leaving a young daughter whom her husband and sister Mandy raised. When that daughter, Ruth, reaches adulthood, Mandy can no longer hide the truth about how Mattie died.
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