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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming "tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit" (The Boston Globe). In California's central valley, five women and...

Six months after witnessing her foster brother take his own life, Kim finds herself scraping the bottom of the bucket, searching for any and everything she believes could assist her in her new obsession; finding her biological parents. While still balancing guardianship, working a...

From the author of the "funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining" (Marie Claire) Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the date she'll meet her true love--only he isn't quite as...

Thrilling and deeply moving, gorgeously written and intricately plotted . . . bold and brilliant. -ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs,...

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women. "You're a small thing," Grandma writes, "and you must learn to fight." Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting...

'My book of the year so far...' --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling authorIn this chilling thriller from the bestselling authors of Spare Room, one woman just wants the truth about who she really is. But she's not the only one looking...It's twenty...

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)"A virtuosic portrait." -New York Times Book Review"A tender, glowing novel." -Anthony Doerr, Guardian, "Best Books of the Year""Pages that are polished like jewels." -Scott Simon, NPR, "Books We Love""Lit from within." -Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times,...

In the wake of a horrific and unimaginable tragedy, Bambi M ller and her younger brother, Joseph, set out on a quest for justice. After they've lost everything, they're determined to find their new selves and what it means to have a home, again.Their...

Book 3 in the 5-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.5 million copiesA story of God's divine leading and the truth that God rewards those who seek Him with all their heart, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author...

Just when the Yada Yadas want to get comfy, they realize God is on the move. It's time for the sisters to let go . . . and let God take the lead.These aren't easy times for the Yada Yadas: a devastating fi re,...

Standing in grief and shock at the grave of her young husband, Claire Avery wonders what she and her young daughters will do now. They live in the church parsonage they need to vacate. She hasn't worked since her marriage twelve years ago. Old...

In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around...

The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews). A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for...

ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "A richly conceived and devastating book about the border." --Houston Chronicle From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations, and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where...

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, an atmospheric, tender tale of love and loss set in 1969 rural Kentucky. There, a young girl named RubyLyn is subjected to grueling labor by her God-fearing...

From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world.Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to...

NOW A MASTERPIECE(TM) SERIES ON PBS(R)The second novel in the gripping Poldark Saga, a historical fiction series following the life and love of the Poldark family, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Outlander.In the enchanting second novel in Winston Graham's beloved Poldark series,...

With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man's last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. "A work of art . . . a great American novel."--The Philadelphia Inquirer...

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a...

"Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go." -- San Francisco ChronicleThis...

Thrity Umrigar, who "displays an impressive talent for conceiving multidimensional, sympathetic characters with life-like emotional quandaries and psychological stumbling blocks," (Washington Post Book World) brings her talent to the social struggles of modern day Bombay in THE SPACE BETWEEN US."This is a story intimately...

Burdened by a troubled history with her mother, Elizabeth struggles to raise her own teenage daughter differently. She wants to celebrate when Belle receives a fabulous opportunity miles away in New York City, but is concerned that this move will prolong the estrangement between...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize A "fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving" about an English village haunted by one family's loss--for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Smith's NW (George Saunders, The...

The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and star-crossed lovers. Watch the new original series Belgravia only on EPIX. On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to...

Loosely based on Porter Shreve's own childhood, When the White House Was Ours is the atmospheric and captivating story of a family's struggle to stay together against great odds. It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is...

The New York Times called Porter Shreve's first novel, The Obituary Writer, "an involving and sneakily touching story whose twists feel less like the conventions of a genre than the convolutions of a heart--any heart." Newsday hailed the book as "a substantial achievement," and...

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta...

A charming companion to Lilian Jackson Braun's Cat Who series that contains intriguing stories about the place that cats Koko, Yum Yum, and reporter Jim Qwilleran call home. Fictional columnist James Qwilleran has finally completed his book showcasing the stories related to him by...

New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry continues to spellbind readers in this rich and engaging novel of three sisters...their loves, their rivalries, and the events of one summer that change their lives. In the small seaside town of Palmetto Beach, the Sheffield...

Two friends struggle to balance their personal and professional lives in this charming novel from acclaimed author Maeve Binchy. They met in cooking school and became fast friends with a common dream. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin by storm...

The explosive novel that introduced the world to #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan. Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of Mama, a survivor who'll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred's world, men come and go as...

Relive Jane Austen's Emma- from Mr. Knightley's point of view. Between managing his estate and visiting his brother in London, Mr. Knightley is both exasperated and amused by his irresistibly beautiful, outrageously mischievous neighbor, Emma Woodhouse, whose misguided attempts at matchmaking are wreaking havoc...

In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic...

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and Jess remembers the tales she and his mother have passed down to him--a chorus of women's voices...

A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers. Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled novel sees the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura Diaz, a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as...

"Never underestimate the power of a group of women. Fierce, thoughtful and dramatic--this is a story of true courage." --Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling authorShe would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade...

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path...

A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting ... in its intimacy"...

"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks...

Sue Keller is lost. When her father dies suddenly, she's orphaned in her mid-twenties, her mother already long gone. Then Sue meets Annie. It's been twenty years, but Annie could never forget that face. She was Sue's live-in nanny at their big house upstate,...

Inspired by the life experiences of the author and others who had narcissistic or toxic parents.This is a tale of two girls who were born on the same day in the same place, but grew up in dramatically different households. It is a comparison...

Author: Esther FreudISBN-10: 1432893092ISBN-13: 9781432893095Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2021Pages: 556Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20dLarge Print

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author, Matt Goldman. Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South...

Little Girl Lost is a story of a mother's arduous journey to try to save her daughter's life and the one special person who changes it all.Author: Ilise DorskyISBN-10: 1662436548ISBN-13: 9781662436543Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2021Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Kit and David were college sweethearts. Now married and twelve years older, they live in Kit's childhood home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. While David has a successful career, jetting off on work trips to exotic destinations, Kit is stuck in a loop. She keeps...

Based on the original edition; first publication was in the USA in 1954. In a small village in India, a simple peasant woman recalls her life as a child bride, a farmer's wife, and a devoted mother amidst fights to meet changing times, poverty,...

Tessa McWatt's breathtaking new novel explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered. Northern India, 2009. Four travellers disembark from the Dhauladhar Express at the Pathankot train station,...

"Thorndike Press large print basic"--Copyright.Author: Ann NapolitanoISBN-10: 1432884689ISBN-13: 9781432884680Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2021Pages: 495Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10dLarge Print

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZEAward-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to dateIn these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed,...

"Dazzling. A novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling." - Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita...