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The emotional and gripping Victorian saga series from Fenella J Miller 1840s Colchester A tragic loss, a new path? When her family is struck by a terrible tragedy, Sarah Nightingale is forced to go into service at Grey Friars House as an under nursery-maid....

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future.In Shock Induction, the best and brightest...

It's 1970. Bashful Susie, a pill addict's daughter, sets out to build a better life for herself. Fellow Mennonite Simon loves Susie's courage-and her. He proposes. But marrying him comes with a pushy, sanctimonious mother-in-law. Adeline manipulates Susie and Simon into leaving their beloved...

From award-winning writer Mortada Gzar, author of the acclaimed memoir I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?, comes an enthralling and lyrical novel about a girl's liberating self-discovery in Iraq.Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a...

White Picket Fences is a heartfelt family drama fueled by an honest story of motherhood, written for those of us caught up in our own self-searching journeys. The one thing Julie Cahill knows because of her transitory upbringing as a military brat is that...

The small town of Green Valley Wyoming has seen many changes, the biggest being the new Target Store, bringing many new people to town. There have been changes at the K-12 School too. Have there been problems for the towns people? Sure, but with...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Sandy Barker's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series Greta Davies, the features editor at a women's magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists...

Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town. Originally published in the novella collection, Fondly, this new edition features a foreword by Brian Evenson."This is a book I first read at...

'A beautiful, meticulously researched story that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.' USA Today bestseller, Genevieve Graham A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds... 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than...

Patricia Harris's book "Love in the Second Chapter- Finding Companionship and Romance After Loss" is a sensitive and insightful book that guides readers through the challenging process of looking for love after suffering a loss. Drawing from the author's own experience, this book offers...

A bureaucracy with the power to heal or hurt, and a child caught in their storm...Clare Rafienne and her daughter, Sloan, live a simple life in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania. The last thing Clare expected was to have social services show up on...

The first in a new series from bestselling author, Julie Houston! Robyn Allen is finally getting closer to her dream of West End stardom. And along with her role dancing in the latest hot musical, she's being wined and dined by an equally hot...

So much can be lost and found in one summer ​Set against the backdrop of New York City's vibrant Greenwich Village in 1978, TheSummerBetween is the bittersweet, unsparingly honest coming-of-age saga of Andrew Jackson Pollock. Three days before high school graduation, Andy, a New...

The emotional next book in the Victorian saga series from Fenella J Miller Dangerous times, new fortunes London October 1843. Sarah Nightingale is a strong young woman who keeps her head high and faces every new adversity with courage. So when Daniel Cooper, a...

Lu Ann, thirty-three-year-old, high school dropout, works in a bakery and lives with her two kids in a small Midwest town. Her husband was killed in the Iraqi War. Their star high school wrestler son, Billy, falls into a tower of tires and disappears...

"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down." Publishers WeeklyFor fans of Jodi Picoult and If Only I Could Tell You, Penny Hancock's The Choice is an engrossing, thought-provoking novel about family secrets and the way that even the smallest decisions can sometimes have...

Zoey is a kind-hearted, lively young girl with a taste for adventure and mystery. See the world through her eyes as she experiences life, friendship, loss, and growth, with the support of family and friends and her entire community. Her rite of passage will...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. Back are all...

It's the beginning of the 21st century and Charles Rivers, a Black college professor and Vietnam vet who came of age during the freedom struggles of the 60s, is worn down by the routine of teaching and grading at his New York City university....

Seven Children. Five Mothers. One idyllic commune. What could go wrong?Annabel Cooper wants to save the world. Her story begins in 1964 with her journey to Freedom Summer in Mississippi, where the disappearance of her first love ignites a lifelong fight for justice. Years...

Three's a Crowd: The absolute must-have friends to lovers sexy read for fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey. Right guy, wrong time... Daisy's perfectly content with her life. She's got a job she likes, a nice enough flat, and in a relationship with...

What does it mean to belong? Who influences our thoughts on that? What choice do we have in what we find joyful? This generational tale of passed down passions explores such questions.Mariela dreams of her feet grazing the Moon's surface and has ever since...

Michelle doesn't believe in fairy tales. She's a hard-headed businesswoman, making a fresh start in a new town. And when she decides to take over a neglected book shop, she knows the perfect manager. For book-loving Anna, it's a dream come true--and not just...

Author: Ron CurrieISBN-10: 0143110454ISBN-13: 9780143110453Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Memories LostMargo, the matriarch, struggles with her ailing mind as the lines between her past and present blur and disappear. She has spent her life trying to create the life she wanted, but now that her memories are slipping away, she finds herself in...

The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' stunning Chesapeake Bay Saga, where the Quinn brothers must return to their family home on the Maryland shore, to honor their father's last request... Ethan Quinn is a waterman. He wasn't born...

Everyone makes mistakes, and some of them are hard to come back from. When you've taken someone else's life, and destroyed your family in the process, where do you begin, to pull things back together?Stuart Thomson is a disgraced lawyer whose catastrophic error of...

The brilliant, brand-new novel from the TOP TEN bestselling author of 59 Memory Lane New friends, new flame, new fun . . . Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of...

For fans of Celeste Ng and Dani Shapiro, this lyrical debut set in twentieth-century Northern California offers a multigenerational braided narrative examining the rippling effects of trauma and perceived fault after a loved one's suicide. 1953. WWII veteran Charles Hawkins sweet-talks his daughter, Lyla,...

Elaine has time to remember the fire, and her lost family members and decides after being robbed, that life has to change, she goes out on the road to meet her destiny in a small town on the California Central Coast, here she not...

For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime. The Harrisons were always a close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in...

From the author of the "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling author) Good Morning America Book Club Pick The Fortunes of Jaded Women, a stunning family dramedy about estranged siblings competing to inherit their father's Vietnamese sandwich franchise...

Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it....

There may be trouble ahead... Just when Daisy thought she had canal life understood, Theo, her primary go-to for all of her boating questions has left Wildflower Lock, not to mention the budding romance that has been steadily growing. Not one to sit and...

Lu Ann, thirty-three-year-old, high school dropout, works in a bakery and lives with her two kids in a small Midwest town. Her husband was killed in the Iraqi War. Their star high school wrestler son, Billy, falls into a tower of tires and disappears...

It's June1939. Three young Jewish girls, Rosi, her sister Anni, and their cousin Emilie, wait to board the Kindertransport train that will take them away from Nazi Germany, and a life of discrimination, to kind foster families in England. The parents hate to let...

New York Times bestselling author Eowyn Ivey returns to the mythical Alaska landscape of her Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child with an unforgettable reimagining of Beauty and the Beast that asks the question: can love save us from ourselves? Birdie's keeping it together,...

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak...

In the middle of my beautiful daughter's eighteenth birthday party, silence falls as I unfold my speech, my heart bursting with everything I want to say. But when I look down I see a note, and my world stops: She's not who you think...

From the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family's legacy and their iconic contributions...

Unearth the secrets buried beneath the Tennessee tomato fields in Nick Allen Brown's gripping novel, Grainger County Tomatoes. A heart attack, a mysterious inheritance, and a series of chilling discoveries will leave you guessing until the very last page.Author: Nick Allen BrownISBN-10: 1684424437ISBN-13: 9781684424436Publisher:...

Filled with a tight-knit ensemble cast of deeply realized characters, this earthy, beautifully nuanced story, set in suburban industrial America, reveals to us an everyday working woman as she finds her way on her own terms-through work, family, grief and love, and then-not so...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Today Read With Jenna Book Club Pick "I dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It's a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find...

Dive into the heartwarming and unexpected journey of "A Kiss To Die For." Meet Marianna Jacobs, a widowed mom whose life takes a surprising turn from the countryside to the heart of LA's music scene, thanks to a song lyrics contest. Here, she meets...

A BRAND NEW series for 2024 from bestselling author Lizzie LaneA country town in need of a good Doctor, but will they accept her as one of their own?Somerset, March 1930Born in the workhouse and adopted by a former suffragette, Frances Brakespeare was encouraged...

By "arguably the most important Irish writer since Samuel Beckett" (The Guardian), a character study of a young resident of Dublin who pens erotica for a living, making his money through fantasy while denying the realities of love and sex in his life. The...

What if you're the only one who believes your son is missing? A chilling, twisty psychological suspense novel, perfect for fans of Laura Dave and Gillian Flynn. Maggie Lawson is the smart, capable dean of a boutique college, but even the most confident mother...

Can Lexie Whittle figure out a way to balance her failing marriage, her job, parenthood, and a new romance? Find out in this heartwarming read. Lexie Whittle thought she had life all sewn up with a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home, and a delightful...

In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned baby girl, Julia, arrives unexpectedly on their doorstep. The couple take her in and...

Finalist: 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards "A great voice that in spite of the heavy themes, carries a lightness so you root for Heddie and her dog, Fella. Clever and also quite touching." J Marie Rundquist, author of All I'm Asking and As Though...