Camilla Fox is alive. The last thing she remembers is being lost in the
snow after leaving her home to escape the Mormon faith she no longer
calls her own. She’s been taken in by the 5th Infantry Regiment of the
US Army and given over to the personal care of Captain Charles Brandon.
As she regains her strength, memories of her two children she had to
leave behind come flooding back, threatening to break her heart. Camilla
is determined to reunite with her daughters. But when news of her
father’s grave illness reaches her,
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Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women.
What happens when nothing turns out as you planned? From the Depression through World War II and Vietnam, and smaller events both tragic and joyful,
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Usnavy has always been a true believer.
When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, he was just a young man
and eagerly signed on for all of its promises. But as the years have
passed, the sacrifices have outweighed the glories and he’s become
increasingly isolated in his revolutionary zeal. His friends openly mock
him, his wife dreams of owning a car totally outside their reach, and
his beloved fourteen-year-old daughter haunts the coast of Havana,
staring north.
In the summer of 1994, a few years after the collapse of
the Soviet Union,
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In Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built her life on a
foundation of secrets. When she was sixteen, Nadya snuck out of her
house in Western Ukraine to meet a fortuneteller in the woods. She never
expected it to be the last time she would see her family.
Decades later, Nadya continues to be haunted by the death of her parents
and sisters. The myths and magic of her childhood are still a part of
her reality: dreams unite friends across time and space, house spirits
misplace keys and glasses,
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The year is 1968 and the Vietnam War is at its height. William
Carson, a World War II veteran teaching in a small New England Prep
School, has for more than two decades been haunted by nightmares whose
content he has never shared with his wife, Anne, or their two sons,
Joshua, a Marine on active duty in Vietnam, and Andrew, an ROTC college
senior bound for active duty following graduation. When Joshua is
reported missing in combat, the web of secrets and denial that has kept
the family together for more than twenty years begins to unravel as
Anne and William face the possible loss of their sons,
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All she wanted was a simple Amish life . . . But now Marianna Sommer finds herself
depending on Englisch neighbors. Although proud of living apart from the world, she
and her newly relocated Amish family have discovered that life in the remote
mountains of Montana requires working
together.
As Marianna begins helping those
different from herself—and receiving their help—her
heart contemplates two directions. She’s torn between the Amish man
from Indiana whom she has long planned on marrying and the friendly Englischer who
models a closer walk with God than she’s ever seen
before.
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