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Body Surfing

Body Surfing more books like this

by Anita Shreve

A spellbinding novel about a young widow torn between two brothers she meets one New England summer, "Body Surfing" is from the bestselling author of "A Wedding in December" and "The Pilot's Wife," an Oprah Book Club( selection.

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Light on Snow

Light on Snow more books like this

by Anita Shreve

Nicky Dillon is 12 years old, and it has been two years since her mother and little sister were killed in an automobile accident. Now she lives with her grieving father, Robert, and when, one winter day, they find an abandoned newborn baby in the snowy woods, old wounds are opened--and new ones are suffered as well. As the police gradually ...

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Pilot's Wife

Pilot's Wife more books like this

by Anita Shreve

Kathryn Lyons learns that her husband's plane has exploded off the coast of Ireland. As she traces the details of his life leading up to the crash, Kathryn discovers that her husband had a secret life. A variation on Antoine Saint-Exupery's NIGHT FLIGHT.

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Sea Glass

Sea Glass more books like this

by Anita Shreve

In 1929 New England, Sexton and Honora Beecher arrange to buy the house they are renting, but when the Depression strikes their small town their hopes are dashed. Sexton goes to work at the mill and becomes involved with the plan to form a union--and events conspire to undermine the Beechers' marriage as well as their financial picture. This is ...

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Last Time They Met

Last Time They Met more books like this

by Anita Shreve

In part one of this romantic novel, a poet named Linda unexpectedly meets an old lover at a literary event. In part two, we encounter the two 26 years before, as they run into each other in an African market and begin their affair. And in part three, set in the 1960s, they meet for the first time.

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Fortunes Rocks

Fortunes Rocks more books like this

by Anita Shreve

In the summer of 1899, 15-year-old Olympia Biddeford visits the New Hampshire coast with her wealthy Boston family. Spirited and bright, she soon befriends her father's colleague, Dr. John Haskell, a talented writer, respected physician, and enthusiastic philanthropist. Olympia's summer of awakenings--both intellectual and sexual--turns bleak when ...

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Weight of Water

Weight of Water more books like this

by Anita Shreve

A photographer travels to an island off the coast of New Hampshire where two women were murdered more than 100 years ago. As she becomes obsessed with these crimes, she also becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Unable to work, she is driven to an act of horror.

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Eden Close

Eden Close more books like this

by Anita Shreve

When Andrew returns to his hometown upon the death of his mother, events from the past surface, and he begins to search for the truth involving his family and Eden Close, the girl next door.

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Where or when

Where or when more books like this

by Anita Shreve

The acclaimed author of Eden Close and Strange Fits of Passion takes the classic theme of Romeo and Juliet and gives it an unusual twist. Two lovers struggle against odds, reaching across a lifetime to reclaim what once they lost. In so doing they set in motion a tumultuous series of events that moves to a shocking conclusion.

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Strange Fits of Passion

Strange Fits of Passion more books like this

by Anita Shreve

Two young successful New York City journalists and their new baby seem the perfect family unit. But when domestic violence destroys this wholesome portrait, the mother flees with her baby and seeks asylum in a Maine fishing town. In her second stunning novel, Anita Shreve presents a labyrinth of truth and decpetion.

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A Wedding in December more books like this

by Anita Shreve

A 25th reunion at a Maine boarding school brings together a middle-aged couple--Bridget and Bill--who broke up after high school and went their separate ways. The novel centers on their wedding, which various old classmates have gathered to celebrate at an inn in the Berkshires. A blizzard closes everything down and, snowed in, the group drinks ...

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All He Ever Wanted more books like this

by Anita Shreve

Set in the late 19th century, Anita Shreve's novel begins when professor of English Nicholas Van Tassel meets and falls in love with Etna Bliss, whose prospects are dim. Nicholas offers her marriage, and, though she doesn't return his passion, she accepts. But Van Tassel is unable to accept his wife's lack of love for him, and over the years he ...

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Resistance more books like this

by Anita Shreve

An American pilot is downed in Belgium during a bombing mission and is hidden by a young married Belgian woman, a resister in a Nazi-occupied village. The two fall desperately in love, with consequences that test their dearly-held ideas about love and betrayal.

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The Pilot's Wife: A Novel Tag: Author of the Weight of Water more books like this

by Anita Shreve

Kathryn Lyons learns that her husband's plane has exploded off the coast of Ireland. As she traces the details of his life leading up to the crash, Kathryn discovers that her husband had a secret life. A variation on Antoine Saint-Exupery's NIGHT FLIGHT.

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The Weight of Water: A Novel Tag - Author of Resistance and Strange Fits of Passion more books like this

by Anita Shreve, Michael Pietsch (Editor)

A photographer travels to an island off the coast of New Hampshire where two women were murdered more than 100 years ago. As she becomes obsessed with these crimes, she also becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Unable to work, she is driven to an act of horror.

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Resistance: A Novel Tag: Author of Eden Close more books like this

by Anita Shreve

An American pilot is downed in Belgium during a bombing mission and is hidden by a young married Belgian woman, a resister in a Nazi-occupied village. The two fall desperately in love, with consequences that test their dearly-held ideas about love and betrayal.

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The pilot's wife : a novel more books like this

by Anita Shreve

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Who's in Control?: Dr. Balter's Guide to Discipline Without Combat more books like this

by Lawrence Balter, Anita Shreve

Here is a practical, modern guide to the most difficult aspect of child rearing: discipline. Dr. Balter provides age-specific discipline goals, techniques and instructions on the most common discipline issues, such as how to select appropriate punishments, alternatives to yelling, and preventing power conflicts.

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Women Together, Women Alone more books like this

by Anita Shreve

Shreve examines the history of feminism over the last 15 years and the state of women today. She provides a provocative blueprint for a "second wave" of consciousness-raising, citing that women are as isolated now as ever before.

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Dr. Balter's Child Sense more books like this

by Lawrence Balter, Anita Shreve

Popular child-rearing expert Dr. Lawrence Balter focuses on providing sound advice on specific child-rearing problems for each stage of development from birth to age 5.

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Remaking Motherhood more books like this

by Anita Shreve, Julius Held

More than two-thirds of the mothers in this country work outside the home, and this insightful book looks at what this means to them, their children, and their children's views of them.

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Fortune's rocks : a novel more books like this

by Anita Shreve

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Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movement more books like this

by Anita Shreve

The thoughts of seven women on how their lives have changed since they joined the "women's movement" in the early seventies, each of whose lives is a fascinating paradigm for 20 years of social change.

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Dr. Balter's Child Sense: Understanding and Handling the Common Problems of Infancy and Early Childhood more books like this

by Lawrence Balter, Marika Hahn (Illustrator), Anita Shreve

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Testimony

by Anita Shreve

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can ...

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