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Week of April 14, 2014

Releases for the week of April 14th include THE IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS by Andrew Sean Greer, the romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived; Ivy Pochoda's VISITATION STREET, a literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook; and THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING, which follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana, in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death.

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Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. In these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well --- though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband. But will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well?

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