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1) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Boston attorney Brady Coyne comes face to face with his past when he agrees to assist an aged relative with a sensitive family matter, embarking on a quest to find the man's missing daughter.
Author
Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When local minister Sam Kinkade's plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community to the church are met with resistance, he asks Elisa Martinez for guidance, and together they make things work with the help of a special group of women.
4) White hot
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When she hears that her younger brother Danny has commited suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from a vow never to return to Destiny, her small Louisiana hometown. Planning to leave immediately after the funeral, Sayre instead finds herself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father, who owns the town's sole industry and, with her older brother, runs the lives of everyone who lives there. But underneath the Hoyles' rigid...
5) Coming out
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance. Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living...
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Language
English
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"Light Changes Everything is a novel as gritty and authentic as the women of the Arizona Territory. Nancy E. Turner brings the west and its people fully to life." --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours It's the summer of 1907 and the sun is scorching down on Mary Pearl in the Arizona Territory. Mary Pearl and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah...
Author
Series
Ya-Yas volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When theatre director Siddalee Walker inadvertently reveals some of the less-savory facts of her Louisiana childhood to the New York Times, the article brands her morther, Vivi, a "tap-dancing child abuser." Vivi virtually disowns Sidda, but the Ya-Yas sashay in and conspire to bring everybody back together.
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