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Strange Fits of Passion Study Guide consists of approx. 50 pages of summaries and analysis on Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve.This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, … more

Eden Close: A Novel Study Guide consists of approx. 45 pages of summaries and analysis on Eden Close: A Novel by Anita Shreve. This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects… more

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding—a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of t… more

In an astonishing debut novel, Sussman writes a heartbreaking tale filled with emotional intensity in the tradition of Anita Shreve’s “Sea Glass” and Elizabeth Berg’s “Open House.”

“A marriage is always two intersecting stories.” This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions… more

This tale of impossible love—told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve’s cherished bestsellers—leads us into a harrowing world where forbidden passions have catastrophic … more

What makes a family? That’s what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing, abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons face… more

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora’s box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices—thos… more

A haunting and beautifully written debut novel by an exciting new talent.When Betty Gardiner dies, leaving behind an unkempt country home, her grandson and his young wife take a break from city life to prepare the house for sale. Nowell Gar… more

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn’t know about the complex mores of her n… more

“Meeting him was easy. It was knowing him that burned bone.”Paul Shepherd is dangerous. He drops into Jenna’s mundane days and makes all those whose lives touch his, face up to the differences between want and need, selfishness and sacrific… more

in a beautiful new professionally edited and formatted editionThree generations of Carpenter women have spent summers at the big old summer cottage on the bluff overlooking the lake. But Jess has not been back to the house by the lak… more

Someone once told me that groupings of objects should be displayed in threes. Three provides both tension and balance among items of varying size and heft. My sister’s accident made me an only child; my husband’s accident made me a widow. P… more

THE FORTUNE’S ROCKS QUARTET collects four of Anita Shreve’s most beloved novels-Fortune’s Rocks, The Pilot’s Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve’s ability to illuminate women’s lives across d… more

With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds wh… more

A dazzling story about marriage, forgiveness, and chances not taken, by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December. At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet, Tho… more

In the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve, Nature vs.Nurture explores the life of Elinor (Elle) York, a woman that seems to have it all. An influential family, a great job, as a personal shopper, a successful lawyer boyfriend who is… more

A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma—streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, an… more

From her hospital bed, 99-year-old Isobel Howard recalls her unexpected friendship with Cathryn, a childless, Chicago-born heiress who shunned her family, attended art school and married an Irishman with no pedigree. During the summer of 19… more

When Arthur MacDougal is kicked out of Manhattan’s toniest boys’ school, his parents ship him off to the only place that will take him in, the Christian Science inflected Spooner School. There, in the woods of Connecticut, Arthur meets Katr… more