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1541) Isthmus PB
Author
Series
Widow walk saga volume Book 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
It is 1860 and revolution is erupting throughout the world over universal emancipation. Civil war looms in the Unites States. In the midst of it all, a young woman is moving back to Boston with what is left of her family, devastated and bankrupted by savage, tragic events that occurred less than a year ago in the Pacific Northwest. They traverse a hostile terrain on the new Panama isthmus railroad, the most modern transportation in the world. From...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Susannah's Garden:
Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to live with her mother, a recent widow who is having difficulties living alone. Returning to parents' house, her childhood girlfriends, and the garden she always loved, Susannah begins to regret some decisions she made in the past, including leaving her boyfriend, Jake, when she went abroad to go to school.
Back on Blossom Street:
When Susannah,...
1543) Imitation of life
Pub. Date
1959.
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, along with deputy Chester Goode, saloon queen Miss Kitty and Dodge City medicine man Doc Adams do there part to clean up their corner of Kansas taking on corrupt sheriffs, shady widows and an assortment of murderers, thieves and con artists, all in the name of the ongoing Westward expansion. The glorious spirit and epic legend of the Old West come alive in this multi-Emmy Award winning series where schemers and outlaws meet...