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Cara hoffman is the author of running, a new york times editors choice, an esquire magazine best book of 2017, and an autostraddle best queer and feminist book of 2017. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take. So much pretty isbn 9780099558484 pdf epub cara hoffman. When nineteenyearold wendy white disappears, the small town of haeden, new york, is shaken to its core. For fans of the spellman files comes an irreverent family drama about love, crime, and the ties that bind as three generations of women attempt to go straightor not. Claire and gene moved with their precocious, beguiling daughter alice to haeden, new york for a fresh start.
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