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Brick Lane
Brick Lane
Author: Monica Ali
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 182
Review Date: 4/11/2020


Good


The Charmed Circle
The Charmed Circle
Author: Catherine Gaskin
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 4
Review Date: 7/17/2006


Three beautiful talented daughters of famous parents, they seemed to have everything-wealth, glamour, and an idyllic life in the English countryside...even as war raged over London. But in one explosive moment, their lives were changed forever.
From war-weary Britain to the Scottish highlands, to the power portals of Washington, DC, the trhee sisters are propelled into a world that will profoundly test their strength and courage. United by family love and loyalty, torn by bitter tragedy, they each come to know the joy of dazzling triumph.. and the despair of an international scandal that once again jeopardizes all they hold dear.


The Dipper
The Dipper
Author: Marcia Willett
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 2
Review Date: 3/18/2023


Very good.


The Eiger Sanction (Jonathan Hemlock, Bk 1)
The Eiger Sanction (Jonathan Hemlock, Bk 1)
Author: Trevanian
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 10
Review Date: 2/25/2007


This book looks a little aged but has all pages and cover.


Foreign Fruit
Foreign Fruit
Author: Jojo Moyes
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 2
Review Date: 12/9/2006


Merham is a well-ordered 1950's seaside town: the kind of town in which everyone knows their place (and those who don't are promptly put in it). Lottie Switf, and evacuee who has grown up with the respectable Holden family, loves Merham while the Holden daughter Celia chafes against the constraints of the town. When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, a start ARt Deco hourse on the seafront, the girls are as drawn to its temptations as Merham's citizens are appaled by them. They set in place a chain of events which will have longstanding and tragic consequences for all concerned. Now, almost 50 years on, Arcadia is returning to life, and its inhabitants stirring up strong feelings again. And prompting more than one person to look into their own histry and ask: can you every leave your past behind?


Green City in the Sun
Green City in the Sun
Author: Barbara Wood
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 9
Review Date: 7/17/2006


With World War I behing them, the Treverton family set out from England to make its fortune in the unspoiled paradise of Kenya. sir Treverton, eccentric and handsome, vowed to c arve a vast coffee plantation out of the virgin wilderness. His frail wife Rose followed him, as she did in all things. And his strong-willed sister, Grace arrived with the mostambitious dream of all; to bring modern medicine to Africa.

But nothing could have prepared them for what they found in their new world; the harsh, beautiful land, the proud people, and the medicine woman, Wachera Mathenge, a member of the revered Kikuyu clan. The antagonism between the Trevertons and Mathenges continued into the next generation, and as the Mau Mau movement ignited the country, the rivalry exploded, threatening to bring tragedy to both families. A moumental story of murderous hatred, forbidden love and violent revolution. Green City in the Sun is a novel as mangificient as the continent of Africa itself.

This book is a little worn; cover has bending cracks, but all pages are in tact.


Leaves of Fortune
Leaves of Fortune
Author: Linda Barlow
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
 3
Review Date: 7/17/2006


Minerva Templeton-The matriarch: for 60 years she manipulated her family. Now she must choose a successor to her tea empire and reveal a shattering truth.
Deilah Scofield-The granddaughter: she ran away to become her own woman. She came back tofight for her legacy and the man she loved.
Travis Templeton-The Empires's President: he believed money could buy anything..or anyone. But if he couldn't stop Deliliah with wealth, he'd use desire.
Nick Templeton- Travis' brother: he once lost in matters of love and business. This time he's battle with a deadlier weapon- a secret so provacative it could lead to murder.


A Place of Stones
A Place of Stones
Author: Deirdre Purcell
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 3
Review Date: 4/29/2006


I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading her others.


The Plumber: The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia
Review Date: 7/17/2006


The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia.

"Joe's testimony was the most damaging thing that ever happened to the Family". - Phillip Leonetti, former underboss of the Philadelphia Mafia.


Private Affairs
Private Affairs
Author: Judith Michael
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 3
Review Date: 7/17/2006


After sixteen years of marriage and family, Matt and Elizabeth Lowell risked everthing to build an empire of their own. Soon they were an American success, caught up in the breathless glamour and power of celebrity. For Matt, it was a world of Senators' parties and sumptous Houston mansions..for Elizabeth, national acclaim as a writer and television personality. For both, itwas the lure of forbidden passions and their new, separate affairs. From Los Angeles to Aspen, from New York to Rome, they rode the crest of fame and fortune, growing more and more estranged from the love they had once shared. Now they would face the most difficult challenge of all... to regain the private dream of happiness they'd won..and lost!


Windfall
Windfall
Author: Penny Vincenzi
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 12/30/2006


Cassie Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a fortune. she is determined to be sensible, to stay in control. Suddenly, for the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes. She starts to questsion her marriage, her past, present and future. The money gives her confidence, and her husband Edward can only look on resentfully as she resumes her medical career, sheds some of her domestic burdens, and re-forms old relationshipd-one of them of a most dangerous kind. But where did her legacy really come from, and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force. One that Cassia cannot resist.


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