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Life is so much more than people have the ability to comprehend. So many unexplained mysteries and things yet to be explained by modern science. A small Wisconsin family farm, a woodlot with its secrets, and a man who long ago needed forgiveness. The...

"It's a wonderfully emotional, heart-warming journey of what it really means to be a parent" --The Los Angeles Times In this magical, bewitching debut, Molly and Gene Myers' marriage is on the brink of collapse. Then a child arrives, with a remarkable appearance. Will...

Will new friends almost ruined by their husbands find the strength to fight for each other?Abi's life has been turned upside down by her husband's death--in more ways than she could ever have imagined. With his dodgy business dealings now exposed, gone is her...

The truth lies just beneath the surface...Kate's world falls apart when her teenage son drowns in the waters by his school. She's convinced it wasn't just a tragic accident, but no one will listen.Then, six years later, Kate unearths Michael's lost diary and realises...

A Christmas promise brings two lost souls together at the magical Riverview Inn.All the Mitchells have returned to the Riverview Inn for the season of light and love-including Josie, who hasn't been back for five years. She has thrown herself into her job, trying...

"Six generations of readers have found in the story of the March family universal truths about girls, families and growing up." -The Guardian "A Natural source of stories...she is, and is to be the poet of children." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The novelist of children...the...

The year is 1975. Elle Sheen -- a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner -- isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in...

For fans of Robyn Carr and Kristan Higgins comes a family drama from best-selling Australian author Fiona LoweIs an inheritance a privilege or a right?Margaret, the matriarch of the wealthy Jamieson family, has always been as tightfisted with the family money as she is...

Tell your most devastating secret, or risk losing your only daughter...Now: Married again and living in a new town with a new family, Alys feels like she's sleepwalking through life. She's just lost her job, her grown-up daughter is flying the nest, and her...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONA Recommended Book From Vogue * TIME * The Washington Post * Buzzfeed * The Boston Globe * The Wall Street Journal * Vulture * Newsweek * NY Observer * Refinery29 * The New York Post...

'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour'A gripping saga' People's FriendIf you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you'll LOVE Glenda Young's 'amazing novels!' (ITV's This Morning presenter Sharon Marshall) From the author of Pearl of Pit Lane, comes a...

From the internationally bestselling author of over 40 novels comes a gripping story of love, family, and the price of forgiveness, for readers of Diane Chamberlain and Lisa Scottoline.In prison, Archie Colbrook spends his time writing letters. Letters addressed to a person against whom...

Stand a Little Out of My Sun - "An elegant . . . compelling multigenerational drama . . . the text is entertaining and vibrant, rich with details of Greek American culture, '50s and '60s Chicago." Kirkus Reviews Featured in the June, 2021 edition...

From beloved international bestselling author Hannah Richell comes a spellbinding novel about the secrets brought to the surface when a large family gathers for a wedding.Can the damage of the past ever be healed? In their ramshackle Somerset home, with its lush gardens running...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one family's summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world. It's been...

What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, uplifting novel about the unshakable bond between siblings, and what happens when a sister discovers her long-missing brother in the most unexpected place, from the author of Little...

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled...

Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage's collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love. Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora...

The remarkable life of Rita Valiquette is depicted in this book. Her story is shared through memories, stories, research, saved documents and foraged materials. It is a great view into her ancestors who immigrated to Canada, and a resource for those who know her...

This novel follows the story of Alice and Redmond Gilraine from Achill Island to London, Brisbane and Rochester, New York, and back to Achill. It chronicles their adventures, tragedies, and joys. This collection of characters live ordinary lives illuminated by the love of family,...

Ellie Sanders discovers a battered shoebox of handwritten song lyrics in the back of her bedroom closet. The hunt for the missing songwriter leads her to Ray, an elderly homeless man with a broken spirit. Fifty years earlier, Ray's bluegrass band, the Gulch Jumpers,...

For eighteen years, she tried to believe she had made the right decision--for him.But if she never saw him again, how could she ever be sure?Melissa had clung to the thin thread of hope given by the adoption agency that someday her newborn son...

"If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank." --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Identicals The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a...

Victoria Shorr's remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status.In "Great Uncle Edward," a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin...

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * Named A Best Book of Summer by Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Buzzfeed, TheSkimm, PopSugar, Bustle, HelloGiggles, Ms. Magazine, Oprah Daily, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Lit Hub * Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by The...

WINNER of the Amazon First Novel AwardFinalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer AwardFinalist for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean LiteratureHow does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been...

Now available in a Grove edition for the first time, Dalva is one of the finest novels by New York Times bestselling, much beloved author Jim Harrison: a beautifully crafted story of one woman's journey to find her son. From her home on the...

Undine Spragg is a beautiful and ambitious, yet vain and socially dense young woman with dreams of marrying a rich man. Hoping for a life of prominence and luxury, Undine convinces her family to relocate to New York. The Spragg family, who have a...

Every guest who comes to stay at O'Mara's Guesthouse in Dublin has a story to tell. The little red fox who visits the bins in the courtyard has a tale of his own as do the long-serving staff, and the O'Mara family themselves have...

A portrait of a family in crisis, this poignant novel navigates the tensions created when a family of faith is tested like they have never been before. When a minister's wife dies suddenly, he is left devastated, with four children to raise alone. He...

Miranda is such a big-hearted, generous writer, full of warmth and love" Jenny Colgan* * *Two lonely people.One note in the window.And what happens when they reach out...Lachlan Wallace is stuck at home after a car accident stalled his army career. With months of...

A dazzling exploration of social currency, love, and hypocrisy among the Gilded Age's upper crust, The House of Mirth is a classic novel that remains essential reading. Beautiful Lily Bart is a young New York socialite who enjoys everything that high society in the...

BASED ON A TRUE STORYMy own Mother couldn't stand the sight of me...A desperate woman nearly ruins her own life until she learns the devastating truth.Raised by her great-grandparents, Louann struggles to comprehend why her Mother could never stand the sight of her-unaware of...

A provocative satire of love, sex, money, and politics that unfolds over four wild days in so-called "paradise"--the long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat Includes an exclusive conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY Slate - Daily Candy - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian (U.K.) "Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One small Italian American town in America gets the makeover it never expected in this "eccentric, unpredictable, entertaining" (The Boston Globe) novel from the author of the beloved Big Stone Gap series "An artfully designed tale [with] characters so...

The hardcover publication of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone launched Stanisic as an exciting and important new voice in literary fiction and earned exuberant praise from readers and critics alike. Now in paperback, Stanisic's debut about a boy who experiences the Bosnian War...

Wise and illuminating, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and...

Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "blessed with the gift of being able to render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a touch. The result is wonderful...

A haunting southern tale of long-buried family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Under MagnoliaIn her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. In Swan,...

"You'll fall instantly in love with Cedar Key and this homespun knitting community." --Lori Wilde New York Times bestselling author Terri DuLong welcomes you to the colorful community of Cedar Key, Florida--a place where hearts are warm and friendship is true. . . Josie...

Between workouts, charity events, and shopping, Ann Barons keeps her days as full as her walk-in closets. She shares an immaculate house with her CEO husband, Mike, and their two teenagers, Nate and Lauren. It's a luxurious life, far from her homespun childhood on...

From Holly Chamberlin, author of Tuscan Holiday and Summer Friends, comes a witty, insightful novel chronicling a year in one woman's quest to find love, joy--and herself. . . At twenty, singlehood is a lifestyle choice. At thirty-two, it starts to feel like an...

Set on the enchanting island of Cedar Key, Terri DuLong's new novel weaves a warm, welcoming tale of second--and even third--chances, of long-held secrets, and newfound loves. . . For the second time in ten years, Grace Stone is starting over on Cedar Key....

From the author of The Object of My Affection comes a warm and witty family drama about love and lust, trust and betrayal, commitment and denial.Jane Cody keeps lists. After all, how else would she keep track of her life--her job producing a Boston...

"A serious, powerful novel... Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy."--The Nation This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he...

From "a master American storyteller" (TIME), Bullet Park traces the fateful intersection of two men: Eliot Nailles, a nice fellow who loves his wife and son to blissful distraction, and the man who, after half a lifetime of drifting, settles down in Bullet Park...

Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic...

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream--the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award...

Where can you turn when the world turns against you? When Elizabeth Barnes' life fell apart she never imagined that she'd be rescued by a new friend on four paws. The plan was simple: Elizabeth would ignore the fact that she was unjustly fired...