Anita Shreve
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to maintain her sense of self and her understanding of the world while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Margaret participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is challenged to come to terms with a devastating accident.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife: an exquisitely suspenseful novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event—based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history.
“Long before Liane Moriarty was spinning her 'Big Little Lies,' Shreve was spicing up domestic doings in beachfront settings with...
“Long before Liane Moriarty was spinning her 'Big Little Lies,' Shreve was spicing up domestic doings in beachfront settings with...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma, streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Suffering from shell shock and memory loss from her time spent as a nurse's aide on a French battlefield during World War I, American Stella Bain is taken in by London surgeon August Bridge and his wife.
11) The pilot's wife
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
13) Fortune's rocks
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Bks
Pub. Date
[1999 c1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
293p
Language
English
Description
When her husband, a pilot, dies in an airplane crash off the Irish coast, Kathryn Lyons finds herself in the media spotlight as rumors abound of her husband's shocking secret past