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They had been newlyweds once, fabulously happy, but that was before the war--before Ann's startling career success and Phillip's long, slow courtship of failure. Yet even without fireworks, somehow their marriage survived. Then, astonishingly, at an age when such things were not supposed to happen, Ann met Adam--and nothing had ever felt so glorious--or so complicated. Suddenly, whatever the obstacles, it was a time for love...--Page 4 of cover.

A first novel, Rutherfurd's sweeping saga of the area surrounding Stonehenge and Salisbury, England, covers 10,000 years and includes many generations of five families. Each family has one or more characteristic types who appear in successive centuries: the round-headed balding man who is good with his hands; the blue-eyed blonde woman who insists on having her independence; the dark, narrow-faced fisher of river waters and secrets. Their fortunes...

A feminist novel on a clash of two societies, one of warriors, the other ruled by women where war is unknown. Set in 4,500 BC in what is now Ukraine, the story features a heroine from the warrior tribe and a hero from the matriarchal one.

A family saga featuring four generations of strong-willed women. They are Anne, a Southern belle who runs off with a riverboat gambler; Arden, her convent-educated daughter whose life of luxury ends with the Civil War; Felicity, a widow with two plantations to manage; and Lee Ann, caught between her mother and grandmother. By the author of Deepwater.

The lives of four generations of African-American women. Georgia lives to see slavery abolished. Sadie discovers that though she might be free, she is powerless to break with a man who abuses her. Story wants the good life, dooming her to her own emotional enslavement. It is left to Hermine to finally break the circle of oppression which has chained the women of her family and--if she can--cross over Jordan. By the author of Rainbow Round Mah Shoulder....

From the very outset in the West, the epic has been a highly regarded literary genre. Major epics had the most profound and most enduring cultural influence. This course revisits major epics examing the stories and the characters, while considering the styles represented ad the societies in which the epics were constructed. The course examines the epic as genre and as a reflection of ancient history.

With the narrative sweep and power of an American epic, Giardina's new novel is the saga of an Appalachian mining community, Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, and its fight to survive disaster, oppression, and neglect. Spanning the period from the 1930s to the present, the novel builds to a shattering climax.