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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After Carley Winsted loses her husband to a fatal heart attack, she devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved Nantucket home by transforming the historic house into a bed-and-breakfast, but while Carley struggles to keep a friend's secret and prevent families and friendships from unraveling, a summer heat wave brings about unexpected changes that will alter the lives of Carley and everyone she loves forever.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Olivia Grayson, a successful businesswoman who has focused much of her life dedicated to her home-furnishings business, attempts to make up for lost time with her children by planning a lavish Mediterranean vacation, but family relationships become more complicated with unexpected surprises.
5) Come home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suburban mom and pediatrician Jill Farrow has finally gotten her and her thirteen-year-old daughter's lives back on track after her divorce, but when her ex-stepdaughter shows up at her door delivering the news that Jill's ex-husband is dead and it might have been murder, Jill agrees to help look into the strange circumstances.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents two novellas by Phillip Lopate, "The Stoic's Marriage," in which a young man falls in love with the nurse sent to care for his dying mother, and "Eleanor, or, The Second Marriage," recounting the story of a couple whose perfect romantic weekend is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the man's son.
10) The map of love
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
After the death of her husband, Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt, where she falls in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baoudi, an Egyptian nationalist.
11) The wedding
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
As she plans her Hollywood wedding, Allegra Steinberg and her family learn important lessons about life and love.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sarah McClure, unable to secure a job after she and her husband move to the small town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, learns some lessons about life, love, and family when she reluctantly takes a temporary position helping the elderly, cantankerous Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Television producer Brin Cassidy's estranged husband, Jon Riley, interrupts a party she has thrown for a network executive who could provide her big break in the business, demands to know why Brin left him, and refuses to leave until she reveals her secret.
15) Secrecy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Dawes, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a distinguished New England couple, has her innocence stripped from her by a violent act, and the family's decision to hide what happened marks the beginning of a cover-up that changes the lives of everyone involved.
16) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is considered Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise.
The novel tells the story of Madame Bovary, a commoner wife of a country doctor, and her attempts to escape the drudgery
...Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Julia Evarts, still consumed with grief over her son's death five years ago, receives a starter bag of batter for Amish Friendship Bread and is surprised when the project helps her make new friends, forge a new connection with her husband and daughter, and reconnect with her estranged sister.
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