DescriptionA wealthy man with a critically ill wife seeks the help of Matthew Hiller, a gifted doctor with a thriving practice. But in addition to the difficult professional challenge, Matthew finds himself facing the toughest emotional crisis of his life, since he met the lovely patient, Silvia, years ago, when both were young doctors healing the sick in Africa. Fighting to save her, Matthew recalls their first meeting in Paris and the sadness that ensued - and wonders if her second chance at life could mean a second chance for them at love.
DescriptionOne summer Jim Sterba, veteran war correspondent, accepts an invitation for a weekend visit from a woman he barely knows, author Frances FitzGerald. He arrives and discovers a secluded little house on the Maine coast, with evergreens and blackberry bushes all around, views of forested mountains, and a fjord full of seabirds and sailboats. In this Tracy-Hepburn romance, the down-to-earth newspaperman charms the sophisticated New Yorker while their long path to real love has us cheering them on as well as itching for a visit to idyllic Mount Desert Island.
DescriptionIn Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day" and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, "the county would come and take the child". Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page. Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party in December of 1963. In Calvin's writing, Alice was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, "I wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice." In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift for the wife he adored and for his listeners.
DescriptionIn the last innocent days of pre-World War II Honolulu, two people meet almost by chance: Keo, a gifted jazz trumpeter native to the islands, and Sunny, a fiercely independent beauty of Hawaiian and Korean heritage. As their love grows, youth and ambition propel them into a world that is spiraling into madness. From New Orleans to Paris to Shanghai, through the horrors of Pearl Harbor, Nazi occupation in Europe, Japanese prison camps, and beyond to Hawaii's struggle toward statehood, Song of the Exile paints a mesmerizing portrait of a people and their history.
DescriptionA young American woman goes to China to teach English, encountering a generation steeped in the brutality of the Cultural Revolution. Katherine's auburn hair, alluring free spirit, and tantalizing energies of Western culture awaken a latent eroticism in the men and women she meets, inspiring a doomed love triangle whose consequences are insidious and tragic. The clash between the centuries-old mystical traditions of Communist China and modern American ways create the foundations for a universal drama of love and betrayal. Author Anchee Min, known for her moving and highly-acclaimed autobiography Red Azalea, now lends her unique view and narrative flair to this compelling work of fiction.
DescriptionSince childhood, Rosa Fiore - daughter of a sultry Sicilian matriarch and her hapless husband - found solace in her family's kitchen. La Cucina, the heart of the family's lush estate, was a place where generations of Fiore women prepared sumptuous feasts…
DescriptionFrom #1 New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sparks comes a love story that explores the deepest mysteries of all, those of the heart. Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate young New Yorker. He's also an expert on debunking the supernatural. When h…
DescriptionNicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories . Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our…
