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Irene and Lily are best friends. Lily grows up the adored child of older parents while Irene’s family life is less than ideal or stable. Trouble with boys leads the girls to be separated when Lily’s stricter parents send her to school at a convent, while Irene continues to attend the same school that both [...]
At 32, Jiselle McKnight has been a bridesmaid no less than six times, so when her co-worker, a sexy airline pilot, starts to woo her and wants to marry her, she is more than happy to overlook a few things to become the next Mrs. Mark Dorn. Doubts plague her relationship before she even gets [...]
Ever since the untimely death of her police officer father, Jessica Villareal has known that she too would be a police officer when she grew up. Dedicated to her job and especially to protecting children from predators, Jess hasn’t always been as attentive to her daughter Nina as she has needed to be since she [...]
Having fled his hometown, school and his spectacularly failed marriage, Ben Mercer has retreated to the tiny town of of Metamorphosis, Greece, where he whiles away the hours living simply as a grill worker in a meat shop and working on his thesis on the peculiarities of ancient Sparta and the customs and psychology of [...]
My first experience with Elizabeth Gaskell was hearing that she was on a reading list my freshman year in high school. Friends of mine were studying for an exam which required them to memorize authors and the books or stories they had written. I remember my friend mentioning Gaskell over and over again in an [...]
This is the first book that I have re-read this year and probably only the second book that I have re-read in the past couple of years, the other being Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Originally my copy belonged to my aunt. She told me that it was one of her favorite books (she [...]
Sharon McCone is a highly sucessful private investigator from humble origins who has managed to cobble together a wonderful family, and several loyal and dedicated employees and colleagues who will do just about anything for her. Sharon is a vibrant member of the community and an investigative professional at the top of her game. She [...]
Even though Melanie Middleton is a real estate agent specializing in old houses- she hates them, and much prefers the stripped down and modern look that she sports in her own austere condo. She has good reason to be wary, though she is loath to admit it to herself, Melanie sees ghosts- and we all [...]
Frances and her brother Daniel are scholarship students at the prestigious Pettengill School. Both have gladly escaped their deteriorating home life with their broken father, crotchety grandmother and memories of their absentee mother, who has left the family to find herself in a Buddhist colony. Upon boarding at school Daniel immediately associates himself with Unity, [...]
Part self help book, part meditation on the number seven and the way that it has popped up time and again throughout the course of history, Jacqueline Leo’s new book is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Leo covers a wide range of topics that try as I might to summarize leave my powers of summary in [...]
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