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In Mixed Blessings, her 30th novel, Danielle Steel weaves a powerful tale of three couples who face decisions about having children that will test, in unexpected ways, the ties that bind them as lovers, partners, and friends. Their lives, their goals, their feelings about families, are on the line, as the word "infertility" begins to unravel their dreams. Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas are a California couple who seem to have it all: glamorous careers,...

When their new neighbor who happens to be a young widow becomes pregnant, each of the three wives on the cul-de-sac in suburban Connecticut examines her own marriage and "the loyalties that perhaps have been taken too much for granted."--Jacket.

Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado descends on Larkspur, the small town in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco--affectionately called "Cisco" by her grandchildren--lives, and levels the home she's inhabited for fifty years. Then there's more bad news: Cisco's beloved triplet grandchildren--Hannah, Sara, and Sam--all newlyweds, are experiencing marital problems but they refuse to confide in their...

"En 1951, una misteriosa anciana confronta a Pilar Aguirre en La Cǐnaga, un pueblo fronterizo entre M̌xico y Texas. Convencida de que Pilar le rob̤ el marido, le arroja una maldici̤n que cae tambǐn sobre su familia. Medio siglo despǔs, Lul︢ Mųoz est̀ lidiando con una vida ca̤tica, sobre todo, con su inminente fiesta de quinceąos. Como si fuera poco, fallece su amada abuela. En el funeral, una desconocida glamourosa y solitaria aparece...

"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel,...

When Paul Two Persons joins the fight against a highway that would run right through the Red Lake Reservation, he also has to deal with "a murdered state cop, development plans mapped in indigenous code, a missing boy who witnesses too much, . [and] an Indian fetish accidentally dropped by a mysterious man who is involved in the scheme."--Jacket.

A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Resistance.-- (Source of description not identified).

Jolyon Chadwick, despite long odds, has become a veritable success story. He's a famous television presenter, and the company that he started is thriving despite his mother Maria's disdain for the project. Now Maria, who abandoned Jolyon and his father long ago, has been widowed from her second marriage and returns to ask forgiveness for her transgressions. Can Jolyon trust her motives? Does she really want a relationship with her son, or does she...

A tragic accident on the eve of her wedding to a wealthy businessman leaves Callie Parker in a coma and three childhood friends trying to sort out the clusters of secrets and lies the event has uncovered.

When a fiercely independent young woman returns with her three daughters to her hometown of Camden, Maine, after divorcing her philandering husband, she finds a less-than-hospitable welcome. But she's about to show an entire town what one good woman can do.