Carrington MacDuffie
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English
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Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
2) Caught
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English
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Reporter Wendy Tynes has made it her mission to bring down sexual prediators on national television, but she begins to doubt her instincts after exposing social worker Dan Mercer until she discovers a link between Mercer and Haley McWaid, a seventeen-year-old girl from suburban New Jersey who has been missing for three months.
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English
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendant, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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President Will Lee is having a rough week. There are some loose nukes in Pakistan--and a rogue CIA agent--that might just trigger World War III if Lee's diplomatic efforts fall short. It's up to Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and a few other Stuart Woods series regulars to save the world--and the upcoming election.
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Series
Friday night knitting club volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Georgia Walker has her hands full balancing the demands of her yarn shop and the demands of raising her teen daughter, Dakota, by herself, and relies on the friendship and support of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club, but when unexpected changes throw the women's lives into disarray, Georgia begins to fear the new changes may be too much to handle.
7) Knit two
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Series
Friday night knitting club volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker & Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota runs the knitting store part-time with the help of the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota and the sense of family the club provides, each knitter is struggling with new challenges.
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English
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house,...
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st ed.
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xi, 217 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The bestselling author's inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace.
Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting."
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
11) The quickening
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English
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"Despite having little in common, Eddie [Enidina] and Mary need one another for survival and companionship. But as the Great Depression threatens, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another, and triggering a series of disquieting events that threaten to unravel not only their friendship but their families as well."--from flap on front cover.
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working for a rather foolish magician. That work will soon end, however, and on the night of the magician’s final performance, Yann’s life...