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When little Zanna's oldest brother died just before Christmas, she was left with the gift she had made for him--a picture that only he would have understood. Every Christmas, Zanna's gift is brought out and displayed as a way of including their lost brother...

"The Year of the Short Corn" was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath, forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be a civilian family gathered together with scattered serving children for a precious Christmas leave, or...

A journey of love and forgiveness is told with humor, sensitivity, and compassion in this warm family drama When Paulina dies mid-dance, she leaves 12-year-old Zav and seven-year-old Sealie with their loving but unstable father, Hal. The grieving family decides to plant a tree...

This book narrates everyday events in a neighborhood and covers sensitive subjects that many people find uncomfortable to discuss. We must not pretend they dont exist. The book is purely fiction and intends to describe the influence of people in each stage of our...

The perfect book group read for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore.A secret buried so deep, only a liar could uncover it '..towards the end, comes a twist in the plot so bold it will leave you blinking...A thoroughly satisfying read.'...

Author: Joshua HrenISBN-13: 9798892800327Publisher: Angelico PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2024Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d

Includes readers's guide and discussion questions.Author: Victoria RedelISBN-10: 0735222592ISBN-13: 9780735222595Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2018Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d

Author: Sophie KinsellaISBN-10: 1420519719ISBN-13: 9781420519716Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2024Format: Library BindingLarge Print

Our poetry anthology, Between The Lines features sixty poems by twenty-one different authors. Centered around themes of love, struggles, and faith in Jesus, this anthology is an uplifting book, full of poems that can be remembered and loved by people of all ages for...

"Deluged with gorgeous language and imagery, Mandira Pattnaik's novella-in-flash Glass/Fire reveals the magic in the malleability of prose and style. Powerful, complex, and emotional, Pattnaik wonderfully threads a narrative about families and friends and loss and love, showing the possibilities of what happens when...

A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean--from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin "Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken." Anthony Fennell,...

The BRAND NEW getaway novel from the BESTSELLING author of The Bordeaux Book Club, Gillian HarveyEveryone's story has some magic. You just have to turn the page to find it...As the sun rises over the little Provence village where single mother Adeline has escaped...

"A thoughtful and moving, but artfully unsentimental, depiction of a son's love." Kirkus Reviews From the author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a moving new novel, Diver, the story of an abiding love between a father and son.On the morning that his father, Navy deep-sea...

Winner, Best First Book, Saskatchewan Book Awards (1998) A year in the lives, dreams and awakenings of the Protheroe family. Baby Dion is brain-damaged at birth, yet he is a sweet and powerful influence on his parents, his five sisters and his grandparents. Under...

Join Claudette King-Welcome as she enters the worlds of three extraordinary women who play out their innermost fears over a period of fifteen years.Gabrielle Fairchild can no longer violate her conscience, and her secret life is about to become public. Millions of dollars are...

Harry and Laura are the perfect couple. But when Harry is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, the cracks soon start to appear. Struggling to cope, when his wife then asks for a divorce, his whole world crumbles. Can his beautiful, mysterious new client, the beguiling...

Author: Rachel LangleyISBN-13: 9798991579612Publisher: Rachel LangleyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2024Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d

Lina travels the world-not by plane, by train, or by choice. She vanishes into thin air and reappears in random places-an unpredictable and sometimes frightening "condition" that causes concern and disappointment for all her loved ones, especially her mother. But she's always done this;...

In Anne of Ingleside, the beloved Anne Shirley navigates the joys and challenges of motherhood while raising six lively children. Set in her cherished home, Ingleside, this heartwarming novel captures Anne's enduring spirit, humor, and wisdom as she faces family adventures and personal reflections...

Elizabeth of Pemberley After the wedding to the most handsome man, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, Elizabeth Bennett, now Mrs Elizabeth Darcy arrives as the new Mistress of Pemberley. With fear, intimidation, but also with excitement, she steps through the door of this great estate. All...

The BRAND NEW getaway novel from the BESTSELLING author of The Bordeaux Book Club, Gillian HarveyEveryone's story has some magic. You just have to turn the page to find it...As the sun rises over the little Provence village where single mother Adeline has escaped...

One message will change everything... 1915, London: Shaking, she opens the faded red front door and her heart races as the young boy on the steps holds out the telegram. The words swim before her. They can't be true; this can't be happening. Nothing...

I brought her home from the hospital. But she wasn't mine to take... All I've ever wanted is to be a mother. And as I look into the beautiful, bright blue eyes of this baby tucked up in her blanket, I can't wait to...

Bestselling author James Grippando's legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back to defend a single mother accused of kidnapping her own child in a perilous case involving politics and international diplomacy that will test his legal expertise and his marriage.Jack Swyteck's new client...

Two young families are on the brink of new beginnings. Brynn and Eric Branson, recently married, are overjoyed with their baby, Paul. Alison and Jared Jensen are equally excited to start their life together, with Alison eager to escape the influence of her overbearing...

It has been thirty-eight years since the tragedy that altered their lives. On the surface, life appears good. Both father and daughter are successful professionals and by all accounts are happy. But just below the surface, the tectonic plates of their lives are in...

From beloved Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996), widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is known for his historical novels, which masterfully probe the...

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis and the unexpected places from which love can grow."The true mystery Lapid seeks to unveil is one of the most burning questions of our time: What does it mean to be a woman in today's...

MORGAN GRAY grew up in a small rivertown where gossip on a circular dial party-line telephone and which allowed neighbors to eavesdrop on each others conversations and forward the "news" to Sunday prayer meetings composed of blue-haired widows reeking of Channel #5 family reunions,...

In 1948, Louise Galle, a chemist and former Rosie-the-Riveter, is pursued by a wounded veteran who, with her deceased husband, was a prisoner in the Philippines during World War II. In New York City in 1964, Louise's daughter Charlotte falls for the butch next...

An intensely moving, lyrical, and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a...

Inspired by real people and events.The Jordan farming family in Reighton face a day of reckoning as the head of the family becomes frail. Old Francis Jordan is stubborn and refuses to discuss his will. His eldest son, William, expects to inherit but will...

After completing her mission, Su Yuyu made three retirement requests to the system: beauty, wealth, and status. She then woke up to find herself as the contract wife of the world's richest man, Bo Zhijing.In the story, the wife possesses an angelic and stunning...

In this suspenseful New York Times bestseller, a chance encounter between a successful lawyer and a rebellious bad boy will change life as they know it forever, as their pasts catch up with them... Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot....

Not Even the Sound of a River is a profound and moving tale of love's phantom pains as shared through the relationships between three generations of mothers and daughters.Hanna drives down the St. Lawrence River to her late mother's hometown, hoping to find out...

This is an unflinching portrayal of life in a coastal Yorkshire village three hundred years ago with its folk lore, old farming methods, superstitions and traditional remedies.Mary Jordan shares her damp, chalkstone cottage in Filey Bay with five growing boys and an unsympathetic husband....

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), first published in 1871. The book reprises characters from her 1868-69 two-volume novel, Little Women, and acts as a sequel, or as the second...

Whisper to the Bees is the third in a series of historical novels set in Reighton, East Yorkshire in the early 18th century. Inspired by the parish records and local archives, it charts the continuing story of the Jordans from 1714 to 1720 in...

The women's fiction debut of USA-Today bestselling author Edie Claire Once upon a hot, lazy summer at Indian Lake, Pennsylvania, two giggling twelve-year-old girls swore to stay best friends forever. But some promises are hard to keep...When hospital social worker Teagan Hansen is called...

In 1944 Emily Dean is dispatched from Melbourne to stay with relatives in rural Victoria. At the family property, Mount Prospect, she finds that Grandmother is determined to keep up standards despite the effects of the war, while Della, the bible-quoting cook, rules the...

Tucker and Rena have been "just friends" for years. But when Tucker becomes guardian of his newly orphaned niece and nephew, he asks Rena for a huge favor to marry him. Saying yes would mean sacrificing all of Rena's romantic notions, but it might...

***2018 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST*** In The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick's two mesmerizing, interwoven narratives circle the lives of Joyce, a modern young woman navigating the fraught social mores of a small town in its post-war heyday, and her son, Carter, more than...

Now that her husband, George, is dead, middle-aged homemaker Alice Owens thinks his oppressive reign over her life has ended-but she is wrong. George thwarts her attempts at freedom, mentally and physically, from beyond the grave...* * *Alice returns from a routine grocery-shopping trip...

My daughter was murdered by my husband. Now I have a new little girl to look after. I have no idea who she is.It's been five years since my daughter was killed. It still hurts every day. I'll never be over it but I...

An Unfinished Life tells the story of a son's addiction and the effect it has on his family. It picks up where Book 1 ends.Author: Ilise DorskyISBN-13: 9798891577596Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2024Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

She wants it all. But life has other plans...After years of hard work, Madeleine's life is very nearly perfect. She's about to move to LA to pursue her dream job--and there's a new man on the scene too. But when her mother falls ill,...

Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight into how we navigate new experiences,...

Jenna spent the last two decades running from her hometown, and the memories of her past. She built a beautiful life with her military husband David and teenage daughter Lexi. When she and Lexi are forced to move back to Iowa during David's year...

Named an ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024Named a BEST or MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Readers' Digest, Elle Magazine, CondeNast Traveler, Publishers' Weekly, Indigo, ZibbyMag, Goodreads, BookBub & more "A deeply moving, layered portrait of the hopes, dreams and fears a family...

An unforgettable and heart-wrenching romance about a woman haunted by her past and the man who could never let her go. Anna works two jobs to get herself through college and never, ever talks about her family. It's easier to keep her distance from...