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A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve (audiobook)
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (September 22, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1600247644
Back-of-the-box blurb: Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn’t know [...]
Resistance by Anita Shreve
Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (January 1, 1997)
ISBN-13: 978-0316166584
Back of the book blurb: This tale of impossible love unfolds in a Nazi-occupied Belgian village where the wife of a Resistance worker shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret hideaway. As she nurses him back to [...]
TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should be Reading; it asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from [...]
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (October 21, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0316059862
Back-of-the-book blurb: 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 [...]
TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading and asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” [...]
Oh, I have some good finds to share with you this week! First up is a small but wonderful stack of books I picked up at a church Fall Festival this weekend. I exercised great restraint, and at 50 cents a book, got these for less than the price of my Starbucks chai latte:
Where the [...]
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