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IndieReader Best Books - June 2018Featured in the New York Review of BooksAspiring engineer Hank Galloway wants two things in life: to snag a coveted position working for NASA and to get an accurate diagnosis of his mental illness.Hank doesn't realize how serious his...

History has proven that the poor fight the battles for the wealthy. The wealthy finance the wars to protect their property and lifestyle, but little is written about the real warriors of time who were the families left behind to survive on their own....

When Tracy's brother Aaron commits suicide, she inherits his dogs: two dog-aggressive pit bulls and the French mastiff Stella. As Tracy navigates her grief, she also has to learn how to care for her new dogs - who come with issues of their own....

Fall into the passions of a love triangle as a mother and daughter find themselves in love with the same woman in this romantic and chic tale of addiction in multiple forms. Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes...

The stories in I'm Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months. These are characters living on the tenuous edge of...

Award-winning author Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife isan accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When Eli Harpo was four, he...

Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels--deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic in equal measure--about crimes large and small. McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One...

The new novel from Number 1 bestselling author Louise Douglas.1968, Sicily. Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked...

This collection is comprised of a wide array of stories that explore elements of the writing craft. Each varies in voice, theme, point of view, and style. They branch across multiple genres from fantasy and historical fiction, drama and suspense, to epistolary war letters...

This novel will not be what you expect. The Love Letters is a heartwarming story about the depths of love. This is a contemporary and refreshing story about hurt and healing, but mostly about family, forgiveness and friendships. In Danielle's quest to live her...

Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With fortitude and courage, she fights...

'That shadow will burden our children for all time. They'll remember this night for the rest of their lives.' Few farming communities thrive. Most simply endure, sourcing sustenance from a strong family and community ethos that dominates their lives. When Jack and Liz Campbell...

Are the voices in Cassie's head real or just added mayhem?Cassie MacLean has been under siege since that cold January night when her mother, Rose Owens plowed into a group of pedestrians killing five and critically-injuring many others. The town's pent-up fury explodes when...

From the untamed wilds of Iceland's far north comes a deeply heartfelt tale, inspired by the author's own midwife ancestors...After the death of her sister to a preventable childbirth complication, Sveig P騁ursdtir is determined to not only do better for women, but to rise...

RaineI thought it was all over and just when I believed things couldn't get any worse in Riverside, they did.That was the last straw for me. I started to spiral and didn't know how to stop.What I didn't know at the time was that...

"When their daughter joins a cult 3,000 miles away in Bishop, California, Bill and Penelope set out on a harrowing journey across the hollowed-out remains of America to save her, and even though the world has changed, their hopes and fears remain the same"--Author:...

A woman never knows which decision she makes is the one that changes the trajectory of her life. Will the life she lives be the one society chooses for her or the one she chooses for herself? In 1946, twenty-two-year-old Genevieve Ryder knows that...

From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.Author: Robb Forman DewISBN-10: 0316013307ISBN-13: 9780316013307Publisher: Back Bay BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2006Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night.Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in...

Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament--unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mother's diagnosis with cancer, Maria's decision to give her daughter up for adoption is one that seems to be in everyone's best interest,...

Losing a loved one is beyond difficult. Author Larry Pickett, lost a little sister who was only a few days old, when he was very young. In his book The Two Lives of Shirley Mae, he gives insight into the feelings of anyone going...

Have you ever thought about what you'd do if you won the lottery? I mean, like an astronomical figure north of two hundred million dollars. Who would you tell? Who would you trust to manage your money? What would you buy? And, how much...

'I'm sorry, Sam's not available, ' says the woman who answers my husband's phone. I can't place her voice, so I politely ask who she is. Her answer sends my world spinning out of control: 'I'm his wife.' I know I want to marry...

Lord, Have Mercy is about a woman named Grace, who is a very loving and devoted mother and wife to her family. She is well respected throughout her community. Only her family knows that she's gifted (physic). Her seemingly perfect life began to quickly...

A book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide The Book of Queens is a family saga that spans four generations of women caught up in the tragic whirlwind of turf wars and suffering in the Middle East--from the Armenian...

In a country where the precarious rights of women and children can be reversed in an instant, legacies of enslavement and quiet resistance still reverberate across time. Present-day Casablanca, Morocco: Nadine Alam, a physician by training and housewife by choice, has reached her hour...

Author: Jennifer WeinerISBN-10: 1638088764ISBN-13: 9781638088769Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.69w x 0.92dLarge Print

"A rich, emotionally-nuanced story about a woman's deeply held connection to her family and her past. With an evocative setting and finely-drawn characters, Corporon creates a beautiful world you won't soon forget." -- Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling authorOn a beautiful Greek island,...

As the sun rises on a hot summer's day, four lives are about to be changed forever...Brand new from the bestselling author of What If?, What Now? and One Day In Summer.Today, Maisie McTeer decides to track down the ex who jilted her at...

Teenage film ing駭ue Tatiana Engleberg is on the cusp of stardom, even as her family is on the brink of breaking down. This is a refreshing and forthright perspective on coming-of-age in the modern world.Author: Norma KleinISBN-10: 1590772806ISBN-13: 9781590772805Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

"'One step at a time, one breath, one life ... one destiny.' These were my mother's famous words. She called them the steps of life."Zohra grows up believing that her destiny is written in the stars, that Maktoub will guide her step by step...

Second in the USA-Today bestselling PACIFIC HORIZONS series!In these interconnected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal...

'The Scarlet Pimpernel' is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy. It is a timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority. The novel is set during the Reign of...

Author: Ruth HamiltonISBN-10: 1447287665ISBN-13: 9781447287667Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2015Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Eleanor H. Porter published the children's book Just David in 1916. Ten-year-old violinist David is unnamed and has no idea what his last name is. He and his father have a happy life in the highlands until his father develops a serious illness. The...

Life can sometimes be a collection of random storms that we must weather, like ships at sea. Families maneuver these storms throughout their lives. Ian and Dee Conner share the storms their family members experience in this third book of a series. The Conners...

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves."To the Lighthouse chronicles the lives of the Ramsay family and their close friends, from the tranquil and motherly Mrs. Ramsay to the tragic and...

Read the audiobook of Nineteen Steps, narrated in full by Millie Bobby Brown Millie Bobby Brown's dazzling debut novel is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II.Love blooms in the...

Meredith Nicholson was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a politician, and a diplomat. He wrote The hope of happiness in 1923."Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls."Meredith Nicholson - THE HOPE OF HAPPINESSAuthor: Meredith NicholsonISBN-10:...

I run around the house calling my daughter's name, my voice growing more panicked with every empty room. 'Has anyone seen Tess?' I cry. It should be the happiest day of my life, but my daughter is missing...All I wanted was to take my...

Alyssa Megson had a rough start to her life, but now, things seem to be going well. Her bestfriend, Heidy, lives in her apartment building and is a great confidant, and she couldn't be more in love with her husband, Evan, with whom she...

"Our pain isn't here to hurt us. It only wants to be seen." When tragedy takes the life of sixteen-year-old Devan Jacoby, grief shatters his family. Desperate to see them happy again, the boy's soul remains in the earthly realm, at his grandmother's house...

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times! From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women--at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time...

The new novel from Number 1 bestselling author Louise Douglas.1968, Sicily. Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked...

"Compelling . . . The strength of Brand New Human Being is its realistic portrayal of trauma and its aftermath." --Washington Post Stay-at-home dad Logan Pyle is holding his life together by a thread: his larger-than-life father, Gus, has just died, his wife is...

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from "huge literary talent" (Karl Ove Knausgaard). FINALIST FOR THE FALLON BOOK...

The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye, where they happily entertain friends and family and make idle plans to visit the nearby lighthouse. Over the course of the book, the lighthouse becomes a silent witness to the ebbs and flows, the...

Two remarkably different worlds--one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation--are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold on to what they haveUpstairs: Lord Netherwood, a coal...

Mary Hogan's powerful and poignant debut novel about two sisters--opposites in every way--plus their mother and the secrets and lies that define them all.One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . .The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel...

The new novel from Number 1 bestselling author Louise Douglas.1968, Sicily. Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked...