Kate Reading
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It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to...
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Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. But when one of the Girls tragically dies, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.
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Anne Rivers Siddons returns with a dramatic tale of love and betrayal within a wealthy Southern family. Growing up, the only place Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp. It was there that she came alive and were she met Nick Abrams, her first love - and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from her beloved camp. There Aengus...