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The Condition tells the story of a proper New England family that comes apart one fateful summer. To their dismay, Frank and Paulette McKotch's daughter, Gwen, has been diagnosed with Turner's syndrome--a genetic condition that leaves her trapped forever in the body of a child, and sparks heated dispute between the couple.

Twenty years later, their three children--now grown, and each struggling with secret conditions of their own--are still dealing with the fallout of Frank and Paulette's divorce. Then, suddenly, Gwen falls in love for the first time, and the family's world...

In a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh′s second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.

Bakerton is a company town, built on coal; a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters′ breakfasts and firemen′s parades. Its children are raised in company houses - three rooms upstairs, three rooms down. Its ball club leads the coal company league. The twelve Baker mines offer good union jobs, and the looming black piles of mine...

Eine starke junge Frau und ihr mutiger Weg durch die Wirren der letzten Kriegsjahre. Aus der Feder von Bestsellerautorin Tara Haigh.

Nürnberg, 1943: Die junge Inge spielt leidenschaftlich gern Geige und träumt von der weiten Welt. Gegen den Willen des Vaters lässt sie sich zur Rotkreuzschwester ausbilden und wird gleich bei ihrem ersten Einsatz an die Ostfront geschickt. Die Arbeit im Lazarett konfrontiert sie mit der grausamen Realität des Krieges, während die Rote Armee immer näher rückt.

Als der deutsche Offizier Preuss ihr anbietet, ihn nach Italien zur Abtei...

Based on 600 court and visitation books from three national and twelve local archives, it cites what people had to say about themselves, their religion, and the religions of others. How did people behave in church? What did they think of church rituals? What did they...

In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised 'World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen.

In helmets, under lights, with white balls, and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves.

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Eine große Liebe in dunkler Zeit, eine mutige junge Frau und die Liebe zur Kunst: der neue Roman von Bestsellerautorin Tara Haigh.

Wohin mein Weg mich führt ...

Berlin in den dreißiger Jahren: Die junge Apothekertochter Luise Rosenbaum träumt von einem Leben für die Kunst. Ihre Expertise ermöglicht es ihr zum Schein mit den Machthabern zu kollaborieren, um nicht nur Werke sogenannter entarteter Künstler von unschätzbarem Wert zu retten, sondern auch das Leben ihrer Landsleute. Die damit verbundenen Privilegien brandmarken sie aber als Verräterin. Es ist...

In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome--a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child--eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen--bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally...