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1) San Miguel
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On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyles haunting new novel.Thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters arrives on San Miguel on New Years Day 1888 to restore her failing health. Joined by her husband, a stubborn,...
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Emma Blaxland-Hunter, a prima ballerina from London, must re-evaluate her life after doctors declare her knee unfit for dancing. At the behest of her mother, Emma returns home to Sydney, where she discovers her affluent and loving grandmother, Beattie Blaxland, has left her an inheritance: Wildflower Hill, an old sheep farm in Tasmania. When Emma settles in temporarily to clean out Wildflower Hill and sell it, she discovers a photo of her grandmother...
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"In Tumbleweed Weddings, you'll meet the Brandt siblings--Callie, Tonya, and Derek--who live on a sheep ranch with their parents near Fort Lob, Wyoming. That part of the country has rolling hills, a sparse population, and tumbling tumbleweeds when the wind blows. Callie thinks she's going to live her life as a spinster librarian, like old Miss Penwell. Tonya dreams of marrying a handsome man, but she doesn't know what her secret admirer even looks...