Brotherly Love

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William Trevor

"The Hill Bachelors contains a dozen new stories, set mostly but not entirely in Ireland.". "In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never come from the man who once told a lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance.". "William Trevor writes about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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Stephanie D. Fletcher

As Stephanie Fletcher wrote in her column in the Charlotte Observer: "Under a cloak of anonymity, barriers come down with breakneck speed, love and passion flare in electronic mail. It harkens to an earlier time when lovers sent their tender or smoldering sentiments in letters by messenger or overland mail. The difference now is the message (and the relationship] move at blinding speed." E-Mail: A Love Story is Stephanie Fletcher's debut, an exciting epistolary novel presented as a collection of electronic mail and bulletin-board posts, and a passionate look at an on-line love affair that has real life consequences.

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[by] Louisa Bronte [pseud

Their passions paved the road to America's dreams... They began on a humble dirt farm — and became the millionaire titans of the industrial age. PIETER — the patriarch. He'd known the pain and pleasure of back-breaking work, and no one could cheat him of the riches and power he reaped — not even his beautiful wife... JACOB, who saw the railroad unite East to West, then lived to fight the bitter battles to preserve it... Elegant ANTONIA, who climbed to the pinnacle of New York society and ruled the glittering "400"... Lovely REGINA, forced to marry English nobility, escaped to find happiness in the arms of a wild-hearted Irishman. With ruthless courage and pride, they built an unshakable dynasty — forged an American empire of passion and steel. It was...The Van Rhyne Heritage.

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Alice Bach

Sixteen-year-old Hallie's romantic idealization of her minister leads her to volunteer work with the poor of New York City and some disillusioning encounters with reality.