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These are true stories.A young man in Egypt after the First World War.A young woman with a paranormal connection to the future.A girl destroyed by her first love affair.An old man who believes that his dead wife has just popped to the supermarket...Imaginatively constructed...

Immerse Yourself in This Story of Love and Companionship Amidst DeprivationIt is the fall of 1930, and America has plunged into the Great Depression. On a remote dirt road deep in the snowy woods of northern Wisconsin, misfortune forces the impoverished Sparkes family to...

A vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love.When costume designer Ariana Ricci leaves her groom at the altar, she seeks solace at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, a Texas-born Hollywood legend who began her career as an extra on...

A heartwarming story of family and love in historical America. Through love for each other and love for others, the Mattley family grows to include four young orphans and a lonely Indian chief.Author: D. L. OskolkoffISBN-10: 1608628442ISBN-13: 9781608628445Publisher: E-Booktime, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2022Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Eighteen-year-old Dakota Buchannan is determined not to be the messed-up, orphaned teenager with an over the top imagination the media describes her as. After her father's accidental death at Jennings oil refinery, she finds out that she has a much older half-brother and moves...

WARTIME FRANCE, 1944 Trust absolutely no one. This is the only advice newly recruited SOE agent Elisabeth Shepherd is given when faced with the impossible. Her mission: to enter Nazi-occupied France and monitor the Germans' deadly long-range missiles. GUILDFORD, 2018 Betty is celebrating her...

He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic...

In December 1864, a boy is born in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Sure Hope, Virginia. The Civil War is in its final stages, having destroyed countless lives and livelihoods. Sure Hope is an idyllic mountain town. There, the boy grows...

A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice--save her family, or save herself--in this "riveting" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite. "Marvelous . ....

The Valley challenges everything the Johnstones thought they knew about social status, work, race and family - but teaches them how to be themselves.For Malcolm, the new job with the Huon Council is a chance to build his idea of success: respectable job, nice...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can't be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL - "A deeply felt portrait . . ....

From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair."The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that...

The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order...

From the author of Semi-Sweet comes a delightful novel about the art of friendship, love, and (still) life. When Audrey Matthews offers an evening class in life drawing, all she's looking for is a little extra pocket money and something to fill her Tuesday...

"A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family . . . This novel is so full of wonders that it leaves you haunted, amazed, and, like every great read, irrevocably changed." -- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In The Newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four takes a leap of faith and moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. But as their relationship deepens, they discover that they both carry secrets...

No matter how we try to hide our past, truth finds its way to the surface, sometimes in devastating ways.Mary Jo Johnson has a secret.In the summer of 1949, twelve-year-old Mary Jo is changed forever. Not understanding why, she suddenly has the attention of...

ABOUT THE STORY: -My Workaholic Wife♥★The Story talks about the lives of three friends and takes us over the incidents and circumstances that occur across their lives from enjoying their lively teenage, then moving on their separate ways pursuing their dreams, bidding adieu to...

Minot's bestselling debut: A moving novel of familial love and endurance in the face of shattering tragedy Monkeys is the remarkable story of a decade in the life of the Vincents, a colorful Irish Catholic family from the Boston suburbs. On the surface, they...

The only thing Maddy knows for certain is that he died.I died. And I came here. To a place they call Two. They say one out of three people who die come here. Berlin is here. She's seven. She forgot to take her insulin....

A heart-stoppingly suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Christina DoddA submerged car is pulled from the bottom of the lake, and in an interesting twist, the driver has been shot in the back of the head.No other bodies are found; only the...

"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page." -- Hilary MantelFrom an unforgettable new...

WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart."A tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are....

Honest and heartfelt, delicate and intense, Four Seasons is both a beautiful celebration of family and the shocking aftermath of loss. As the four seasons of life are guaranteed, this is a story of how to live through them with courage and purpose.Author: Chris...

What would you do if a secret was causing your family to crumble? Is there a secret terrible enough that it should never be revealed, not even if it was tearing a family apart? For more than five decades Emma Bauer has kept one--carefully...

The wedding of the year versus the storm of the century. Who will win?Things are finally looking up for the Benson family. After a year of tough choices and big leaps of faith, it seems like love, success, and happiness are right in their...

The Benson family needs a fresh start. Can they find peace and happiness on the beaches of Nantucket?Last summer, a storm blew the Benson family's lives to bits. It's been almost a year since that fateful day, since they learned that life at the...

Nantucket was her paradise--until reality came barging in.Mae Benson was happy--a beloved wife, beloved mother, beloved neighbor. But even she wasn't ready for the tragedy looming around the corner. The accident that claims her husband's life rocks the whole family. And it's not the...

The Revivalists is a thrilling, terrifying, surprising, and tender debut, written in such exquisitely precise prose that I felt singed by its imaginary fires and warmed by its beating heart. Chris Hood's nightmarish cross-country family odyssey is also one of the most beautiful love...

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Los Angeles Times * Boston Globe * BookPage * Book Riot * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * LitHub * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & CountryA taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author...

Combining the powerful scope of Homegoing with the mystical touch of The Immortalists, Daughters of the New Year is a captivating debut novel about five generations of Vietnamese mothers and daughters, drawing on Vietnamese zodiac astrology to chart the fateful events of their lives...

It's another summer on Martha's Vineyard. It's one the Remington Women will won't forget.Elsa's middle child, Mallory, is often described as the quietest and sweetest of all the Remington Women-- just as happy go lucky as Elsa, agreeable as Janine, and punctual as Nancy.Needless...

John and Janet were destined to find each other. John is a struggling alcoholic who is fighting to keep his demons at bay. Janet has Down syndrome who is gifted with the knowledge of knowing her place in this world. When Janet enters John's...

Virginia Woolf's classic stream of consciousness novel revolves around one day in a woman's life in post-war London, 1923.Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she makes preparations she is flooded with memories...

A New York Times Best Thriller of the YearAn Amazon Best Book of the MonthAn Apple Best Book of the MonthA tale not just of profound misunderstanding but dynastic wealth and dysfunction, of how money and power can warp a community...[A] shocker of a...

A new love story from Anna Todd begins with The Falling, the first novel in a new trilogy from the #1 internationally bestselling author of the After series.Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft....

This book "" The Custom of the Country "" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

"Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles" is a novel about the power of will and the ways in which people determine their own fate. It spans three generations of Halliburton family, whose members are dealing with debt, seduction, murder, deception, and the constant threat of sinking below...

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.Determined not to give up, the two older sisters...

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.Determined not to give up, the two older sisters...

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.Determined not to give up, the two older sisters...

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.Determined not to give up, the two older sisters...

This annotated edition includes: Author Biography and Images.Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther...

A young woman in a vaudeville sister act must learn to forge her own path after her twin runs away to Hollywood in this "elegant, immersive . . . exploration of sisterhood, identity, ambition and betrayal" (The New York Times). "A beautifully told coming-of-age...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an uplifting and poignant novel about friendship, trust, and facing your fears.No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house to plan her next move. She never dreamed...

In McGinty Family Secrets, readers discovered a mystery on Sam and Gunny's property. McGinty Secrets Unearthed takes you on an adventure through the property to find what was hidden in plain sight. Other secrets are spilled within the pages of the new release. If...

Growing up is hard. No matter when you do it."Uncle Bruce, are you dangerous?"The innocent question of a 12-year-old boy yearning to connect with an uncle he's just met. Kelly King is a boy desperate to find someone - anyone - he can trust...

When Jules Zwiegenbaum moved from the South of France to the United States, he knew culture shock would be a problem. He was half-American, so how bad could it be? As a high schooler who loved to surf, California might suit him nicely. He...

Timmy Dennison is a ten-year-old fifth-grader at Wynhope Elementary School. When twins Jeff and Jess Billings move into town, their lives quickly become entwined with Timmy and his activities. Mistaken identity, false accusation, unfounded anticipation, new friends, forgiveness, and angels are all bound together...

Richard Morris learns that his former wife, Irene, has entered a Long Island hospice and wishes to see him before she dies. Surprisingly, she has named him her executor. For two weeks he embraces his duties, visits Irene's bedside, and seeks reconciliation with their...