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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family --Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell -- they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to...
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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and even feels estranged from his toddler son, Jake. Mitchell is trapped in an unrewarding and loveless life, and though domestic violence isn't in his character, it is never very far away, either. Mitchell's life will irrevocably change one day, though, when a young man appears at his apartment door to pick...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind. Throughout this dynamic story, Beran chronicles the efforts of WASPs to use their position to better the world around them, as well as the struggles of these WASPs to break free from their restrictive culture"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Laura and Lila were once as close as could be-college roommates at the center of a tight-knit group of friends. But the friendship has wilted a bit. Now, ten years after college, the friends-and the boyfriend they shared-have reunited for Lila's wedding at her family's seaside estate in Maine.
Laura is reserved, single, and the only Jew in the group, while the bride, Lila, is a WASP-y moneyed golden girl, and the groom, Tom, a swim team star from...
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Series
Publisher
Knopf Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Struggling to recover from Carrie the waitress's rejection and his daughter's marriage to a Jewish man, lawyer Albert Schmidt hopes for renewal when both Carrie and his daughter become pregnant and when he falls for a beautiful French widow." --
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A week before she's due to leave for Jerusalem, Hannah meets Raymond; a one-night stand surprisingly expands into a week-long, passionate love affair. While Hannah leaves for nine months to study Torah at an orthodox yeshiva, Raymond stays behind, researching his doctorate on love in Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy," struggling with loneliness and Hannah's increasing religious fervor. Can this new love affair survive six thousand miles,...
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