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Transparently based on the lives of Fitzgerald and his beautiful wife, Zelda, this novel traces the meteoric rise and fall of glittering young socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch. Building their marriage on the shaky foundation of an expected inheritance, they devote their youth and happiness on hedonistic pursuits that plunge them into moral and financial bankruptcy.
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The decision has been made. After 23 years of marriage and raising their family in the same lakeside home, John and Abby Reynolds are getting a divorce. They gather their three children to tell them the terrible news, but before they can speak, their daughter makes a joyous announcement of her own: She is getting married. John and Abby decide to postpone their news until after the wedding. As the big day approaches, questions continue to haunt them....
6) Suspect
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After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
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Robert Harlan has three loves in his life: his wife, Allyson:his daughter, Carson; and his writing. A sales rep for a small radio station, he has hopes of one day leaving it all behind for a successful writing career. When he is unexpectedly laid off from his job, Allyson encourages him to persue his dream of writing. He writes a novel entitled A Perfect Day, based on the last months Allyson and her father spent together as he died of cancer.
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When Pauline walked into his mother's store in the Polish neighborhood of Baltimore, Michael felt she was the one. Both young and good-looking - with the uncertainty and fervor of World War II only adding to their passion - Pauline and Michael seemed to be made for each other. Hastily married, the two soon after discovered just how mismatched they really are. Pauline's impulsive and impractical hit-or-miss approach to life is nothing like Michael's...
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Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and,...
12) Mercy
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Mercy is set in a small Massachusetts town where Cameron MacDonald, a modern incarnation of a Scottish laird, is the handsome, well-respected police chief. In spite of appearances, he's actually quite unhappy & emotionally ill-prepared for the arrival of two unsettling strangers: a long-forgotten cousin, Jamie, who is carrying the body of his adored wife, Maggie, in his truck, & Mia, a beautiful, penniless traveler seeking shelter for herself, her...
13) Blowout
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A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice. Savich learns he must also solve a thirty-year-old crime after a psychic encounter with the murder victim who suddenly appears in front of his car and hysterically pleads for his help. In Blowout, Sherlock and Savich are faced with two of the most baffling and shocking...
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Dan Porter is a man caught in the throes of change, who must decide for himself what is truly important in life. Laid off from his dot-com job, disconnected both from his successful and possibly philandering wife of twenty years and from his three incomprehensible teenage children, he is forced to re-estimate himself and his own worth. Even in the worst of times, though, there is the hope of starting over, and Dan finds that possibility in the pages...
17) Ethan Frome
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A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by...
18) Point blank
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FBI agent Ruth Warnecki encounters a grisly muder while hunting for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave, which catapults her into a horrifc plague of death, all centered on the prestigious Stanislaus School of Music. Meanwhile, at Hooter's Motel in Maryland, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock are nearly killed while attempting to rescue a kidnap victim. Pitted against an insane killer and his girlfriend, Savich and Sherlock find themselves fighting...
19) Blinded
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Psychologist Alan Gregory is juggling his responsibilities as a father, a husband, and doctor, when a beautiful woman walks into his offices with an astounding admission. Gibbs Storey, whose looks turn grown men into dazzled adolescents, tells Alan that she thinks her husband, Sterling, may have murdered a woman. Blandly recounting a history of dangerous sexual encounters, Gibbs stuns Alan with another revelation: She thinks there are other victims...
20) Angel falls
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When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together and care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors tell Liam not to expect a recovery, but he believes that love can accomplish what medical science cannot. Daily he sits at Mikaela’s bedside, telling her stories of the precious life they have built together, hoping against hope that she will wake up. But then he discovers...