 | Waterborne
Publication Date: April 30, 2002Waterborne is a preternatural tale of the Atlantic layered with the textures, colours, and voices of the sea.Stella Maris Goulding is the unwanted child of a teenage mother and a usually absent father. She has grown up in Elsinore, a Newfoundland fishing village, loved and cared for only by her grandmother. Her mother clearly hates her, belittling and abusing her without remorse while cultivating her own beauty. Stella adores her mother and blames herself for the failings with which her mother charges her. The legacy of Stella’s unhappy childhood is an em...
 |  | What You Owe Me
Publication Date: January 2002Los Angeles, l945: When Hosanna Clark, newly arrived from the farm fields of Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she opens the door to a new life for them both. Using Gilda's knowledge of cosmetics and Hosanna's energy and determination, they begin producing a line of lipsticks and lotions for black women. The two are more than partners: They are dear friends. Then Gilda suddenly disappears, taking all the assets. Hosanna is doubly betrayed: financially ruined and emotionally bereft. When, years later, she passes away, her small cosmetics compa...
|  | A Woman of Our Times
Release Date: September 1, 1990From the author of "Strangers", "The White Dove" and "Bad Girls, Good Women", this is a story of money and the effects it can have. Bored Harriet meets an ex-POW who gives her a game of his own invention. She realizes its potential and soon earns a fortune - but she is changed fundamentally. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Souvenir of Cold Springs
Release Date: August 7, 2001One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, woven together through four generations into a brilliant tapestry of memory and love. . Margaret Neal, a junior at Harvard, drops out after discovering she is pregnant. At loose ends, and feeling like a disgrace to her parents and to herself, she has to get away. For the money to buy a ticket out of town, she appeals to her Aunt Nell, the family matriarch, a no-nonsense ex-schoolteacher who seems to have nothing in her life but her cat, her daily bran cereal and prunes, a big old house full of stuff nobody wants, and rel...
|  | Adam's Wives
Publication Date: October 1, 1999Young, beautiful and rich, Lilith Cox embarks on a quest which takes her around the world. ...
|  | Sins of the Mothers
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|  | Shore Lights
Publication Date: September 2, 2003A USA Today Bestselling AuthorLiving under her mother's roof makes Maddy feel like a teenager -- and a sullen misunderstood one at that -- but Maddy is worried about her mother and determined to give her something to smile about, even if it means engaging in a heated on-line auction for an old Russian samovar. Ex-firefighter Aidan O'Malley wanted that samovar for his teenage daughter, and he isn't happy at being outbid. But from a bidding war, a most unlikely -- and romantic -- connection is formed. Both wary and weary, neither Maddy nor Aidan expect to car...
|  | The Seamstress (New Writing)
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|  | Summer in Tuscany
Publication Date: August 2002Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother Nonna receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, the three of them throw caution and convention to the wind: they leave for Italy. What they encounter is a crumbling old village and a town divided: half believe Nonna's villa belongs to Ben Raphael, an unnervingly handsome American. As cultures clash, gossip soars and intrigue unfolds, Gemma is caught up in the m...
|  | What Girls Learn: A novel
Release Date: February 25, 1997radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts. ...
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