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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Food writer Maggie McElroy travels to China to investigate a paternity claim filed against her late husband's estate and finds herself drawn back into the worlds of cuisine and love while writing a piece on Sam Liang, an American-born Jewish Chinese chef about to enter a major cooking competition.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Lizzie Nichols feels her life is finally on the right track, with a career she loves, the perfect fiance, and a dream wedding in the works, but everything begins to fall apart when she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Margot Harrington, an American book restorer living in Florence, Italy, must confront her ideas about the past, love, home, and her future when production begins on a movie based on a memoir she wrote twenty-five years earlier about her discovery of a masterwork of Renaissance erotica and her affair with a married Italian lover.
12) A good woman
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Annabelle Worthington loses her family due to the sinking of the Titanic, she becomes a medical volunteer at Ellis Island, marries badly, and eventually finds purpose by volunteering in a field hospital during World War I.
Author
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
American teacher Barbara Jefferson sets out on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving Barbara a sheaf of rice paper containing a personal narrative revealing the tragedies of Michi's life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jude Murray, having fled the U.S. for Ireland where she has taken up resident at Faerie Hill Cottage and embarked on a study of Irish folklore, finds help and love in the person of Aidan Gallagher, a man with an uncommon understanding of his country's myths, and a desire to create a passionate history of his own.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old aspiring yoga instructor and freelance writer Amanda travels to India to do research for a guide on enlightenment, where she realizes she is pregnant and is befriended by a celibate truth seeker whoaccompanies her on her quest for happiness.
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