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Meredith Stratton worked hard to become a successful businesswoman—and now she owns six elegant inns all over the world. But on a trip abroad she is struck by a strange illness, one that seems to have no physical cause. Meredith has always played by her own rules—and won—and now she must uncover the roots of this mystery ailment that threatens her future happiness. The answers lie buried somewhere in her forgotten past. And with
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child--that has haunted her every waking moment--while forging the power to finally strike back.--
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Biblioasis
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants."--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in.
9) Snow
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
11) Cranberry queen
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
12) Seven moves
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
13) My soul to keep
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of a life in Paris while working at a small-town Iowa gas station, Sheila stages her own kidnapping to run away with an oddball who shares a superhero's name and who begins to regard her as the character's girlfriend.
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