New Releases by Belva Plain

Adam, married to Margaret for 20 years with three children, takes up with a woman from the past, Randi. They were already having an affair when Adam was engaged to Margaret. Divorce follows, the lawyer is nice and revenge is sweet. But will there be love? By the author of The Carousel.

The doctor''s office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor''s words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield''s beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter''s death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart. Laura and "Bud" Rice share an elegant home and two children, brilliant, handsome Tom, and cherished, chronically ill eleven-year-old Timmy. But after nineteen years of marriage, Laura''s respectable husband is a stranger—and the reason for Tom''s escalating involvement with a group of campus bigots. Suddenly the Crawfields enter their lives and shatter their fragile world. As the Rices'' quiet Southern town explodes with hate and violence, the two familes must embrace—or be destroyed by—the shattering truth.

Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But in the Ferguson''s closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must keep from the world-and her children-at any cost... Not even the Fergusons''s best friends, Josie and Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn''s shame. Social worker Josie sees her bruises distrusts the too-ambitious, too perfect Robert, and suspects the real cause of the children''s increasingly disturbed behavior. But not even Josie can pierce Lynn''s wall of silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva Plain''s searing novel of a family''s heartbreak, a woman''s courage, and a subject too often talked about only in whispers.

A story of family... the Osbornes -- two sisters and a brother -- united by family ties but split apart by different dreams. Lara, the happy young wife, longs for the family that will make her life whole. Connie, wild and lovely, is more like her brother Eddy -- bright, ambitious, and ready to seize all that life has to offer. A story of choices... Connie is looking for wealth -- to make or to marry. Lara, staying behind in a small Ohio town, finds everything she cherishes threatened by fate and by her own blind commitment. And Eddy, as Wall Street''s "wonder boy," can make millions... if he ruthlessly uses his family and friends. A story of marriages... Lara''s held together by devotion, Connie''s shattered by infidelity and betrayal, and Eddy''s rocked by shame and prison. Torn by conflicting loyalties, they are a family caught in the tides of scandal... and swept toward a fate where dreams may end or be born again...

At thirty-six, Jennie Rakowsky''s dreams were coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man, her career as a lawyer was skyrocketing, and she had never been more beautiful. And then the secret she had hidden for nineteen years threatened to shatter it all.

The beautiful and gutsy lawyer, Jennie Rakowsky is about to marry handsome and successful Jay Wolfe. Then Jennie receives a phone call that brings a shattering secret from her past which threatens to destroy the comfortable world she has built for herself.

A tragedy on a cold Adirondack day robbed country doctor Enoch Farrell of his three oldest children. Then all his hopes rested with his son, Martin, who dreamed of becoming a doctor too. Intelligent, gifted Martin could have a brilliant future. All that stood in his way was his family''s poverty—until he met wealthy, beautiful Mary Fern Meig and her sister, Jessie, and everything changed forever. Moving from a teeming New York hospital to the elite operating theaters of London, Martin Farrell is about to learn the price of success—a secret bargain with the Meigs that could resonate into the next generation . . . and test the strength of a man and a woman''s passion across the coming years . . . Praise for Random Winds “Wonderful . . . A convincing, sweeping novel . . . A real page-turner.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Impossible to put down.”—South Bend Tribune “Engrossing.”—Publishers Weekly “Richly woven. . . . A twisting and complex story that touches the lives of everyone.”—UPI

Best-seller américain (1980), ce gros roman bourré de péripéties exploite avec un certain talent l''histoire d''émigrés anglais aux Etats-Unis, de 1900 à nos jours. Le héros qui n''a pu devenir médecin est torturé entre deux amours inéluctables. Traitement réaliste de l''ensemble de l''intrigue qui noie un peu les protagonistes. [SDM].