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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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English
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Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d'Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris's greatest...
4) Ghostwright
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Hamilton Speke is a successful playwright and composer-an extraordinary creative force. He lives and works on an estate south of San Francisco, secure in a woodland sanctuary where, to his surprise, he receives a visitor from his past, an old friend and former partner. Then everything changed. Speke's life of celebrity and vision is ruptured by bloodshed and insanity, in a world where it's revealed that no one, and no career, is far from danger.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Each song on Julian's iPod, "that greatest of all human inventions," is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, there's the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there's one for the day his son was born. But when Julian's family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life's soundtrack-and life itself-start to play again. Julian stumbles into a bar and sees Cait O'Dwyer,...
6) The listener
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Story of inspiration, about how the desperate, the troubled, and the unloved find help and inner peace through the legacy of a wise fellow townsman.
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Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Dickens, struggling writer, is haunted by the ghost of his lost sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. In his darkest Christmastime, she comes to him in visions to inspire his writing, to make him reflect on the pivotal moments of his life... and to spark the idea for one of the greatest Christmas stories of all time. Bonus, includes the original Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol." --
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