Robert Goolrick
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Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow....
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In 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases; one contains his worldly possessions, the other is full of money. He soon inserts himself into the town's daily life, taking a job in the local butcher shop and befriending the owner and his wife and their son. But the passion that develops between the man and the wife of the town's wealthiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset...
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2018.
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Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
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New York City. The 1980s. Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone--they want. Until, one by one, they fall.
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2009
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291 PAGES. $23.95. 200804970. CATHERINELAND LIKED THE BEGINNINGS OF THINGS. THE PURE WHITE POSSIBILITY OF THE EMPTY ROOM, THE FIRST KISS, THE FIRST SWIPE AT LARCENY. AND ENDINGS, SHE LIKED ENDINGS TOO. THE DRAMA OF THE SMAHING GLASS, THE DEAD BIRD, THE TEARFUL GOODBYE, THE LAST AWFUL WORD WHICH COULD NEVER BE UNSAID OR UNREMEBERED. DN