{"title":"Anita Shreve","description":"Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of more than fifteen novels, including Testimony; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange prize. She lives in Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"stella-bain-paperback","title":"Stella Bain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101187739871,"sku":"9780316098892","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ugsv-YJFI9780316098892.webp?v=1781068431"},{"product_id":"body-surfing-paperback","title":"Body Surfing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called \"an author at one with her métier (\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101588984031,"sku":"9780316067331","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/m6RBG4zGYg9780316067331.webp?v=1781071780"},{"product_id":"fortunes-rocks-paperback","title":"Fortune's Rocks - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Fortune Rock's Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-\u003ci\u003eFortune's Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pilot's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSea Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBody Surfing\u003c\/i\u003e-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New England home, one that has inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and out of a house.'' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFortune's Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In \u003ci\u003eSea Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. \u003ci\u003eThe Pilot's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of \u003ci\u003eBody Surfing\u003c\/i\u003e has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There's something addictive about Shreve's tales,\" according to \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of \u003ci\u003eThe Fortune Rock's Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101640298719,"sku":"9780316678100","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hgHLLs0SEL9780316678100.webp?v=1781071877"},{"product_id":"light-on-snow-paperback","title":"Light on Snow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in \u003ci\u003eLight on Snow\u003c\/i\u003e a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101642297567,"sku":"9780316010672","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NkhHRGRnNFFPb0UreVZ6SGkzQlRNUT09.webp?v=1781071881"},{"product_id":"the-pilots-wife-hardcover","title":"The Pilot's Wife - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.\u003cbr\u003eUntil now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. \u003cbr\u003eAs Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. 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