Paula Sharp

• Aug-1988
• / General Fiction
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Marjorie's husband, Byron Coffin, had misled her for so long, that she learned to lean away from life to keep from falling over, like a woman walking a large dog." So begins the disarming and funny story of Marjorie Leblanc -- "the woman who was not...

• Aug-1991
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A collection of stories about American life in the rural Midwest and the culturally disintegrating South features second cousins Netta Henry and Stanley Wilkes as they commit delinquent acts and encounter eccentric characters...

• Sep-1993
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Moving from Baton Rouge to Jersey City, innocent but determined Ida Terhune leaves her stale second marriage, takes her children, and starts a new life, embarking on a series of unexpected personal transformations. By the author of The Imposter. ...

• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction
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This extraordinary bestseller, set in small-town Wisconsin and spanning thirty years, is the story of Judge Melanie Klonecki, the daughter of an abusive and brilliant criminal defense lawyer. Returning to the rural landscape of her youth, Melanie bef...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- now available in paperback.

When Marguerite Daigle, a "seventh generation lapsed Louisiana Catholic," develops a drinking problem, her eight-year-old daughter Penny runs wild, and her teenage daughter Ma...

• Jan-2002
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Penny's mother Marguerite drinks too much and has a flair for melodrama that does not go down too well in upstate New York. But to Penny she also has a sense of fun that makes everything in life feel the way it should. So when Marguerite goes south i...