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3) One summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
4) Calico Joe
Author
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
5) Keep quiet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When they are involved in a terrible car accident, Jake Whitmore makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies and secrecy where a dangerous enemy comes forward threatening to expose them.
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Description
Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky twelve-year-old and James Beard.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
Following a tragic accident, two women--Tessa Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon, and Valerie Anderson, an attorney and single mother--living in the same Boston suburb but with relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children converge in ways no one could have imagined.
11) The beach house
Author
Description
Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved...
12) How it all began
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The mugging of a retired schoolteacher on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an illicit love affair, leads to a business partnership, and helps an immigrant to reinvent his life.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
320 p. : map ; 22 cm.
15) Emily, alone
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
255 p ; 24 cm.
Description
Newly independent widow Emily Maxwell dreams of visits by grandchildren and mourns changes in her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood before realizing an inner strength to pursue developing opportunities.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Description
After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
18) Dirty love
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.
19) American boy
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
On Thanksgiving Day 1962, the shooting of a young woman sets off a chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota, all revolving around Matthew Garth, who becomes obsessed with the shooting victim and with the lavish lifestyle of a local doctor's family.
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