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(0)Lisa Grunwald
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Simon, a New York City physicist on the threshold at age thirty of momentous achievements, is a man who can explain the most complex hows and whys of science and of life, but when it comes to the actual process of living, he falters.
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Language
English
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"Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the private battle waged within it, will come up against the...
Author
Publisher
Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold clock in Grand Central Terminal, Joe Reynolds, a hardworking railroad man from Queens, meets a vibrant young woman who seems mysteriously out of place. Nora Lansing is a Manhattan socialite whose flapper clothing, pearl earrings, and talk of the Roaring Twenties don't seem to match the bleak mood of Depression-era New York. Captivated by Nora from her first electric touch, Joe despairs when...
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Historical events of the last three centuries and personal milestones in women's lives come alive through these singular correspondences, over 400 letters accompanied by over 100 photographs. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describes a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; one week after JFK's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy...
