Bernice Rubens

• 1970
• / General Fiction
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Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents'' eyes . . . until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his ...

• Jan-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction
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On board a cruise ship bearing aged vacationers, including widows Alice Pickering and Ellen Walsh, neighbors for thirty-eight years, and newly widowed Stella Dove, whose cruise trip is a contest prize, a well-mannered rapist skulks...

• Mar-1984
• / Historical Romance
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This immensely powerful novel follows four generations of the Bindel family as they fight for survival in a hostile world. From imperial Russia in 1825 they head towards Western Europe, returning finally to modern Russia, where the persecution of the...

• Oct-1984
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1985
• / General Fiction
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One day, the man in front of Luke at the post office drops down dead in line. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice....

• Dec-1985
• / General Fiction
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Madame Sousatzka is a gifted piano teacher who specializes in child prodigies and hosts her lessons in the dilapidated London home she shares with three other eccentrics: a 'countess' in retirement, a gay osteopath, and a 'woman-of-the-e...

• Feb-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Eavesdropping on his family's bitterness, guilt, and expectations of his future, Buster Rosen, an unusual child endowed with remarkable musical talent, decides to remain in his mother's womb, refusing to be born...

• May-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Amy Evans retained all her life the squat nose of her childhood, stubbed on to her face like a plasticine afterthought, a chin too long for any practical purpose, and eyes so close together that it seemed the sole function of the bridge of her nose w...

• Jun-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Sep-1987
• / General Fiction
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One day in the desert, Veronica Smiles, professional explorer, meets God. She'd called out to Him. At least, that's His story - she hadn't given Him a thought for years. Gradually, however, she came to realize how much she needed Him. The author won ...

• Sep-1996
• / Literary
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Bronwen's life has been tainted by her killing of a man who tried to rape her in the lane behind her parents' house. She tells nobody about the incident but her guilt manifests itself in the frequent nosebleeds she has at awkward moments. Fifty years...

• Jan-1997
• / General Fiction
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At The Hollyhocks old people's home, the inhabitants are waiting for the scythe. As they do, Lady Celia runs a blackmail business on the side, Mr. Cross keeps a tally of residents' deaths, and Mrs. Bellamy decides she can't take it any more and slits...

• Jan-2001
• / Literary
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Milwaukee. Is it a place/ A person? Or the painful memory of a night to forget? It could be any of them. For Mary, it is the name of her father. For Annie, her mother, it is an anonymous American GI. For her grandmother, it is a place in Wisco...

• Mar-2001
• / General Fiction
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• May-2003
• / Suspense
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The killer's modus operandi is the same in each instance: strangulation, always with a guitar string, pulled tight from behind until life is taken. And though the murders are happening up and down the country, there is one other similarity that I...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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• / Contemporary Romance
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• / Contemporary Romance
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• / General Fiction
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‘Miss Hawkins looked at her watch. It was two-thirty. If everything went according to schedule, she could safely reckon to be dead by six o’clock.’But by the day’s end, events have taken a dramatic turn and Miss Hawkins is sentenced to live. ...

• / General Fiction
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Sir Alfred Dreyfus is in jail, innocent of the charges against him, guilty of a lifetime of denial.

Headmaster of one of Britain's most prestigious schools, knighted for his services to education, he has built a distinguished career wh...

• / Contemporary Romance
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George Verrey Smith, a suburban teacher, is bored. Bored with his wife, his life, his job. He endures each bleak day with his joyless wife named Joy. The only bright spot in George's life is Sunday. On Sunday George looks his best. On Sunday Geor...