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'Simply superb.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Excellent from beginning to end.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A bone-chilling thriller.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'WARNING: do not start reading this if you have things to do. It's a page-turner you won't be able to stop thinking about.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It started with...

On the evening of their wedding anniversary, Ali and Matthew are involved in a fatal car accident.Grief-stricken, Ali can't bring herself to believe that her beloved Matthew is gone...The smell of his aftershave lingers in their bedroom. His voice still rings out on their...

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations....

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations....

Gina S. lives an orderly life, commuting to her secretarial job in Chicago, watching movies, or visiting her elderly neighbor, until a rainy weekend when unexpected events disrupt her routine. A blind date, a mysterious envelope, and a voicemail from Korea-each pushes Gina to...

Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret and Linda Holmes's Evvie Drake Starts Over."A touching novel charting two women's parallel lives, tied together by mysteries, transformation, and a cabin." -BookLife"Chrysteen Braun creates a masterpiece with smooth storytelling that juxtaposes the serenity of...

Love can heal...or devastate. Trouble is, the difference isn't clear until you're In Too Deep to escape...Ronan Doyle needs the truth. He can't let his family declare their missing father dead when there are still so many unanswered questions. He's sure the Cahills have...

West Virginia, 1937...It was not a place one could visit without an invitation. It wasn't what Harlan Fleming had planned. Yet, when he heard there would be no school if a teacher couldn't be found for this year, something about the place called out...

There isn't a day I don't think of you, my poor lost girl. I remember the sweet, milky smell of your skin, the shape of your lips. You were perfect, lying there in my arms, as tiny as a bird and just as weightless....

True love can change the future-but it cannot fix the past.Twenty-two year old Olivia Benson has a secret-one she's never told anyone. Only it isn't her secret, not really. It's not even something she can make sense of. But with the passing of her...

In an intriguing and exciting story, Njavwa a young lady and also a school girl gets a lift from a stranger on her way to the boarding school. As fate has it, she falls in love with this stranger. In another twist of fate,...

Looking for a cute way to put the kids to bed? The best way is a bedtime story. A cute and short bedtime story, for kids 3 4 5 6 7 8 years old. Here's a good 5 minute bedtime story that will quietly...

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona and is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating...

In the sweltering heat of a Montana July, the small town of Grandview readies for its annual Jamboree. The event is meant to celebrate community, but this year tensions boil over, threatening to tear the town, and a family, apart.Sam Kelvig, a third-generation resident,...

In which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some part, and which have to do with other personalities and events, including The Hurrying of Ludovic, Old Lady Lloyd, The Training of Felix, Little Joscelyn, The Winning of Lucinda, Old Man Shaw's Girl,...

Elise's time on Mackinac Island has only just begun.What started as a brief trek to the gorgeous Michigan island has forced Elise into a wild arena of family secrets, broken promises, and now--to her surprise--disaster.Wayne, the handsome stranger who works at the coffee shop...

A life beyond redemption. No, wait. That's wrong. Everyone can be redeemed. Right?Alejandro needed to feel safe, needed to prove to himself he was worth more than trash left at the side of the road. He did things we didn't like, things he believed...

When the Little Wings Are Stronger is the coming of age story of a young girl from the southern Ozarks in Missouri during the period before and at the beginning of the United States involvement in World War II.Raised in post-depression times in a...

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 - BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in PublishingA gay Latinx man reckons with his past when he returns home for his 20th high school class reunion in Varela's dazzling debut...an incandescent bildungsroman (Publisher's...

Tom Wilcher is a miserly lawyer, deeply at odds with the modern world. Approaching death, amidst a close-knit family that he both resents and loves, he reviews his life and times.Tom Wilcher, the hero of the second volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, has...

Author: Holly ChamberlinISBN-10: 1432898531ISBN-13: 9781432898533Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2022Pages: 597Format: Library BindingWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.80dLarge Print

An instant classic, beloved New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe's debut novel The Upper Room introduced unforgettable, indomitable, and thrillingly scandalous heroine Mama Ruby. Now this beautifully repackaged edition will captivate readers old and new. Mama Ruby's known for taking things...

"Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." --Ann PatchettBy the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria comes a masterful new collection of short...

What if all you inherit from your mother are her secrets?Isla knows her family kept things from her. When she inherits the cliffside cottage where she spent her childhood, she must face dark shadows of her past--the mother who rejected her in favour of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, JUNE 2021 'Annie Macmanus is a writer whose understanding and capturing of human nature comes as easily to her as breathing' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A work of gilded melancholy that is going to take everyone by surprise' UNA MULLALLY...

Three women from three generations, three ages, three stages. Women at pivotal places in their lives. Pearl Hamilton will soon turn 80 and struggles with the restrictions her advanced years have brought. Pearl's daughter, Margaret Bell, has lost herself in motherhood and become buried...

For two young girls in the 1960s, the family backyard is both playground and prison. Among the bushes and brambles, it offers places to hide from the rages of their war-scarred father, places that also become secret gardens of the imagination. Told over the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The darkly suspenseful tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives--all over the course of one meal. Now a major motion picture. "Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl It's...

Juliette is perfectly content with her quiet nights at home alone, especially when they include Chinese takeout and sappy RomComs.But her sisters think she's teetering on the brink of spinsterhood. So they've come up with an intervention plan: weekly blind dates until their Jules...

Dreamhouse is the story of marital conflict, family tragedy, and mystery, interwoven with a tale of friendship among a group of women navigating the dawn of the women's liberation movement. Part family drama, part recent history, McConnell traces one women's journey from her role...

In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina Garc a follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is Garc a's hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally...

"It's so hard to believe that this is a debut novel! It's an historic novel. Talk about hitting me on so many good points." -John Busbee, The Culture Buzz, weekly on www.KFMG.org"Set against the harsh backdrop of Montana, You Belong Here Now is a...

"I loved this book. It's one of those books that you just want to give to everybody." --Nancy Pearl on NPR's Morning Edition "An astute, engaging debut" (Publishers Weekly), The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming tale of a...

Small-town romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Farley Casey Hobbs has never met her father. She doesn't know his identity or where he lives or whether he has children. She's spent the past three years at her mother's sickbed, watching cancer eat...

Fall in love with The Simplicity of Cider, the charming new novel about a prickly but gifted cider-maker whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome man and his young son at her family's careworn orchard by the author of The...

A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial...

"The children had learned, not from him and not from her, but because of him and because of her. They would make wiser decisions-indeed they already had that day-and they would lead more fulfilling and healthier lives for the experience."It was the children who...

In each of the twelve stories in Michael Daly's collection, he attempts to cunningly expose our human frailties and foibles with hopefully an expert mixture of humour and sadness at many of life's challenges.Retirement plans that don't quite work out, a husband whose wife...

Set in the mid 1950s, Small Potatoes is the story of a scrappy little Brooklyn working class family that is suddenly upended when the Dad, a postal worker, is suspended from his job for consorting with a known Communist, who happens to be his...

In each of the twelve stories in Michael Daly's collection, he attempts to cunningly expose our human frailties and foibles with hopefully an expert mixture of humour and sadness at many of life's challenges.Retirement plans that don't quite work out, a husband whose wife...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE QUARANTINE STATIONTHE SEASONS OF BELLE READING ORDER: The Summer of Everything (#1)To Autumn, With Love (#2)The Colour of Winter (#3)The Spring Farewell (#4)For twenty years, Belle Hamilton has waited patiently for her partner Ben to propose. When he...

"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty...

A love affair with the widow of his best friend hampers Renny Whiteoaks efforts to keep his estate and family traditions intact.Author: Mazo de la RocheISBN-10: 1894852281ISBN-13: 9781894852289Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2007Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d

From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of...

Meena has heard whispers of the family curse since childhood. Seated around tables at the yearly reunion, relatives shared stories of the Man Curse's origins. It began with Great Grandma Anna Mae's affair with the church pastor. After finding them in bed together, his...

THE ABOMINABLE-A new interesting novel written by Babalola Wasiu. A novel that have the potential of becoming his best-selling in the year 2020.ABOMINABLE is a story of a young girl that was sexually abused at a young age by her own brother in a...

How far would you go for a child who isn't yours? Why do readers LOVE Virginia Macgregor? 'I defy you not to fall in love' Clare Mackintosh 'Will delight you but break your heart several times over' Sun'I couldn't put this insightful, compelling novel...

She walked out, but can she walk back in? Why do readers LOVE Virginia Macgregor? 'I defy you not to fall in love' Clare Mackintosh 'Will delight you' Sun'Might restore your faith in human nature' Bella This heartwarming bestseller is the perfect read for...

A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of...

Junichirō Tanizaki's magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature. Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family,...