Luanne Rice, Author Viking Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-82773-2
Passion and friendship get equal billing in this entertaining love story, shaded with dark undertones, from the author of Crazy in Love. Lydie McBride, a photographer's stylist, and her architect husband Michael move to Paris while Michael, on a...
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Luanne Rice, Author Bantam $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-57322-0
A young woman who is emotionally scarred by the death of her daughter gets a second chance at love. (June)
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Luanne Rice, Author Ivy Books $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0859-1
Having left her husband and returned home to a seacoast town in Connecticut, archeologist Maria Dark discovers that her sister's outwardly ideal family is torn by abuse. Although Rice ``is an engaging writer,'' she ``raises complex psychological...
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Luanne Rice, Author Bantam Books $23 (322p) ISBN 978-0-553-80410-2
The New York Times bestselling author of Dance With Me and Beach Girls revisits characters from Summer's Child in this examination of the emotional fallout of battered woman syndrome. When Mara Jameson thinks about her wedding, she painfully and...
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Luanne Rice, Author Viking Books $18.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82131-0
Georgie Swift Symonds is crazy in love with her Wall Street lawyer husband Nickso ``crazy'' in fact, that she has paranoic fantasies that he is unfaithful, and she hounds him with obsessive suspicions. And, she so cherishes her familyher...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80218-4
The sacred bond of sisterhood is explored in painstaking detail in Rice's newest offering (after Summer Light), a warm and weepy drama set in the picaresque seaside town of Black Hall, Conn. The novel sets sail slowly when a grief-stricken Dana...
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Luanne Rice, Author Viking Books $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-84301-5
Though its setting is quite different, this highly readable, richly detailed slice of life offers the same absorbing vision of a single family in a particular time and place as do Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles. Set in a Rhode Island...
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Luanne Rice, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-553-09728-3
Rice's Crazy in Love and other novels were about women with privileged lives who had problems resolving family relationships or facilitating marital communication, who needed more independence or artistic fulfillment. Here she sacrifices subtlety...
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Luanne Rice, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-11073-9
Sufferers are transformed by the transcendent power of love in Rice's (Cloud Nine) uplifting if flawed new family relationship drama. Life has not proved easy for single mom Dianne Robbins, of Gull Point, Conn. Abandoned by her husband, lobsterman...
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Luanne Rice, Author Bantam $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80119-4
A compelling plot and nuanced character portrayals contribute to the emotional impact of Rice's ninth novel, a transcendent story about the power of hope and family love. Daisy Tucker has built a comfortable life with her 16-year-old daughter, Sage,
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Luanne Rice, Viking/Pamela Dorman, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-02250-5
In her sweet but unsurprising latest, perennial bestseller Rice (Deep Blue Sea for Beginners) links the fate of three sisters to that of their parents' summer home on Martha's Vineyard, where the sisters gather to clean out the house for its sale....
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Luanne Rice. Viking/Pam Dorman, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-02356-1
After bludgeoning her sister’s abusive husband with a burnt log, Clare Burke is whisked away to jail in the dramatic opening of Rice’s 30th novel (after Secrets of Paris). Based on Anne’s false testimony in defense of her husband, Clare serves two...
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Luanne Rice. Viking, $27.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-670-02527-5
Still devastated by grief five years after the death of her husband and teenage daughter in a car accident, Julia hopes to find solitude and solace while house-sitting at her aunt and uncle’s California estate. Amid the lush landscapes and lemon...
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Luanne Rice. Scholastic/Point, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-545-83955-6
Sisters Tilly and Roo have been through everything, including their father’s sudden death only a year ago. When an impatient Tilly texts Roo to pick her up at a museum, Roo makes a split-second decision that changes her life forever. Paralyzed and...
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Luanne Rice, read by Kate Rudd and Brittany Pressley. Scholastic Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 10 hrs., $42.99 ISBN 978-0-545-91087-3
Rice’s YA novel begins with talented and beautiful 16-year-old Roo McCabe texting while driving, overturning her car, and winding up in a hospital, bloodied and paralyzed. Seemingly in a coma, she can see and hear everything, but can’t respond in...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-80122-4
Few romance authors are able to portray the complex and contradictory emotions that bind family members as effortlessly as Rice (Firefly Beach, etc.), and in this enchanting, heartfelt tale, she showcases her considerable talent. Wedding planner May
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80224-5
When Kate Harris shows up at his door right after someone throws a brick through his window, defense lawyer and single father John O'Rourke can't decide whether she brings help or more trouble. In fact, she brings both in Rice's latest...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $7.50 (429p) ISBN 978-0-553-58404-2
Heartwarming and assured, Rice's latest novel (after The Secret Hour) addresses timeless themes and will linger with readers long after the reading is done. For years, Bay McCabe has kept her family together despite her husband's...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80227-6
Heartbreak gives way to love and reconciliation in this poignant tale by veteran romance writer Rice (The Perfect Summer
, etc.). After more than a decade as the owner of a trendy New York City bakery, Calamity Jane's, 35-year-old Jane Porter...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $7.50 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-58724-1
Like a milder Northern cousin of Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
, Rice's latest (following Dance with Me
) celebrates the near mystical persistence of female bonds. While summering in the seaside town of Hubbard's Point, Conn., Emma Lincoln,
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-553-80411-9
A Christmas tree farmer from Nova Scotia and a lonely New York widow come together in this Christmas weepie by bestseller Rice (Beach Girls
, etc.). Catherine Tierney, a corporate librarian who lives in a 19th-century townhouse on a quaint street in
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $7.50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-58762-3
Resonant and beautifully written, this novel offers a lyrical meditation on healing, a setting as soft and colorful as beach glass and a story that's both suspenseful and tender. Lily Malone and her daughter, Rose, have built a happy life in...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80419-5
Given the title, July 4 pub date and settings on the Connecticut shore and County Cork coast, readers may expect the consummate beach feast from bestselling Rice (Summer of Roses
). She almost delivers: all the ingredients for a clambake are here,...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80527-7
A maimed owl and a sunken U-boat spark an inordinate amount of activism, romance and multigenerational family healing in this winsome melodrama. Out to observe a single rare snowy owl, high school beauty and passionate bird-watcher Mickey crashes...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80533-8
True love never dies—but it may need the helping hand of the Virgin Mary and the luck o’ the Irish to survive in Rice’s latest, effectively a sequel to last year’s Sandcastles
. Sister Bernadette Ignatius (the former Bernie...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $25 (386p) ISBN 978-0-553-80511-6
Rice continues to explore mother-daughter dynamics and themes of religion and destiny in her serviceable latest (after What Matters Most
). Anthropologist Susannah Connolly, encouraged by her mentor Professor Helen Oakes, travels to the Camargue...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80512-3
Rice makes a solid return visit to the Hubbard's Point, Conn., setting of Beach Girls
(2004). As the book opens, a year soaked in Wild Turkey has passed since singer/songwriter Sheridan Rosslare lost her son, Charlie, in a random New York...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80513-0
The prolific Rice contemplates class, family and math in this disappointing outing. After her husband dies and her eldest daughter, Carrie, runs away, Maggie Shaw moves her remaining brood—level-headed Travis and troubled Beck—from Ohio...
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Luanne Rice, Author . Bantam $26 (302p) ISBN 978-0-553-80514-7
The amazingly prolific Rice reintroduces characters from 2009's Geometry of Sisters
for this heart-tugger about a reunion of a mother and her two daughters who've been separated for 10 years due to a disturbing secret. Set on the...
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Luanne Rice, Author Bantam $7.5 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-58398-4
An earnest and affecting portrait of life in the magical seaside town of Hubbards Point, Conn., Luanne Rices True Blue finds childhood friends Rumer Larkin and Zeb Mayhew torn apart by a seemingly insurmountable betrayal""Zeb married Rumers older
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Luanne Rice, Author, Rice, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-11063-0
Readers sympathetic to Rice's (Blue Moon) highly sentimental take on the eternal power of love and family will enjoy this skillfully wrought tale of courage on the part of a single mother recovering from a brain tumor. Sarah Talbot, who has built a...
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Luanne Rice, read by Hallie Clarke. Scholastic Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-338-15989-9
The gentle sounds of a piano playing at the opening sets the tone for Rice’s YA novel about 16-year-old Maia’s struggle with depression. When her mother abandons her family to follow her dream of studying whales in Tadoussac Bay in Quebec and her...
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Luanne Rice, Author, Joseph Monninger, Author . Bantam $22 (199p) ISBN 978-0-553-80741-7
The bestselling Rice teams up with Monninger in this epistolary novel of an unraveling marriage. Sam and Hadley West separated following the death of their grown son, Paul. Sam is in Laika Star, Alaska, where he is arranging to travel via dog sled...
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Luanne Rice. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (450p) ISBN 978-1-5420-1820-3
In this nail-biting mystery from bestseller Rice (Little Night), heiress Beth Lathrop has a loving husband, a 16-year-old daughter, and a baby on the way. The manager of her family’s prestigious art gallery in Black Hole, Conn., Beth is found one...
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Luanne Rice. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (374p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0955-3
When artist Claire Beaudry Chase, the narrator of this gripping psychological thriller from Rice (Last Day), is attacked by a masked man who leaves her for dead in the garage of the home she shares with her abusive husband, Griffin, she suspects...
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Luanne Rise. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-338-73953-4
Supernatural elements heighten the tension of this predictable mystery thriller by Rice (Last Night, for adults). In the small town of Black Hall, Conn., teenage Oli Parrish’s beloved younger sister Eloise is found dead and buried in a shallow grave
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