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Thirteen interrelated short stories delivering an entertaining glimpse into the dysfunctional lives of a group of hoity-toity Connecticut think tank intellectuals as they philosophize over wine and cheese, fall in and out of love and go about their daily lives with reckless abandon. Most of the action takes place in the kitchen of the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, while Leslie's wife alternatively entertains and lambastes their friends....
2) Amberwell
Author
Series
Ayrton family volume 1
Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Pub. Date
c1955
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"[A] richly atmospheric tale. You can imagine Hitchcock curling up with this one."
-USA Today
Author Hallie Ephron's fast paced and disturbingly creepy Never Tell a Lie is a page-turning thrill ride that maestro Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to call his own. A descent into gripping suburban terror, this stunner by the Ellen Nehr Award-winning mystery reviewer for the Boston Globe has been called "a snaky, unsettling tale of psychological...
Author
Publisher
John Day Company
Pub. Date
1946
Language
English
Description
"Nobel Prize-winning American author Pearl Buck's 1946 novel about a Chinese woman who decides to leave her marriage on her fortieth birthday, choosing a concubine for her landed-class husband and moving on to a life of freedom."
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Kate Wall is flying to Dublin for the funeral of her younger sister Cara. Staying with her sedentary father and sister's housemate Pen, Kate comes to realize several things: that Pen and Cara were lovers, that she herself is more Irish than she thought and that the past is ever present
Author
Series
Haven makers volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Becoming Us comes a novel unpacking loss, doubts, friendship, and the hard questions we ask of God and those we love. After her mom passed away, Jennalyn was in the midst of moving, having a baby, and helping her husband work toward his dream job. At the time, she thought she processed the shock and loss, but only now that Jennalyn has two small children, a lovely new home, a lucrative side hustle with her art, and...
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Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
At the age of twelve, Sidney Henderson, in a moment of anger, pushes his friend Connie Devlin off the roof of a local church. Looking down on Connie's motionless body, Sidney believes he is dead. Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul, Sidney vows. At that moment, Connie stands up and, laughing, walks away. In the years that follow, the brilliant, self-educated, ever-gentle Sidney keeps his promise, even in the face of the hatred and persecution...
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Series
Publisher
BARBOUR PUB INC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancé's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to his parents...
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When they were just children, two tragedies robbed Alice, Griffin, and Dinah Stenen of their parents. Now, as adults, their lives are in crisis with each sibling struggling and in need of someone to turn to. What they don't know is that their parents are watching them from a place not unlike heaven, worrying, smiling, reminiscing, and perhaps even guiding as each of them makes their tentative way toward happiness
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Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Barb Barrett, numb and adrift after losing custody of her children, rents an upstate New York house where Vladimir Nabokov once lived where she discovers a manuscript of possible value and finds a way to love again after the marriage she gave up everything for fails.
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