While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 25 October 2010
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Long After Midnight
Kate Denby, a research scientist, believes she's carved out a secure life for herself and her son. But suddenly she finds herself living out her worst nightmare where an unpredictable killer is stalking her. Her only hope is to put her trust in a stranger and achieve a breakthrough in her research.
When Molly's father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Despite many difficulties, Molly is determined to make a better life for herself, hoping that one day she'll find love. But, abused by a man she trusted, Molly wonders if this dream will ever come true. When her father is killed at work and her mother turns to drink in her sorrow, Molly finds herself the only wage-earner. She tries to take care of her mother and younger sister, Jodie. But when a fire destroys their home, they find themselves homeless and with a bleak future ahead of them...
Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5364.29 | Fiction literature | 6 October 2010
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Russian Winter
A mysterious jewel holds the key to a life-changing secret, in this breathtaking tale of love and art, betrayal and redemption.
When she decides to auction her remarkable jewelry collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet, believes she has finally drawn a curtain on her past. Instead, the former ballerina finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland and of the events, both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed the course of her life half a century ago.
Danielle Steele would be hard-pressed to concoct a juicer tale than the scandalous life of 19th-century French writer George Sand (1804–1876), revisited in this perceptive and original biography by novelist Harlan (Footfalls, Watershed). Sand, née Aurore Dupin, left her husband and two children in provincial France and successfully launched herself as a self-supporting writer in Paris, donning men's clothing to ease passage into the professional world and taking a pseudonym to protect her aristocratic family's name.
