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She was born in New York City.
(Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with a shattered...)
Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with a shattered life and a devastating secret. Pregnant and unwed, she arrives in America in 1939. Joel Hirsch offers marriage and respectability, hoping one day to earn her love, if not the passion she feels for a man whose memory still haunts them both. With Joel, Caroline builds a new life, determined to bury the past-until her daughter Eve brings Caroline's carefully crafted world crashing down again, driven by a rage to learn the truth. Now it is Eve's secret, a legacy that taints her life and puts generations at risk. But with it comes a gift-a new sister, young enough to be her own daughter, who offers hope, then a truth that will finally break the hold of the past.
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(The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doct...)
The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart. Laura and "Bud" Rice share an elegant home and two children, brilliant, handsome Tom, and cherished, chronically ill eleven-year-old Timmy. But after nineteen years of marriage, Laura's respectable husband is a stranger—and the reason for Tom's escalating involvement with a group of campus bigots. Suddenly the Crawfields enter their lives and shatter their fragile world. As the Rices' quiet Southern town explodes with hate and violence, the two familes must embrace—or be destroyed by—the shattering truth.
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Best-selling author Belva Plain follows the enormous success of Whispers and Daybreak with another explosive novel that explores the realities simmering below the surface of a seemingly admirable Amencan family. In the opening pages of The Carousel a woman is looking at an exquisite music box, a silver carousel. She is pensive and reflects upon how this beautiful object has linked the momentous events of a family's life. She has married into that family, the Greys, whose successful business is nationally known. The sun has long shone upon the patriarch, Oliver Grey, his two sons Ian and Clive, and his niece and nephew, Amanda and Dan. Oliver has recently handed over control of the business to his two sons and his nephew. Amanda has a non-voting share. Now the sky has clouded over and terrible storms arise as a series of incidents threatens to destroy the family... Amanda is making furious demands upon the business. Ian's greed and his adultery collide with Clive's jealousy. And the five-year-old daughter of Dan and his wife has been the victim of sexual abuse. The Greys, pillars of their upstate New York community, are being torn apart. And before their ordeal comes to an end someone will be the victim of murder. As she did in the enormously successful Whispers, Belva Plain tells a timely story of a family with a dark and dirty secret. With the additional touches of mystery--a new territory for Belva Plain --The Carousel confirms her place as one of our most compelling and popular writers. "The queen of the family saga writers...Belva Plain is in a class by herself." -- The New York Times.
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(What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves?...)
What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her stunning new novel, New York Times-bestselling author Belva Plain penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time. Once again Plain proves herself the writer who sets the standard for family stories in a novel that is at once harrowing and deeply moving. Gerald and Hyacinth had the kind of marriage others envied. She was a beautiful artist. He was a brilliant plastic surgeon. Theirs was a comfortable, happy home with two wonderful children. Then whispers of betrayal tainted Hy's perfect marriage. And in one terrible night she commits an act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives Gerald the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their two children. When her own beautiful, angry mother wants to know why she won't fight for custody, Hy can give no answers. But deep in her heart, Hy knows there is one question she must answer if she wants to free herself from a life of lies: What really happened that terrible night? Only then can she reclaim her children, her pride, her life—at last.
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New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain beguiles us once again with a novel that explores the bonds that sustain families—and the lies that can shatter them forever. Sweeping through the pivotal events of twentieth-century America, The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of one remarkable family as they journey through years of love, loss, sacrifice, and unimaginable betrayal. Dressed in a brand-new suit, with one hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, Adam Arnring says good-bye to his family and boards a train for the fabled West. The year is 1907. Adam is nineteen years old, a young man with stars in his eyes who has always dreamed of a future in the great open spaces of America. Now, far from his New Jersey home, he takes the first step toward attaining that dream, landing a job in a small department store in a booming Texas town. Here he meets a woman who excites him beyond all measure. The exquisite, untouchable Emma Rothirsch lives in a world whose doors are firmly closed to him. But Adam is a man willing to take great risks to get what he wants. One is Emma. The other is to build a lasting business enterprise that will live on through his children and grandchildren. But just when Adam’s dreams are within reach, fate intervenes. Tragedy strikes from the trenches of World War I, setting in motion a series of events that echo down through the years. The owner of a prospering department store and the head of a growing family, Adam succumbs to a moment of weakness that culminates in an unforgivable act of betrayal. And now, as another generation prepares to take its rightful place in the family’s legendary empire, the tenuous threads of the Arnrings’ past begin to unravel, revealing a shattering secret that reaches back nearly a century. Across a teeming canvas of history, through world wars and the close of a century, The Sight of the Stars tells a deeply affecting story of family and forgiveness, guilt and redemption. Brimming with the emotional depth and moral complexity we have come to expect from this incomparable storyteller, The Sight of the Stars is about what happens when we dare to dream, and the moments that can change families forever. From the Hardcover edition.
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(This set of contemporary romance novels includes the clas...)
This set of contemporary romance novels includes the classic New York Times bestseller Evergreen (#1 in the Werner Family Saga) and three stand-alones: Promises, Secrecy, and Fortune's Hand, tales of personal choice and human weakness.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books- Lovestrong, Stillwatch, Crescent City, and The Wild Children.
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(NY, Delacorte (1980) Stated 1st printing. Fine hardcover,...)
NY, Delacorte (1980) Stated 1st printing. Fine hardcover, clean, tight and straight. Dustjacket has a bit of edgewear, small closed tear, short creases at front flap, else very good dustjacket in archival mylar cover. Smoke and pet free premises. B272
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(From Shitel to mansion-The wonderfully rich epic of a wom...)
From Shitel to mansion-The wonderfully rich epic of a woman's loves, a family's fortunes, and a century's hopes and tragedies. Executive Producer Edgar J. Scherick, Susan Pollock in Association with Metromedia Producers Inc. "An epic of people you know. Once you know Anna, you won't want to put the book down." Milwaukee Journal Fascinating....We become insecapably involved...EVERGREEN is the story of immigration, of the struggles of heroic individuals who came to America to make their fortunes...and the warm story of continuning love.". New York News World. ABSORBING. ... A CONVINCING NOVEL...brings us so closely into (the Fridmans') lives tht our concern for everyone is strong, genuine." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "A grand, sweeping panorama of immigrants and America...richly written, finely detailed...vivid and memorable." New York Daily News Other books by Belva Plain: Random Winds, Eden Burning, Crescent City.
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From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells-dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress.
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She was born in New York City.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1939 with a degree in history.
Belva Offenberg was a third-generation Jewish American who was raised in New York City. Plain lived in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey. She sold her first story to Cosmopolitan at age 25 and "contributed several dozen to various women"s magazines until she had three children in rapid succession." Her first novel, Evergreen, was published in 1978.
lieutenant topped the New York Times bestseller list for 41 weeks and was made into a television miniseries.
Evergreen followed the character Anna, "a feisty, redheaded Jewish immigrant girl from Poland in turn-of-the-century New York, whose family story continues through several decades and three more books". The New York Times summed up her career
Strong-willed women, many of them Jewish and red-haired as well, appear again and again in Mississippi
Plain’s fiction. Some of her novels use historical settings — “Crescent City,” published in 1984, was set in the Jewish community of Civil War-era New Orleans.
Other books tell stories about contemporary issues, sometimes inspired by the headlines — divorce (“Promises”), adoption (“Blessings”), child sexual abuse (“The Carousel”) or babies accidentally switched at birth (“Daybreak”). All of them are full of passion, but there is very little explicit sexual
At her death, there were over 30 million copies of her twenty-plus novels in print in 22 languages. Twenty-one of her novels appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.
Plain did not own a computer, and wrote all of her novels long-hand on a yellow pad.
"A disciplined worker, she wrote for several hours in the morning five days a week. She produced a 500- or 600-page novel every year or southern".
(From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New ...)
(This set of contemporary romance novels includes the clas...)
(What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves?...)
(Best-selling author Belva Plain follows the enormous suc...)
(New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain beguiles us...)
(From Shitel to mansion-The wonderfully rich epic of a wom...)
(Reader's Digest Condensed Books- Lovestrong, Stillwatch, ...)
(Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with a shattered...)
(The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doct...)
(NY, Delacorte (1980) Stated 1st printing. Fine hardcover,...)
(Bleva Plain is in a class of her own.)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
(1980 First Edition)
(563 pages. LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hardcover.)