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A novel in three sections about the life of Ruth Cole: her childhood in the Hamptons, her success as an author, and her experience as a widow on the brink of falling in love. The story begins in the summer of 1958, during Ted and Marion Cole's rocky marriage when their two sons die in a terrible accident. Ruth grows up in the
shadow of the memory of the missing boys, about whom the parents talk incessantly. In the second section, the story leaps forward into 1990, when Ruth is on a speaking tour, and the action moves ahead to 1995 in the final third. This disturbing yet humorous novel touches upon the passage of time, the severity of grief, and a writer's relationship to her work. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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A collection of illustrated poems about the plants and flowers seen in the winter months.
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Alex Baxter knows what it’s like to fight for your survival on the meanest streets of Washington D.C. And he knows what it’s like to cross over to the other side, into a world where money flows like water, power is more precious than gold, and sex is the fuel that sends some lives soaring to the top.As a rising young aide to D.C.’s illustrious mayor, Simon Blake, Alex soon saw and touched things that were beyond his imagination–until he saw too much. Now Alex has escaped the clutches of Simon Blake and left his mentor dead in the brackish waters of the D.C. harbor. But as a shocked city grieves for the mayor it didn’t really know, competing crime lords, murderous foot soldiers, beautiful women, and dangerous spies lay siege to the turf that Simon once owned. Suddenly, Alex Baxter is a man with everything to lose and only one way to survive: by knowing his enemies from his friends, his passion from his purpose, and just how far Simon’s power really reached–and still does. . . .
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In New Orleans in 1835, African-American sleuth Benjamin January searches for the murderer of an elderly freedwoman.
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A depressed lawyer purchases a used magic kingdom from a catalog in the hope of getting a much-needed break from reality. Naturally, he gets much more than he bargained for, what with the somewhat dilapidated property being overrun by all manner of magical beings.
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