Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
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Gibbons, Kaye
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Ellen Foster duology
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Algonquin Books 2012
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Street Date:
10/17/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781616203085
ASIN:
B00AKAUJX8
Lexile measure:
870
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Kaye Gibbons. (2012). Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club). Algonquin Books.

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Kaye Gibbons. 2012. Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club). Algonquin Books.

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Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club). Algonquin Books, 2012.

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Kaye Gibbons. Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club). Algonquin Books, 2012.

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Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. 
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