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(0)Amy Bloom
Author
Language
English
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Description
On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying caf society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alivein Siberia.Lillian cannot stop dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, readers follow a mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Story of Elizabeth Taube, a teenager who feels lonely and unloved by her parents and looks unsuccessfully for love in a variety of places until she finds someone who truly appreciates her and together they explore unknown places within their hearts and souls.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Amy and Brian's world was changed forever with his diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's. Forced to confront the daily frustrations and realities of the disease and its impact on their lives and marriage, Brian resolved not to let it dictate his life and instead asked himself: What makes life meaningful, and how do I want to live the rest of mine? His decision led them to learn about Dignitas and to fly to Zürich for a peaceful ending of Brian's...
10) New Haven noir
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In an Ivy League town, Bloom turns Yale's motto--Lux et Veritas--on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven...The stories Bloom chooses share a strong sense of place, detailing the quirks that make every corner of New Haven distinctive. But it's the lucid writing and clear, compelling storylines that make her dark tales shine. Maybe she offers a noir version of Light and Truth after all."
11) New Haven Noir
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In an Ivy League town, Bloom turns Yale's motto -- Lux et Veritas -- on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven." -- Kirkus Reviews The image of a charming college town serves New Haven well, but its natives know that the city has been built on a rich -- and violent -- history that still seeps out from between the cracks in the sidewalks and the halls of learning. Now, New York Times- bestselling author -- and Connecticut...