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The beloved classic of American literature, Little Women, narrates the adventures of four March sisters as they grow up during the Civil War era.

Penelope Keeling reflects on a bohemian childhood, wartime romance, and a priceless family portrait as her children debate its future.

D. H. Lawrence’s 1933 novel follows the Morel family in a Nottinghamshire coal town, exploring love, ambition, and the Oedipal tension that shapes a working‑class mother‑son relationship.

Robert Dallek’s authoritative biography of President John F. Kennedy draws on fresh documents and archives to illuminate JFK’s Irish roots, wartime heroics, and complex family dynamics, reshaping our understanding of his life and legacy.

In August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his Minnesota resort for one last family gathering before enlisting as a bombardier, only to confront a violent encounter with a runaway German POW that will change their lives forever.

In 1945, a New York Jewish lieutenant guarding a train of seized treasures meets a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust; decades later, his granddaughter is drawn into a search for a woman who may explain her family's buried guilt.

Profiles in Courage follows eight U.S. Senators who chose integrity over popular opinion, illustrating the moral challenges of public service.

"Drawing upon scores of interviews with people who have never spoken out before, troves of private documents, archives in Ireland and America, and private conversations with Jackie, Klein explores the underlying pattern that governs the Kennedy Curse." "The reader is treated to penetrating portraits of the Irish immigrant Patrick Kennedy; Rose Kennedy's father, "Honey Fitz"; the dynasty's founding father, Joe Kennedy, and his ill-fated daughter Kathleen; President Kennedy; accused rapist William Kennedy Smith; and the star-crossed lovers, JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Each of the seven profiles demonstrates the basic premise of this book: The Kennedy Curse is the result of the destructive collision between the Kennedys' fantasy of omnipotence - an unremitting desire to get away with things that others cannot - and the cold, hard realities of life."--Jacket.

Jay Follet’s brief summer trip to care for his ailing father ends in a fatal car crash, leaving behind family to confront the sudden loss.

A.L. Kennedy’s collection of twelve short stories captures life’s fleeting moments of insight, exploring love, hope, and longing through ordinary people in New York, cinema, and quiet introspection.

Three generations of English women navigate love, war, and destiny in ‘Consequences,’ tracing the lives of Lorna, her daughter Molly, and granddaughter Ruth from 1930s Britain to the post‑war era.

In 1831, 15‑year‑old Mary Braddock, a farmhand with lavender‑tainted hair, chronicles the hardships of farm life, her sisters, and an unexpected tenure with a vicar’s invalid wife, revealing the truth she must preserve.