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Starting over can be hard to do...So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and into an unloved and unkempt cottage, she can't help but feel demoralised. Faced with months of DIY and dust, her children Jacob and Olivia...

Starting over can be hard to do...So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and into an unloved and unkempt cottage, she can't help but feel demoralised. Faced with months of DIY and dust, her children Jacob and Olivia...

\'A **darkly funny** and **very readable **tale\' *Stylist* We've got the balance all wrong. Instead of living with our partners, struggling to do everything by ourselves and only seeing each other now and then, we should do it the other way round. We *should...

Discover a fascinating tale of family, courage, and determination that spans years amid the Civil War Era. The unnaturally-strong son of a struggling widow learns of life, love, and more during his work on a plantation.In 1815 Charleston, South Carolina, Esther Fowler, a struggling...

Jess, a twelve-year-old girl, gives up her baby and runs away to seventy years of hiding. Although she changes her identity in hopes of erasing the past, she struggles with whether life is worth living. With the love and encouragement of many mentors, she...

For twenty-three years, Cross Carlson was a playboy. You know the type. Tall, dark, and wealthy. Blue-eyed. Charming. He seemed to have it all so easy. But Cross was harboring a terrible secret - one that helped ruin the life of an innocent girl...

Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali,...

Author: Eudora WeltyISBN-10: 0679728821ISBN-13: 9780679728825Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/1990Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.00d

This is why I have had to come back now, traveling these dusty old back roads one more time. For I mean to tell my story, and I mean to tell the truth. I am a believer in the Word, and I am not...

The American debut of one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a daring and deeply affecting story of one Argentine family's buried secrets. When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he...

A young girl forms an unforgettable friendship with an elderly neighbor while searching for answers about her family's past in this national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominee. Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin...

Stephen is successful, incredibly wealthy, and happily married with two amazing kids. Yet, he is unsatisfied. As time ticks on, Stephen finds the trappings and luxuries of his life-the consumerism, the waste, and the ego-distasteful. He dreads days at the office and meetings meant...

Two families. One proposal. A decision that could pull them apart. A novel about love, family and second chances from the number one bestselling author of City of Friends.Author: Joanna TrollopeISBN-10: 1509823506ISBN-13: 9781509823505Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2018Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x...

Four Friends. One City. City of Friends is the twentieth novel from the bestselling author, Joanna TrollopeAuthor: Joanna TrollopeISBN-10: 1509823468ISBN-13: 9781509823468Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2017Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d

A story of struggle and hardship and one girl's battle for survival from the best-selling author of If You Were the Only Girl and Another Man's Child. Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the...

Not Just My Mother's Daughter is the story of a mother-daughter relationship and the search for happiness. The story is told from the perspective of Rose Gardner, wrestling with her purpose in life and dealing with off-the-wall situations while caring for her mother through...

Author: Susan WiggsISBN-10: 0063253526ISBN-13: 9780063253520Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 256Format: Paperback

Author: Nina SimonISBN-10: 006331505XISBN-13: 9780063315051Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 368Format: Paperback

"Susan Wiggs paints the details of human relationships with the finesse of a master." --Jodi Picoult #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs captures the heartache of long-held regrets as one young woman comes to terms with her past...and reveals devastating secrets. As...

Come on an adventure with the Masti brothers and discover what it is like to play and have brittle bones. Imran doesn't let his Osteogenesis Imperfecta get in the way of his imagination. He and his super team always find a way to have...

Author: Ernest J. GainesISBN-10: 0679738916ISBN-13: 9780679738916Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/1993Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.58dReview Citation(s): Booklist 11/15/2001 pg. 555

Janet Wilson, an Ex-Military Police officer of the Canadian Armed Forces with remarkable martial arts training, now a Grade 7 teacher, is an independent woman who teams up with RCMP officer, Corporal Peter Duchesne, to work on an anti-drug program for the school.At the...

In the 1890s, an unforgettable, loveable family tumble together in a company house in Millville, New Jersey, provided by the glass factory where Ev's father works as a glass blower. Ev, barely ten, lives with mom and pop and two brothers. This marvelous family...

Unearth the Power of Resilience in a Captivating Tale of Loss, Art, and Self-Discovery on the Shores of Nantucket. In Song for a Female Voice, acclaimed psychoanalyst and debut author Judith Avery Speyer invites readers to embark on a journey set against the picturesque...

"Jenny Lecoat is an author to watch!" --New York Times bestselling author Kelly Rimmer In her spellbinding new novel, New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lecoat explores the secrets and lies in a small community recovering from war, and the two young women at...

"This is the one: the next must-read, must-recommend, must-discuss, must-re-read novel. A miraculous literary thriller, shocking, daring, moving, haunting, infinitely rewarding-- as though Kate Atkinson and Ruth Rendell had joined forces."--A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window...

London, World War Two. When Sandra Cooper is offered the chance to move away with her children, it seems like a good opportunity to escape the 1940 blitz.Her husband Harry is away in the army, and over the next five years she experiences the...

Tomas and the Gypsy Violin is a simple but powerful tale about the transformative and healing power of music. It concerns an orphaned Roma child, Tomas, who is adopted by a Toronto couple. The traumatized boy is unresponsive to his new environment and withdraws...

What happens when you face your past? Can life ever be the same? Emily has it all; a successful career, enviable lifestyle, her own flat in London. Exactly the way she wants it.Then a call from her father in Australia threatens everything - her...

THE GRIEVING GIFTJanice's older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures...

Renee Harvell is bewildered by the South. People are named Peck Titsworth, for Christ's sake, and every curve in the road hides a dead dog or a "Prepare to meet God" or a "Trust The One Who Bled For You" sign. Emergency Instructions opens...

A bright Texas university student named Anthony is faced with threats from his professor, who lies about the student to protect himself. He goes so far as to send Anthony to a psych ward to protect his own reputation, while branding the student as...

Is there such a thing as destiny? How does one find the strength to move on and find life after death? Join the Cason family in this second book in the Unspoken series, as they allow horses and healing to those who can't seem...

A woman searches for a fresh start on a remote Caribbean island in this sequel to Rosamond Lehmann's classic The Ballad and the Source The year is 1933. After a heart-wrenching betrayal by her married lover, Rebecca Landon leaves London for a tiny island...

After a grizzly bear kills Antonia Valleau's trapper husband, she packs her few worldly possessions, leaves her home in the mountains of Montana, and treks to nearby Sweetwater Springs, seeking work to provide for her two young sons.Reeling from the loss of his wife...

There's no place like home--except when it's a faded resort town like Derton-on-Sea. Which is why, eighteen years ago, Josh Peters couldn't wait to escape the place he thinks of as 'the last resort' for the bright lights of London.Now his dad is sick,...

Struggling with both PTSD and the trauma of his ex-wife's infidelity, retired Marine Wesley Holt seeks a simple civilian life. His favorite waitress at the Perfect Diner secretly stirs his heart. Yet Wes--scarred by betrayal and racked by guilt over his fallen comrades in...

Time to Let Go is a contemporary family drama set in Britain. Following a traumatic incident at work Stewardess Hanna Korhonen decides to take time off work and leaves her home in London to spend quality time with her elderly parents in rural England....

The tight-knit Young family is famous for their champion red roan mares. The horses are priceless talents - and unable to reproduce. When Quart Young, a talented and ambitious trainer, discovers that his favorite mare is injured, he is desperate to find a way...

Single mom Kacie Jensen must be dreaming. She's finally found the love of her life in gorgeous hockey star Brody Murphy, and he's just asked her to marry him. Still glowing from his romantic marriage proposal, Kacie shares the news with her twin daughters--who...

Single mom Kacie Jensen's life completely changed when she met dreamy, easygoing hockey star Brody Murphy and fell into a love affair she'd never imagined possible. Now, it seems like nothing can get in the way of their blossoming relationship--until Kacie's ex-boyfriend and the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to...

L. M. Montgomery's collection of short stories called Chronicles of Avonlea is connected to the Anne of Green Gables books. After a protracted relationship, Ludovic Speed proposed to Theodora Dix with the help of Anne Shirley. Old Lady Lloyd, who is rumored to be...

We invite you to live with us the story of Nura and Nader to see how freeing a whole nation can be much easier than healing a single wounded heart haunted by the shadows of its past!Author: Gehan AbouelseoudISBN-10: 8394586546ISBN-13: 9798394586545Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

London, 1940 When tragedy strikes, Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute, fending for herself on the capital's most dangerous streets. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Libby is on the cusp of making a decision that could jeopardise her future when a...

Finding family is a journey of love, risk, secrets, and healing in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of A Brighter Flame, The Passing Storm, and The Road She Left Behind.When Nova Doubeck is asked to foster two children, she can't say no....

As the men fight and the war rages, there are some new arrivals on the farm...Cambridgeshire - 1942As a new year begins and the war continues, young Artie Talbot feels trapped. In his heart he longs to fight, like his two brothers, for his...

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis and the unexpected places from which love can grow."The true mystery Lapid seeks to unveil is one of the most burning questions of our time: What does it mean to be a woman in today's...

Hannah McKinnon, the acclaimed author of the "charming and warm-hearted" (PopSugar) The Summer House, returns with a fresh beach read about a group of outsiders threatening the status quo at an exclusive New England beach club. Mayhaven is the best keep secret in Massachusetts....

Mollie Brennan thought her life was perfect when she and her best friend and cousin, Claire, moved to Tasmania from Queensland. When the unthinkable happens, grief-stricken Mollie returns home to Paradise Cove hoping to find peace and some light in a world where darkness...