Robert James Waller
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The legendary love story, the bestselling hardcover novel of all time, and the major motion picture starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. This is the story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows the reader what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
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Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...
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The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way.
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"World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after they meet, they don't want to lose the love they've found" ... container.
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An American writer in Mexico witnesses the assassination of a U.S. naval officer, then runs into the killer in a bar. The killer offers him money to drive him across the border and sensing material for a bestseller the writer accepts. A wild ride follows, the two pursued by the Mexican police. By the author of The Bridges of Madison County.
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When Clayton Price, a merciless CIA hitman, makes an unauthorized hit, his CIA contact becomes intent on pursuing and killing the rogue assassin. Price's only hope for survival and independence is to enlist the help of a down-and-out American writer and his headstrong Mexican girlfriend, who agree to drive Price to the border, a decision that will change their lives forever.