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"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A g...

"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 ...

When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world.

One December afternoon, a father and his 11-year-old daughter find an infant abandoned in the snow. This event will forever alter the girl's understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it. A tale of love, courage, tragedy and redemption.

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...

"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 ...

Linda Fallon encounters her former lover Thomas Janes at a literary festival where both have been invited to give readings from their work. Their affair was disastrous and a turning point in both their lives.

Journeying to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to shoot a photo essay about a century-old double murder, a photographer becomes absorbed by the crime and increasingly obsessed with jealousy over the idea that her husband is having an affair.

Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Webster is soon embroiled in an intense love affair - and in her troubled life. Eighteen years later, S...

Sian Richards has just published her third book of poetry, an ad for which appears in the newspaper. When Charles Callahan happens upon the ad, and sees Sian's picture, he realizes that she is the girl he fell in love with at summer camp, when they were both 14, some 30-odd years...

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has reinvented her life following the death of her husband. Harrison, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ag...

Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publi...

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and pare...

Struggling to start over again after being divorced and widowed while still in her twenties, Sydney tutors the daughter of a wealthy couple during a New Hampshire summer but finds herself caught up in a bitter family squabble.

A story about seven former schoolmates who gather at an inn in the Berkshire Mountains to celebrate the unexpected remarriage of one of their number, and the surprising turns the weekend takes.