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The Last Time They Met: A Novel

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2003

Seller ID: 132827

ISBN: 0316713732

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
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Sea Glass

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: December 2004

Seller ID: 132830

ISBN: 0316001449

Condition: Used - Good

Set in 1929 at a decaying beach house on the Atlantic Coast, Sea Glass unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times.
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Light on Snow

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 2005

Seller ID: 129565

ISBN: 0316010677

Condition: Used - Good

What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light...
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The Weight of Water

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Back Bay Books: January 1998

Seller ID: 130348

ISBN: 0316780375

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses herself in the details of the case--an outburst of passion that resulted in the deaths of two women--Jean herself enters precarious emotional territory. The suspicion that her husband is having an affair burgeons into jealousy and distrust, and ultimately propels Jean to the verge of actions she had not known herself capable of--actions with ho...
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Sea Glass: A Novel

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Little, Brown: April 2002

Seller ID: 50086

ISBN: 0316780812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Culture in Context is a three-in-one (reader/rhetoric/handbook) that teaches essay writing through meaningful connections to popular culture and college life. Chapters in the rhetoric portion cover the writing process ("Ready, Write, Revise"), writing strategies (narrative, process, description, persuasion, exemplification/illustration, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect), essay tests, and business writing. A professional reading opens each chapter, after which readers are guided through the writing process and writing strategies via exercises and worksheets focusing on brainstorming, devel...
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A Change in Altitude: A Novel

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Back Bay Books: May 2010

Seller ID: 127005

ISBN: 0316020710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.
A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her...
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A Wedding in December

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Back Bay Books: May 2006

Seller ID: 128186

ISBN: 0316154512

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives. Written with the fluent narrative artistry that distinguishes all of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, A Wedding in December acutely probes the mysteries of the human heart and the endless allure of paths not taken.
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All He Ever Wanted

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: May 2003

Seller ID: 137148

ISBN: 0316782262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman--his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933, ALL HE EVER WANTED gives us a tale of marriage, betrayal, and the search for redemption. It has the unmatched attention to details of character, place...
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Fortunes Rocks

By: Shreve, Anita

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little Brown Company: January 1999

Seller ID: 137156

ISBN: 0965455572

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Stella Bain

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2013

Seller ID: 137157

ISBN: 0316098868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.
When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in.
A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield.
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Resistance: A Novel

By: Shreve, Anita

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Publisher: Back Bay Books: January 1997

Seller ID: 137175

ISBN: 0316789844

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences.
Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal.
Resistance is a tender but tragic love story, told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emoti...
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Body Surfing: A Novel

By: Shreve, Anita

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: April 2007

Seller ID: 132822

ISBN: 0316059854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.
But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant in...
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Author:Anita Shreve