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Drowning Ruth a novel

At the close of World War One, Amanda Starkey leaves the city, and travels to her family's farm in rural Wisconsin to recover from a traumatic love affair. Instead, she is caught up in a tragedy that will take her beloved sister's life, and leave Amanda to raise her niece Ruth. What happened that terrible night when Mattie died? Why does Ruth say she can remember drowning? For years the consequences of the tragedy reverberate; the truth, when it is revealed, is both dramatic and extraordinarily moving.

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  • "Drowning Ruth"@it
  • "Drowning Ruth"

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  • "Wanneer een verpleegster vlak na de Eerste Wereldoorlog tot rust komt bij haar zuster en dier gezin, vindt er een tragedie plaats waarvan de ware toedracht pas jaren later duidelijk wordt."
  • "At the close of World War One, Amanda Starkey leaves the city, and travels to her family's farm in rural Wisconsin to recover from a traumatic love affair. Instead, she is caught up in a tragedy that will take her beloved sister's life, and leave Amanda to raise her niece Ruth. What happened that terrible night when Mattie died? Why does Ruth say she can remember drowning? For years the consequences of the tragedy reverberate; the truth, when it is revealed, is both dramatic and extraordinarily moving."@en
  • "Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth."
  • "Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth."@en
  • "In the winter of 1919, a young mother drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsic lake. the shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, her sister, and her husband."@en
  • "Unable to deal with her problems, Amanda Starkey flees to her sister's farm, but when she her sister drowns in a mysterious accident, Amanda is forced to take charge of her young niece, and she soon realizes that she has not left her problems behind, she has merely brought them with her."@en
  • "A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."
  • "This is a haunting novel about the ties that bind families together and the insidious secrets that can rend them apart. Love, loss, guilt and lies are the narrative strands that run throughout this deftly woven tale of three women and a shocking turn of events that changes their lives forever."
  • ""In the winter of 1919, Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Suddenly overwhelmed, she flees to her sister Mathilda and three-year-old niece Ruth at the family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake. Soon Amanda sees that her old home is no refuge. She has carried her troubles with her. One terrible night, her sister mysteriously disappears and is later discovered drowned beneath the lake ice."--Jacket."
  • "Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and a young niece, Ruth. An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, Drowning Ruth, now in paperback, is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores themes of family love, sibling rivalry, duty, loyalty, and a possible murder."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery storie"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Suspense"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Il segreto di Amanda"
  • "Il segreto di Amanda"@it
  • "Drowning Ruth a novel"@en
  • "Drowning Ruth a novel"
  • "Rut ṭovaʻat"
  • "Drowning Ruth : a novel"@en
  • "Drowning Ruth : novel"@en
  • "רות טובעת"
  • "Novemberkind Roman"
  • "Tonąca Ruth"
  • "Tonąca Ruth"@pl
  • "Novemberkind"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Rusŭ ŭi kiŏk = Drowning Ruth"
  • "Novemberkind : Roman"
  • "Ta mystika tēs limnēs"
  • "La petite fille du lac : roman"
  • "Onder het ijs"
  • "La petite fille du lac"
  • "Rut se davi"
  • "Drowning Ruth"@en
  • "Drowning Ruth"
  • "루스의기억 = Drowning Ruth"

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