Sally Gunning
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 hr., 54 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter--Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph.After the death of her beloved mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with her father, Thomas Jefferson, on his first diplomatic mission to France. Now, at seventeen, Jefferson's...
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"Martha's Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston's renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed "unthinkable" for women to take, and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven, and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and...
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Pocket Books
Language
English
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When five-year-old Lucy Suggs finds a human skull while playing, the residents of Nashtoba Island are horrified. Pete and Connie Bartholomew, who took Lucy in after her mother died, are even more shocked to learn that the skull was found in their marsh -- and that it was all that remained of Susan Jameson, a stunning redhead and an old flame of Pete's who disappeared fifteen years earlier. Matters only get muddier after a second skull is unearthed...
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Language
English
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The Red Tent meets The Scarlett Letter in this haunting historical novel set in a colonial New England whaling village.
"When was it that the sense of trouble grew to fear, the fear to certainty? When she sat down to another solitary supper of bread and beer and picked cucumber? When she heard the second sounding of the geese? Or had she known that morning when she stepped outside and felt the wind? Might as well say she
...8) Bound
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English
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Seven-year-old Alice Cole travels with her family from 1756 London to the New World, dreaming of a big house in Philadelphia and a new life. Her mother and brothers die on board and are buried at sea; the ship docks in Boston rather than Philadelphia; there, her father indentures her for 11 years without a backward glance. Alice does housework for the family of Simeon Morton of Dedham, in whose house she is treated almost like a second daughter, becoming...
10) Troubled water
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
230 p. 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking a second stab at marital bliss, Pete and Connie Bartholomew receive a phone call from the police chief of the Massachusetts island where they are spending their honeymoon, alerting them to a sex scandal and murder back home.
13) Rough water
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
14) Hot water
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1990
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
15) Still water
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph. After the death of her beloved mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with her father, Thomas Jefferson, on his first diplomatic mission to France. Now, at seventeen, Jefferson s...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill., sepia photographs ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Elizabeth Abbott Small was recorded on tape at the request of her family in 1984 as she neared 100 years of age. The tapes were transcribed into this document by Nancy Abbott Carlson. It tells the story of Elizabeth's life-long visits to Cape Cod and her later residence in the area.
