Rachael Warren
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In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker—passionate, idealistic, and in love—design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the
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"Tired of the usual dating politics, Beatrice "Trixie" Jordan follows an impulse and replies to a personal ad. In doing so, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming young writer, a passionate seeker of life. Despite their jaded views of the world, they fall immediately in love."--Page 4 of cover.
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2011.
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When Lucie Montgomery finds the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio near her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble's murky past. Once a member of the secret "Mandrake Society," Noble might have aided in a cover-up of the deaths of a disabled man and a beautiful young biochemist involved in classified government research forty years ago. A seemingly innocent favor for an old friend of...
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A new collection of stories by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother. Which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal...