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Three strangers. Three broken hearts. Three shots at happiness. Life is good for nurse Kat. That is until the man she intended to marry legs it, she's unexpectedly promoted to a position with too much responsibility, and Susan arrives on her ward under strange...

Love. Desire. Vengeance. A deadly alchemy. When Rebecca Palmer's new husband opens a pharmacy in Victorian Edinburgh, she expects to live the life of a well-heeled gentlewoman. But her ideal turns to ashes when she discovers her husband is not what he seems. As...

From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the Sun, Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet...

This classic from Jack London is the story of a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. It has served as inspiration for a generation of struggling writers.Author: Jack LondonISBN-10: 1781393451ISBN-13: 9781781393451Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2012Pages: 470Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Dew in the Morning was written when the author, Shimmer Chinodya, was eighteen. The intensity of childhood memory is sharp and immediate. Godi, the young boy whose life we experience as he grows up, perceives more than he understands. The ambivalence or instability of...

The Summer Resort is a place where people go to relax and unwind. Some families pass through once and move on. Others make it a regular holiday on their family calendar. Whether you're a family that has been coming to The Resort for over...

Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix littï 1/2raire Archambault Written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama's Boy recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one...

At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of the modern couple's apartment. In grappling with the line...

Based on a true unsolved crime from 1877, Laurie Glenn Norris's debut novel tells the story of two small towns linked by the disappearance of a teenage girl. Mary Harney is a dreamy teenager in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, whose ambitions are stifled by...

When Miss Truelove discovers hatboxes full of papers after her mother's death, mysteries of her past begin to resolve. She is compelled to tell the story of her eccentric father, Charles Truelove, and the scandals surrounding his name. The Choir of Gravediggers takes us...

It was always expected that Lachie Sinclair and his brothers would one day take over the family property, Kamilaroi. But when tragedy strikes, Lachie blames his father and angrily renounces any future for him at Kamilaroi. Moving to the city, Lachie joins the police...

Zosia, a faithless Catholic and grieving widow, has sacrificed herself to save her dying son from the Gestapo. She takes his place as a prisoner and is sent to work as a slave on a farm in Germany, where the only things keeping her...

A collection of poems between a mother and her USMC recruit. This book is written from the perspective of a mother who is dealing with her son (or daughter) going through the rigors of Marine Corps Boot Camp at Parris Island, South Carolina.Author: Andy...

A troubled woman. A prayer. A murder in a church. An orphaned daughter.When she moved back to Cottonwood Springs after a divorce and the publishing company she was working for went bankrupt, Brigid never thought she'd have a ready-made teen-age daughter, a huge Newfoundland...

'THE IMPERFECT LIVES' is a collection of short stories that depict the lives of people who are less than perfect in their attributes. The gradations of grey in the monochromatic zone withhold the unspoken truth about the human lives that lie hidden beneath the...

Flynn Hawkins is a graduate assistant at a prestigious university, on his way to greatness and wisdom. But in the aftermath of 9/11, Flynn leaves his unhappy marriage and beloved children, resigns his teaching position and heads west, only to get lost in his...

What does it mean to have a family?Singer and Lisa Thurman did everything right for their entire childhood. Their mother wanted a perfect life, and they knew how to fit that vision.Then they grew up. Singer came out of the closet and Lisa joined...

A woman's journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening After receiving the devastating news of her son's death, Elizabeth ekes out a lonely and strained relationship with her husband, Zach. While he takes comfort in support groups, Elizabeth becomes withdrawn and seeks solace from the...

Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on the run to avoid the coming Japanese invasion. A humorous-yet-stark depiction of despair in the face of war and Westernization, Xiao's novel (completed by the translator) mirrors...

Named a "Best Book of 2016" by Refinery29 and a "Spring & Summer Book Pick" by * Redbook Magazine * Refinery29 * Coastal Living * Brit + Co * SheKnows * The Reading Room * FabFitFun * YourTango * LEVO * Chick Lit Central...

JOURNEY HOME - A CAT'S TALE is a story based upon the actual life of a cat found abandoned in a dumpster, left to die. Born in a small town on the coast of Maine, an unpretentious cat named 'Patches' encounters life changing experiences...

In September 1993, four generations of the Travis family gather to celebrate the 80th birthday of their matriarch, Isabelle. Reflecting on their experiences at the rustic family cabin set on a lake in the Chippewa National Forest, they talk of fishing for walleye, cooking...

Libby Thompson is just fourteen years old when she flees her abusive home with her newborn son, Angel. Now they must build a life for themselves on hard work and low wages, dealing with police who are sometimes helpful-but not always-and a drug dealer...

"Brafman's talent for drawing human emotion shines through in this episodic, deeply sensitive, and introspective novel of the human psyche."-- BooklistBertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and...

Susannah begins to learn about slavery in the South and the Abolitionist movement in the North, but the issues soon become more than idle gossip. Her father hires Jacob, an escaped slave, to work as a farmhand and live in the Allen's spare room....

A bereft anthropologist assembles the artifacts of her family's history and her brother's suicide, hoping to discover herself within them.Author: Nan CubaISBN-10: 1938126068ISBN-13: 9781938126062Publisher: Engine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2013Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

The title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be....

This stunning collection introduces an important new voice in American fiction. The characters--among them a suburban wife, an alcoholic mother, two homeless men, and an injured veteran--grapple with being voiceless and feeling trapped.The fiction editor of Little Patuxent Review, Jen Grow's fiction and nonfiction...

Irish Book Awards ShortlistLibrary Journal Best Indie Fiction of the YearPublishers Weekly Best Summer Book Staff PickConcord Monitor/Concord Insider Book of the WeekChatelaine magazine Book Club selectionBrooklyn Book Festival Best Debut Book "Ghost Moth is an impressive debut by a writer who is not...

"An elaborate tale of family and the paths people take to understanding." --Seattle Times "[This] mix of well-researched history and contemporary fiction makes for a fine, sad read." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "Hauntingly honest and emotionally resonant." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gregory Spatz's prose is...

"A stark, harrowing, yet deeply courageous work of immense power and magnitude."--Quadrant Homeless and alone, a disturbed youth drifts between town and the Australian outback, growing increasingly isolated and distrustful in a society lacking the means and seemingly the will to help him. He...

WINNER OF THE AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, 2013WINNER OF THE DEBUT-LITZER PRIZE, 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN READ-ALL-ABOUT-IT SELECTION FOR 2012A BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PICK, 2012A SALON.COM WHAT-TO-READ AWARD-WINNER, 2012A TOP FIVE BOOK PICK, CHATELAINEAN...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize NomineeLonglisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story AwardClark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of...

The matriarch dominates these award-winning stories in Lisa Blower's debut collection. From the wise, witty and outspoken Nan of 'Broken Crockery', who has lived and worked in Stoke on Trent for all of her 92 years, never owning a passport, to happy hooker Ruthie...

As a young man comes to terms with his father's death, he is forced to face his own demons, and confront the possibility of change... A stark, eye-opening and exquisitely poignant novel spanning the globe and probing the issues that define our times, by...

In the fictional town of Middlemarch, selflessness, social reform, and romantic love struggle to survive against human foolishness, economic missteps, and societal ideals. Young and intelligent, Dorothea Brooke hastily marries Casaubon, a middle-aged scholar working tirelessly on his "masterpiece," The Key to All Mythologies....

Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence...

The Four Gifts of the King is a story of salvation and hope told through an adventure that stirs the imagination and speaks to the soul.Author: R. Scott RodinISBN-10: 1683509323ISBN-13: 9781683509325Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2018Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d

Legacy Letters is a transformative parable that will entice and equip readers to build principled legacy for themselves and their organization.Author: Tony DileonardiISBN-10: 1683506278ISBN-13: 9781683506270Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.32d

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage -- after consulting fertility...

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual...

"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full...

It is the year 1996. Renee Howell, thirty-nine years old, has moved away from her crazy-making husband and the cult he's been in. Now she is all alone in San Diego except for a few friends. Though she thrives amid the city's bustling urban...

Grace is in her late twenties and living with her single mother in Estill, South Carolina. After her brother dies in what the police call a drug-related incident, Grace is sent on a mission to find out the truth. She finds this, a relative...

Gather the Fragments, That None May Be Lost is the fictional story of a small group of young, homeless, mothers living in a shelter in Manhattan who dream of a better life for themselves and their children. The characters are loosely based on a...

Keely Marie McLaughlin felt there was a secret surrounding her birth. She was keeping a secret from her momma, and she'd told a whopper of a lie, too. She was also about to have the encounter of her lifetime.Keely's story unfolds in the summertime...

A bright and thoughtful, yet thoroughly disillusioned heroine discovers how family shapes who we are, who we aren't, and who we have the potential to become. When a family crisis jolts Maggie Winslow out of her quarter-life malaise, she takes charge and rethinks the...

Christmas Eve in Vacherie, Louisiana, finds the banks of the Mississippi alive with fire. Walter is consumed with planning the perfect bonfire--the one that will finally beat his brother's blaze and extinguish the lingering melancholy from his father's death. As Walter obsesses over wood,...

Carleigh is a 14 year-old girl trying to carve her own place in this world. Her younger brother's mental illness is slowly invading every aspect of her life. Her family is troubled. Friendships are unbearable. And just when calm begins to seem possible, one...

You might be surprised to learn that back in 1961 Nightstand Books published an inquiry into the heartbreak of scoliosis, but-oh, hang on a minute. You say the title refers to characters who are not spinally but psychosexually bent?Oh.Well, never mind.Dave and Nancy Grantland...