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21) The salt garden
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Three diverse women find their lives converging on Orion Point as they discover the truth about lost love and buried secrets and the strength to face the future.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book which was published under a different man's name.
23) The sea
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Lydia Pasternak, a socially awkward girl who is the opposite of her missing brother Danny, reflects on her sibling's disappearance with mixed feelings as the search parties turn up nothing, and begins to obsess over her family's hired private investigator while struggling with a social world she has never before been a part of.
27) Wings
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Nick, missing his father who died in the Korean War, finds companionship after rescuing an injured baby mockingbird in the summer of 1960.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Jean, Steph, and Michael, three souls from vastly different backgrounds, find themselves thrown together at a secluded country home, where they find new beginnings, leaving the outside world behind and creating their own happiness.
29) The usual rules
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kara Marshall's attempts to convince authorities that her teenage daughter Lindsay is not a typical teenage runaway, but the victim of foul play, begin to yield results when it becomes clear that a psychopath is using real estate open houses to choose the targets of his multiple crimes.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan is caught between his father's struggle to defeat union organizers at his printing business, yellow journalism at the newspaper where he has a summer job, routine corruption in city government, and the secret past of a renowned psychiatrist whose daughter Wilson happens to be in love with.
32) The good life
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When a tragedy strikes the town of TriBeCa, the residents must forget their own tragedies and struggles and band together to save one another and their devastated hometown.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Kitty has lived her life without having to grow up, working as a children's book reviewer, visiting her husband who lives in the apartment next door, and fostering a growing obsession to replace the child she lost, but when a family secret threatens to ruin Kitty's life, she is thrust into the real world and must face her problems like a grown up.
36) New mercies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Nora Bondurant leaves Denver and memories of her former husband behind to travel to Nachez, Mississippi, in 1933 when she inherits a crumbling plantation from an aunt she did not know she had, and becomes caught up in the lifestyle of the deep South, and in the mystery of what really happened to her Aunt Amalia who is rumored to have been killed by a lover.
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