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In this smart, tender, insightful novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces two very different women who, over the course of two unforgettable weeks, learn about unbreakable bonds, unshakeable love, and the chances that come once in a lifetime--and change us forever... When Elizabeth Caldwell...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twist you won't see coming. A love story you'll never forget. From the acclaimed author of The Notebook comes a powerful novel about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. We...

Don't miss the captivating new page-turner from internationally bestselling author Susan LewisYou think you're safe.You think you know your neighbours.But can you ever really know who's telling the truth?Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with - an eccentric, award-winning publisher, spending lockdown...

"There's humor and action aplenty, but Four Corners is also a warmhearted look at how we love and forgive. Five hundred and forty-four pages never seemed so short"--People, 4 stars, People PickThe Four Corners of the Sky is master storyteller Michael Malone's new novel...

In the year after her mother Katherine ("Kat") Hudson's death, Charlie thought she had learned every secret her mother had. How could she have been so wrong? When Charlie discovers her mother's diary, it's as if Kat is right there, telling Charlie her story....

The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own....

I'll Love You All the Same is a children's book by Dr. Johnoson Crutchfield, an African American Dad who writes and sings to his children about life, his hopes and dreams for them, and in hopes to inspire other parents to do the same....

When Willow Trudeau is given her dead mother's diary on her tenth birthday, she learns a hard truth: her mother chose Willow's life over her own. Years later, at loose ends over her identity and abandoning college, Willow journeys to a deteriorating ethnic neighborhood...

On the verge of returning to the wearisome job he had never wanted, David discovers that he must earn his doctor's medical release by spending six weeks at a Vermont wedding venue. He is stunned when he discovers that it is run by his...

A sudden departure. A story decades in the making.The chaotic but happy equilibrium of the Nightingale family is thrown into disarray when Cecily--whose children can't remember her ever being remotely spontaneous--disappears to a Greek island with no warning or explanation.Her reasons for doing something...

Based on a true story. This is not a religious book but rather a story with religion inside it. An integral marital message for educating, discussing and understanding. Paola, 33 years of age, chooses to become a Muslim. Eight months after her conversion to...

Was She Adopted or Kidnapped?A young woman's search for her biological family opens up a mystifying twenty-year old cold case of a mother and her baby daughter disappearing while on a walk, a development that arouses interest and surprise from a couple of television...

The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city's wastewater. Her brother,...

Moses and Jorge will never leave the maximum security prison. Outside its walls, Gina, Shell, and Ellen will never escape its influence, or the way it tethers them to one another. When Jorge dies in his cell, lives within and beyond the prison walls...

From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the Sun, Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet...

Sarmada, Arabic for "perpetuate" or "the eternally-not-changed," is the novel's fictitious setting. In the title, Fadi Azzam creates a new word (a derivative female form of noun-verb, which does not exist in Arabic) and in so doing immediately lets the reader know that women...

They have the whole summer ahead of them. Is it enough to rekindle the friendship they once shared?Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends--but her dream is bittersweet. On the...

A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope. Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked...

'THE BOY MADE OF SNOW had me compulsively turning the pages to find out the fate of Daniel and his mother. A haunting and thrilling read. I absolutely loved it' Kate Hamer, author of THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT'An evocative and stunning debut'...

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. The Bodyguard is absolutely, unequivocally delightful!--JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here She's got his back.Hannah Brooks looks more...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the...

Phil Ochs has his troubles. His adult son is a failed artist who's targeting him in a terroristic poetry campaign, his wife has developed an addiction to As Seen On TV gadgets, and a professional rival is poaching managers from his seventeen Fry Buddy...

When a daughter goes missing... It's time to go hunting.Lilac is a sixteen-year-old girl climbing the ladder of success one step at a time. She's found social fame on the internet and has even patented her own bluetooth earbud earrings. A teenage influencer with...

Despite Femi Cole's philandering ways, Ajoke still goes ahead to marry him. And just as the leopard who does not change its spots, Femi continues in his infidelity, resulting in the collapse of the marriage. Years later, their daughter, Kikelomo Cole, is planning her...

He will need courage, resilience, and a bit of magic... to survive fatherhood.Artist Matthew Sugiyama finally has a location to start his search for his birth family, but no one prepared him for the turbulence of a scowling, unhappy child. Not only is the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings find their way back home--and back to each other--after loss. Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of...

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel of feminism, existentialism, and self-realization is an essential read for all lovers of classic literature. Virginia Woolf's classic novel centers around Clarissa Dalloway, a married high-society woman in post-World War I London who is preparing for a party at her...

How can you belong when you don't know who you are? Gina Reid is surrounded by people getting married or having babies. She's under pressure to settle down but how can she do that when she doesn't even know where she came from? Since...

Over the span of 50 years, different tenants come and go. A silent observer sees it all. This emotional tale of grief, joy, and longing tells a story of the human experience from a new and unexpected perspective. While the setting may not change,...

An exquisite new literary voice--wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout--depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss. "Full of nuance and humor and strangeness...[Polzin] writes beautifully about...

"Virtuosic ... glorious in its exploration." --The New York Times A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is...

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and named among the 50 most notable new books from Africa, Castles from Cobwebs follows one girl's transition from youthful innocence to understanding as she navigates questions about family, identity, and race."I'd always known that I was Brown....

A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (CrimeReads)Based on a true story, an urgently told psychological thriller and the fierce portrait of a woman in all her frailty and courageIrina's life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian living in Switzerland, she...

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing one woman's journey to discover the hidden stories of her family's seaside resort.When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow.Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale's hometown of...

The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Missing.Author: Susan LewisISBN-10: 0099525682ISBN-13: 9780099525684Publisher: Arrow BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2011Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.30w x 1.40d

The author of this novel, Don Betts, knows a lot about old Florida. No, he was not one of the first settlers. But he knew Manatee County and Sarasota county when they were still sparsely populated. He was born in 1932 on the far...

It's the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia--seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling--and the Sobel family is hungry. Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Her semi-estranged husband...

Willow Adair has a picture-perfect life--or so it seems. A stunning model-turned-wife-and-mother, she lives in a beautiful home with her husband and two kids in historic Bexley, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio. On the outside, she has everything. On the inside,...

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 - 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.George MacDonald was born on 10 December 1824 at...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lucky Harbor series comes a "witty, steamy love story" (Robyn Carr) about a headstrong woman who takes "full advantage of her second chance at life" (Fresh Fiction). UNEXPECTED AND UNDENIABLE . . . Bailey Moore...

The pain of deceit was fresh, but love and desire overruled everything else. Now, Aria and Aiden face their greatest challenge yet.Aria Cason's life took an unexpected turn when she reconnected with Aiden Raine, the man who awakened a pure and undeniable love she'd...

The pain of deceit was fresh, but love and desire overruled everything else. Now, Aria and Aiden face their greatest challenge yet. Aria Cason's life took an unexpected turn when she reconnected with Aiden Raine, the man who awakened a pure and undeniable love...

Ten tiny stories inspired by true events. A daughter's relationship with her father grows increasingly distant because of dementia and ten thousand miles of ocean.Author: Kaye LindenISBN-10: 153280752XISBN-13: 9781532807527Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2016Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d

All she wants for Christmas is a second chance . . . Charlotte Daniels has made her share of mistakes, but now that she's a single mom, she vows to do better--and that starts with a new career. Working at her sister's event-planning company...

An emotionally moving novel of a woman in search of a new beginning and a man haunted by the past--from the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels. At thirty-two, Jillian Parrish finally finds the courage to put herself in the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize A wickedly funny satire of Irish society after WWI, featuring "delicious and deleterious accounts of illicit sex and wild high jinks, and a mother-daughter duo who can scrap with the best of them" (Vulture). "Hilarious and sinister." --The New...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Danielle Steel tells a riveting story of the dark side of motherhood. Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As...

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a sweeping saga that interweaves the past and present in an epic tapestry of love, war, and loss.As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime....

This "gentle, humorous novel" follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker (The Wall Street Journal). The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle them. But...

One of Entertainment Weekly's Must-Read Books for July People Magazine's Book of the Week One of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing" One of PopSugar's "25 Must-Read Books That Will Make July Fly By!" One of the "Biggest Thrillers...