Judith Henry Wall, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-87387-9
In a tradition familiar to readers of women's novels, four women, best friends through four decades, make up what one of the friends dubs the Girlfriends' Club. As a lovable first-grader destined to be a cheerleader, Mary Sue felt sorry for...
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Judith Henry Wall, Author . Simon & Schuster $15 (297p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9705-9
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evenge, murder and identity feature big in this 11th novel by the author of The Girlfriends Club
. Two bombshells fall on Vanessa, Ellie and Georgiana the night of their mother’s 60th birthday: widowed mom Penelope is moving to France with a
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Simon & Schuster $20.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-87388-6
Three childhood best friends reunite after decades of silence in Wall's latest novel (after The Girlfriends Club). Growing up in rural Texas, Rhonda, Holly and Gina Kay vowed to be best friends forever. ""But, the forever part turned out to be a...
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Simon & Schuster $22.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5851-7
A powerful, fundamentalist Christian Texas family is painted villainous in this provocative but stringy book by Wall (The Girlfriends Club). Jamie Long, a 21-year-old college dropout left penniless following the death of the grandmother who raised...
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-684-83766-6
Wall (If Love Were All) explores the secrets and betrayals of two sisters and their families in the small town of Columbus, Tex., in this atmospheric, sentimental novel, which opens at the beginning of WWII. Independent, ambitious Justine Mayfield...
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Viking Books $19.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-82316-1
On a hot Texas day in 1930, Stella and Kate Behrman and their cousin Effie dream of traveling far from the family farmland. It seems unlikely that the three friends will be allowed to escape their limiting milieu, yet one by one the girls attend the
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Viking Books $19.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-670-82652-0
Women absorbed in the armed forces, in this case two sisters whose lives are shaped by the evolving careers of their husbands, provide the subject of this uneven novel. Born into a military family, Louise and Marynell dream of West Point weddings....
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Onyx Books $5.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-451-40258-5
Two sisters born into a military family dream of West Point weddings: Louise devotes herself to a husband who eventually becomes a general while Marynell marries an officer/widower whose ambitions lie outside the military. ``Although soapy at times,
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Judith Henry Wall, Author Viking Books $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-84114-1
In this flawed effort by the author of Love and Duty, four friends vow to be blood sisters always. Helen, Bonnie and Jen revolve like dim stars around sparkling Libby, their leader.The center of attention everywhere except home, Libby feels excluded
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Judith Henry Wall, Author, Judith Henry Wall, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-83765-9
Taking its title from one of Wallace Stevens's great laments of marital disappointment, Wall's fifth novel (after Mother Love) concerns 47-year-old schoolteacher and widow Charlotte Haberman, who shocks her three college-age children by selling...
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