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Three women, friends since college, have chosen different life paths, but the closeness remains. Until one shattering act of betrayal shifts the balance of power and the three friends will look at their families, their lives, and each other differently.
A young woman and her adopted older sister flee war-torn Europe in a chain of events that will affect the next three generations.
"Few writers can move and captivate readers as Belva Plain can. In Daybreak, perhaps her best and boldest work yet, she creates a living, breathing portrait of two families joined by a devastating childhood illness, yet divided by the politics of hatred and by the sons they love....
The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America determined to shape his own destiny and builds what is to become one of the country's great retail companies.
A woman's life changes when the Nazis come to power in Germany. Caroline Hartzinger's boyfriend becomes a Nazi and abandons her because she is half-Jewish. She escapes to America, marries a fellow refugee and gives birth to the Nazi's son.
A rift develops between two women who have loved each other as mother, daughter and friend when one's husband begins having an extramarital affair and the other finds herself in a relationship with a married man.
A frigid woman's recovery. She is Charlotte Dawes, a New York architect who was raped as a girl. She meets Roger Haywood, a developer who provides her with the capital she needs for a project. A romance ensues and Charlotte is cured.
A family dynasty in upstate New York is shattered by the revelation that the five-year-old daughter has been molested.
The Grey family life is shattered as internal struggles and child abuse tear it apart after the patriarch hands control of the empire over to his sons and nephew.
Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds thos...
Part of a series of novels about the Werner family. Paul Werner, son of a prominent Jewish banking family, is married to his childhood sweetheart but in love with another woman.
On a property in New York State, Annette Byrne, 85, organizes a reunion to bring peace to her warring family. They include two sons who are involved in a court case and do not speak to each other, a granddaughter whose inter-faith marriage is on the skids and another granddaughte...