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Leo has long joked that, in the event of his death, he wants his best friend Garrett, a lifelong bachelor, to marry his wife, Audrey. One drunken night, he goes so far as to make Garrett promise to do so. Then, twelve years later,...

The brilliant second collection of stories from Germany's answer to Zadie Smith. Judith Hermann's first collection, 'The Summer House, Later', sold 250,000 hardbacks in Germany, and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Judith Hermann's first book, 'The...

Four women seek the ultimate revenge against the men who betrayed them. The gritty drama from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Nobody's Girl. SWINDLED... Val Thorn, Paula Richardson, Cheryl Cutter and Betty Grayson have one thing in common - they have all been...

*Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Good Housekeeping, AARP, and more* From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding,...

Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed.Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married--twice--and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily...

Joseph Daniels narrates his family's origins, beginning with their arrival from England among the 1820 Settlers that landed in Cape Town, South Africa. Starting with nothing except a plot of land and the promise of prosperity in the Dark Continent, his ancestors John Henry...

Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude's life is not overflowing with the...

Inspired by the author's ancestry, this epic novel explores love, tragedy, and resilience in the lives of a large family before, during, and after World War Two in Scotland. When a Royal Scots soldier is sent to Hong Kong to help bolster the British...

It's like you're in a story, walking through the forest, picking up breadcrumbs as clues. And the breadcrumbs are leading you to the truth..."All her life, Darby Coleman-Shields has felt like an outsider in her family. Her parents have often sided with her two...

Jennifer Johnson McCarthy has a stubborn streak a mile wide, and it puts into motion a series of events that will change her life forever. A spat with her husband on the beach in Destin, Florida. A near drowning. And a chance encounter with...

Shocking family secrets have the power to destroy--or unite--an estranged mother and daughter in an emotional and gripping novel by the author of A Gracious Neighbor.Mayree and Paula are a mother and daughter drifting apart, separated by grief and more, after the death of...

With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace and kinship in the family they make. With his long hair and penchant for...

Joseph Daniels narrates his family's origins, beginning with their arrival from England among the 1820 Settlers that landed in Cape Town, South Africa. Starting with nothing except a plot of land and the promise of prosperity in the Dark Continent, his ancestors John Henry...

Imagine the look on your brother in-law's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your brother in-law, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately.For the rest of you, bring some...

The BookVoice Publishing Pocket Stories series continues with this heart-warming short story from John L. Lansdale. Emergency Christmas tells the story of the Albright family at Christmastime, and the guest who surprises them just in time for the holiday. Along the way, the Albrights...

Charles Pooter and his wife Caroline have just moved to a new home. Mr Pooter is a City of London clerk with Perkupps. The couple have a 20-year-old son, Lupin, who works as a bank clerk in Oldham. From the beginning a pattern is...

"It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter." --Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady As Tilly and Skeet prepare to embark upon a new future together, something devastating stops them cold. Would it ever come...

Janet Robbins has the perfect life, or so she thought. She has the best job ever as a stay-at-home mom. She keeps extremely busy with her children, Sarah and Michael, chauffeuring them to school and activities, volunteering in their classrooms and school, and helping...

"A triumph of storytelling. Henriquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long...

'My favourite novel and one I wish I'd written.' ALAN BENNETTWinner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature.Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don't they? That time for an...

Two broke strangers.Two broken hearts.Two happily-ever-afters for the price of one?Isla and Leigh are starting to think love is not worth it.Until they both see an ad in the gazette for a new dating service, which vows to help skint singles 'find love for...

Based on the whimsical advice of Aunt Beaners' Ouija board, the unconventional Jackson family abruptly uproots and moves west in 1960 to Scope Ranch in Keetley, Utah, near the mountain town of Park City. Unaware that Keetley is doomed to destruction, Simmy Jackson and...

THIS IS BOOK 4 OF THE SERIES. THE STORIE OF ELLIOT AND SCRAPPY. MORE FUN AND ADVENTURES WITH ELLIOT AND SCRAPPY AS THEY CONTINUE TO ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS AND LEARN MORE ABOUT MOM'S EXCITING JOB. ELLIOT AND SCRAPPY GOES FISHING WITH THEIR FAMILY...

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook's debut novel If We're Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history. When...

Each day Sarah spread a cloth on the space between our houses and sewed her wedding canopy.Each day she embroidered another rose onto the whitest of muslins. She waited, sitting on the grass in her sweater and scarf. We didn't open our door, never...

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town...

With a lucrative freelance career and a loving family, Deborah Earle has a life many women would envy. But her daughter, Amanda, is heading to college soon, and Deborah worries about having an empty nest. She thinks another child might be the answer. Her...

The aging owner of a successful, humorously-named soap company takes a page out of Willy Wonka's book and sends his family members on a scavenger hunt competition to decide who will become his successor.Jim Alexander Sr., an eccentric entrepreneur, is the current head of...

Athena Brkovich believes in true love.In the final book of the series, Athena finds herself plunged into her deepest fears. The predictions from a desert psychic are all coming true and Athena must survive as everything she has ever known comes to an end....

Smart, sexy, and infinitely charming, Rhode Island Blues tells the story of Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded thirty-four-year-old film editor in London who believes that her only living relative is her stormy and wild grandmother Felicity. Troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and...

Nobody knows the Hamptons like Jodi Della Femina, who captures the inside world of love, society, and scandal in this delicious summer page-turner. Toni Fratelli has a busy summer ahead. After several setbacks in Manhattan force her to move home to East Hampton, her...

An incredibly moving novel about the emotional side--and consequences--of open adoption from the author of Pictures of You. In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt's Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds and maternal love. Sara,...

"Molly Patterson is a writer of the first order, and her debut novel is a revelatory, immersive miracle. Ambitious in scope and exacting in its language, Rebellion becomes a grand exploration of fate and circumstance."--Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame CitrusIn 1890, a...

Athena Brkovich believes in true love.In the final book of the series, Athena finds herself plunged into her deepest fears. The predictions from a desert psychic are all coming true and Athena must survive as everything she has ever known comes to an end....

Nix Baines is seventeen years old, and she is displaced and alone. Neglected by her workaholic mother, lacking friends, and haunted by vivid manifestations of her own unexplored emotions, her life seems to be spiralling towards destruction and self-hate. However, there is one place...

A normal, healthy young man experiences several years of emotional and social abuse that begin in his formative years, as early as the fourth grade. The constant badgering from overly authoritative people in the boy's life path seem to be an instrument of influence...

When the little prince discovers that he's going to get a baby brother or sister, he's excited at first but then has questions for his parents about his new place in the family..The Little Prince and his Baby Brother is a story that reassures...

Humans basically live in their memories; what they remember and concentrate upon shapes their attitudes and actions. William Z. Smith, nearing the end of a long and meaningful life reflects upon what shaped him, influenced him and allowed him to influence others. Born into...

A novel inspired by the original screenplay for the award-winning feature film Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor, about a young trans woman who returns to her family farm in the wake of her mother's death, written by celebrated actor and screenwriter Shelley Thompson....

Following the birth of his daughter, Jackie, middle-aged Zach MacIver is determined to stop what he terms "intergenerational transmission of family dysfunction" from plaguing his family. Over the course of two years, from the time Jackie is eight until she turns ten, Zach recounts...

This is the story of Willis and Lila. Willis is a little girl who grows up in the turmoil of Jim Crow Virginia, whose White parents are manipulative and alcoholic. She spends her days with Lila, their Black housekeeper, who is warm and wise...

"Proof of Heaven belongs on any keeper shelf. It's beautifully written, mesmerizing and tragic, thought-provoking, and a reaffirmation of faith....I loved this book."--Shelley Shepard GrayProof of Heaven by Mary Curran Hackett is an astonishing debut--a moving, inspiring, and wise first novel that explores beautifully...

Venture into the Lost Fields of Silk in Ireland, where a fearless granddaughter unravels the clues to find her missing grandmother. Escape to bygone eras and embark on a heartfelt journey alongside a young girl and her father in 1950s Northern England. Travel to...

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point. Three generations of Schmidts have run their family's beachfront restaurant...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Islanders comes a warm, witty and suspenseful novel filled with small-town secrets, summer romance, big time lies and spiked seltzer, in the vein of Liane Moriarty.Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, recently moved to the idyllic...

Jack Elliot is stepping into midlife on top of his game. The flip, wise-cracking professor is up for tenure at a prestigious college and his books sell like hotcakes from coast to coast. He's living the good life in a posh Connecticut shoreline town...

Emma Starkey is a spunky little girl trying hard to be charitable and virtuous. But her calculated attempts have a way of backfiring with tumultuous consequences in this poignant story of small-town life in 1920s Kansas. As Emma's cranky grandmother observes, "Even sunflowers cast...

Following the birth of his daughter, Jackie, middle-aged Zach MacIver is determined to stop what he terms "intergenerational transmission of family dysfunction" from plaguing his family. Over the course of two years, from the time Jackie is eight until she turns ten, Zach recounts...

The aging owner of a successful, humorously-named soap company takes a page out of Willy Wonka's book and sends his family members on a scavenger hunt competition to decide who will become his successor.Jim Alexander Sr., an eccentric entrepreneur, is the current head of...