Paullina Simons
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[2003]
Description
Tatiana is eighteen, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. Oceans away in the Soviet Union, Alexander has escaped execution-- and is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.
2) Red leaves
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Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A young police officer investigates the death of a woman student in a New England college whose body was found in a snowbank. Why did her three nearest and dearest friends, to whom she left several million dollars, not report her disappearance?
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2017.
Description
Lily Quinn is struggling to finish college and pay her rent. Her search for life in bustling New York City is upended when her best friend and roomate, Amy, vanishes without a trace. That's when Spencer O'Malley, a cynical NYPD detective, enters Lily's world. Though he is guarded and wrestling with his own demons, he and Lily are irresistibly drawn to each other. But fate isn't finished with Lily. Two pieces of extreme, life-changing luck--one good,...
4) Tully
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The story of a rebellious girl coping with adolescence. The locale is Topeka, Kansas, and the novel chronicles the girl's efforts to rise above her poverty and her low class origins. A tale of child abuse, incest, abortion and adultery.
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2009, c2001
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Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose beautiful palaces and stately avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. It is a hard, impoverished life, yet the Metanovs know many who are not as fortunate as they. The family routine is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades...
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2011
Description
The epic and monumental love story Paullina Simons began with her adored international bestseller The Bronze Horseman comes to a breathtaking conclusion. The Summer Garden is the third volume in Simons's magnificent trilogy-a Russian Thorn Birds-which follows a love that survived the terrible siege of Leningrad during World War Two, a heartbreaking separation and a glorious reunion in America, only to be supremely tested by the hatred, fear, and uncertainty...
8) Eleven hours
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A woman nine months pregnant is abducted from a shopping mall by a man who wants her baby. The novel describes the woman's terror as the spasms begin, the man planning to kill her after she gives birth.