Product Description: Berlin, 1861. Eva Frank, una judia de dieciseis anos de edad, se hace un retrato pintado, lo que conduce a una indiscrecion que trae consecuencias devastadoras. Desesperada por escapar de una situacion dolorosa, Eva se casa con Abraham Shein, un comerciante ambicioso que ha vuelto a casa a Alemania por primera vez hace una decada desde el establecimiento de si mismo en el oeste americano...read more

Product Description: Berlin, 1861. Eva Frank, una judia de dieciseis anos de edad, se hace un retrato pintado, lo que conduce a una indiscrecion que trae consecuencias devastadoras. Desesperada por escapar de una situacion dolorosa, Eva se casa con Abraham Shein, un comerciante ambicioso que ha vuelto a casa a Alemania por primera vez hace una decada desde el establecimiento de si mismo en el oeste americano...read more

Product Description: For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations.   Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard...read more

Berlin, 1865. Eva Frank, the daughter of a benevolent Jewish banker, and her sister, Henriette, are having their portrait painted–which leads to a secret affair between young Eva and the mercurial artist. This indiscretion has far-reaching consequences, more devastating than Eva or her family could have imagined. Distraught and desperate to escape her painful situation, Eva hastily marries Abraham Shein, an ambitious merchant who has returned home to Germany for the first time in a decade since establishing himself in the American West. The eighteen-year-old bride leaves Berlin and its ghosts for an unfamiliar life halfway across the world, traversing the icy waters of the Atlantic and the rugged, sweeping terrain of the Santa Fe Trail.Though Eva’s existence in the rough and burgeoning community of Sante Fe, New Mexico, is a far cry from her life as a daughter of privilege, she soon begins to settle into the mystifying town, determined to create a home. But this new setting cannot keep at bay the overwhelming memories of her former life, nor can it protect her from an increasing threat to her own safety that will force Eva to make a fateful decision.Joanna Hershon’s novel is a gripping and gritty portrayal of urban European immigrants struggling with New World frontier life in the mid-nineteenth century. Vivid and emotionally compelling, The German Bride is also a beautiful narrative on how far one must travel to make peace with the past.

In 1865, a secret affair with the artist hired by her German Jewish father to paint his daughters' portraits forces Eva into a quick marriage and drives her to leave Berlin to seek a new life on the frontier of the American Southwest, but the ghosts of the past follow her across the Atlantic and along the Santa Fe Trail, until she can confront the past and build a new future. 30,000 first printing.

The prolonged absences of her frequently absent, peripatetic mother, Charlotte, have a profound impact on her children as Alice grows increasingly unconnected and her brother, August, uses his tenuous bond with Charlotte to achieve a certain freedom, until, years later, the revelation of a long-buried secret forces Alice to come to terms with her dysfunctional family. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

When Aaron Wheeler brings his girlfriend, Suzanne, home for the weekend to meet his family for the first time, Suzanne unleashes a fierce conflict between Aaron and his brother, Jack, a clash that has tragic long-term repercussions for the entire family.