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BL
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795155
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b615194
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| Main Entry
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Lori Lansens.
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| Title & Author
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The girls : : a novel\ Lori Lansens.
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 2006
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| ISBN
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0307371549
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: 0316144894
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: 0759515875
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: 0759515883
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: 9780307371546
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: 9780316144896
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: 9780759515871
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: 9780759515888
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| Notes
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Electronic version of ed. pub.: Canada : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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| Contents
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Intro; Copyright; Ruby & Me; Mother's Nature; Nature's Mother; Country Mice; Writing & Deadlines; Holy Ghosts; Birds & Feathers; Coots; The Secret Life of Crows; Heaven's Door; Mysterious Ways; You; La Tranche; Concentric Circles; Summer; The Story of the Wedding Dress; Remains; The surprise party was amazing! Happy Birthday to us!; Peevo; Deadlines & Writing; Premonitions & Portents; Writing; Prosim; Home Again, Home Again; Writers and Baseball; Human Conditions; Love Poems; Dead Men's Ember; Writers & Readers; Acknowledgments; About the Author
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| Abstract
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In Lansens's second novel, readers come to know Rose and Ruby, 29-year-old conjoined twins. When one of the girls decides to write her autobiography, the distinct personalities of the two emerge to reveal their contradictory longing for independence and their unwavering togetherness.
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Abandoned children -- Fiction.
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Conjoined twins -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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| LC Classification
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PR9199.4.L36L675 2006
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| Added Entry
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Lori Lansens
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