Bottles of homemade plum wine link two worlds, two eras, and two lives through the eyes of Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching at a Tokyo university. When her surrogate mother, Michi, dies, B
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In a remote convent school in Nova Scotia, an aging nun has a miraculous vision; a mute, injured man washes up on the nearby shore; and a group of girls is busily creating a reckless drama of exciteme
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From the vantage point of the branches of an Osage orange tree, Beryl Fonteyn watches her family's craziness unfold, until her stepfather draws her into his manipulative schemes. Reprint. 25,000 first