The Lives Of Stella Bain

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316215449
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stella Bain written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759528233
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All He Ever Wanted written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759527636
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Glass written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316040177
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testimony written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in Testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316045705
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal. Resistance is a tender but tragic love story, told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780316781015
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Rocks written by Anita Shreve and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1999-12-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349139654
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Stella Bain written by Anita Shreve and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain. A stateless woman in a lawless country, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Suffering an agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way to London. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist, is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source. What brutality was she fleeing when she left the tranquil seclusion of a New England college campus to serve on the Front; for what crime did she need to atone - and whom did she leave behind? Vivid, intense and gripping, packed with secrets and revelations, The Lives of Stella Bain is at once a ravishing love story and an intense psychological mystery.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806360
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stars Are Fire written by Anita Shreve and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife: an exquisitely suspenseful novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event—based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history. “Long before Liane Moriarty was spinning her 'Big Little Lies,' Shreve was spicing up domestic doings in beachfront settings with terrible husbands and third-act twists. She still is, as effectively as ever.” —New York Times Book Review In October 1947, Grace Holland is experiencing two simultaneous droughts. An unseasonably hot, dry summer has turned the state of Maine into a tinderbox, and Grace and her husband, Gene, have fallen out of love and barely speak. Five months pregnant and caring for two toddlers, Grace has resigned herself to a life of loneliness and domestic chores. One night she awakes to find that wildfires are racing down the coast, closer and closer to her house. Forced to pull her children into the ocean to escape the flames, Grace watches helplessly as everything she knows burns to the ground. By morning, her life is forever changed: she is homeless, penniless, awaiting news of her husband's fate, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists. With courage and stoicism, Grace overcomes devastating loss and, through the smoke, is able to glimpse the opportunity to rewrite her own story.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316789976
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weight of Water written by Anita Shreve and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Resistance.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316303057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Wife written by Anita Shreve and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?