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The Colour: A Novel: Rose Tremain: 9780312423100: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother, and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the "colour," rush to their destinies and doom.

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• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312423101
• ISBN-13: 978-0312423100
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
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	The Summer of the Bear: A Novel Publication Date: June 7, 2011With her fifth novel, critically acclaimed writer and journalist Bella Pollen takes readers into the private dynamics of a family grappling with the loss of father and husband in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, where between elemental beauty and utter bleakness, strange forces are at play.In 1980 Germany, under Cold War tension, a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. When the clever diplomat Nicky Fleming dies suddenly and suspiciously, it’s convenient to brand him the traitor. But was his death an accident, murder, or suicide? As the government digs...
	The Hungry Season Release Date: February 1, 2010It's been five years since the Mason family's holiday at the lakeside cottage in north Eastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly perfect. But since Franny's death, the Masons have been flailing, one step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam's last, best hope of rescuing his son from a destructive path and salvaging what's left of his family. As Sam struggles with grief, writer's block, and a lo...
	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 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...
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	A New Leaf (Cape Light, Book 4) Release Date: January 6, 2004A quaint New England village by the sea, Cape Light is populated by an unforgettable cast of characters who know the importance of lending a hand and cultivating gratitude. Even though their lives are sometimes touched by disappointment, the residents of this close-knit community have discovered time and again how love has the remarkable power to sustain our spirit and heal our suffering. Ever since her bitter divorce, single mom Molly Willoughby has become increasingly disillusioned by matters of the heart. Over the years, she has shied away from love-and given ...
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	Crazy Little Thing Release Date: October 23, 2012If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s putting stuff in order. Sowhen she finds her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes a summervacation at her aunt’s lake house will help her piece it back together.She wants to relax, reboot, and heal the wounds left by her cheatingex-husband. And that requires time away from men. All men. Or so she thinks. With two slobbering dogs and two cousins living there—one aflamboyant decorator intent on making over Sadie—it’s hard to get amoment’s peace at eccentric Aunt Dody...

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Safe from the Sea: Peter Geye: 9781609530570: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: September 6, 2011

Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has divided them emotionally ever since. When his father for the first time finally tells the story of the horrific disaster he has carried with him so long, it leads the two men to reconsider each other. Meanwhile, Noah s own struggle to make a life with an absent father has found its real reward in his relationship with his sagacious wife, Natalie, whose complications with infertility issues have marked her husband s life in ways he only fully realizes as the reconciliation with his father takes shape. Peter Geye has delivered an archetypal story of a father and son, of the tug and pull of family bonds, of Norwegian immigrant culture, of dramatic shipwrecks and the business and adventure of Great Lakes shipping in a setting that simply casts a spell over the characters as well as the reader.

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• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Unbridled Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (September 6, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1609530578
• ISBN-13: 978-1609530570
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
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	Keeping the House: A Novel Release Date: July 15, 2008Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. Like Whitney Otto’s How to Make an American Quilt in its intimate portrayal of women’s lives, and reminiscent of novels by Elizabeth Berg and Anne Tyler, Keeping the House is a rich tapestry of a novel that introduces a wonderful new fiction writer. When Dolly Magnuson moves to Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, i...
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	A New Leaf (Cape Light, Book 4) Release Date: January 6, 2004A quaint New England village by the sea, Cape Light is populated by an unforgettable cast of characters who know the importance of lending a hand and cultivating gratitude. Even though their lives are sometimes touched by disappointment, the residents of this close-knit community have discovered time and again how love has the remarkable power to sustain our spirit and heal our suffering. Ever since her bitter divorce, single mom Molly Willoughby has become increasingly disillusioned by matters of the heart. Over the years, she has shied away from love-and given ...
	Paul and James's Naturist Adventure Publication Date: February 17, 2012Paul Jessop and James Handle are two fourteen-year-olds who have known each other all their lives. One very warm day while out roaming through the local countryside and woods, not far from home, they're suddenly surprised when they spot a naturist rambler. Having never seen anyone walk about like this before their curiosity gets the better of them and they decide to follow him. It leads to them finding out about a naturist swim at their own local leisure centre and, after deducing what the word 'naturist' means, want to find a way of getting in to see for t...
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The Pink Institution: Selah Saterstrom: 9781566891554: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historical photographs, images and texts, The Pink Institution

traces four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges. The lyrical gravity and singular style of this unforgettable debut novel will transform the reader in its wake.

Selah Saterstrom’s writing has appeared in 3rd Bed and Pitkin Review. She is the editor of Soul Collections, a collection of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina. Born in Mississippi in 1974, she now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she teaches at Warren Wilson College.

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• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Coffee House Press; 1st edition, edition (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566891558
• ISBN-13: 978-1566891554
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.4 inches
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	La ultima cancion (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: May 15, 2010La vida de Veronica Ronnie Miller se viene abajo cuando sus padres se divorcian y su padre se muda de New York a Wilmington, Carolina del Norte. Tres anos despues se va a pasar el verano con su padre, quien es pianista y profesor, y esta llevando una vida tranquila en un pueblo de la playa. La historia es un hermoso mensaje de amor a diferentes niveles -el primer amor, el amor entre padres e hijos- que demuestra, como solo Nicholas Sparks sabe hacerlo, las diferentes formas en que el amor puede romper nuestros corazones y rearmarlos. / Seventeen year old Veronic...
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	The Debt: The Story of a Past Redeemed Publication Date: February 19, 2004After fleeing a painful and compromising past, Emma Rose Howard settled eagerly into the role of a pastor's wife.She and her husband, Abel, dedicated themselves to parenting a mega-church and influenced thousands of lives through its related ministries. But when Emma Rose receives a phone call from a living, breathing remnant of her troubled past, she finds herself wondering if something in her life is woefully out of balance.The presence of this unexpected intruder soon threatens everything Emma Rose has believed about her calling, her marriage, and her re...
	The Hungry Season Release Date: February 1, 2010It's been five years since the Mason family's holiday at the lakeside cottage in north Eastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly perfect. But since Franny's death, the Masons have been flailing, one step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam's last, best hope of rescuing his son from a destructive path and salvaging what's left of his family. As Sam struggles with grief, writer's block, and a lo...
	Run Release Date: September 25, 2007 Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children—all his children—safe. Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harva...
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Glass Room: Simon Mawer: 9781408700778: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: February 1, 2009

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Viktor's lover and her child. But the house's story is far from over, and as it passes from hand to hand, from Czech to Russian, both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern Europe becomes somehow embodied and perhaps emboldened within the beautiful and austere surfaces and planes so carefully designed, until events become full-circle.

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• Hardcover: 406 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company (February 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1408700778
• ISBN-13: 978-1408700778
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 8.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

	The Summer of the Bear: A Novel Publication Date: June 7, 2011With her fifth novel, critically acclaimed writer and journalist Bella Pollen takes readers into the private dynamics of a family grappling with the loss of father and husband in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, where between elemental beauty and utter bleakness, strange forces are at play.In 1980 Germany, under Cold War tension, a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. When the clever diplomat Nicky Fleming dies suddenly and suspiciously, it’s convenient to brand him the traitor. But was his death an accident, murder, or suicide? As the government digs...
	On Strike for Christmas Release Date: October 30, 2007At Christmastime, it seems as though a woman’s work is never done. Trimming the tree, mailing the cards, schlepping to the mall, the endless wrapping—bah humbug! So this year, Joy and Laura and the rest of their knitting group decide to go on strike. If their husbands and families want a nice holiday—filled with parties, decorations, and presents—well, they’ll just have to do it themselves. The boycott soon takes on a life of its own when a reporter picks up the story and more women join in. But as Christmas Day approaches...
	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. ...
	'Til Morning Light (Fiction for the Way We Live) Release Date: February 1, 2005She crossed an ocean to escape the suffering of famine-torn Ireland. Haunted by loss, but determined to build a life in the New World, Gracelin O'Malley then crosses the country with her young children to accept a San Francisco sea captain's practical proposal of marriage. But when she arrives, he is not there, and the City of Gold is no place for widows and children. When a prominent doctor offers her work in his household, Grace accepts, only to become embroiled in blackmail and betrayal at the hands of his troubled sister. As past catches up to present, Grace...
	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 ...
	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 ...
	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...
	Counterfeit Lady Release Date: July 1, 1991Nicole was a passionate French beauty, kidnapped by mistake and swept accross turbulent seas...to be the bride of a stranger.In eighteenth-century Virginia, the lush lands embraced the rivers that bounded the great plantations. There Clayton awaited his English lady...but when he showered his bride with ardent kisses, the woman he found in his arms was Nicole Courtalain! ...
	A New Leaf (Cape Light, Book 4) Release Date: January 6, 2004A quaint New England village by the sea, Cape Light is populated by an unforgettable cast of characters who know the importance of lending a hand and cultivating gratitude. Even though their lives are sometimes touched by disappointment, the residents of this close-knit community have discovered time and again how love has the remarkable power to sustain our spirit and heal our suffering. Ever since her bitter divorce, single mom Molly Willoughby has become increasingly disillusioned by matters of the heart. Over the years, she has shied away from love-and given ...
	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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Consider This,Senora: Harriet Doerr: 9780156000024: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: August 15, 1994 | Series: Harvest American Writing

The long-awaited and highly praised second novel by the author of Stones for Ibarra. The American characters here find themselves waiting, hoping, and living in rural Mexico-a land with the power to enchant, repulse, captivate, and change all who pass through it. Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.

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• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (August 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156000024
• ISBN-13: 978-0156000024
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
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	Families of Two Publication Date: September 21, 2000Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice,takes us into the lives of the growing number of couples who are choosing not to have children, and dispels the myths commonly associatedwith this choice. Families of Two provides insight for couples who are deciding whether to have children, and to friends and family of couples who have chosen or may choose not to have children. It celebrates the many people who are living lives that do not include parenthood, and the many ways to live happily ever after. ...
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	America's Dream Release Date: April 25, 1997América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparati...
	He's Just A Friend Release Date: June 7, 2005In her sizzling bestseller Soul Mates Dissipate, and its smoking sequel, Never Again Once More, Mary B. Morrison blazed a new trail in African American erotic fiction. Now she introduces a sassy, unstoppable heroine who vows to marry money and status--when what she really needs is love...Fancy Taylor wants to settle down. And after having dated twenty-six men in fifty-two weeks, she has enough experience to know that if a man is married, he's bad news. Unfortunately, irresistible Byron Van Lee--who has a big car, big income, big ego, and big youknowwhat--neglects to...
	Sisters of Holmes County Omnibus Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Series: SISTERS OF HOLMES COUNTYEnjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Sisters of Holmes County series all under one cover. Be able to follow the Hostettler family’s mysterious struggle against an unseen enemy from start to finish. Along the way, watch as love triumphs out of tragedy for the three Hostettler sisters, and see how God keeps His hand on the Ohio Amish family through it all. ...
	The Colour: A Novel Publication Date: April 1, 2004Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother, and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under ...
	In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd Publication Date: April 12, 2002Pushcart Prize winner Ana Menendez landed firmly in the literary landscape last year with the hardcover publication of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Reviewers overwhelmingly agree that she is an important new voice in American fiction: hers is "a bright debut that points to even brighter accomplishments to come" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), a tour de force that is "poignant and varied, emotionally vivid and hauntingly melancholy" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "a Cuban odyssey that conjures up Eugene O'Neill-like drama" (Kirkus Reviews). In these...
	Life Is Short But Wide Release Date: March 24, 2009Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, LIFE IS SHORT BUT WIDE is an irresistible story of family that proves no matter who you are or what you do, you are never too old to chase your dreams.Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so vividly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dr...
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Cavedweller: A Novel: Dorothy Allison: 9780452279698: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: May 1, 1999

When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn't keep. Delia Byrd is going back to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim her life--and the two daughters she left behind...Told in the incantatory voice of one of America's most eloquent storytellers, Cavedweller is a sweeping novel of the human spirit, the lost and hidden recesses of the heart, and the place where violence and redemption intersect.

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• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 434 pages
• Publisher: Plume; Reprint edition (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452279690
• ISBN-13: 978-0452279698
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 8 inches
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	Glass Room Publication Date: February 1, 2009Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Vikt...
	In the Beauty of the Lilies Release Date: January 21, 1997In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from “the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God’s withdrawal.” His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and otherwise, into a life of studied ordinariness. Teddy has a daughter, Esther, who becomes a movie star, an object of worship, an All-American god...
	Sisters of Holmes County Omnibus Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Series: SISTERS OF HOLMES COUNTYEnjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Sisters of Holmes County series all under one cover. Be able to follow the Hostettler family’s mysterious struggle against an unseen enemy from start to finish. Along the way, watch as love triumphs out of tragedy for the three Hostettler sisters, and see how God keeps His hand on the Ohio Amish family through it all. ...
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	Comeback Love: A Novel Release Date: April 3, 2012What would you do if you had a second chance with the one that got away? More than thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an aspiring writer with a low number in the draft lottery, packed his belongings and reluctantly drove away, leaving behind Glenna Rising, the sexy, sharp-witted med student he couldn’t imagine living without. Now, decades later, Gordon is a former globe-trotting consultant with a grown son, an ex-wife, and an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. Though she’s stunned when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, Glenna agrees to ac...
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	The Son of Laughter Release Date: August 19, 1994Rich in family drama, passion, and human affinity, critically acclaimed author Frederick Buechner's contemporary retelling of this captivating and timeless biblical saga revitalizes the ancient story of Jacob, delighted our senses and modern sensibilities and gracing us with his exceptional eloquence and wit. ...
	He's Just A Friend Release Date: June 7, 2005In her sizzling bestseller Soul Mates Dissipate, and its smoking sequel, Never Again Once More, Mary B. Morrison blazed a new trail in African American erotic fiction. Now she introduces a sassy, unstoppable heroine who vows to marry money and status--when what she really needs is love...Fancy Taylor wants to settle down. And after having dated twenty-six men in fifty-two weeks, she has enough experience to know that if a man is married, he's bad news. Unfortunately, irresistible Byron Van Lee--who has a big car, big income, big ego, and big youknowwhat--neglects to...

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Nunca pasa nada (Nothing Ever Happens) (Spanish Edition): Jos

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Publication Date: September 1, 2007

How many times have we felt ashamed, not by what we do but by being caught doing it? Without ever realizing it, life can become a collection of secrets that permeate our daily routine. Carmela and Nico lead a peaceful middle-class life until Olivia, the cleaning lady from Ecuador, threatens to shatter the apparent normality. At times entertaining, at others tragic, the novel dismantles the mechanisms of our conscience and exposes the underlying tensions of a world where appearances supersede reality. Description in Spanish: A menudo no te averguenzas de lo que haces, sino de que te vean hacerlo. Sin darnos cuenta, la vida puede convertirse en una acumulacion de secretos que impregna hasta el ultimo minuto de nuestra rutina. Carmela y Nico, una mujer excesivamente independiente y un hombre demasiado apacible, llevan una tranquila y acomodada vida de matrimonio de clase media, plagada de silencios casi imperceptibles. Pero es el secreto de Olivia, la inmigrante ecuatoriana encargada de las tareas del hogar, el que podria derribar esa apariencia de normalidad. Sobre todo si entre medias anda Claudio, un muchacho superdotado de ideas enrevesadas al que le divierte desvelar lo oculto. Nunca pasa nada es un libro a ratos divertido, a ratos tragico, en el que Jose Ovejero despliega sus artes narrativas para mostrar los conflictos y tensiones subyacentes en un mundo donde lo aparente impera sobre lo real, y para desmontar los mecanismos de nuestra buena conciencia. Solo Olivia, a la vez victima y agente de la desgracia, parece saber que la buena conciencia no va a resolver sus problemas. Y en cuanto a Claudio, bueno, Claudio no tiene conciencia.

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• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Alfaguara (September 1, 2007)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8420472271
• ISBN-13: 978-8420472270
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
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	Sisters of Holmes County Omnibus Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Series: SISTERS OF HOLMES COUNTYEnjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Sisters of Holmes County series all under one cover. Be able to follow the Hostettler family’s mysterious struggle against an unseen enemy from start to finish. Along the way, watch as love triumphs out of tragedy for the three Hostettler sisters, and see how God keeps His hand on the Ohio Amish family through it all. ...
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	Glass Room Publication Date: February 1, 2009Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Vikt...
	He's Just A Friend Release Date: June 7, 2005In her sizzling bestseller Soul Mates Dissipate, and its smoking sequel, Never Again Once More, Mary B. Morrison blazed a new trail in African American erotic fiction. Now she introduces a sassy, unstoppable heroine who vows to marry money and status--when what she really needs is love...Fancy Taylor wants to settle down. And after having dated twenty-six men in fifty-two weeks, she has enough experience to know that if a man is married, he's bad news. Unfortunately, irresistible Byron Van Lee--who has a big car, big income, big ego, and big youknowwhat--neglects to...
	Comeback Love: A Novel Release Date: April 3, 2012What would you do if you had a second chance with the one that got away? More than thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an aspiring writer with a low number in the draft lottery, packed his belongings and reluctantly drove away, leaving behind Glenna Rising, the sexy, sharp-witted med student he couldn’t imagine living without. Now, decades later, Gordon is a former globe-trotting consultant with a grown son, an ex-wife, and an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. Though she’s stunned when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, Glenna agrees to ac...
	The Son of Laughter Release Date: August 19, 1994Rich in family drama, passion, and human affinity, critically acclaimed author Frederick Buechner's contemporary retelling of this captivating and timeless biblical saga revitalizes the ancient story of Jacob, delighted our senses and modern sensibilities and gracing us with his exceptional eloquence and wit. ...
	Mi hermana del alma (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: April 30, 2012Sudha y Anju nacieron el mismo dia y se criaron en la misma casa. Sudha es docil y bella; Anju, inquieta y rebelde. Las dos compartieron experiencias durante la infancia y la adolescencia. Pero Sudha esconde un secreto que no puede revelar a su hermana y que condicionara su futuro. Cuando se casen, sus caminos se separaran: Anju emigrara a Estados Unidos y Sudha se quedara en Calcuta tras aceptar un matrimonio de conveniencia. / Sudha and Anju are sisters of the heart. Sudha learns a family secret, and the connection is shattered. Now the girls know what its t...
	The Legacy of Pemberley: The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series (The Pemberley Chronicles; Pride and Prejudice Sequel Series) Publication Date: November 1, 2010| Series: The Pemberley Chronicles; Pride and Prejudice Sequel Series (Book 10) Return to the halls of Pemberley one last time"Romance and intrigue are on the menu as theywere in all Jane Austen's novels." -Book NewsIt has been fifty years since Mr. Darcy took Elizabeth Bennet as his bride, and through half a century of both true happiness and difficult trials, their love has never faltered. When Charles Bingley's declining health forces Darcy and Elizabeth to travel with their dear friends to Europe, it will fall to the next generation to continue the l...

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Desirable Daughters: A Novel: Bharati Mukherjee: 9780786885152: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: March 12, 2003

"The highlight of her career to date . . . Mukherjee bursts out as a star" (Publishers Weekly [starred review]) in her stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new -- now available in paperback.

In the tradition of the Joy Luck Club, Bharati Mukherjee has written a remarkable novel that is both the portrait of a traditional Brahmin Indian family and a contemporary American story of a woman who has in many ways broken with tradition but still remains tied to her native country.

Mukherjee follows the diverging paths taken by three extraordinary Calcutta-born sisters as they come of age in a changing world. Moving effortlessly between generations, she weaves together fascinating stories of the sisters' ancestors, childhood memories, and dramatic scenes from India's history.

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• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion (March 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786885157
• ISBN-13: 978-0786885152
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
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	Family Album: A Novel Release Date: August 31, 2010"[In this] haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." -The New York Times Book ReviewPenelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect façade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however, became an obsession that involved Ingrid, the family au pair. As adults, Paul, Gina, Sandra, Kat...
	A Slipping-Down Life Release Date: May 4, 2004"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."NEWSDAYEvie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....From the Paperback edition. ...
	El arte de conducir bajo la lluvia /The Art of Racing in the Rain (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: March 15, 2009Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off. Denny meets and marries Eve, has a daughter, Zoë, and risks his savings and his life to make it on the professional racing circuit. Enzo, frustrated by his inability to speak and his lack of opposable thumbs, watches Denny's old racing videos, coins koanlike aphorisms that apply to both driving and life, and hopes for the day when his life as a dog will be over and he can be reborn a man.Description in ...
	A Woman of Influence: The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series (The Pemberley Chronicles) Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: The Pemberley Chronicles (Book 9) Contrary, opinionated, and headstrong, she's no typical Victorian lady... "Truly a masterpiece that any Austen fan would enjoy." -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence Becky Collins has always been determined not to submit to the pressures of Victorian society. But her marriage doesn't bring her the opportunities she'd hoped for, and her outspokenness does not find favor with the gentrified ladies of Pemberley. As the unintended consequences of her errors in judgment engulf her, Becky begins to understand ...
	The Winding Road (Morland Dynasty) Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Morland Dynasty In the 34th installment, the Jazz Age is in full swing in New York, while the London General Strike calls for everyone to help out 1925. England is prosperous; the nation has put the war behind it, and hope is in the air. Polly Morland is the most feted beauty in New York—but a proposal of marriage from the powerful, enigmatic Ren Alexander takes her by surprise. Her cousin Lennie, expanding his interests from radio to television and talkies, worries that no one knows much about Ren; but his attempts to find out more threa...
	The Debt: The Story of a Past Redeemed Publication Date: February 19, 2004After fleeing a painful and compromising past, Emma Rose Howard settled eagerly into the role of a pastor's wife.She and her husband, Abel, dedicated themselves to parenting a mega-church and influenced thousands of lives through its related ministries. But when Emma Rose receives a phone call from a living, breathing remnant of her troubled past, she finds herself wondering if something in her life is woefully out of balance.The presence of this unexpected intruder soon threatens everything Emma Rose has believed about her calling, her marriage, and her re...
	Every Last One: A Novel Release Date: April 13, 2010In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions. Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor.  Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount.  And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary ...
	Rachel's Prayer (Country Road Chronicles #2) Publication Date: July 1, 2006The Wortham family has been tested through hard times of injury, illness, and loss. But with the world on the brink of war, they are about to be tested again. And this time, they'll face the ultimate test: one of courage and survival.Just days after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Wortham and Willy Hammond enlist. As they head off to fight, their families are left behind to deal with fears of what lies ahead for their beloved brothers and sons. Armed with their faith in God and a bold prayer from Robert's girlfriend, Rachel, the Worthams and Hammonds...
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French Classics in French and English: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (Dual-Language Book) (French

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Publication Date: May 1, 2012 | ISBN-10: 0956774970 | ISBN-13: 978-0956774972

This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. Translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. See more details about this and other books on French Classics in French and English page on Facebook.

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• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Alexander Vassiliev (May 1, 2012)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 0956774970
• ISBN-13: 978-0956774972
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
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	Me and You Publication Date: February 7, 2012From internationally best-selling author Niccolò Ammaniti, comes a funny, tragic, gut-punch of a novel, charting how an unlikely alliance between two outsiders blows open one family’s secrets.Lorenzo Cumi is a fourteen-year-old misfit. To quell the anxiety of his concerned, socially conscious parents, he tells them he’s been invited on an exclusive ski vacation with the popular kids. On the morning of the trip, Lorenzo demands that his mother drop him off before they arrive at the train station, insisting that his status will be compromised ...
	In the Beauty of the Lilies Release Date: January 21, 1997In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from “the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God’s withdrawal.” His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and otherwise, into a life of studied ordinariness. Teddy has a daughter, Esther, who becomes a movie star, an object of worship, an All-American god...
	Code Triage (Mercy Hospital) Publication Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Mercy Hospital (Book 3) Dr. Leigh Stathos likes her ER shifts fast, furious, and adrenaline-infused—“Treat ’em and street ’em”—with no emotional complications. Life’s taught her a soul-rending lesson: nothing lasts forever, including marriage. And the clock is ticking toward the end of hers. Then an unwelcome confrontation with “the other woman” begins a whole new set of lessons. San Francisco police officer Nick Stathos never gives up, whether protecting his patrol neighborhood, hold...
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	The Pakistani Bride: A Novel Publication Date: January 22, 2008As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, Qasim makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. As the years pass, Qasim grows nostalgic about his life in the mountains while his hopelessly romantic teenage daughter, Zaitoon, imagines Qasim's homeland as a region of tall, kindly men who roam the Himalayas like ...
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Norumbega Park: A Novel: Anthony Giardina: 9780374278670: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: January 31, 2012

Richie Palumbo, the most prosaic of men, gets lost one night in 1969 while driving home with his family. He finds himself in the town of Norumbega—hidden, remote, and gorgeous, at the far edges of Boston’s western suburbs. He sees a venerable old house and, without quite knowing why, decides he must have it. The repercussions of Richie’s wild dream to own a house in this town lead to a forty-year odyssey for his family. For his son, Jack, Norumbega becomes a sexual playground—until he meets one ungraspable girl and begins a lifelong pursuit of her. Joannie, Richie’s daughter, finds that the challenges of living in Norumbega encourage her to pursue the contemplative life. For Stella, Richie’s wife, life in Norumbega leads to surprising growth as both a sexual and a spiritual being.

Norumbega Park—by Anthony Giardina, the critically acclaimed author of White Guys—is about class and parental dreams, sex and spirituality, the way visions conflict with stubborn reality, and a family’s ability to open up for others a world they can never fully grasp for themselves.

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• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition (January 31, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374278679
• ISBN-13: 978-0374278670
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
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Mi hermana del alma (Spanish Edition): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: 9788498725841: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: April 30, 2012

Sudha y Anju nacieron el mismo dia y se criaron en la misma casa. Sudha es docil y bella; Anju, inquieta y rebelde. Las dos compartieron experiencias durante la infancia y la adolescencia. Pero Sudha esconde un secreto que no puede revelar a su hermana y que condicionara su futuro. Cuando se casen, sus caminos se separaran: Anju emigrara a Estados Unidos y Sudha se quedara en Calcuta tras aceptar un matrimonio de conveniencia. / Sudha and Anju are sisters of the heart. Sudha learns a family secret, and the connection is shattered. Now the girls know what its to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America and learns to live her own life of secrets.

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• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Ediciones B; Tra edition (April 30, 2012)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8498725844
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In the Beauty of the Lilies: John Updike: 9780449911211: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: January 21, 1997

In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from “the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God’s withdrawal.” His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and otherwise, into a life of studied ordinariness. Teddy has a daughter, Esther, who becomes a movie star, an object of worship, an All-American goddess. Her neglected son, Clark, is possessed of a native Christian fervor that brings the story full circle: in the late 1980s he joins a Colorado sect called the Temple, a handful of “God’s elect” hastening the day of reckoning. In following the Wilmots’ collective search for transcendence, John Updike pulls one wandering thread from the tapestry of the American Century and writes perhaps the greatest of his later novels.

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• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449911217
• ISBN-13: 978-0449911211
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