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by Tony Earley
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsJim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsIn 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society.
by Marianne Wiggins
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsThe Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse-wife, Clara; and a twenty-first-century journey of redemption.
by Sally Beauman
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA dramatic, atmospheric novel in a grand storytelling tradition, The Sisters Mortland is beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad, and often dazzlingly funny. A tour de force of tales within tales, it sets the capstone on bestselling author Sally Beauman's literary career.
by T Jefferson Parker
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsThe emotionally wrenching tale of three brothers and the brutal act that irrevocably changes their lives.
by Jennifer Haigh
Published Dec 2005
Read ReviewsA compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.
by Carole Cadwalladr
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsAt once nostalgic and refreshingly original, The Family Tree is a sophisticated story of one woman and the generations of women who came before her and whose legacy shaped her life and its emotional landscape.
by Jean Harfenist
Published Jul 2003
Read ReviewsIn this funny, sad and somehow good natured book Jean Harfenist explores the interface between love and dysfunction through young Lillian whose voice will stick with you long after you turn the last page.
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