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Crossroads

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Cassie Wright never saw it coming. As the owner of thriving Wright Glassworks, Cassie’s life was quiet, well-ordered... until a tragic accident forces her to take in a one-year-old child who has no one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie will raise young Gwen as her own, and the girl will flourish in a world of privilege and opportunity. Enter Jewel Fairbanks. Beautiful and conniving, Jewel will touch the lives of both Cassie and Gwen in powerful ways. Both Gwen and Jewel will marry; Gwen will fall for honest, hardworking Stan. And Jewel will marry Jeff, a businessman who owns the company where Stan works. But when Stan makes a shocking discovery on the job, a tangled drama of greed, jealousy, and betrayal will encircle both couples, changing four lives forever - in ways they never could have foreseen.

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2009)

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Belva Plain

Belva Plain (born 1919 in New York City, New York) is a best-selling American author of mainstream women's fiction.

Biography

Belva Plain is a third-generation Jewish American who was raised in New York City. cite web
title = A Conversation With Belva Plain
publisher = Belva Plain Official Website
url = http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html
accessdate = 2007-01-30
] She graduated from Barnard College with a degree in history and has lived in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey. [Horner, Shirley. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DD1031F930A35753C1A965958260 "ABOUT BOOKS"] , "The New York Times", October 3, 1993] . Accessed December 19, 2007. "Previous recipients of the award, which has come to be known as the Michael, include Mary Higgins Clark of Saddle River, Belva Plain of Short Hills, Wende and Harry Devlin of Mountainside, the Nobel laureate Dr. Arno Penzias of Highland Park and Gay Talese of Ocean City."]

Before breaking into publishing, Belva Plain wrote short stories for magazines while raising her three children. Her first novel, "Evergreen", was published in 1979. It topped the "New York Times" bestseller list for 41 weeks and was made into a TV miniseries.cite web
title = Author Bio
publisher = Belva Plain Official Website
date = 2004
url = http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/author.html
accessdate = 2007-01-30
] As of 2004, there were over 25 million copies of her twenty-plus novels in print in 23 languages. Plain does not own a computer, and writes all of her novels long-hand on a yellow pad.

Plain was married to her husband, Irving Plain, for over forty years. He died in 1982.

Bibliography

Werner Family Saga

*"Evergreen" (1978)
*"Golden Cup" (1986)
*"Tapestry" (1988)
*"Harvest" (1990)

Novels

*"Random Winds" (1980)
*"Eden Burning" (1982)
*"Crescent City" (1984)
*"Blessings" (1989)
*"Treasures" (1992)
*"Whispers" (1993)
*"Daybreak" (1994)
*"The Carousel" (1995)
*"Promises" (1996)
*"Secrecy" (1997)
*"Homecoming" (1997)
*"Legacy of Silence" (1998)
*"Fortune's Hand" (1999)
*"After the Fire" (2000)
*"Looking Back" (2001)
*"Her Father's House" (2002)
*"The Sight of the Stars" (2003)
*"Crossroads" (to be published late 2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/belvaplain/ Belva Plain Official Website]

Источник: Belva Plain

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