Jill Ciment

• Jun-1996
• / General Fiction
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Jill Ciment weaves an unforgettable tale of survival, compassion, and courage, in this haunting recollection of a child surrounded by confusion and madness, and her struggle to find an identity.Half a Life traces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to ...

• Mar-1999
• / Suspense
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The author of the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu�"the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a stor...

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction
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A gasoline tanker truck is "stuck" in the Midtown Tunnel. New Yorkers are panicked . . . . Is this the next big attack? Alex, an artist, and Ruth, a former schoolteacher with an FBI file as thick as a dictionary, must get their beloved dachshund, ...

• Mar-2015
• / Horror
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It’s the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something o...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” -- Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic” -- Booklist) and,...

• Jun-2024
• / General Fiction
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• / Romance
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Gloria, a modern "snake-oil" saleswoman, travels from town to town with her teenaged daughter, Kim, but her life abruptly changes when Kim falls in love with Arthur, a gentle widower, thirty years her senior...