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The Beginning of Spring
Paperback, 187 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $14.95 | purchase
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Nellie Reed disappears from her home at 22 Lipka Street, and her husband Frank—suspecting she has returned to England—must raise their three young children with the help of beautiful Lisa Ivanovna
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