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Michael Fain

Born: 1937 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: Judith Michael - when writing with his wife, Judith Barnard.

Connection to Illinois: Fain was born in Chicago and currently splits his time between Chicago and Aspen, Colorado.

Biography: Fain has worked as an engineer for NASA, was president of an electronics company in Canada, and published numerous scientific articles under his own name. He writes with his wife, Judith Barnard under the pen name Judith Michael. Jointly, under their two names, Barnard and Fain published articles on marriage and the family in Redbook, Readers' Digest, Ladies Home Journal, among others.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: mzf25@aol.com
Michael Fain on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=michael+fain


Selected Titles

  A certain smile /
ISBN: 1423357728 OCLC: 209658839

Brilliance Audio, Grand Haven, MI : [2008], ℗1999.

A clothing designer and widowed mother travels to China where she finds love with the owner of construction company, only to have their love tested by an intrusive government, corrupt businessmen, and his wildly ambitious son.

A ruling passion /
ISBN: 0671899589 OCLC: 422853201

Simon & Schuster, New York : ©1990.

A socialite-reporter and her network-owning boss rekindle an old romance, but when she starts investigating his jealous ex-wife's TV ministry, dangerous passions stir.

  A ruling passion.
ISBN: 074740299X OCLC: 60082309

Sphere, 1991.

Inheritance /
ISBN: 0671899554 OCLC: 19081376

Pocket Books, New York : 1989, ©1988.

An eccentric patriarch befriends a young woman with a police record and leaves her a good part of his fortune, but his family is determined she will not have it.

  Inheritance.
ISBN: 0747402981 OCLC: 19067188

Sphere, 1989.

  Makt og ære
ISBN: 8202168953 OCLC: 1028263403

Cappelen [Oslo] 1998

Ann Garnett er skilsmisseadvokat i Los Angeles. Hun lever alene, slipper ingen mann inn i sitt liv og har ingen kontakt med familien. Men når hennes elskede bestefar dør, dukker hun opp i begravelsen. Hun blir trukket inn i et skjebnedrama fyllt av lidenskap, hevn og fortidens skygger. Hun blir konfrontert med Vince Chatham, mannen som kjenner hennes hemmelighet, og sommest av alt frykter at Ann skal avsløre ham og ødelegge hans strålende politiske karriere. Chatham er desperat og slu og skyr ingen midler for å bringe henne til taushet.

Pot of gold :
ISBN: 0671707043 OCLC: 28334333

Poseidon Press, New York : ©1993.

In this sensational new novel, Judith Michael takes one of our most universal fantasies and spins it into glorious, spellbinding reality. Claire Goddard is thirty-four years old, of modest means and looks. She has raised her teenage daughter, Emma, by herself, working as a designer, but without the confidence or means to fully realize her talent. Her only indulgence, once a week, is buying a lottery ticket. Then, one week, she wins sixty million dollars. Overnight everything changes. She quits her job, indulges in the shopping spree of a lifetime - new house, new clothes, new car, new hairstyle and makeup - and then treats herself and Emma to a celebratory cruise in Alaska. There they meet Quentin and Brix Eiger. Handsome, glamorous, a wealthy entrepreneur, Quentin sweeps Claire into his fast-lane fashionable world, while his temperamental son, Brix, engages Emma in her first love affair.

Private affairs /
ISBN: 0671619683 OCLC: 15273066

Pocket Books, New York : 1987, ©1986.

Honor, love and corruption provide the themes for the new novel by the husband/wife team who wrote the popular Deceptions and Possessions. On their wedding day, Elizabeth and Matt Lovell are forced to "temporarily" shelve their bright dreams of a future in journalism and take over a family business in Santa Fe. Sixteen years later, with two teenagers and a house to support, the Lovells gamble their assets on revitalizing a failing weekly paper. Elizabeth pours her considerable talent into writing a column, "Private Affairs," but Matt's seething ambition is stymied until Keegan Rourke, a wealthy businessman, gives him the helm of a multimillion dollar newspaper chain. Reveling in the view at the top, Matt refuses to see that his integrity is threatened by Rourke's control of the political agenda, and Elizabeth's outspoken distaste for Rourke drives a wedge between them. As his wife's fame snowballs (her column now has national syndication) Matt succumbs to a fast-lane lifestyle, and their relationship crumbles. Curiously flat descriptions of the good life and padded dialogue slow the action, though glitz-and-greed fans may find enough to interest them as the scenes shift from Santa Fe to Houston, L.A. and the ubiquitous hot tubs of Aspen.

Sleeping beauty /
ISBN: 0671899597 OCLC: 33134433

Pocket Books, New York : ©1990

Back in her hometown for her grandfather's funeral, high-powered divorce lawyer Anne Garnett resolves a conflict with her Uncle Vincent begun twenty-four years earlier when both vied for control of the family empire.

  Stephanie og Sabrina
ISBN: 8259016184 OCLC: 1028359206

Hjemmet Oslo cop. 1996

Nilsen. Orig.tit.: A tangled web. ISBN 82-590-1618-4 Tvillingene Sabrina og Stephanie er begge litt lei livet de lever, de bestemmer seg for å bytte identitet i en uke. Men det som begynner som en spøk utvikler seg snart til en tragedie. Spenningsroman.

  The most requested movie songs.
ISBN: 9781603789745 OCLC: 816819058

  This is the ultimate Broadway fake book :
ISBN: 0881882844 OCLC: 11200141

Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., Winona, MN : [198-]

 

 

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