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10-year-old Henry Rowley's family life is about to change, big time. After his grandmother Belle McNally wins $109 million in a lottery, she decides to use the money to bring her estranged daughters together and mend their relationship.But soon after arrival, Belle passes away...

10-year-old Henry Rowley's family life is about to change, big time. After his grandmother Belle McNally wins $109 million in a lottery, she decides to use the money to bring her estranged daughters together and mend their relationship.But soon after arrival, Belle passes away...

A crime forged in grief. One child abducted to replace another. But does a parent ever stop missing, or searching for, their lost child? In time, the discovery of a decomposing body, surrounded by drug paraphernalia, yields clues that help unravel the mystery of...

The Advocate, a must-read, is a fictional tale of Ryan Arenz, a retired middle-class widower. He volunteers for a program where he advocates for Wanda, a single mother living in poverty, and her young son Marshawn. Although out of his element, Ryan is tasked...

A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner"A powerful novel that will resonate with anyone who has returned to a place they no longer recognize as home." --KIRKUS REVIEWSCassandra Soelberg, pregnant at seventeen, was cast out by Mormon patriarchs of her community. Returning...

The captivating and unforgettable saga of the Dollanganger family continues in Petals On the Wind, the New York Times bestselling sequel to Flowers in the Attic and the inspiration behind the Lifetime original movie and tortured love story (Variety).Forbidden love comes into full bloom....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects and It Ends With Us. Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize just how much they belong together.As Layken and Will's emotion-packed story continues, a stunning and unforeseen revelation about...

In twentieth-century England, many working-class people were victims of values and circumstances not of their own making. They were people to whom things were done to, not for. Billy and Tommy Jones and their mother, Mary, were such people. The boys were born out...

An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel--perfect for fans of One Italian Summer. A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes--with a giant Pattersonian...

It is 1934 and Bea Ledoux is a headstrong seventeen-year-old who has just returned from a stint at a home for troubled girls with more than a suitcase. She has also brought the baby with her that she was supposed to give up for...

It is 1934 and Bea Ledoux is a headstrong seventeen-year-old who has just returned from a stint at a home for troubled girls with more than a suitcase. She has also brought the baby with her that she was supposed to give up for...

Inspired by her own family's experiences following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the entangled lives within an Iranian American family grappling with generational culture clashes, the roles imposed on women, and a tragic accident that forces them to reconcile their guilt or...

Enuresis is daytime or evening urinary incontinence influencing kids. It is characterized as commonplace and complete, compulsory and oblivious pee, without harm to the urinary lot at an age when control of pee is typically gained. Daytime and evening urinary self-restraint (control of pee)...

A widow on the brink of enormous change. A shock of a lifetime that nearly tears a family in two. And an old man who, as it turns out, isn't done living quite yet -- not by a long shot.Charlotte Hamner lost her beloved...

Little did Amanda Stoddard know that after turning over evidence to the police, she and her widowed mom Doreen (Dee) would wind up in protective custody miles from home with new identities and the continual dread of being recognized. When assured that the threat...

The town of Lambert is full of characters; there is Old Bill the Mayor, Bernie and Joe the publicans, Rev. James the vicar, Roy the local weirdo, Mum and Dad, Morrie the Friday night entertainment, and my brother, my husband Pete, our three boys...

In this heartfelt novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a young woman with an unforgettable voice fights for the freedom to pursue her dreams. Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no...

Critically acclaimed author Michael Parker, in a novel that promises to be his breakout book, tells the searing and unforgettable story of Earl and the cost of one bad decision that irrevocably changes the course of his life. Beginning in the 1970s in Carthage,...

An engrossing, breakout, standalone, suspense novel with heart, by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt GoldmanJoey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while...

The desire to look good is intrinsic to human beings. Is weight loss then just a trivial pursuit? Is it really only about being attractive to others? The slim and svelte-are they the happiest people?Come and join Siya in her weight loss journey as...

This Book "Madame Claire" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has...

This Book "Madam: A Novel" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book...

One-Match Fire is the story of love given and withheld among a grandfather, a father, and a grandson, and the Ozark cabin where they could usually find peace amid their struggles with each other. It is a saga of three generations. A late-in-life, reluctant...

Dialing the three previous novels' tendency toward theatrical catastrophe up to 11, Michael Gills' concluding effort to the Go Love Quartet traces the Stepwell history of hurt and tragedy and loss, arriving at, if only temporarily, a fragile harmony that allows the present to...

I thought we would be safe here. But I was wrong... My son Clark and I live in a beautiful cabin outside a rural town, somewhere nobody will find us. I could not have found a more perfect place to start over, shielded by...

What if your only chance to be a mother was to give birth to his first wife's child? All I've ever wanted is to be a mother. And since I married David, it's gone from being a dream of mine, to a dream of...

Nothing can come between a mother and her child in this haunting sequel to Eden's Children from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and Landry series--now popular Lifetime movie events.Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked...

Another story about Maggie Barnes and her family. By digging into online genealogy records and talking with their chatty Aunt Lillian, Maggie's children discover the World War II struggles of their paternal grandparents and their silent father, Ross. It's not a story to make...

A Kafkaesque and darkly humorous "suburban gothic" that tracks the unraveling of man's body, mind, and life. James Orr--husband, father, reliable employee and all-around model citizen--awakes one morning to find half his face paralyzed. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he stops going to...

When LaTravis reconnected with his high school sweetheart, he thought his life would be in full swing of uninterrupted romantic bliss, but what he found out was that his romance would have to take a backseat when his friend Jovon was murdered by a...

In this humane, affecting tale of a Turkish couple who lose their child and find another, the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet explores the ethical questions surrounding immigration. Fisherman Mustafa and his wife, Mesude, are devastated with grief for their son Deniz, who was...

Sequel to Eugene Mirabelli's award-winning 2012 novel, Renato the Painter.Author: Eugene MirabelliISBN-10: 1620540266ISBN-13: 9781620540268Publisher: McPhersonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2016Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/22/2016Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001Foreword 08/25/2016Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2016Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 91

Down Thru Love is a heartfelt story about a young man named Peyton Love, his journey of being born with Down syndrome, and his triumphs of life through self-realization, forgiveness, and love. Peyton Love's life has been full of challenges, but he has persevered...

Down Thru Love is a heartfelt story about a young man named Peyton Love, his journey of being born with Down syndrome, and his triumphs of life through self-realization, forgiveness, and love. Peyton Love's life has been full of challenges, but he has persevered...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions--a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and...

Lewis Walker is a father struggling with running a ranch, economic hard times, two boys growing up too fast and trying to balance family values while at the same time trying to not let the outside world drag him and his family down. Thelma...

Lewis Walker is a father struggling with running a ranch, economic hard times, two boys growing up too fast and trying to balance family values while at the same time trying to not let the outside world drag him and his family down. Thelma...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this captivating novel from Danielle Steel, five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company...

My daughter is gone. She's been taken. I grip the phone so hard I think it might break, and try to focus on what they're saying. I realise I'm not crying, even though I feel like I've been split in two. And then they...

Sometimes you have to reach the end of the road before you can start over. Kerry is perfectly happy with her life. She gets up at the same time every day to deliver post in the winding lanes and little villages around where she...

The #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller that People Magazine calls "a poignant, addictive read."From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and...

Grace and Tom Penderford had a strong marriage, a comfortable home in the English countryside and a healthy baby girl, Chloe. They were happy. They were normal. But soon after Chloe turns three, tragedy strikes when a disease called sepsis claims the life of...

Resilience has brought Larissa Whitcomb a long way toward surviving recent losses of those closest to her. "I'm emotionally bankrupt," she admits in the aftermath of her tragedies. And she still needs to get through holidays while grieving. Yet, somehow, gradually, she yearns for...

An intriguing and heartbreaking dﾈbut, this novel covers six decades of personal and political upheaval in twentieth-century Argentina. For years, the best that young girls from the backwater village of Alta Gracia could hope for was a position in the Big House, home of...

Daughters of Teutobod is a story of love triumphing over hate, of persistence in the face of domination, and of the strength of women in the face of adversity. Gudrun is the stolen wife of Teutobod, the leader of the Teutons in Gaul in...

"Beauty and sweetness weave a diaphanous fabric against the stark backdrop of poverty and cruelty."--Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact--just like the hot Appalachian...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a story of two young sisters who embark on a journey across the American Southwest to uncover what it really means to be a family. Since their mother's sudden death, sixteen-year-old Carly and her...

Opposites attract in this moving #1 New York Times bestseller of love lost and found between a young medical student and the man who captures her heart. Travis Parker has everything he could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in...

Kirkus Best Books of the Year Library Journal Best Books of the Year The highly acclaimed author of Accidentally Engaged delivers a delightful rom-com of one woman trying to shed her perfect image at a destination wedding with hilarious--and moving--results, perfect for fans of...

Even the prickliest cactus has its flower.For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an "interpersonal arrangement" that provides...