A Dancing Tide

A Dancing Tide PDF

Author: Grace Greene

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781737548638

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A Dancing Tide, the 2nd book in the Barefoot Tides two-book series, continues the story of Lilliane Moore of Cub Creek in rural Va, who accepts a job in Emerald Isle, NC-and discovers it's not always easy to go home again.

Beach Rental

Beach Rental PDF

Author: Grace Greene

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781732878518

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On the Crystal Coast of North Carolina, in the small town of Emerald Isle... Juli Cooke, hard-working and getting nowhere fast, marries a dying man, Ben Bradshaw, for a financial settlement, not expecting he will set her on a journey of hope and love. The journey brings her to Luke Winters, a local art dealer, but Luke resents the woman who married his sick friend and warns her not to hurt Ben-and he's watching to make sure she doesn't. Until Ben dies and the stakes change. Framed by the timelessness of the Atlantic Ocean and the brilliant blue of the beach sky, Juli struggles against her past, the opposition of Ben's and Luke's families, and even the living reminder of her marriage-to build a future with hope and perhaps to find the love of her life-if she can survive the danger from her past.

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) PDF

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0593310853

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A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

A Stranger in Wynnedower

A Stranger in Wynnedower PDF

Author: Grace Greene

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-09

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780990774082

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Love and suspense with a dash of Southern Gothic... From the award-winning author of Beach Rental and Kincaid's Hope Rachel Sevier, a lonely thirty-two year old inventory specialist, travels to Wynnedower Mansion in Virginia to find her brother who has stopped returning her calls. Instead, she finds Jack Wynne, the mansion's bad-tempered owner. He isn't happy to meet her. When her brother took off without notice, he left Jack in a lurch. Jack has his own plans. He's tired of being responsible for everyone and everything and wants nothing more than to shake his obligations, including the old mansion. The last thing he needs is someone who'll complicate his life further, but he agrees to allow Rachel to stay while she waits for her brother to return. At Wynnedower, Rachel becomes curious about the house and its owner. If rumors are true, the means to save Wynnedower Mansion from demolition are hidden within its walls, but the other inhabitants of Wynnedower have agendas, too. Not only may Wynnedower's treasure be stolen, but also the life of its arrogant master unless Rachel can save them all.

In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies PDF

Author: Julia Alvarez

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2010-01-12

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1616200995

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Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com

A Barefoot Tide

A Barefoot Tide PDF

Author: Grace Greene

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780990774037

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Lilliane Moore leaves the forests and rolling hills of her rural Virginia hometown, Cub Creek, to accept a temporary job at the beach as a companion to an elderly man.

One of Ours

One of Ours PDF

Author: Willa Cather

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13:

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Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

The Happiness In Between

The Happiness In Between PDF

Author: Grace Greene

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781737548645

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This is a new, updated second edition of The Happiness In Between that was originally published in 2017. Same story different cover. Larger Print Edition Sandra did all the right things growing up, but after she left home for college her choices always went wrong, especially choosing to marry Trent Hurst. Now, she's left him for the second and final time, but she has nowhere to go except to the old family homeplace in rural Cub Creek, Virginia. Her aunt is going on a trip and needs someone to house sit and dog sit. For now, it will be a good place to hide for a few weeks while she's trying to elude Trent and make him her ex. But knowing Trent, it won't be that easy. When Sandra finally arrives in Cub Creek, she discovers the old house has gotten shabby, the garden is woefully overgrown, and her aunt's beloved dog, Honey, is missing. As Sandra settles into the old house that she hasn't visited since she was a child-and never planned to return to-powerful secrets and hurtful memories are unearthed, but this may be her final chance to regain her self-respect, make peace with her family, and discover what she's truly made of-if she will stand and fight for what she wants this time instead of running yet again. This time, she's fighting for herself, her future, and more.

Ragtime

Ragtime PDF

Author: E.L. Doctorow

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0307762947

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.