 | A Wish for Christmas (Cape Light)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Cape LightNothing captures the essence of the holidays like Thomas Kinkade's paintings-and the unforgettable town of Cape Light.Gifts of kindness are never forgotten... After serving in Iraq, the injured David has returned home to find his widowed father remarried and his ex-girlfriend working for him on his tree farm. Trying not to seem bitter or discouraged is even harder than the physical therapy, and David realizes that he not only needs to heal his body but his heart as well. Meanwhile, Lillian Warwick's daughters are concerned about their eld...
 |  | Savannah from Savannah (Savanah Series)
Publication Date: June 30, 2004| Series: Savanah Series (Book 1) I'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself. It is a place known to most as Savannah.It is a place known to me as home.I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return.But I did not return out of a mere longing for home.I returned because I have something to prove to home.I am Savannah...from Savannah. ...
|  | The Summer Before the Dark (Vintage International)
Release Date: July 14, 2009| Series: Vintage International Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age.As the summer begins, Kate Brown—attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children—has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was—living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring—no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark take...
|  | Drenched in Light (Tending Roses Series #4)
Publication Date: June 27, 2006Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she’ll never soar again…until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to her office, carrying an essay. In Dell’s writing, Julia sees luminous sparks of hope. But as she fights to forge a brighter future for one disadvantaged student, she is drawn into startling undercurrents of c...
|  | Two Pair: Quadruple or Nothing (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Ashburg, California; the city that’s split into rich and not rich, the upper class and the middle class, the snobs and the down-to-earth…that’s how the teenagers perceived it, anyway. And it all stemmed from two schools’ rivalries. The rivalry has grown now that there are a set of twins that go to Ashburg Arts and a set of twins that go to Ashburg Academy that don’t see eye to eye. Reagan and Ronan Jacoby thought that their only problem was wondering if their cop father, Elijah would make it home from work every day. That ...
|  | Imagine This
Release Date: August 3, 2004Imagine This is the sequel to Vickie Stringer's bestselling Let That Be the Reason, her stunning debut novel based on life as she knew it in the shocking underworld of the sex and drug trade.Vickie Stringer has gained a legion of fans for her portrayal of Pamela, a.k.a. Carmen, a woman who had it all but lost out when the love of her life left her penniless and alone to raise their son. Pamela refuses to remain powerless, though. She pulls herself up, becomes a major hustler in the street game, gains independence, and makes big money -- but the consequences are ...
|  | Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China)
Publication Date: May 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0824817109 | ISBN-13: 978-0824817107Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 withpublication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many criticswere outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, andstylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception tobecome what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fictionand the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement.Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylisticand linguistic experimentation a...
|  | The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel
Release Date: February 10, 2005"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor.We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --Neil Gordon, New York Times Book ReviewSelection, Summer Reading, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immoral...
|  | A Stirring from Salem (Days of Our Lives)
Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Series: Days of Our Lives As New Year's fireworks light the London sky...The fallout from Richard Gaines's financial debacle spreads deeply into the lives of the citizens from Salem. With John and Marlena's help, Charley believes Richard's unspeakable wrongs have been rectified. But soon, while on an unexpected and lifechanging journey to South Africa, Charley discovers that the scandal has far wider implications.In the exotic and dangerous lands of South Africa...A deadly secret is revealed that threatens a clinic run by Kayla, Patch, and Bill Horton. Jo...
|  | The Fullness of Everything
Publication Date: June 1, 2009When Winston receives a telegraph from his mother informing him of his father’s imminent death, he reluctantly returns to Jamaica after 25 years of teaching history in the United States, having avoided contact with his family. Never considering how his relatives regarded his silence, mutual resentments cause a series of painful encounters and memories of an abusive father, a betraying mother, a favored brother, a sister lost in an accident, and a younger half-sister. Told from the perspectives of both Winston and his estranged brother, Septimus, this power...
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