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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful novel about a woman running her family's luxury department store and the wealthy investor who threatens to take it over.Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a powerful story about fighting for a chance at happiness--whatever the cost.Charles Vincent seems to have it all--a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is...

"Astonishingly timely and clever, utterly gripping." --Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb." --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal--now a hit Netflix series--returns with a psychological thriller...

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...

In Irene Cooper's Found, what compels me is the compassion among characters, their empathy for one another, and their insights into what it means to lose a child. The suspense may take me on a ride, but it's the other passengers that keep me...

The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for generations. But when Vanessa Jacobs's husband dies and leaves the property to her, she finds costs spiralling out of control. In order to stay in their beloved home, she and her daughters will have to...

The "superb" (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue and political upheaval in 17th-century England. It is 1685 and England is on the brink...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon "Tom Perrotta is...one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book." --Harlan Coben An "engrossing and mordantly funny" (People) novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high...

Critically acclaimed author Julie Lawson Timmer returns with a tale of how community can heal the brokenness in all of us.Markie, a fortysomething divorc e who has suffered a humiliating and very public fall from marital, financial, and professional grace, moves, along with her...

Neighbourhood Watch is based on family dynamics and lifelong repercussions of decisions and actions made in youthful haste. Self-preservation and maintaining a good public image are strong motives throughout the book. Such incentives can lead even the most upstanding people to deception and reveal...

One early winter's morning, a teenage boy is found lying outside the gates of a monastery. The monks take him in, and eventually, in terrible distress, he tells them that he has killed his father. This story follows the life of the boy's father...

One early winter's morning, a teenage boy is found lying outside the gates of a monastery. The monks take him in, and eventually, in terrible distress, he tells them that he has killed his father. This story follows the life of the boy's father...

From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry, The Idea of Love asks, "Can two people come together for all the wrong reasons and still make it right?" Ella's life has been completely upended. She's young, beautiful, and deeply in love--until her husband...

From the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, National Book Award "5 Under 35" Honoree, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control,...

Return To Sender At seventeen, Rosalind "Lin" Townsend found herself pregnant and alone. Her deeply religious father threw her out of the house, and Nick Pemberton, her baby's father, refused to marry her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Lin vowed...

"Bursting with the magic of first love, it's everything I want in a summer romance." --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple - Reader's Digest - Country Living - The...

"Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self--woman, artist, daughter--is filtered and known." --Ocean Vuong A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in...

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh--bestselling author of Faith and The Condition--returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and...

Three simple words: "Bring Buca home." It's a phrase that resonates as Daniel begins his journey to rescue his beloved dog. Daniel Tanner, an eternal pessimist, moves back to his childhood home to care for his grandfather, who raised Daniel after his parents' tragic...

FOR ADULTS AND TEENS OF ALL AGES AND BELIEFS! The Renaissance is Book #16 of the epic book series, Living A Meaningful Life. The storylines of The Renaissance are interrelated with those in Books 1 - 15 of the series, so a reader might...

Catherine discovers that she has a daughter that her snobbish parents left to live with her father two years after she emerged from a coma. Even though her daughter's father believes Catherine is just like her parents, she now wants to have a relationship...

FOR ADULTS AND TEENS OF ALL AGES AND BELIEFS! The Shelton is Book #17 of the epic book series, Living A Meaningful Life. The storylines of The Shelton are interrelated with those in Books 1 - 16 of the series, so a reader might...

Ellie lived in New Jersey, working as a successful novelist. Her early life with her father had been idyllic. But, when he decided to go back on tour and leave her with her grandmother, her perfect life became disrupted. Living with a cantankerous grandmother...

"Superbly written and spellbinding...This well-plotted novel explores betrayal and trust, and the many facets of love-even its humorous side-that emerge when a family struggles with profound change. Author Ceone Fenn has created a memorable character showing us how to reclaim a life worth living....

When a routine doctor's visit becomes anything but routine, Claire began to slowly appreciate that her choices and lifestyle weren't reflecting the person that she really wanted to be and subsequently, living the life she genuinely wanted. Before she knew it, she found herself...

In recent decades the themes of family love, understanding and unity have been at the forefront in our society. From the music of Sly and the Family Stone ("Family Affair"), and the O' Jays ("Family Reunion"); To the popular cinema juggernauts of "Cheaper By...

Growing up with an absent father and an exhausted, single mother who was trying to work and raise four children, Rose was left to essentially raise herself. She unknowingly repeated her mom's pattern by marrying young and becoming a divorced, uneducated mother of two....

Millie, born Amelia Randall, was robbed of her childhood innocence by a series of tragic events. Her mother, Rachel, had mysteriously disappeared and her birth father was unaware of her existence. Left in the loving care of two humble local women in the slums...

Is her neighbor a friend or a foe?Soccer mom Yvette Palmer lives an ordinary life in San Antonio, Texas when a box is delivered to her by mistake, and in taking it to its rightful owner-a crotchety neighbor named Mona who shares her back...

Author: Bridgestone Multimedia GroupISBN-10: 1954458967ISBN-13: 9781954458963Publisher: Bridgestone Multimedia GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2023Format: DVDWeight: 0.13lbs

A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark, emotive, shocking psychological thriller by number-one bestselling author Michael J. Malone. 'A tense, immersive thriller that kept me guessing' Ian Rankin, author of A Song for the Dark...

My child means everything to me. But saving his life means destroying my best friend's family... I didn't plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I'd be going it alone, I swore I'd give my baby everything...

A charming story of Christmas magic from the author of John Passfield: Saturday Morning, nominated for the 2022 ReLit novel awardAs writer John Passfield is driving home from a December book-discussion meeting and thinking about the Christmas topics that were discussed---in particular, Dickens, who...

"Nothing short of astonishing. The best writers are brave writers, and Harris has proven herself among those ranks." --Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black BuckA compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption,...

"Nothing short of astonishing. The best writers are brave writers, and Harris has proven herself among those ranks." --Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black BuckA compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption,...

As parents, we unknowingly teach our children at a young age to rely on us for love. We say things like "Who loves you the most?" and the answer is typically us. Then as children grow up and go to school, they seek the...

You can never guess what April's plan are as she grows in her family and in her community April's parent have April connect with loved ones from her past. Her Birth Mother and Grandfather April continues to help others but always prays to God,...

A rambunctious Maltipoo puppy called Leo Pomp is adopted by a wealthy, British family with a bunny and he develops an affinity for gardening. He soon learns that his family had a previous dog named Hero, who was highly acclaimed for his physical strength...

Deep down in the ocean of the clear crystal waters between Montego Bay and Negril in Jamaica, two fish, Candlegal and Seymour, meet and become the best of friends. Their journey began when Seymour swims away from home because he does not want to...

How do we continue with life when we no longer have anything to look forward to? Willa Cather ponders the time-old question in this short, intense novel. Professor Godfrey St. Peter leads a successful life. He has a wonderful wife, his two daughters recently...

Early Autumn is Louis Bromfield's masterful Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which gives an insightful look into the struggles and extravagance of everyday life in Jazz Age America. After twenty years of inexplicable absence, Sabine Callendar returns to her hometown of Durham, New England. Equipped...

So Big is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by masterful Algonquin Round Table writer Edna Ferber, inspired by the incredible life of Dutch pioneer Antje Paarlberg. A thoughtful, gripping novel, So Big follows the story of a young schoolteacher, Selina Peake De Jong, as she...

It's nearing the end of the nineteenth century, and prairie life in the Great Plains of America is harsh and unforgiving. Willa Cather's writing effortlessly captures the hearts and minds of immigrants as they make a new life in the states. The Great Plains...

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde tells the story of two strangers coming together and uncovering a shared tragedy that kept them apart.They might've been a family.Virginia finally had the chance to explore a relationship with Aaron when he asked her on...

Eden found perfect love with Andy. How it ended was shocking. For the five years since, her little daughter Lila - and Eden's secret letters to Andy - have been all she needed. And Andy's family like it that way. Rafe wants nothing more...

A man imprisoned by taboo learns the price of love. A child visits the grave of a cousin she's never met; another absorbs the fallout of her parents' divorce. Friendships rupture beyond repair, and family members collide when it comes to caring for their...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel. "Clever, dark, and...

When a single dad meets the former rock-star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew about happiness and love is thrown into chaos in this hopeful, heartwarming romantic comedy. "Bound to charm readers from page one . . . You'll root for...

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...

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely and suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home...