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Service to country binds three generations of the Gregg family. Their patriotism spans World War I, World War II, and Vietnam. Proud to wear the uniform of the United States Air Force, each of them has a different fate, but their allegiance remains impenetrable....

Amidst the teeming tenements of 1970s Bombay (Mumbai), a hungry teenage boy struggles through life in a poverty-stricken family ruled by a domineering alcoholic father, when suddenly he faces another challenge: the affections of an upper middle-class girl. In this exploration of poverty and...

Between 1870 and 1900, twelve million people immigrated to America. Hundreds of thousands of them came to work in the textile mills of Fall River, Massachusetts. The Mill of Lost Dreams is a story of love, friendship and sacrifice that provides an inside view...

Treat yourself to an epic #1 New York Times bestselling love story that spans decades and continents as two people at a crossroads -- one from North Carolina and one from Zimbabwe -- experience the transcendence and heartbreak of true love.Hope Anderson has some...

*LJ-"Brown kills it, a captivating winner" BL-"The pacing is brisk, the characters are appealing, and both time lines are equally well realized. Thoughtful, clever" Kirkus-"engaging and suspenseful."Author: Karma BrownISBN-10: 1432877283ISBN-13: 9781432877286Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2020Pages: 490Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w...

This is a collection of vignettes that take place in New Milford, Connecticut. In a time when most authors are bemoaning their sad lives, Mr. Barysh has decided, to write a book that he hopes to put a smile on the face of every...

One of the The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 "A gem of a book . . . lyrical, tender, and profoundly insightful."--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined....

Spoiled yet broken-hearted New Yorker meets gorgeous, kind-hearted southern gentleman.Cadence Lewis has been dancing before she could walk. Living in New York with her parents she has the chance to go to the best dance school in the country, but when her parents divorce...

Pregnant and still grieving the death of her fianc, historian Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore to its original glory the landmark hunting lodge her own great-great-grandfather built on Virginia's Eastern Shore. With the help of her fianc 's...

Celia Bernhart, on the cusp of turning 39, thinks her life is all planned out. She has a successful career selling pharmaceuticals. She's about to marry her longtime fiance, a doctor. Oh, sure, her mother and her two sisters drive her nuts, but that's...

Darcy Hogan's perfect life is all over social media. She's beautiful, she's successful, and she and her childhood sweetheart are about to become parents for the first time. But behind all the followers and the superficial likes lurks a darker truth...In reality, Darcy feels...

Maya navigates her relationships as she heads for the Florida KeysWhen Maya Raymond embarks on a bold new life in the Florida Keys, she escapes more than small-town New England. She leaves behind her beloved father, Charlie, who still grieves for Maya's long-dead mother....

KEY FACTORS TO ACHIEVE GREAT SUCCESS IN LIFE is new and very special edition book of success with powerful and secrets recipe to success not only that but also BOOK of success has a groundbreaking tips on how to reach your goal in life....

Strong Appalachian saga novel of tobacco grower family in Kentucky's 1940's...Author: P. Shaun NealISBN-10: 1947504177ISBN-13: 9781947504172Publisher: Bottom Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2019Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

From the critically acclaimed author of The Apartment comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation. An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him the nearly inconceivable news that his sister, Miriam, has...

"Eudora Welty meets Sue Monk Kidd, and they lunch with Fannie Flagg" Just Janga reviews"Wholly original, funny and poignant" #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan WiggsEvery life has signposts. Every traveler has a history. Sometimes a detour is the only way home.Ex-cocktail waitress...

Their relationship with one another leaves little room for enemies, but that doesn't stop them from trying to infiltrate the family. The Wiggins Sisters are back and matrimony is in the air along with new threats to the family. These sisters can't be outdone...

"Colorful characters, crazy hijinks, loads of literary gags and callouts create an energetic, fast-paced read in this novel. Peeking above and below all that merrymaking, from time to time, is the story of one still-secular Jew, searching, pondering the ancient texts, challenged to jibe...

In trenchant and colorful prose, Lihi Lapid tells a true-life story of women (and men) struggling to live up to expectations (most of all their own): a story about shattered dreams, and about finding the strength to gather up the pieces and learn to...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken geh ren Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Eine Geschichte aus zwei St dten, Gro e Erwartungen sowie Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte. Aus dem Buch: "Da Paul dem jungen Toots bereits vorgestellt war, so erging sich dieser...

Single mom Carrie Bennet knows that her 'new' home in a run-down townhouse is a much better place than living with her cruel and controlling ex-husband, and she's determined to create a good life for herself and her two children.With a budget so tight...

The bestselling authors of The Good Widow deliver a modern, suspenseful twist on Groundhog Day that asks the question: How far are you willing to go to save the life of someone you love?Dom is having a very bad day--one he literally can't escape.When...

Quinn's desire in life is to someday be a scientist to help push society forward. As a young child, Quinn's physical attributes subject him physical and verbal abuse not only by his peers but also by those in authority who owe a duty of...

A single father's act of bravery leads him to a surprise second chance at love in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper.It's summer in the city and passions are soaring along with the temperature--for everyone but...

In the United States and Canada, more than 350,000 men, women, and young people have lost their lives to fentanyl and other drug overdoses in the past five years. In Letters from Cody, Eya narrates their story through a series of more than sixty...

In the third of the Bear Valley series, the evolving contemporary lives of the Royer and Harter families and their neighbors echo those of the early homesteaders as they confront the challenges of the weather, the isolation and hardships of ranch life as well...

Indie Author Kim Troike publishes her first story about love in the south after two hearts meet on a Marta train ride to the airport in KISS RIDE. Multi genre author Caroline Clemens gives us two holiday tales set in the Midwest and beyond....

Traumatised by what he witnessed in the streets of Sarajevo during the 1990s siege, newsman James Lambert flees back to England, seeking peace and recovery in the beauty and apparent tranquillity of the countryside. He'd narrowly escaped death from a Serbian shell and watched...

Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra-modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an...

Pretty paper and bows make promises the gift inside rarely keeps.December comes to Chancey with promises of new birth, new love, new opportunities all tied up with shiny bows. Christmas is making a comeback in Chancey with Missus Blue ribbons tied on everything that...

The saboteur with a vendetta against River Creek Stables is still at large-only now the attacker has upped the ante. The attacks are malicious and happening more often, making racing for the farm more dangerous and riskier. Can the saboteur be stopped before serious...

Thomas Finnegan "Finn" McGuinn has it all: an adoring wife, loyal friends, a childhood bestie named Beannie, year round sunshine, a car that starts, an absolutely bitchin' record collection, a mountain bike, soft trails to run on, and a community that delivers. But when...

Reproduction of the original: Bleak House by Charles DickensAuthor: Charles DickensISBN-10: 3734059011ISBN-13: 9783734059018Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 838Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.00d

"A life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we've all been waiting for."--Amy SchumerShe would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.Inside a century-old row house in...

Dr Nicolas Harper is being buried in an English country churchyard, in a grave beside that of his wife. There is a stranger among the mourners at his funeral, a young woman in a yellow coat. Afterwards, she visits Dr Harper's adult daughter Hilda...

The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with the son who's punishing her for withholding his father's true identity. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or...

1348. A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it--heretic, Devil's servant, saint. Midwife H駘o?e has always known that her bastard status threatens her standing in the French village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. Yet her midwifery and healing skills have gained the people's respect, and she...

Keepers of the Faith is set within a small Muslim sect of India, ruled by an avaricious priesthood that demands absolute submission while enforcing archaic social customs. When a section of the community rebels, it is summarily excommunicated, shunned by friends and family and...

Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement - if only she can get her three adult children to finally, finally, move out of the house. But her dreams are shattered when her son Derek unexpectedly becomes a single...

Bindings is the third book in the Turning Pages series, set in a small-town used bookshop that fosters cats. After Kris and Matt purchase old books at an estate auction for the O'Malleys, a mystery is born. Someone is desperate to get what the...

"The Golden Bowl" is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father...

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father...

It's funny really. When you think about the kind of guy you are going to marry, a Romany living in an old caravan does not normally come to mind!I Can't think why can you? So, there I was 19 years old and fed up...

Father Goriot by Honore De Balzac. Translated by Ellen Marriage. Le P re Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scenes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine. Set...

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer,...

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer,...

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...

How many mistakes can a person make until they are unforgivable?It only takes one for Cole Campbell. After a wrong decision costs him his wife and child, he knows he's beyond redemption.How many times do you need to get burned before you stop playing...

Rita was vibrant and energetic. She was on her way to becoming the first college graduate in her family. One day, her life suddenly changed and threw a curve into her educational path. She felt she had a severe case of indigestion, but the...

Is it ever too late to run away from home?Mackie Kinsella, recently widowed, isn't sure as she boards a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Boston. She is fleeing the land of silicone and sunshine and returning to Shoreham, a small seacoast town that...