61.    Enduring Love by Ian McEwan  This book is about a couple who witness a ballooning accident and Joe Ross attempts to rescue a small child from a runaway balloon.  Another bystander also tries to help and is killed in the process.  There is another bystander called Parry who feels that he is in love with Joe, even though Joe is married to ( Read more... )

Title:  The Future Homemakers of America
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This book is about the friendship of six women over a forty year time span.  Five of the women are married to American Air Force officers in the fifties and one ( Read more... )