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A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani...

Once upon a time, Donnie Nelson was a bestselling author of fantasy novels. He had the fame, money, and career he had always dreamed about, but fame led to temptation, and Donnie surrendered to it, destroying his family. Then his mother died. Writer's block...

'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on Sunday Set in Cornwall, the bestselling novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. 'This book is complete perfection' Stephen Fry Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with...

Jackie is torn between two lives, the one her parents have planned for her and her secret life as amember of a gang, the Hoods. When her parents find out about her double life, Jackie's two worldscollide, and she must choose which path to...

A single dad, a nanny, a baby, and a fake engagement...it's all baby business!When the hot single dad next door asks me to babysit one morning in a pinch, I figure I can help him out temporarily. I'm supposed to be the resident baby...

Just when she thought she'd gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antisocial scientist back into her least favorite place--the spotlight. A hilarious and insightful new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of...

Five-year-old Sousanna lives in a small but love-filled home in Pirgos, Greece. For her, life is a family that dotes on her, play at being a rich and heroic American, a community that watches out for her. Though often cold and always hungry, she's...

In a landscape dominated by refinery smoke and rumors, Delia Arco spends her workdays counseling teenagers as outcast as she once was, and her nights caring for the baby daughter she loves fiercely. Searching furiously for the mother in herself, she struggles to understand...

A young girl sheltered from everything, including her own name, by her unusual and distant mother wishes that their lives would change. But when that wish comes true, she loses everything that was once familiar, leaving her regretting that she had ever made that...

From David Cristofano, the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Girl She Used to Be, comes a poignant, darkly witty story about the ties that bind us together . . . and the choices that rip us apart. No loose ends. It's the Bovaro family...

Raleigh Bishop's perfect life in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland, has just come to a shattering end. Her naval test pilot husband, Grant, has been killed in a flight accident, and Raleigh is left to pick up the brittle shards of that life. She...

Science raises questions only hope and faith can answer in this instant New York Times bestselling "tale of forgiveness and love" (Woman's World) from Karen Kingsbury. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sarah Fisher.Andi Allen is shaken to the core when she...

Overnight, in a small town, careers, friendships, reputations, and futures are all on the line in a razor-sharp novel about scandals, secrets, and hard-earned dreams coming true.A small-town campus is rocked by scandal. Suddenly, four women find themselves in the crosshairs of an investigation...

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Teenage sisters Eve and...

Just in time for the much-anticipated royal coronation of 2023, the charming story of a family's madcap quest to witness Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, from the beloved author of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. Coronation Day, June 2nd, 1953. A humble, working-class family...

Sara's childhood was a living hell. This is her story of the tremendous abuse she suffered and her fight to take back control. A first-person account of her life and healing journey.Sara's Rising is a Firebird Award winner for 2023.*Please see the author's note...

Jim Orton has a secret. He tries to lead a simple, good life with the guilt of a horrible crime he committed shadowing his existence. He was thrust out of Montana in the late 1930s and landed in a small Midwestern town. He is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door."I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter." --Reese WitherspoonThink: Gilmore Girls, but...

Imagine losing the love of your life to a self-serving egomaniac she will marry in less than one week, and your dream job in one day.Despite his slave-driving boss plucking his long, hard-fought, world-renown professional wrestling career from his grasp in Tallahassee, Florida, Richie...

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls.Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the...

Winner of the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award, short-listed for the 2019 JQ Wingate Literary Prize, and a Finalist for the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Books to Read in March and one of...

From the bestselling author of The Vibrant Years comes an emotional story of three women navigating ugly truths and safe lies with only love to guide them on a journey of motherhood, friendship, and life.Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others...

There are no secrets that time does not reveal...Bristol 1937The year is 1937 and the country is still reeling from the abdication of King Edward the Eighth the year before.His brother, the Duke of York has become King George the Sixth and will be...

Jackson Albright Hilton, Jack, dragged his heritage around for years, trying to shed it. The drama and trauma of those years provoked escape via a desperate whim. Entanglements and involvements with old and young created a running stream of experiences, which confronted the "too...

Adam Masters has lived a long and difficult life. Having spent his formative years under the thumb of an abusive father, he understands all too well how childhood traumas can shape choices made in later years. He has experienced firsthand the ways in which...

Suddenly widowed with no means of support, Evelyn Peerbaugh hangs a "for rent" sign in front of her large Victorian home and her life changes in ways she never dreamed of.In a matter of days she becomes the owner of a busy boardinghouse and...

Trampling over fear and mastering the art of boldness during difficulties, this book offers courage and hope for people to navigate through the storms of life. Smile on that Weeping Face narrates the story of Kennel and his mother and their enduring struggles through...

Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins's ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends...

In Together Forever, the author tells us that if we are patient and endure the trials we encounter along our life's path, we will become stronger, braver, and wiser.Instead of growing weaker, we will learn to create our own magic and our own wonders...

He sees a future with her. She can't escape her past. Will undeniable chemistry lead to the greatest mistake or a happy accident?Lance Mullen is just putting his life back together. Returning to Cliffside Bay to open a bookstore after losing his high-powered NYC...

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 - 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).Frances Eliza Hodgson was...

Sent to a "therapeutic community" for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the "Old Fox" of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new...

What better way of encouraging healthy eating? Most children love all kinds of animals and will be delighted to learn in this book, that many animals eat the same healthy foods that kids eat Healthy food is FUN and gives us energy, is a...

A novel of literary fiction, set in rural Ireland and London and Berkshire in England, between 1972 and 1996. A tale of romance, the hero and heroine searching for incompatible dreams, a tale of activism, love, loss pain and eventual atonement.Author: Fran BradyISBN-10: 1517377412ISBN-13:...

Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship --...

Hattie gazes at her husband's empty green-and-white-striped deckchair, the fabric blowing in the breeze. Blinking away tears, she clutches her own chair's wooden frame with trembling hands. 'What will I do without him?' Olivia's heart breaks watching her mother Hattie withdraw after her husband's...

From award-winning author Siobhan Daiko, comes a hauntingly epic read that will sweep you away to the beauty of the Italian Riviera. A story of heart-wrenching loss, uplifting courage, and secrets untold.When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend...

On Florida's iconic 30A, mother and social worker Vinny Lillenhammer has a secret.About the Betancourts next door.Unrequited artist and newly widowed Lila Beckham has a secret.About the Betancourts next door.Thirteen-year-old left-handed tennis ace Gabe Lillenhammer has a secret.About the Betancourts next door... but he...

Welcome back to Little Woodville.Visit old friends and new in this super, summer escapist read.Morgan Rosewood finds herself at a crossroads in her life after returning home to Forget-Me-Not Cottage to care for her ailing mother. She and boyfriend Ronan, had plans, big plans,...

Eleventh book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey.It's graduation time in Chancey......a time for caps and gowns. For Pomp and Circumstance. For magnolias blooming and epic parties.And, apparently, for a growing sinkhole to pop up...

Faith Lewis has a life most women would envy--married to her true love, living in her dream home and surrounded by loving friends and family. When she and her husband, Jamison, learn they're going to be the parents of triplets, Faith is ecstatic All...

"A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale -- On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King... Deeply affecting." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A captivating, often hilarious novel of family and wilderness...

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend--who may have some secrets of her own. A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns...

A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls....

Set in 1960s Italy, this stylish, atmospheric debut spins a bewitching web of ruthless ambition, family secrets, and the consequences of forbidden love, as an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn Amazon Editors' PickPeople, A Best Book of the Year For readers of Less and The Wangs Vs. The World, a buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects,...

Author: Annie RainsISBN-10: 8885790801ISBN-13: 9798885790802Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00dLarge Print

"Dazzling...as funny as it is poignant, nostalgic as it is sharp." --Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A...

Author: Marcella BellISBN-10: 8885789285ISBN-13: 9798885789288Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2023Pages: 498Format: Library BindingWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.87dLarge Print

A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage...