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  • The Joyce girl
    Author:
    Abbs, Annabel
    Summary:

    Lucia Joyce, daughter of Irish novelist James Joyce, is a gifted and motivated dancer, training tirelessly with some of the finest teachers in the world. Though her father delights in his daughter's talent, she clashes with her...
  • Heir to the glimmering world
    Author:
    Ozick, Cynthia
    Summary:

    Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe"s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "...
  • First, do no harm
    Author:
    Karp, Larry
    Summary:

    The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past. Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad...
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