Presents twenty-two short stories of American life.
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Auteur: Oates, Joyce CarolSommaire: -
Auteur: Tatlock, Ann.Sommaire:
11-year-old Rosalind finds 70-year-old Tillie on her front porch--again. Wanting to die in the place where she lived for half a century, Tillie continues leaving her senior living complex and...
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Auteur: Rule, AnnSommaire:
When 32-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was found dead by gunshot, her mother Barb Thompson never believed the theory that she committed suicide--and neither did Detective Berry, a ballistics expert,...
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Auteur: Fluke, JoanneSommaire:
Haunted by her dreams. Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley, living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for...
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Auteur: Adler, DavidSommaire:When Cam and Eric go on a field trip to the museum with their fifth grade class, Cam-with her photographic memory-makes an interesting discovery: dinosaur bones are missing from one of the...
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Auteur: Binchy, MaeveSommaire:
Set in Lough Glass, Ireland, The Glass Lake is an incandescent novel of family love, belonging, and secrets that flourish in the human heart. Lough Glass is the lake at the heart of the small...
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Auteur: Oke, JanetteSommaire:
The love of Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney has healed their adopted son Henry's painful memories and helped him grow into a man of character. But when his job as a Royal Canadian Mountie brings...
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Auteur: Peterson, TracieSommaire:
24-yearold Cassandra works for a wealthy Philadelphia widow who treats her with grandmotherly kindness. But Cassie's 1857 life takes an unexpected turn when a Boston investigator asks her to...
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Auteur: Le Guin, Ursula K.Sommaire:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the...
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Auteur: Berg, ElizabethSommaire:
Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul,...
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Auteur: Coolidge, SusanSommaire:Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.
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Auteur: Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Teams Up with Kimberley Woodhouse for a Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her family...
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Auteur: Boyle, T. CoraghessanSommaire:
The lives of three women on turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her...
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Auteur: Hanff, HeleneSommaire:
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-...
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Auteur: Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.