Driven by a need to solve the mystery of an older sibling's disappearance ten years earlier, young lawyer Carolyn MacKenzie launches an investigation into a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a driven quest that poses life-threatening consequences. Simultaneous.
The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old schoolfriend turned shady Madrid businessman, he finds himself involved in a dangerous game - and s ...
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When Dayne and Katy Matthews take on separate movie projects, tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two, but something drastic catches Dayne's attention and makes him realize the destruction they're playing with; meanwhile, the Flanigans recognize the deep loss of the Christi ...
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A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.
In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. Reader's Guide included. Re ...
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Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, is distracted from her cause by the details of her friend's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer, in this drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style. By the author of <IT>Slammerkin<RO>.
In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the lowcountry of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose ...
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Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a le ...
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<P><B><CENTER>Will Windrider<BR> take to the skies?</CENTER></B></P><P>Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met.</P><P>But Moon Shadow grows to ...
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In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troop of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters f ...
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From his first novel, <I>Mohawk</I>, to his most recent, <I>Straight Alan</I>, Richard Russo has demonstrated great affinity for the tragicomic human condition, and here he expands his geographical and psychological claims on the small town, blue-collar heart of the country.<p>Empire Falls, Maine, h ...
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Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.
Traumatized by the kidnappings of her twin three-year-old girls, only one of whom was recovered, a mother begins a desperate search when her returned daughter claims that the other twin, believed dead, is still alive and in mortal danger. Reprint.
Virginia Simpson's faith is tested when troubles come her way at the end of her time in college, including the medical problems that complicate her sister's first delivery and the Dear Jane letter she receives from her boyfriend.
Identical twins Meredith and Mallory Brynn have always shared one another's thoughts, even as they dream, but their connection diminishes as they approach their thirteenth birthday, and one begins to see the future, the other the past, leading them to discover that a high school student they know is ...
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In the wake of the murder of secretive private detective Phil Kramer, his widow Emily, left penniless by her husband's death, and his killer, Jerry Hobart, who has been ordered to kill Emily, compete to uncover the dark truth behind the killing while questioning where their true loyalties lie. By th ...
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<b>This Side of Paradise</b> is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimle ...
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To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, ...
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Conner Evans and his wife Michele seem to enjoy a perfect life, until a seven-year-old son Conner never knew existed comes to live with them after the death of his mother, forcing them all to confront hidden truths before healing can begin. Simultaneous.
Stewart Dubinsky plunges into the mystery of his family's secret history when he discovers his deceased father's wartime letters to his former fianc?e, revealing his court-martial and imprisonment during World World II. Reprint.
Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife's death, but the drowning of two c ...
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
The interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations of the McLeod family are revealed over the course of three crucial summers, in a debut novel about love, death, and birth in a Scottish family.
Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer's entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor ...
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In this memoir, initially published in 1954, the wife of a baptist minister explains how she and her husband adopted 12 children deemed undesirable by white, middle class society. Children from white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds formed an unusual fam ...
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Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
Trying to forget her violent childhood with the help of her grandparents when her stepfather and abusive mother reappear, Chloe goes on the run, accompanied by her grandparents' pregnant Mexican maid.
A veteran of the Irish "Troubles," Michael Forsythe makes it to the Bronx, where he goes to work for an Irish crack dealer named Darkey who wants his rivals, the Dominicans, rubbed out. Unfortunately, Michael falls helplessly in love with the gorgeous Bridget, Darkey's girlfriend. To get rid of Mich ...
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