Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing her husband's surplices, and clothing herself and her children in hand-me-downs. But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness. Faced with isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, Anna finally...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughrters he adores. The outside world sees these reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? How does a man who's trained to fight adjust to family and domestic life? And how does the family cope if he can't? ..." (from the publisher).
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rich and complex story of Gina and Laurence, friends since their teens but never in love. Now Gina's husband no longer likes his wife and daughter, and when Gina turns to her dearest friend for comfort, she sends both of their marriages to the brink of betrayal.
10) Brother & sister
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up as brother and sister, and share a fierce loyalty. Their decision as adults to try to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter. It affects, acutely and often painfully, their spouses and children, the people they work with, and, most poignantly, the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request