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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this...

"A big-hearted novel filled with wit and wisdom." --Susan Wiggs New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick weaves together the unforgettable story of four very different women whose paths cross, changing their lives forever... It's a long way from Fort Worth, Texas, to New...

Author: Holly ChamberlinISBN-10: 1432879820ISBN-13: 9781432879822Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2021Pages: 771Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.30dLarge Print

From USA Today bestselling author Paullina Simons comes a fascinating novel of love, betrayal, and the price of passion.Nothing is ever as it seems...Larissa Stark is many things. Wife, mother, devoted friend, and unhappy. Her seemingly charmed life in a New Jersey suburb should...

Give this perfect blend of laugh-out-loud and heart-tugging moments to readers who like complicated, realistic relationships joyously rendered, like those from Jojo Moyes or Jill Mansell. -Booklist (Starred Review) From the author who brought you Dear Thing, Julie Cohen, comes After the Fall--a poignant,...

An American Family. A world war.A first love. A small hotel.It's the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of...

From the author of Refuge, a magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture.Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated...

Up-and-coming winemaker Cerise Desloires believes in soul mates. Trouble is, she's sure she's already found-and lost-hers. Now the young widow has inherited half the vineyard she considers her own, and she's got one chance to produce a vintage that could make or break her...

For years, Chelsea Maynard has longed to be a mother. She's imagined caring for a new baby in the lovely house she shares with her husband, Leo, fondly planning every detail. But after a difficult birth, those dreams of blissful bonding evaporate. Chelsea battles...

"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."―New York Times Book Review (1923)"Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."-Publishers WeeklyEdith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which...

What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her stunning new novel, New York Times-bestselling author Belva Plain penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time. Once again Plain proves herself the writer who sets the standard...

Sometimes a song brings back a memory...Sophie Brooks runs the small art gallery in Sweet River Falls. She's thrown herself into keeping the gallery open. She owes her parents that much.But when Chase Green arrives in town, long-buried memories of the dreams Sophie had...

On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring John and Mary to rest in the...

Major international bestseller and critically acclaimed author Harriet Evans weaves an "absorbing tapestry...with a comic touch even in the midst of tragedy" (Kirkus Reviews) in this stunning family drama that will surprise you at every turn.When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits...

Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a true story and filled with her signature elements: family ties, artistry, romance, and adventure. Born...

Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater...

Summer, 1979. A hot, Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister Patty--the daughters of a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome detective father and the mother whose heart he broke.Left to their own devices, the sisters spend their days studying record jackets, concocting...

'Since she was valorous, she said she was a man, and since Mahishan was speaking of love, he was feminine... If she was a combination of feminine and masculine qualities, why could he too not be a combination of the masculine and feminine?'Setting the...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky is known for her evocative, emotionally resonant books. Now, for the first time in hardcover, comes her classic novel A Woman Betrayed, a tale with all the hallmarks of her impressive talent.Laura and Jeff Frye have a...

"Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe."...

Fifty years is a long time to keep a secret.Looking back on her life, Maggie O'Connor is rightfully pleased. Fifty years ago she left Ireland with a single suitcase and a dream. After long and satisfying career, she is enjoying retirement on her farm...

Juggling is easy - until you're juggling two sides of a lethal vendetta. Florence, 1216: Corrado the Fool's prank-for-hire began it, but where is it going to end? Florence's noble families are up in arms, and Corrado is pressed into service by both sides...

Scott Furman is intelligent, trustworthy, and lives in the lower-class town of South Hillside. His secret relationship with wealthy, attractive Briana Johnson remains strong even when the odds are stacked against them. Scott delicately handles and protects Felicia, his sister-like neighbor, who is in...

Told in a thrillingly inventive narrative style, Sylvia Petter's debut novel is a powerful, pacy tale about making peace with the past, which also paints a richly evocative picture of Central Europe in the early decades after the war.Author: Sylvia PetterISBN-10: 1785632175ISBN-13: 9781785632174Publisher: Lightning...

One lucky day will change two women's lives--but for better or worse?When an unexpected windfall brings together strangers Shauna and Frankie, one woman is popping champagne corks--but the other just wants to cry.For her part, Shauna is pouring celebratory drinks. Since her heart was...

"Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she'll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais' astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel...The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of...

All she wants is one last dance... Lily and Vincent have been dancing everything from the waltz to the foxtrot together since they were six-years-old. Now a teenager, Lily realises she has feelings for Vincent that she never knew were there. However, with Vincent...

LEANING TOWARD THE LIGHTFinally free from her abusive ex, Claire Stone accepts a job as a live-in nurse in the small beach-side town of Busselton, Western Australia. A new life is exactly what she needs. Move away, move on, forget. If only things were...

A compulsive family drama about a mother's desperate search to reclaim her daughter from the horrors of her own past, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone.Beth Fraser finally has her life together. She's built a successful career in the tech...

Five college friends have arrived at forty in very different circumstances, but with at least one thing in common: they are among the more privileged in society. Elizabeth and Sara are lawyers, Martha is a doctor, Carmen is a wealthy and well-educated homemaker, and...

From master storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a magnificent new novel, a powerful, moving story of two women, two families, and an extraordinary friendship challenged by tragedy and a devastating secret from the past.... Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best...

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer "If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe...

Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things. Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept bees, headstrong Augusta marries...

A debut novel that begins as a tale of loneliness and heartbreak yet opens into a dazzling, enchanting story of secrets and self-discovery in a magical city. "A romance with heft and heart. Walker writes ... with amazing candor and insight." --The Boston Globe...

Rose loves roses. She also believes there is an angel in every cloud. She dyes her hair the blonde of her childhood and bakes cakes with marrows from her garden, where she works wearing wellington boots over her shoes "to save them," and remains...

A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting...

A Place to Rest is a journey of discovery through the rapidly changing landscape of the post-World War II American South as viewed from the perspective of best friends, Mildred Morgan and Janet Bell. The pair grew up together in rural Grover's Fork, Alabama,...

A widowed father and his young daughter embark on a life-changing journey in a heartening novel of family and second chances by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees.Adjusting to the death of his wife hasn't been easy on Baxter Shaw--or on their eight-year-old...

Erika Montgomery's A Summer to Remember is "an unforgettable tale of love, loss and finding your place that glitters as brightly as the golden age of Hollywood."-Kristy Woodson Harvey, USA Today Bestselling author of Feels Like FallingBest Debut Novels of Spring and Summer *Library...

"Wharton has done nothing that equals this."―New York Times Book Review (1923)"Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed."-Publishers WeeklyEdith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which...

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzling new novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a...

An Amazon Charts bestseller.You want to know what the worst thing is? It's not the embarrassment, or the looks on people's faces when I tell them what happened. It isn't the pain of him not being there--loneliness is manageable. The worst thing is not...

Laadi's parents have told her that her baby sister will be joining the family soon. Laadi is so excited that she cannot sleep the night before the baby comes home. When the baby arrives, her parents inform her that the baby won't have a...

'In Mukta Sathe we have a new voice that displays a deep understanding of both the old and the young, of their complex relationships, and of how crime and punishment play out under our flawed judicial system. A Patchwork Family is a novel that...

At thirty-nine, Leona Accorsi is broke, single, back in school, and living in her sister Carly's basement. She's perfectly content being quirky Auntie Lee to Carly's four children. That is, until Leona's doctor tells her that if she wants to have a child, she'd...

A Life is a satirical novel about the foolishness of romantic illusion. The novel tells the story of young Jeanne, full of hope and dreams of love, who discovers the outside world after finishing an education in a convent. She is looking forward to...

This novel, told through the eyes of a 12 year old, with humor and family devotion, easily teaches teens, young adults, and elders about the importance of knowing how your body works. Good health is often a choice of life style made early in...

Surrounded by her mother's extended family, Olivia Batista lives an idyllic childhood in Panama on her grandmother's expansive property. When her mother finds new love with Andrew--a man Olivia calls "the Magician"--the three begin a new life in New York. Growing up in the...

Arlene Cameron never wanted kids, yet she gave birth to four. Who does that? The government handing out checks per child must have made those labor pains a little easier. She was a Christian woman who treated her children like the enemy. Could attempted...

After suffering tragic loss, Ben Flurry must confront the past and his own grief to become the father his child needs. Ben and Annie Flurry have the perfect family, until an accident takes Annie's life and leaves their daughter severely injured. Now Ben struggles...