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1) Cannery row
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Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his...
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Margo Sullivan, daughter of the Templeton's strict housekeeper, had a wonderful childhood and was treated as if she were part of the family. Still yearning for her mother's affection, she thought things could be different if she were more lovable like Laura or possessed Kate's acute knowledge for business. However, Margo was set in her ways and did as she pleased, despite the repercussions.
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Dream trilogy volume 2
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Kate Powell faces a professional impropriety and a dark secret from her past that forces her to search deep within herself.
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"In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of "Cannery Row", the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears - from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter....
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Dream trilogy volume 1-3
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Includes the complete trilogy: Daring to Dream, Holding the Dream, and Finding the Dream. Daring to dream: Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most -- her mother's acceptance... Holding the Dream: Orphaned at a young age, Kate Powell was raised as a sister to Margo and Laura. Now a driven businesswoman,...
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Dennis Gifford, a courageous lad not quite twenty, had traveled to San Francisco to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. However, Dennis had suffered a fate not uncommon in those lawless times when he was shanghaied by one of the toughest crooks on the coast. Desperate, he determined to seize his one slim chance of liberty and jump ship at the old Spanish town of Monterey. So it was that Dennis found himself taking refuge in the garden of...
13) The shadow wife
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Formerly published as Cypress Point ."Joelle D'Angelo's best friend, Mara, is left with brain damage after she suffers an aneurysm giving birth to her son. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only other person who understands her pain: her colleague--and Mara's husband--Liam. What starts out as comfort between friends gradually becomes something more...something undeniable. Torn by guilt and the impossibility of her feelings for Liam, Joelle sets...
