Sue Miller
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"Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple.
Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetites—curious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annie’s comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and...
3) The arsonist
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A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.
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Playwright Billy Gertz, having waited on 9/11 for news of her lover Gus, writes "The Lake Shore Limited," a play about a man waiting to hear whether his estranged wife has survived a terrorist bombing on a train that was just pulling into Chicago's Union Station, and finds the work has far-reaching effects, not just on her life, but on those of Gus's sister, the actor in the lead role, and a man who is attracted to Billy.
8) For love
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Lottie Gardner, her brother Cameron, and their childhood friend Elizabeth, all come together one summer in their hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts after years of separation.
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Sue Miller's stories from a chapter in the moral history of our time. Like Sue Miller's bestselling novels, this collection of short stories explores the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships with deftness and depth. The title story is about a young man who takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. In other stories, whose characters range from a young girl in the first blush of sexual...
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Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and Fajardo y sus Estrellas and their influence not only on Cuban flute players but also on other Latin dance musicians, no in-depth analytical study of their flute solos...
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Apoyados en 28 años de experiencia en el ministerio infantil de Willow Creek, los autores explican los cuatro fundamentos del ministerio: Misión, Visión, Valores y Estrategia. Incluye respuestas detalladas a las preguntas típicas de todo ministerio infantil: ¿Qué espera Jesús del ministerio infantil?, ¿Cómo evangelizar a los niños no salvos y discipular a los niños salvos al mismo tiempo?, ¿Cómo involucramos a los niños sin aburrirlos?,...
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A masterful, engrossing novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bounded by the stranger in their midst -- an autistic child. The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the next child arrives -- and life is never...
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When Eva's second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her family's fragile peace is once again overtaken by grief. As Eva and her three children reckon with the violence of loss and the individual perils that surround it, each goes through their own emotional crisis ranging from newfound independence and responsibility, to the permanence of death. Into this confusion comes an older man, a trusted family friend, and with him the middle child,...
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Promiseland is Willow Creek's highly successful children's ministry. Using examples from Promiseland and churches of all sizes around the country, this book provides step by step guidance and creative application exercises to help churches develop a thriving children's ministry-one that strives to be the best hour of every kid's week. Included are Scripture-based principles and practical resources for church staff members and volunteers who agree...
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Luke Mackenzie suffers the loss of his wife, Kelley who is killed in an automobile accident on a slick county road during a winter snow storm. Within a matter of days, the Mackenzie's lives are turned upside down. The family travels to the small central Florida town of Mound City for the funeral and Luke, comforted only by the material good fortune of an insurance settlement, decides to stay in Florida and start his own horse ranch. With most of the...