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Here are some other titles that you might enjoy. Like Jodi Picoult's books, these novels explore difficult moral choices and family conflicts in a multi-layered, readable style.
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller A Georgia woman who abandoned her family to become a singer in California, returns 10 years later. It happens after Delia Byrd's new man dies in an accident, leaving her with a child. The novel describes the family's adjustment, including that of her teen daughters. 1998 | ||||||||||||
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Berg, Elizabeth Open House Struggling to come to terms with her husband's abandonment, Samantha sets out to construct a new life for herself and her eleven-year-old son, despite financial hardship, and to rediscover her own identity, which had been lost in her attempts to save her marriage. 2000 Appears on the following book lists:  Oprah's Books
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Bohjalian, Christopher A. Before You Know Kindness After a decade of spending the delightful summer week at their country house in New Hampshire, the members of the extended Seton family are confronted by a terrible accident when a partially loaded hunting rifle in the wrong hands leads to tragedy, testing the values, convictions, and relationships that hold the family together. 2004 | ||||||||||||
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Bohjalian, Christopher A. Trans-Sister Radio With her daughter about to leave for college, fortysomething Alison Banks enrolls in a local college course to take her mind off things and finds herself falling for her instructor, Dana, a man who later confides that he wants to have a sex-change operation. 2000 | ||||||||||||
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Brown, Rosellen Before and After When the chief of police comes to question Jacob Reiser about the brutal murder of his teenage girlfriend, it throws the entire family into a feud laced with guilt and questions of loyalty. 1992 | ||||||||||||
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Gardner, Lisa The Perfect Husband What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer? Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped--and the most dangerous game of all begins.... 1998 | ||||||||||||
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Hamilton, Jane A Map of the World While under the care of Alice Goodwin, a neighbor's child drowns in the Goodwins' pond, a devastating accident that has profound repercussions for the entire Goodwin family, in a story set in a small Midwestern farm town. 1994 Appears on the following book lists: Oprah's Books
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Hannah, Kristin Angel Falls When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the precious life they have built, hoping, always hoping, that she will wake up. Then he discovers evidence of her secret past: a hidden first marriage to Julian True, a man no woman could resist . . . or forget. Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam turns to the one person who could make her respond-- and who could take her out of his arms forever. 2000 | ||||||||||||
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Hoffman, Alice Here On Earth March breaks up with her boyfriend, Hollis, and marries another. Twenty years later she visits her hometown, Hollis is a widower, and the romance resumes. But March forgot how violent he is. 1997 Appears on the following book lists: Oprah's Books | ||||||||||||
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Letts, Billie Where the Heart Is Abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma, Novalee Nation, 17 years old and seven months pregnant, soon discovers the treasures hiding in this small Southwest town. 1998 Appears on the following book lists: Oprah's Books
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McDonough, Yona Zeldis The Four Temperaments Having concluded an affair with Ginny Valentine, an eager young ballet dancer, violinist Oscar Kornblatt invites Ginny to share Thanksgiving with his family, but when she falls in love with Oscar's married son, the family begins to crumble. 2002 | ||||||||||||
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Miller, Sue Family Pictures The discovery that their third child, Randall, is autistic brings into being strains that will deeply affect the marriage of David and Lainey Eberhardt. 1990 Appears on the following book lists: Family Relationships
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Miller, Sue The Good Mother Waging a custody battle for her four-year-old daughter Molly, Anna Dunlap finds herself caught in a conflict arising from her former husband's and in-laws' self-righteous definition of a good mother and her own sexual needs. 1986 Appears on the following book lists:
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Miller, Sue While I Was Gone Having moved on with her life after a friend was brutally murdered, Jo Becker is now married with a grown family, but when an old housemate moves into the neighborhood, Jo rekindles a relationship that takes her back to the past and threatens her future. 1999 Appears on the following book lists: Oprah's Books | ||||||||||||
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Mitchard, Jacquelyn A Theory of Relativity When his beloved sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car accident, Gordon McKenna assumes he will help raise their orphaned baby daughter, until the child's paternal grandparents launch a scandalous custody battle. 2001 | ||||||||||||
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Mitchard, Jacquelyn The Deep End of the Ocean The disappearance of her three-year-old son Ben threatens to drive a wedge between Beth Cappadora and her husband, Pat, and transforms her older son into a troubled delinquent, until one day nine years later when Ben comes back into their lives. 1999 | ||||||||||||
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Moriarty, Laura The Rest of her Life "...a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community." [Front flap] 2007 Appears on the following book lists:
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Osborn, Karen The River Road Inseparable friends since childhood, brothers David and Michael and their neighbor Kay embark on a night of adventure during which a drug-influenced David jumps off a bridge and sets a devastating series of events in motion. 2002 | ||||||||||||
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Packer, Ann The Dive from Clausen's Pier When her fiance Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity. 2002 Appears on the following book lists: Alex Award - Fiction
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Quindlen, Anna Black and Blue A novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist about a woman who flees with her ten-year-old son from an abusive husband. Fran Benedetto begins a new life in Florida, and gains in confidence as she enjoys new friendships and a new job. But then fears that her husband is pursuing her begin to grow. 1998 Appears on the following book lists: Oprah's Books |
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