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  • THE VOYAGE HOME
    JANE ROGERS
    A missionary's daughter confronts her father's secrets—and her own life—in this "deeply poetic" novel by the award-winning author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins ( The Guardian).   When her missionary father suddenly dies in Nigeria, thirty-seven-year old school teacher Anne Harrington makes the journey from London to retrieve his body. She decides to take the return voyage by container ...

    $229.00

  • ISLAND
    JANE ROGERS
    In this "unsettling and resonant novel" by the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland ( Michiko Kakutani , The New York Times).   Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth moth...

    $229.00

  • MR. WROE'S VIRGINS
    JANE ROGERS
    A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this "engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel" based on true events ( The New York Times Book Review).   A New York Times Notable Book   In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told...

    $229.00

  • SEPARATE TRACKS
    JANE ROGERS
    The first novel from the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home.   Orph is a strange, silent, friendless young man. Emma meets him when she comes to work at the children's home where he lives. She offers him a room in her student flat. But there, amid the love affairs and politics of university life, Orph's alienation only grows deeper, and his lonely course...

    $251.00

  • THE ICE IS SINGING
    JANE ROGERS
    The author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins "writes about a woman writing about writing and gets triumphantly away with it . . . a novel of tremendous readability" ( Independent).   Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous hotels, Marion is prepared to do anything to escape her memories. She begins to write stories, stories that take her into other people...

    $251.00

  • HER LIVING IMAGE
    JANE ROGERS
    A novel that delves into "the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended" ( Library Journal).   What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become?   Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning t...

    $251.00