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An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel--perfect for fans of One Italian Summer. A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes--with a giant Pattersonian...

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award In this "dangerously hilarious" novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men's prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend--from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award...

Author: Geetanjali ShreeISBN-10: 0063299402ISBN-13: 9780063299405Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 624Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.44w x 1.56dAward: Man Booker International Prize - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 26Publishers Weekly 11/28/2022Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2022BookPage 01/01/2023

"In this final installment in the acclaimed Black girls must die exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is juggling work, relationships, and a newborn baby -- but will she find the happy ending she's always wanted?"--Author: Jayne AllenISBN-10: 0063296640ISBN-13: 9780063296640Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2023Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.30h...

Growing up in the 1990s, a young girl escapes her abusive parents-and the "ranch" they ran for "bad" girls--and becomes an advocate for teen runaways in this harrowing and heartfelt novel for fans of Joanna Goodman and Lisa Wingate.While other adolescent girls are listening...

"In this final installment in the acclaimed Black girls must die exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is juggling work, relationships, and a newborn baby -- but will she find the happy ending she's always wanted?"--Author: Jayne AllenISBN-10: 0063137941ISBN-13: 9780063137943Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2023Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

"Exquisite." --Minneapolis Star Tribune - "Brilliantly observed." -- People, Pick of the Week"A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate." -- Hilary MantelFrom the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The...

From the author of Inheriting Edith comes a brave new novel about the intersection of art and grief after the tragic loss of her own husband in 2017.Mia used to be fun. She was the class clown; a member of the mile high club;...

Coming of Rage and six other short stories reflect the human spirit and learning how to rise up and meet adversity. To stand face-to-face with it, then overcome. These are tales of young and old, tragic and strong, broken but still standing. When a...

This book is about a young man's coming of age while going through four years of high school. It is autobiographical, but not an autobiography. It also has allusions to the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, and some references to Catcher in the Rye....

The dictionary says that fear is an emotion excited by threatening evil or impending pain accompanied by a desire to avoid or escape it, apprehension or dread. The pastor and his family in this story lived in a state of fear for many months...

The Visitor is the third and final chapter in the Cobble Bay saga. It is a story about love and compassion.Abby Sampson lives a life filled with happiness. She has two grown children. She is loved by a man who holds her happiness above...

These are stories that my grandfather, 'Grumps' told me when I went to visit him on Saturdays.He he'd led an active and interesting life, this meant that there was always a story to tell. He enjoyed relating these tales as much as I enjoyed...

How far would you go for love?It's the 1990s, and on the tropical island of Haiti, a teenage girl is about to give birth. The pregnancy was unplanned, unwanted. She feels that her hopes for a career are completely unrealistic. Political upheaval, poverty and...

All it takes is the right book to turn a book hater into a book lover ...That was Elliott's belief and the reason why he started the Book Haters' Book Club--a newsletter of reading recommendations for the self-proclaimed nonreader.As the beloved co-owner of Over...

"Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child of light." (Emerald Tablet of Thoth) An evolving immortal bloodline has now become something the supernatural world fears. Many in their world want their destruction, unwilling to execute the threat themselves...

This is another Helen A. Bemis double-header, two novels in one book: UNDERSTANDING OPAL, OLIVIA'S GREAT DANE, and UNDERSTANDING LUCKY, KATIE'S CELEBRITY POODLE/SHEPHERD MUTT. Opal's story starts with a bang, as gunshots ring out at the Riverview Animal Shelter. Trouble was sure to follow....

In 1905, eighteen-year-old Eliza Melling's artistic drive is overshadowed only by her thirst for the forbidden. She wants her appetites quenched-both creatively and physically-but her lust for freedom rules them all.Newly arrived in America, Deacon Claudio De Fiore had set aside the natural man...

Everything Nelly and Hugo had in life was earned through hard work, tenacity, and a whole lot of guts. A happy, young woman, loved by her family and community, Nelly is suddenly ostracized when she comes down with a serious disease that leaves her...

We were all at the party. Which of us wanted her dead? As the smoke from the bonfire spirals into the night sky and the cool drinks slip down our throats, none of us can take our eyes off Lacey. She dances in the...

I gave them my baby... but can I trust them? Giving away my child is the hardest decision I have ever had to make. But when I move into the Thorpes' stunning home so they can support me through the pregnancy, it seems like...

Bluebells bob in the salty sea wind and the cottage gate swings open to reveal the inky-blue cove. It's exactly how Kitty always pictured it... except in her head, she wasn't standing here alone. Kitty Roberts spends her days searching for the perfect home...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover's romantic, emotion-packed debut novel unforgettably captures all the magic and confusion of first love, as two young people forge an unlikely bond before discovering that fate has other plans for...

All the coffee in the world can't keep Stephen Millburn from floundering at his new job as an early-morning radio host. With a new baby at home and an irate boss at work, Stephen is barely holding it together. Trying to balance his parental...

A secret from a tragic past meets the longings of a lonely present. When Reverend David Wilder gets a letter from the daughter he's never known, he realizes that an old promise is a debt he might not be able to repay. His quiet...

What does an old man do when he finds a baby washed on the shore? What does he do when a single young woman blarneys her way into his life? The intrusion, the baby & woman, causes all kinds of disturbances in the symmetry...

The dual challenges of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that threatens the world and the unexplained loss of parents that threatens a family are the driving forces behind the lives of two boys and their grandfather.Willie, Denny and their grandfather, Pop, have lived together...

The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother. How can Joshua's behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was...

Becoming One as Husband and Wife is the story of three couples at different stages of life, yearning to find harmony and unity in their broken marriages. Each of the couples find themselves dealing with struggles that are beyond their ability to solve on...

After losing his grandfather, the last male role model in his life, 12 year-old Mike finds himself the the lone male in a house full of women - an absent mother, a financially-strapped grandmother, and a doting great-grandmother. Without his hero around to guide...

The acclaimed author of Broken Glass Park brings her "warmth, humor and sharp observational eye" to a disfigured teenager's coming of age in Berlin (Kirkus Reviews). Once a handsome teenager, seventeen-year-old Marek is left badly disfigured after a Rottweiler attack. Now his mother sends...

Shoe on the Road is a collection of short stories examining the origins of deserted footwear. Inspired by real events, the stories deal with real-life issues-everything from drug abuse to poverty to physical and sexual abuse-that eventually lead to a shoe being abandoned in...

Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the...

I am meeting this woman for one reason and one reason only. And that officially makes her off-limits. I want the one woman I cannot have. Again.The second I lay eyes on Naomi Kent, I know I want her. And not just for my...

A woman on the run from an abusive husband returns to the island she abandoned over twenty years ago.Amy Archer Ashwood is the younger sister of Holly and Rina Archer and twin sister to Randy. Like her siblings, she has little, if anything, to...

The Cold Hard Light is a spare and bracing literary debut that tells the story of a new father who falls into the grip of obsession.The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison's sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely...

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever...

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she...

The seventh novel by the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, Rachel Cusk's The Bradshaw Variations is a lyrical, subversive tale of a marriage unraveling.Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough...

Juline feels that she has achieved the ultimate - marriage to Bernard Hemmings. He is tall, brown and handsome, and has curly hair. He lives on the hills and has a massive house surrounded by lush greenery. Juline is now rubbing shoulders with the...

Dickens is class apart when it comes to creating some of the masterpiece epic novels that have been cherished and celebrated since the time, they have been written in the 19th century. Bleak House is the story of people who are fighting for an...

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Having been forced to leave his father, sister and home town of Rome at the age of seven, Francesco De Luca grows up in England, never fully understanding why he was parted from his family. Twenty-six years later, Francesco's wife, Lauren, dies in circumstances...

Women in Love follows lives of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula a schoolteacher, and Gudrun a painter. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, heir to a coal-mine, and the four become friends. Ursula and Birkin begin a...

Das Gl ck der Familie Rougon, Erstausgabe 1871, ist der erste Band in mile Zolas monumentalem zwanzigb ndigen Rougon-Macquart-Zyklus. Die Geschichte basiert teilweise auf wahren Begebenheiten. Sie beschreibt Ereignisse um den Staatsstreich Napoleon III im Dezember 1851 in der fiktiven Kleinstadt Plassans in S...

Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921) war ein bayerischer Schriftsteller, der durch seine ebenso realistischen wie satirischen Schilderungen des bayerischen Alltags und der politischen Geschehnisse seiner Zeit popul r wurde. Ludwig Thoma bem hte sich in seinen Werken darum, die herrschende Scheinmoral blo zustellen. Ebenso prangerte er...

The second book in John Reinhard Dizon's Generations series tells the story of Teodulfo Dizon: a teenager from Bical, the San Pedro District of the Philippine Islands.Son of a decommissioned Spanish officer, Teodulfo works as a house boy in the U.S. military sector and...

After the death of his twin brother, Catholic priest Rupert Brown gains guardianship of his fifteen-year-old niece, Neti.Burdened with grief and questioning his faith, Rupert tries to recreate a family home for Neti, made more difficult by the sudden return of her mother after...

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