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Trisha Portman almost has it all. With her good looks, a job at a hot SoHo art gallery, devoted friends, and a handsome lawyer boyfriend, she's one step away from making it big. When a mysterious painting shows up at her gallery, Trisha's ticket to the top may have just arrived. Far from leading her there, however, the painting takes her back to her college days and to James Morales, a man whose artistic brilliance is exceeded only by the leng...

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Lily Taub is the brilliant, beautiful and headstrong American daughter of Holocaust survivors. Seeking relief from their traumatized world, Lily escapes to Oxford University, where she meets Julian Aiken -- black sheep of an aristocratic English family. When Lily is invited to the family's ancestral home over Christmas vacation, her deepening romance with young Julian is crossed by a shocking accident that affects them all. Julian must face th...

The Watchmaker's Daughter tells the story of a child of two refugees: a watchmaker who saved lives within Dachau prison, and his wife, a gifted concert pianist about to make her debut when the Nazis seized power. In this memoir, Sonia Taitz is born into a world in which the Holocaust is discussed constantly by her insular concentration camp-surviving parents. This legacy, combined with Sonia's passion and intelligence, leads the author to forg...

<, div>, Gus was a lucky dog. Injured and abandoned, he could have become another of the 7 million animals euthanized every year. Then Stephanie Williams entered the picture. A successful journalist, she had been diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer at the age of 30. On medical leave and living alone, she wanted a warm four-legged companion. When she saw Gus's soulful eyes and goofy grin, it was love at first sight: she would rescue him...

Down Under is a passion-stoked novel about first love and second chances. A young Catholic teen, abused by his conservative father, falls in love with a prim Jewish girl whose strict parents reject him. Call Down Under a boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl tale with a twist: Romeo and Juliet in outer suburbia. Fate takes the boy, Collum Whitsun, to Australia, where he becomes an international movie star. Decades later, when his career derails and h...

Great With Child tells the story of ambitious, driven Abigail Thomas. Up for partnership at a prestigious law firm, she is thrown by an accidental pregnancy that threatens to upend her life. Witty, warm, and wise, this novel confronts the true meanings of love, morality, and duty.

Itty and Bitty are back! The silly, mini duo from "Itty and Bitty: Two Miniature Horses" is here again, this time at home on the farm. Children and horse lovers will laugh aloud at the zany antics of these delightful minis, as they mix it up with the dogs and big horses at Steele Away Farm. Pint-size but full of attitude, Itty and Bitty are best friends who rule the roost. Despite their diminutive size, they take on big jobs like mowing the pa...

Itty and Bitty are a delightfully odd equine couple -- Bitty's a bit of a slob, while persnickety Itty loves to show off. Though opposites, they're best friends, and no matter what they do --- watch TV, dance a jig, even drive a car -- trouble follows! Dana Bauer's whimsical watercolor illustrations are full of the visual puns children love.

In this third title in the "Itty & Bitty" series, the adorable mini-horses go on the road to find what they consider the wonders of the world. Their cross-country trip takes them to the Bronx Zoo in New York and culminates in a visit to the Devon Horse Show in Pennsylvania, the oldest horse show in the country. The plane ride to the East Coast from Texas and the cruise ship ride home provide many laughs along the way. The book is written in "m...

Trek" is a poignant memoir of one American woman's struggle in Germany during World War II. Separated from her German husband, Mary Hunt Jentsch was forced to protect her two children, surviving nightly air raids, rooftop fires, hunger, and the invading Red Army. Including a foreword by Jentsch's grandson, this moving account is an invaluable testament to the difficulties of wartime.