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"Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family --Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell -- they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of...
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas--Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds--each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places."--Amazon.
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"Pheasant-shooting on the Wiltshire downs; East-West conflict in a Berlin night club; infighting in city boardrooms; and sexual skirmishing in the Kensington outback, on the fringes of Winkhill golf club and in a smart Basque resort are some of the elements of this novel. The story concerns the Whale family: Hervey, a less than brilliant Tory Minister; his father, an amiable retired Brigadier; his vague wife Cynthia, and their son George, a young...
85) Jest krew
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In If it Bleeds, King gives readers four brilliant new stories sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King's remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider-this time on her own. In 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. 'The Life of Chuck' explores,...
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"A heartfelt story about family, forgiveness, and starting over when the happy ending ends--and handling it all with a little bit of grace. Family is everything--Grace Adams McHale's mom must have said it to her a thousand times before she died. Before Grace's dad ran off with an aspiring actress half his age. Before only-child Grace found out she was unable to have children of her own. Before Brian--her childhood best friend, business partner, and...
87) Fifteen
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Set in the Bronx in 1967, the revolution of the 60's is not only an exterior uprising in the world, but an upheaval at home in this traditional second-generation Italian-American family. The story is told from the viewpoint of the mother, Maria, and the daughter, Angelina. Maria married young, to a man 15 years older and set in his ways. Angelina is a typical teen of the turbulent era. When Pasquale, the sultry Italian stallion enters the picture,...
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"Lena, Nadia, and Simone are three generations of women who experience a series of unfortunate events and circumstances throughout their lives, causing them to be completely estranged from one another. In the midst of their individual struggles, they find themselves trying to fathom feelings of resentment, rejection, insecurity, shame, heartbreak, and betrayal, leading to the destructive path of endlessly being tormented, and trapped in mental bondage...
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"All families have secrets, don't they? 89-year-old Jeannette never meant to keep the truth from her family. But when a near fatal fall sends her to live with her granddaughter Amy, she finds herself revisiting a past that's been hidden for too many years.Amy, however, has always been good at keeping secrets. When ex-partner Nick shows up, she's forced to admit that some things just can't stay hidden forever. Judith is starting from scratch - again....
90) Promise me
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"One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start over. The last thing Lou wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village. She certainly doesn't intend to work for grumpy eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again. Foxwell is also home to Remy, whose...
91) The last word
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"Mamoon Azam is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England--but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sales are nonexistent, and his flamboyant second wife's expensive habits are bleeding him dry. In an attempt to revitalize his career and reputation, Mamoon's publisher commissions Harry, an ambitious young writer, to pen the famous writer's biography. Honored and slightly intimidated, Harry promises himself...
92) Sun is sky
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"Born to three generations of women burdened with heartache, can Penny finally break the cycle? Filled with heady meanderings and sultry secrets, Sun is Sky remarkably captures the spirit of a slumbering town in the Deep South of America. As a young teen, Penny Hill's fractious relationship with her mother causes her to be shipped off to live with her maternal grandmother in the town of Picayune, Mississippi. Under her Gram's care, Penny settles into...
93) The car share
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"A ninety-year-old woman with Alzheimer's and a heartbroken young man end up sharing a ride to Brussels that changes their lives forever. When Alex pulls up to meet 'Max', he expects everything but a ninety-year-old lady who has her heart set on getting to Brussels by carpool. As for 'Max', who is actually called Maxine, she could not be more ill at ease when settling into the seat next to this young man with bloodshot eyes. God help her if he turned...
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Ojalá me hubiera distraído estos días, pero sé que si hubiera conocido a esa chica en el ascensor o en el vestíbulo, lo habría recordado. Y desde que la recuerdo fue porque la vi en otra parte. "César decidió morir. Pero una joven llama a su puerta y trastorna sus planes. Estudiante de arquitectura, griega, se hace pasar por su vecina, cuando él nunca ha ¿Es tan seguro? ¿Por qué está tan encantadora con él, un cuarentón de luto por...
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Library of America volume 291
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Three novels by Mary McCarthy, the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including her landmark classic The Group, as well as McCarthy's final two novels Birds of America, and Cannibals and Missionaries, plus McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," on her unfinished fiction.
The group: The lives and experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation as they grapple with sex, sexism,...