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Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak...

In the middle of my beautiful daughter's eighteenth birthday party, silence falls as I unfold my speech, my heart bursting with everything I want to say. But when I look down I see a note, and my world stops: She's not who you think...

From the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family's legacy and their iconic contributions...

Unearth the secrets buried beneath the Tennessee tomato fields in Nick Allen Brown's gripping novel, Grainger County Tomatoes. A heart attack, a mysterious inheritance, and a series of chilling discoveries will leave you guessing until the very last page.Author: Nick Allen BrownISBN-10: 1684424437ISBN-13: 9781684424436Publisher:...

Filled with a tight-knit ensemble cast of deeply realized characters, this earthy, beautifully nuanced story, set in suburban industrial America, reveals to us an everyday working woman as she finds her way on her own terms-through work, family, grief and love, and then-not so...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Today Read With Jenna Book Club Pick "I dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It's a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find...

Dive into the heartwarming and unexpected journey of "A Kiss To Die For." Meet Marianna Jacobs, a widowed mom whose life takes a surprising turn from the countryside to the heart of LA's music scene, thanks to a song lyrics contest. Here, she meets...

A BRAND NEW series for 2024 from bestselling author Lizzie LaneA country town in need of a good Doctor, but will they accept her as one of their own?Somerset, March 1930Born in the workhouse and adopted by a former suffragette, Frances Brakespeare was encouraged...

By "arguably the most important Irish writer since Samuel Beckett" (The Guardian), a character study of a young resident of Dublin who pens erotica for a living, making his money through fantasy while denying the realities of love and sex in his life. The...

What if you're the only one who believes your son is missing? A chilling, twisty psychological suspense novel, perfect for fans of Laura Dave and Gillian Flynn. Maggie Lawson is the smart, capable dean of a boutique college, but even the most confident mother...

Can Lexie Whittle figure out a way to balance her failing marriage, her job, parenthood, and a new romance? Find out in this heartwarming read. Lexie Whittle thought she had life all sewn up with a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home, and a delightful...

In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned baby girl, Julia, arrives unexpectedly on their doorstep. The couple take her in and...

Finalist: 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards "A great voice that in spite of the heavy themes, carries a lightness so you root for Heddie and her dog, Fella. Clever and also quite touching." J Marie Rundquist, author of All I'm Asking and As Though...

The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric "The Entertainer," an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II. Babe...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive,...

This book may be the closest most people will ever get to the wild freedom and early responsibility of growing up on a family ranch in the 1950s. Eve carries us there on the wings of her childhood imagination, and her book puts us...

BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2023: The Boston Globe, Deep South Magazine, Ms. Magazine, BookRiot; TOP 20 BOOKS OF 2023: BookBrowse "Brilliant, absorbing, and powerfully moving." --Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild "[A] gripping and tenderly executed drama." --The New York Times...

There are in our world mysteries that defy understanding. Once in a while there comes a gift. Not often. Not to everyone. Or perhaps in our rush we fail to see the gift or acknowledge it for what it is.Julia and Sam move in...

Winner of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature for readers of Min Jin Lee andThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriWhen young Minnie is orphaned, the Campanis family decides to take her in. Ex-hippie Susan and her husband Basil, a second-generation Greek American, along with...

"This novel is a ray of light in the canon of vacation lit--in Reinhardt's hands, paradise gone wrong feels very right." --People A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to this smart, absorbing story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong,...

Wilson Lacy is fast becoming an old man. After a prosperous time as a scientist, teacher, husband, and father, he is now adrift and alone in a shadow-filled house with only his ghosts and memories as companions. Wilson Lacy is beset by a particular...

Inspired by a true story, Color Me Butterfly follows four generations of mothers and daughters--haunted by a common specter of domestic abuse--as they discover the strength, hope, and courage to survive. The last thing Eloise Bingham wanted was to leave the comforts of her...

Bella, A Montana ranch wife, and Grant, A famous country western singer songwriter, fall in love by correspondence. After several years, the opportunity to be together comes, but there are Montana secrets to reveal and solve. Bella unites with Grant in Nashville and attends...

How does a convicted murderer confront the present as he navigates the past? A perpetrator who resorted to vigilante justice to avenge the defilement of a family member finds himself adrift after being released from a U.S. prison on humanitarian grounds. The parolee discovers...

Perfect families have the most to hide...I feel so lucky to live in a gorgeous house with my precious daughter on Riverside Road, surrounded by green hills and well-tended gardens. I'm just across from the Taylors, who were a second family to me when...

Dare to dream... George Fraser has a mission. Owner of catering firm Finger Food and black sheep of her family, she's determined to succeed in business where she's so far failed in her personal life. Asked to cater for gorgeous rock star Quinn Blake's...

The BRAND NEW Instalment of bestselling author Jo Bartlett's Cornish Country Hospital Series. Perfect for fans of Grey's Anatomy! A tragic loss... Since the death of her beloved father, Isla Marlowe has felt the need to do something to honour his memory; something meaningful...

"God knows Mama and I traveled many roads long, hard, and far! Neither journey easy, but truly this is our only meeting place. He has reserved our time."Mama, Don't Stop The Music! a contemporary fiction with light paranormal twists into the supernatural, takes you...

This short story is about Gabrielle Henderson and her pursuit of a luxurious, responsibility free lifestyle that led her to leave everything important behind. Her selfish pursuit left her with six failed marriages and 13 children, all of which she abandoned without a second...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Sandy Barker's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series Greta Davies, the features editor at a women's magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists...

The brilliant, brand-new novel from the TOP TEN bestselling author of 59 Memory Lane New friends, new flame, new fun . . . Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of...

Sometimes the truth sets us free. But most of the time, it's the scariest thing in the world - so scary it keeps us on the run for our entire lives.Which is why, when an eight-and-a-half-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped...

Mark L. Brooks hits a homer with this first novel if you love family dynamics, how each member plays on each other with the good, the bad, the most ugly, and how they can arrive victorious. Laying Autumn's Dust is a novel told in...

Victoria is a Beverly Hills teenager who describes herself as "a 90210 goddess." She's beautiful, wealthy, vain, rude to her friends, and claims to hate her mother. She would tell you that the only thing she truly loves is her dog.She would be lying,...

Though Dillon's wife, Doris, passed away after more than 50 years of marriage, her death didn't diminish the relationship they'd shared. Instead, it enabled a second act to be added to their story, one that proved that love doesn't have to die, but sometimes...

A.S.M. Hutchinson's This Freedom explores the life of a woman striving for independence in a male-dominated world. This poignant novel delves into the conflicts between personal freedom, societal expectations, and family obligations, offering a profound reflection on the cost of liberation and the pursuit...

Ancient and contemporary myths-including both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby--overlay a coming-of-age story set in remote northern Minnesota.Author: Cheri JohnsonISBN-10: 1636282350ISBN-13: 9781636282350Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

It is a bright, clear Saturday morning when Ken Graham's ex-wife stumbles through the front gate of his sheep farm, having walked, inexplicably, from the hospice facility where she has been spending her last days. Lena, suffering through a rare form of dementia compounded...

From the acclaimed author of The Kindest Lie, a propulsive novel about a mother and daughter each seeking justice and following their dreams during moments of social reckoning--1960s Nashville and 1992 Chicago--perfect for readers of Brit Bennett and Tayari Jones.Two women. Two pivotal moments....

Eve is a frustrated sixteen-year-old who uncovers a dark family secret. Muriel is trapped in managed care by the son who stole her fortune. Taking advantage of a twisted moment, this unlikely pair embark on a murky mission to rectify their wrongs. Together they...

Dive into "House of Lavender," where suspense meets transformation behind the dazzling facade of a drag queen sanctuary. When Alex Masters witnesses a murder and becomes a target, his unlikely refuge among the striking and fierce drag queens of the House of Lavender not...

A collection of short writngs that use various short forms including: autofiction, flash, short stories and memoir. All the stories aim to leave a trace of the authors past, his experiencies and of those he met along the way. Author: Nick GerrardISBN-13: 9798227197085Publisher: Nick...

A Tale of Love, Discovery, and Second Chances... In the bustling world of Dublin's advertising scene, Kitty O'Sullivan, a copywriter, feels an unexplainable void in her life that she can't quite pinpoint. Her five-year relationship with Dave is stagnant, her creative juices have dried...

"My earliest memory is of you, Arthur. We were children, running across the garden at Granny's house. The sun on your hair made it look like copper wire. Then you stopped, and I cannoned into you. We both went headlong into the rockery. It...

On a New England morning in the late 1980s, a group of young cousins wander deep into the woods on their family's property, drawn in by uncanny visions and the disappearance of one of their own--but the farther they go, the stranger their surroundings...

An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch...

In the wake of the Great Depression, during the 1942 bombings off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Deacon family has lost the life they knew before the Second World War. As the family and their closest friends struggle to make sense of...

A city boy visits his grandparents in the countryside. He did not expect to have a good stay there. But with his grandparents, he discovers many interesting things to enjoy and learn from.Author: Saba B. HailemariamISBN-13: 9798892434362Publisher: Christian Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2024Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The Pratts are off to Los Angeles and a crazy new adventure awaits!After an eventful flight across the Atlantic Ocean and a terrifying journey on a shuttle bus, they arrive to the top notch hotel they're staying at. The room is luxurious, but unfortunately,...

Isabelle is haunted by remorse over a past mistake that drastically changed the lives of those closest to her. Apologizing would be a step in the right direction-if only she could muster the courage to say, "I'm sorry." Her world is turned upside down...