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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
After many years in England an impoverished, upper-class American family return to an inherited estate on Chesapeake Bay. The novel describes their reaction to the new surroundings--country living versus city living, America versus Europe--and the resulting conflicts. The father returns to England, one son wants to follow, another wants to remain, and the mother is torn. By the author of In a Father's Place.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Embittered by betrayals that have rendered her unable to trust, Anna takes a job in the family restaurant, while her aunt tries to rekindle their relationship and help Anna realize that she is falling in love despite her determination to leave.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While visiting the dying owner of the family's estate in order to secure his inheritance, Edward hears stories about his family and land, from an ancestor's 1857 sale of soon-to-be emancipated slaves to a doomed effort to cultivate a peach orchard.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After a fluke tornado destroys George I. Newett's neighborhood, a series of strange coincidences relating to the stock market crash of 1929 occur, causing him to experience five serial visions corresponding to pivotal events in his life.
5) Rising tides
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The second novel in the captivating saga of four brothers living on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay finds Ethan Quinn determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But amidst his achievements lie the challenges of a boy who needs him, a woman and child he loves but never believed he could have, and his own dark past.
6) Sea swept
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a stunning new trilogy of three young men bound by the love of the extraordinary couple who took them in and raised them as brothers. Now grown and living in their own, the Quinn brothers must return to the family home on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, to honor their father's last request. "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a stunning...
Author
Language
English
Description
Seth Quinn is finally home. Its been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love. Now a grown man he returns home from Europe as a successful painter. There have been manycchanges since he'd been gone--and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks. In Seth she sees a challenge she...
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