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"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests who are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflicts within a marriage."--BOOK JACKET
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When Fiona Edwards first sees the lanky backpacker striding up the lane toward her award-winning farmhouse bed-and-breakfast in the remote mountains of North Wales, she's puzzled. She's used to unexpected strangers, but few arrive on foot. The man to whom she opens her door is middle-aged, unshaven, sweat-soaked … and arrestingly handsome. What neither of them knows at that moment is that their lives are about to change forever.
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26) With this man
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Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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English
27) A pretty deceit
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Visiting an aunt whose estate has fallen on hard times, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent investigates servant disappearances and the discovery of possible heirloom forgeries before a murder exposes the acts of an adversarial family traitor.
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The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny audiobook about "innocent" Americans abroad in 1950s Siena. Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each other. When Scottie's Italian teacher-a teenager with secrets of his own-disappears, her search for him leads...
29) Waterland
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992
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1st Vintage International ed.
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English
31) Pack up the moon
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"Twelve letters. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Twelve letters to see him through the first year without her, and to lead him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again inthe new novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins."--
34) Deep water
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2022.
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Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a Captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.
35) Hill towns
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While traveling through the hill towns of Italy, Catherine and Joe Gaillard, a long-married couple, encounter unexpected stresses and strains on their marriage as they rediscover themselves and experience the ultimate test of their love.
36) Angle of repose
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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece.
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In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he's passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless marriage, and belittled by the wives of more privileged officers, Louise wants out. Feeling responsible for her unhappiness, Henry decides...
39) Mercury: a novel
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The family life and security of a Boston optometrist is shattered by his wife's growing obsession with a beautiful thoroughbred horse and her dreams of becoming a serious competitor.
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