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Trivia-on-Book: At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen. After a drunken episode on New Years, Ellis Hyde and his wife Madeline (Maddie) are disowned by his Philadelphia elite society father. To get back into his father's good graces, Ellis, Maddie and friend Hank travel to Scotland during World War II to hunt the Loch Ness Monster. Ellis' father had evidence of the monster, but it was viewed as a hoax. Ellis believed if he found proof of the monster's...
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"In this new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village"--Web page.
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Spiegel & Grau
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[2015]
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"After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed...
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"An epic, inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War--by any means possible "Powerful and entrancing."--Sara Gruen, author of At the Water's Edge Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father brings home the man who will become her husband. It is 1923 in the austere Italian mountain village where her family has lived for generations,...
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