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"This is the story of three women and their response to tragedy and loss. They're human like the rest ofus. Their decision-making has been flawed and their behavior imperfect. But the wosdom they gained in their struggle is authentic. And the hope they offer is inspiring. Their personal stories demonstrate that while the knock at the door has the power to change your life, it doesn't need to define it." -- inside book cover.
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It's 1923 and young war widow fashionista Ginger Gold makes a cross-Atlantic journey with her companion Haley Higgins to London England to settle her father's estate. When the ship's captain is found dead, Ginger is only too happy to lend her assistance to the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. The SS Rosa delivers a convincing array of suspects--the wife, the mistress, a jealous crew mate. To Ginger's dismay, her name has been added to the list!...
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After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger's Boston terrier, Boss, noses out a missing phalange from under the bed. It's a mystery that once again puts Ginger alongside the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Who is the victim? And how did she end up in Ginger's home? Clues lead...
44) The messenger
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Partnered with hard-line officer Tony Stone, Sgt. Will Montgomery is a battle-scarred war hero home from Iraq and newly assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He faces this formidable mission while seeking comfort and healing back on the home front when he falls for the wife of a fallen soldier.
45) Let's dance
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The great Fred Astaire (Blue Skies) puts on his dancing shoes and says Let's Dance to ebullient Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) in this Technicolor treat from the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical. Hutton plays a war widow who, with the help of her song-and-dance partner Astaire, fights a desperate legal battle to gain custody of her son. Mirthful musical numbers highlight the heartwarming story, including "Oh, Them Dudes," a wildly...
47) Regret to inform
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In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
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Ginger Gold mysteries volume 3
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Ginger Gold receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Felicia, requesting Ginger come straightaway to her late husband's family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, GInger's nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the old manor is haunted. Ginger doesn't believe in ghosts, but is haunted nevertheless by memories of her husband and the lure of his gravesite she just can't bring herself to visit.
49) Luna de verano
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Top Novel volume no. 141
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Erin Foley había conseguido dar una vida estable y feliz a sus hermanos pequeños y, a sus treinta y cinco años, estaba padeciendo el síndrome del nido vacío. Así pues, hizo un paréntesis en su vida y se marchó a reflexionar a una cabaña remota (pero totalmente reformada: a Erin le gustaban las comodidades), cerca de Virgin River. Quería dedicar el verano a conocerse a sí misma... y se encontró con un montañés barbudo y desarrapado.
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[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
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After serving in WWI, Jean recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. The government subverts his discovery. In desperation Jean summons the ghosts of the war from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
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Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the way back home from North Africa. She must then complete the adoption of her young daughter June alone. A decade later, she gives birth to a bastard daughter, Marguerite. Now Hetty must go before a tribunal to prove that she will be a fit mother. What follows is the story of little Marguerite's childhood in the recovering...
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