LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $19.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-399-13599-6
The latest saga from Spencer ( Bitter Sweet ) is an uneven western romance that will no doubt please her fans--but just barely. Sarah Merritt arrives in Deadwood, Dakota territory, in 1876 with her father's printing press and two ambitions--to find...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $21.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-399-13714-3
Prolific Spencer ( Forgiving ) here takes a compassionate look at a contemporary family undergoing painful transitions. Bess Curran, 40, is an interior designer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, still lonely and bitter after her traumatic divorce...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $22.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-399-13801-0
Good pacing, vivid dramatization and strong characterization enliven Spencer's latest work of escapist fiction. When handsome kitchen hand and boat builder Jens Harken audaciously offers to build his employer a regatta-winning yacht, he draws the...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-13906-2
Ordinary people coming to grips with real problems are handled with a sure, restrained touch that makes this latest novel from the bestselling author of Bygones a moving tale. When Greg Reston, a young policeman in the small Minnesota town of Anoka,
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $23.95 (366p) ISBN 978-0-399-14014-3
A seemingly Norman Rockwell-like family is at the center of Spencer's (Family Blessings) latest novel, and, as usual, Spencer reveals the hard truths that lie beneath the bright exterior. On the first day of school, high-school principal Tom Gardner
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-14120-1
A resilient divorcee returns with her three daughters to her childhood hometown; a lonely widower makes the rough journey out of the shell of his own isolated soul; and the perennially bestselling Spencer (Home Song) doesn't miss a beat as she...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $23.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-399-14249-9
Make room on bestseller lists for Spencer's latest heart-warmer about unlikely romance, this time between country-western star Tess McPhail and her old schoolmate Kenny Kronek, formally ""a dork of the highest magnitude,"" now an accountant. When...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-14369-4
Set in 1950, in Spencer's (Small Town Girl) hometown of Browerville, Minn., this gentle tale of forbidden love (which Spencer says will be her ""last book"") brings together a nun and a widower. St. Joseph's Church janitor Eddie Olczak and his...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Jove Books $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-515-08489-4
In September 1917, 18-year-old Linnea Brandonberg steps off the train in Alamo, North Dakota, eager to begin her first teaching job. A town girl, she is not prepared for the dour reception of the Westgaard family, with whom she is boarding. But...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Jove Books $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-515-10263-5
Set in small-town Georgia at the dawn of WW II, handsome ex-con Will Parker answers the advertisement of a pregnant widow and mother of two, who is looking for a husband. ``Fans will be pleased by Spencer's hardcover debut, again demonstrating her...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Jove Books $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-515-10521-6
When recently widowed Maggie Pearson returns to her old hometown to open a bed-and-breakfast, she encounters her first love, Eric Severson, who is having marital difficulties. ``Their illicit affair is as sweet as puppy love but fraught with...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-13413-5
Fans of Spencer's bestselling paperback historical novels ( Vows ; The Gamble ) will be pleased by her hardcover debut, again demonstrating her gift for telling a satisfyingly conventional romantic tale in fresh, sprightly prose. Tall, dark and...
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LaVyrle Spencer, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-399-13508-8
This engaging, up-to-the-minute romance of high school sweethearts reunited will gratify Spenser's ( Morning Glory ) fans . The untimely death of her husband leaves Maggie Pearson wealthy but emotionally bereft. Two decades after she has left home,...
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