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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Far from Home about Reed, Canada, I>Treading with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction? End with the sentence ' All rights reserved.'.
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conversations.value: A diner waitress in late 1970s Canada listens to her customers' stories in the author's plodding second novel (after <I>Treading Water</I>). Young Jo leaves an unfortunate situation at home, only to land a waitress gig at a roadside cafe in the middle of nowhere. One windy day sends several travelers to Jo's tables, and each is more than ready to share their story: an elderly woman with nothing to lose, a ruined young businessman on the run, a well-meaning Mountie with a crisis and many more, all in one way or another connected to a hitchhiking hippie named Pink. The parade of archetypes through the diner is a weak stand-in for a plot, and reading their painfully predictable backstories is equivalent to a dose of Ambien. The lack of insight and drama is terminal. <I>(Nov.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Far from Home about Irish, Brid, Flynn with the genre: Romance, Historical?
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conversations.value: From humble beginnings in an Irish village, beautiful Brid Flynn rises to become a dazzling star of the theatre. The glitter and squalor of Victorian London, the class conflicts of rural Ireland, and New York high society, are the backdrop to this tale of private and public tragedies and triumphs.
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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Far from Home about Adam, Miranda, Handyman with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Literary?
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conversations.value: Handyman Adam Kirkpatric has a habit of picking up strays, but pulling a suicidal woman from the Pacific Ocean is pretty far out there, even for him. Although the woman is secretive, closed up, and down right rude, Adam is intrigued.  Never in his life has he seen such pain behind such a lovely face. Miranda Dolan has no intention of getting close to another human being again. Ever. In fact, she fled a successful law practice in Denver to hide in the rolling hills of the Northern California coast.  After the pain she's endured, all she wants is to die. But now her rescuer refuses to leave her alone.  He stops by her house, day after day, despite her cold receptions, reminding her of the loneliness she's imposed on herself. Too bad he's so unsuitable. He's too young, too eager, and definitely too unprofessional for Miranda, even if she did want to let him into her life. With patience and tenderness, Adam slowly chips away at the stone wall Miranda has built around her soul, and as Miranda learns to let him in, she learns to live again. Until Adam gets too close to the one horrible secret that ruined her life forever.A heart-tugging story about the redemptive power of love! the author weaves a tale where hope grows stronger stitch by stitch, word by word! If you enjoy a huggable, sensitive, sexy hero, Far From Home is for you! the author does an amazing job drawing us into the tortured, lonely, and ultimately hopeful world of life after grief!Annette Carney -- Copyright 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc. All rights reserved -- From <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/literary-times.html/${0}">Literary Times</a>