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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Emma Wheaton has interrupted her successful stage career to attend her dying father, David Wheaton. The legendary actor is obsessed with an unfinished play about the Old Testament King David written by Emma's estranged husband. As his family - itself of biblical proportions, because David Wheaton has had nine wives and eleven children - gathers, the stories of both Davids and their women are simultaneously woven together and unraveled. For Emma, being...
Author
Series
Austin family chronicles volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Katherine is a child growing up in a refined, yet bohemian, artistic ambience, theatrical as well as musical. Growing up is lonely and difficult, but as Katherine advances to young womanhood, her heart as well as her talent is promisingly engaged.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun. Charlotte and Mariana's stories may be different in origin, but they share the same inner turmoil. As she reads the letters, Mariana's spiritual journey sheds light on Charlotte's...
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