An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush o...
One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for her family's shortcomings. When th...
Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1999: Vinegar Hill is an appropriate address for the characters who populate A. Manette Ansay's novel of the same name. After all, whe...
The Potomac River claims the death of the daughter by drowning, and the family leaves their rural North Carolina world in search of a better life among friends and relativ...
Рия и Мэрилин никогда не были знакомы. Они жили в тысячах километров друг от друга, по разные стороны Атлантического океана. Но однажды их судьбы пересекаются. В трудный п...
Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuabl...
Роман американской писательницы Джанет Фитч "Белый олеандр", сразу ставший бестселлером на ее родине, был положен в основу сценария одноименного фильма.
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Еще недавно жизнь Кэтрин Лайонз была спокойной и размеренной: она преподавала историю в школе, растила дочь и считала, что счастлива в браке. Но однажды ночью к ней в дом ...
Внезапно вспыхнувший роман между пятнадцатилетним подростком, мальчиком из профессорской семьи, и зрелой женщиной так же внезапно оборвался, когда она без предупреждения и...
The year is 1943 and life is good for Jewel Hilburn, her husband, Leston, and their five children. Although there's a war on, the Mississippi economy is booming, providing...
Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stran...
With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woma...
After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned ho...
For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both th...
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Ha...
The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.' For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted h...
Марч возвращается в родной город, где она оставила свою юношескую любовь. И вот - новая встреча с человеком, память о котором тревожила ее все эти годы, несмотря на счастл...
The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive...
Little Bill and his friends love the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy. But when Little Bill asks hi...