Joanna Goodman
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[2020]
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"1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec’s fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father’s cause. So it is a surprise when she falls for James Phénix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent, as they negotiate...
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In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility-much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that dont include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Ph�nix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life 'back on track'. Elodie is raised...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In this "novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school [as a guest in honor of the school's 100th anniversary, and attempts] to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier"--Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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En el Quebec de los a©łos 50, franceses e ingleses se toleran a duras penas; tal como sucede entre los padres de Maggie. El padre de Maggie es un angloparlante con grandes ambiciones para su hija que no incluyen un matrimonio con Gabriel Ph©♭nix, un joven franc©♭s y pobre que vive en la granja de al lado. Sin embargo, el coraz©đn de Maggie le pertenece por completo. Cuando queda embarazada a los quince a©łos, sus padres la obligan a dar...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's job. But after his death, she is a grieving single mother in debt with her three children. Then a call from an estate lawyer in New York offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a legal journey that could mean the difference between a life of poverty and wealth thanks to her father, a deceased billionaire.