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A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observed debut novel perfect for fans of Tom Perrotta, Meg Wolitzer, and Celeste Ng.The white elephant looms large over the town of Willard Park: a newly-constructed behemoth of a home, it...

In this witty and heartfelt debut from author Brooke Abrams, a romance writer with a passion for astrology reluctantly travels home for Thanksgiving to make amends with her estranged family...and possibly manifest her own happily ever after.Romance writer Penelope Banks can write the perfect...

"Don't miss this charming Christmas tale of thawing hearts, escaping dogs, and finding home. I couldn't help digging into this book with both paws." --Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Must Love FlowersThe ultimate holiday gift from New York Times bestselling...

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night.Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in...

What if you met the love of your life and he wasn't your husband? An AusRom Today People's Choice Award winner that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty, viewers of Offspring, The Good Wife and movies like Up in the Air. Mel is...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark comes an unforgettable novel that illuminates the sweet and brittle bonds of family, the tenderness of growing up, the heartbreak of longing for what we've lost, and the poignancy of finding love.FACT:...

2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary romance category.Unknown to her tiny town of Deep Haven, Isadora Presley spends her nights as Miss Foolish Heart, the star host of a syndicated talk radio show. Millions tune in to hear her advice on dating and falling in...

From India to America, a woman's search for family, home, and self becomes a journey of secrets and forgiveness in a powerful novel by the author of No Ordinary Thursday.At twenty-one years old, Gia Kumari finally leaves the Delhi orphanage where she was raised....

When a mysterious painting offers her a trip to the past, will Isla find new hope for her future?On the brink of aging out the foster system, the last thing Isla Laird wants is to spend Christmas in an old-fashioned plantation. What's the point...

Jack has lived a long, satisfied life. He has had his fair share of adventures and adversities whereby the sum of his vast experiences has tempered his perspective just a bit. His moral compass for right and wrong have been tested but he refuses...

Author: Louise KennedyISBN-10: 0593540905ISBN-13: 9780593540909Publisher: Riverhead BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2023Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

This story is about John, who was hit by a car while saving a little boy's life. John's own life passes through his mind while lying in the emergency room. His son Joshua, who had fallen away from his faith, witnessed the accident and...

In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, Judith Krantz weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character--sensational Maxi, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed. Gorgeous, flamboyant...

What dark secrets could a harmless old lady possibly know?Elise Morgan is nearly ninety years old. She loves her family, the sea, and night-time walks. She hates gossip, and bullies, and being called 'sweet', or treated like she's stupid, or boring (and sometimes like...

Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's concerned, moonshine caused her...

The world is set on one reality. People have a certain way for things to be "normal." What if we are all wrong and there is a distinct reality, one that seems so out of place until we compare the similarities in this adventure,...

Brian is ready to marry Megan. Will her feisty spirit ruin their chances at lasting love?Megan continues to dream of greatness as a graphic designer, while Brian longs for nothing more than to take her hand in marriage and create a family with the...

An Amazon Charts bestseller.A novel of secrets, memory, family, and forgiveness by the bestselling author of When Never Comes.Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself...

I stroked the top of my baby's head and whispered to him gently that I would find a way. I will not let them take you... Once upon a time Kate's life was full of love and smiles and laughter. A time where she...

"But I have always told you," said my grandmother, "that he had plenty of taste." "You would, of course," retorted my great-aunt, "say anything just to seem different from us." For, knowing that my grandmother never agreed with her, and not being quite confident...

An Amazon Charts most-read and most-sold book.Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair--and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard...

In his tenth novel, author Jefferson Flanders tells the story of the Kincaid family, its patriarch, Professor Alexander Tarkington Kincaid, and his four children--who each struggle to escape the shadow of their charismatic father.Author: Jefferson FlandersISBN-10: 1735480525ISBN-13: 9781735480527Publisher: Munroe Hill PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 368Format:...

A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of life--and its surprises--in a funny and emotionally moving comedy of errors about the gifts of growing older.Olivia Strauss is turning thirty-nine. No major milestone. She still considers herself young. At least young...

Making Up the Gods is equal parts quirky and sincere in its thoughtful exploration of tragedy and recovery, of new and old relationships, and of deeper questions of when to let the past rest.Simone, a retired widow, would live a quiet and isolated life,...

A young girl grows up in a family uprooted by the terror of an Islamic Revolution, where her culture, her gender, and her education are in peril.For the curious and imaginative Moji, there is no better place to grow up than the lush garden...

Book 2 in the Whispering Cove series Life can throw you a curveball sometimes. Stephanie Freeman knows that better than anyone, and right now she feels like she knocked that curveball out of the park.Stephanie's life has completely turned around and she couldn't be...

Following in the tradition of Mark Twain's cherished classics Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Time and The Place is a poignant story of a boy's coming of age in the America of the 1940s. Despised by his father, David --- known to all as...

A tale of two men--fierce adversaries who ought to have been brothers--and two peoples, the Malays and Chinese, who forged a new nation while walking the thin line between kinship and a destructive rivalry Malaysia in the 1960s. A newly independent nation, full of...

Jase is a seven-year-old kid who sees, hears, tastes, and feels things differently in his life from you.He is autistic!Being autistic is very unique, and Jase would like to share his life story with you and how he sees his life differently from you....

Skill, subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy illumines life. - Daily Telegraph Harriet Cooper bumps up a rutted lane in a Hillman crammed with everything she owns. She has come to claim her inheritance - a large green bus - left to...

Lydia Wienewski has opened her Polish-American cafe and bakery on the shore of Lake Erie, but her idyllic new venture is shattered when the low tide leads to a terrible discovery.July, 1982. Lydia Wienewski's dream has finally come true: Lydia's Lakeside Cafe and Bakery,...

There are two sides to every story. Joshua is getting ready to graduate from his final year in high school. He has always lived in a small colonial town in New England and looks forward to new adventures in a university in Illinois. Autumn...

Author: Cece SavageISBN-10: 1662940823ISBN-13: 9781662940828Publisher: Gatekeeper PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 642Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.42d

Our need for identity can jeopardise what we hold most dear. In a Yorkshire Dales village in the nineteen-seventies, best mates Michael, a boy with a strong sense of tradition and family loyalty, and Jack, a boy drawn to new horizons, are there for...

Margaret Heller has everything she ever wanted in life: the perfect husband, adorable kids, a wonderful job with great friends. Her days are filled with t-ball practices, dance recitals, and bonfires with friends and family. Just as Margaret is basking in the glow of...

When Lin, Josie and Minnie left Miss Hamilton's class at Middleton Ferris County Primary School, sixty years ago, they could only dream about what the future had in store for them. The one thing they knew for certain was that their friendship would thrive.Years...

This book is fictional, and it is based on a special area of Haiti called St Louis du Nord before the new age of development. The town is way different than the period that this book is about. The book is a prelude to...

When young naive anglo, Abby Baker, fell in love with second generation Mexican American Mauricio Arias, she didn't expect the passions and history of his family. Meeting his beautiful sensual sister Renan, the quiet dark Pedro and the youngest brother, Oil Boy, cause her...

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. It's...

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful...

"Refreshing.... Asks urgent questions about female ambition. Fans of Lab Girl have found a worthy successor."--Real SimpleA powerful debut novel--a wonderfully engaging infusion of Lab Girl, The Assistants, and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine--that pits the ambition of scientific discovery against the siren call...

"Periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares. . . . As smart as Medoff's critique of corporate inanity is, it's tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately tender with...

"Van Booy's great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here, someone who has benefited from a perfectly imperfect family will...

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs, Mary McNear introduces readers to the town of Butternut Lake and to the unforgettable people who call it home.It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has...

A heartbreaking story of family secrets from the USA Today bestselling author of Gracie's Secret. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain.I know you. I know you in a way you can't even imagine. I have been searching for you in the...

Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recently translated Mahfouz novel, is guided by his motto, "let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath." He narrates his life story to a friend during one long night in a...

Describes the two-hundred year involvement of a small English Family Firm in a Worldwide profession. Namely Felling and converting trees into sawn lumber.Author: David W. ShoplandISBN-10: 1698711573ISBN-13: 9781698711577Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2022Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 09/19/2023

Describes the two-hundred year involvement of a small English Family Firm in a Worldwide profession. Namely Felling and converting trees into sawn lumber.Author: David W. ShoplandISBN-10: 1698711565ISBN-13: 9781698711560Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2022Pages: 122Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Ian McEwan, Elena Ferrante, and Julie Orringer, the spellbinding, internationally bestselling, multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster. Eighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes....