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As Melbourne celebrates New Year 2101, trainee doorkeeper, Emma, 71, lies sleepless and alone. Her lover Cal is trapped in a prison cell for illegal importation of foodstuffs, forcing a postponement of their planned partnership ceremony.Emma suspects that Cal's sister-in-law Sonya is behind his...

A bond this strong can't stay broken. Life near the army base at Fort Benning, Georgia, might be small, but it's safe. That suits Karina Fischer just fine. She knows letting anyone get close to her means she could get hurt, and she's had...

Human beings feel the burdens of conscience and its challenges to their personal and professional duties and responsibilities. Pip was wounded at the Trust's Irish estate in an incident where his co-worker was murdered; he feels the force of the religious obligation to continue...

Keith Clay has spent years trying to shake the repercussions of his parents' destructive choices and turbulent relationship. His mother, Mildred, has always been especially difficult for Keith to understand. After spending his childhood trying to win her love and decipher her erratic behavior,...

Home is where the heart isYou can struggle to find the place you call home. It's not a place, it's a feeling. You'll know it when you find it. In Cry in the Darkness Tom struggles to find his place taming a grant of...

The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she's never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable...

The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she's never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable...

Three words written in a planner. And with those three words lives were forever changed and a love forged ... Lost in Love This is a story of love and how the cruel hand of deceit and chance can play a role in one's...

The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and...

In this electrifying psychological drama, two veterans readjusting to civilian life find their friendship tested when ugly truths come to light. Yemen. Iraq. Afghanistan. After returning from combat to a quiet garrison town, Dan and Richard struggle in their different ways to regain a...

She was supposed to be his one-night distraction. But their attraction is undeniable.Introverted Daisy McGregor is used to being a wallflower, but what she lacks in style, she makes up for with an acerbic wit, a passion for life, and a deep devotion to...

"Laura Wiess's masterful prose kept me turning the pages. This is the first book in a very long time that made me say, 'Wish I'd written this'" (Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, on Such a Pretty Girl). Laura Wiess captures the visceral emotion of...

Fifteen-year old Valeria Allegro works diligently on the family farm in Italy, where she is torn between her duty to her family and her desire to find freedom from her strict, domineering father. She finds solace in Dario, a young student who provides a...

"The perfect escape." --USA Today "Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." --Shelf Awareness Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post - USA Today - Cosmopolitan - Southern Living...

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave comes a sweeping historical novel following one couple's journey from Egypt to England, from war to peace, from loss to redemption. An epic love. A second chance. 1942, Alexandria, Egypt. Yvette Haddad...

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Every summer,...

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A Penguin Vitae Edition Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacation on Scotland's idyllic Isle of Skye, surrounded by artist friends. They expect these summers...

Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing...

The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a "short and strikingly original" (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones--now reissued by Penguin Veronica is late, and Juli疣 is increasingly convinced she won't ever...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life--the mundane, the trivial,...

Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize"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...

A reunited couple search for a valuable treasure, a precious jewelry box, stolen from the Nazis and hidden away since World War II, in this powerfully emotional and romantic novel of rekindled love--perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Josie Silver, and Jill Santopolo. Then...Once...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life--the mundane, the trivial,...

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of...

'Spellbinding. Once you start reading you don't want to put it down. It is emotional and your heart will go out to these children... I loved it. I couldn't put it down' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The USA Today Bestseller Two sisters. One secret. A daring...

Tell a friend to tell a friend about this awesome book. It was edited by the best of the best and written by a young God-fearing man. It is with great honor that I present to you The Rough Side of the Mountain. Will...

An immigrant, Italian family is humiliated by their daughter's actions. Eastville, a town of fifteen hundred. hears all. The rumor mill spins and spins. The family holds this secret tightly to the chest of ancestors and strangers. Secrets are knots, woven with an encore.All...

A secret bundle in a dusty corner sends the Benson family reeling.It wasn't meant to be uncovered. But when her son Brent stumbles across something curious hidden in the workshop, innkeeper Mae Benson must relive events she thought she had left thirty years in...

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,...

He promised to keep my secrets. He never told me his...My husband and I are the dream couple: deeply in love, the envy of all our friends. He surprises me with roses and a beautiful diamond ring, and I prepare picnics for us to...

He loves you now. He loved her first.I've fallen in love with a man called Sam. And he's perfect, just perfect.It's a whirlwind romance. And when our dream home falls through just before our wedding, we decide to move in with his parents. He...

Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following Chinese women in both China and the United States who turn to signs and languages as they cross the...

A legendary Cuban-American storyteller enters the Library of America series with a volume gathering three seductive and profound novels about family, desire, music, and loss Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) is one of the most acclaimed Latino writers of the last half century. Here are three...

Marcy Hammer's life has been turned upside down. Her husband, the head of a global brassiere empire, didn't think twice about leaving her after thirty-three years of marriage for a 32DD lingerie model. Now Harvey the Home-Wrecker is missing in action, but Marcy's through...

Do the Right Thing meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, in this "thrilling debut novel about marriage, gentrification, parenthood, race, and the dangerous bargains we make with ourselves" (Ann Packer, New York Times bestselling author) set over the course of one cataclysmic day when...

In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road, an "exquisite meditation on motherhood, marriage, and the meaning of home" (The New York Times Book Review), set in England, Australia, and India in the early 1960s.The only thing harder than losing home is trying...

A Huffington Post "2017 Hottest Reads of The Summer" Pick "Taylor Larsen creates a powerful and moving story about the fracturing of a family and its descent into chaos. A brilliant debut of self-delusion, and a perfectly flawed male character spiraling downward." --Huffington Post...

Longlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, this "moving account of the depth of ordinary lives" (Library Journal, starred review) tells the story of a young Tasmanian girl and a Danish sailor and the brief encounter that leaves a lasting impact on both. Isla...

From the award-winning author of The Mistress of Nothing comes a highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary connections, revealing the tenuous, often unexpected ties that bind us together.When everything was falling apart, someone fell into place... Suburban London housewife Harriet spends her...

"A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture...A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing" (The Washington Post).Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve...

A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect. Seasons...

A debut novel about a man and his romantic quest to find the woman he loved and lost years before.What would you do if you had a second chance with the one that got away? More than thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an aspiring...

A gripping novel about a woman who sets out to find the father who left her years ago, and ends up discovering herself.When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her...

USA TODAY sings that "Fans of Louisa May Alcott can rejoice" thanks to this charming and uplifting story of the imagined lives of three of Jo March's passionate, spirited descendants--that's Jo March from Little Women!With her older sister, Emma, planning a wedding and her...

Three national bestselling authors join talents in a multi-dimensional novel that illustrates the importance of love, family, and forgiveness.After a lifetime of womanizing, making babies, and then disappearing and taking no responsibility for his actions, Amos Davis has finally reached an impasse--literally crashing his...

From the highly acclaimed author of Far From Here and Sleeping in Eden, described as "intense and absorbing from the very first page" (Heather Gudenkauf), comes a gripping new novel about two former best friends and the secrets they can't escape.Adrienne Vogt and Harper...

A devastating novel of desperation and revenge from Laura Wiess. This follow-up to her heartbreaking debut, Such a Pretty Girl, once again spins a shattering tale of the tragedies that befall young women who are considered society's leftovers. Blair and Ardith are best friends...

Filled with bits of humor and sprinkled with crazy struggles and raw emotion, Searching for Sadie, is a romantic adventure about a young woman trying to pick up the pieces of her broken heart by starting over, alone, in the wilds of Alaska.After the...

The huge dark sky. The crashing waves. The smell of the ocean. An escape? Or another trap?Scott has rented a house in an old seaside town in Nova Scotia. He plans to spend the summer painting and escaping from the hustle of his career...

The huge dark sky. The crashing waves. The smell of the ocean. An escape? Or another trap?Scott has rented a house in an old seaside town in Nova Scotia. He plans to spend the summer painting and escaping from the hustle of his career...