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It's 1948 on a tobacco farm in southern Virginia and a poor young farm girl hopes to break away from an abusive alcoholic father by finding a suitor to rescue her. But the life she is escaping is ideal compared to the hell she is about to enter.
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2001-05-03
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Nancy Brody is different from the rest of the folk in Angel Meadow, the appalling slum where her drunken mother Kitty was a prostitute . . . Only nine years old,Nancy decides to save her sisters Mary and Rose from the workhouse. She gets work for them all at the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2000-04-06
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When Lucy Dean - eighteen, with no money - marries James Buchanan - a man of thirty-four with a great fortune -it is anything but a happy match. For James is hopelessly in love with his wife while Lucy - too young, too serious and too determined to sacrifice happiness...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
1999-02-28
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Published between 1852, when the author was twenty-four years old, and 1854, this trilogy (Childhood-Boyhood-Youth) is inspired by the themes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an author whom Tolstoy idolized as a boy. These three books already introduce the main features of...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2024-07-30
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The village of Supino looks as sleepy as the opening shot of an old black and white Fellini film. At the newspaper office, Bianca stumbles into a job meant for someone else and a new advice column, Ask Minerva, is born. Soon everyone is engaged in trying to discover the...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2024-06-30
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When memories threaten to disappear, past promises must be confronted. Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother that she would keep the family together, but she was too young to know how a war can pull people apart. With the Soviet invasion of Finland, Meri...
Editeur :
Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2022-10-02
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A powerful family drama about fractured lives, secrets, addiction and ultimate reinvention In 1995, sisters Adrienne and Cass unravel the mystery behind their father, Dr. Alexander Muir, a doctor during the Italian Campaign in World War II’s and later a psychiatrist....
Editeur :
Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2022-05-14
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Born to privilege and wed to her high school sweetheart Veer, a free spirited Maya feels trapped in a conventional upper class family with patriarchal expectations in India. Claustrophobic within the dark walls of the mansion she lives in with her spouse, Maya starts...
Editeur :
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2018-09-25
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An Atlantic Books Today Editor's PickLorna always wanted to stand out, but her career as a competitive swimmer was cut short by a knee injury. Cara, her daughter, tries hard to blend in, but when she has to fill in for her brother at a school pageant, she is overwhelmed...
Editeur :
Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2018-04-03
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Eric Alford's safe and romantic life on the peaceful Gaspe Coast is shattered by his decision to follow his elder brother John (the Pilgrim and The Chaplain) into the 1914-18 cataclysm of death and destruction known as the "Great War for Civilisation". By his thundering...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2014-05-04
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