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""The Portrait of a Lady"" is a novel written by the American author Henry James. It was first published in 1881 and tells the story of Isabel Archer, a young American woman who travels to Europe to experience life and find love. Isabel is...

A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption....

In her luminous debut novel, acclaimed writer Dianne Warren captures the honesty of the human spirit and the quest for companionship... Juliet is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of town--a dusty oasis on the edge of a vast stretch of sand. It's easy to believe nothing...

A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of "perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss" (The Atlantic) "Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but...

A lifetime ago, Ray "Spike" Thorns was a well-regarded caretaker on a boarding school's grounds. These days, he lives the life of a recluse in a house rammed with hoarded junk, alone and disconnected from family or anyone he might have at one time...

'You don't really know your husband, ' my sister-in-law whispers, and a chill runs down my spine. 'Can you really trust the man you married?'Gary and I have always been happy. Our fridge is covered in the love notes I leave him every morning,...

A fantastic new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.Author: Danielle SteelISBN-13: 9798217169818Publisher: Random House Large Print PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 410Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsLarge Print

The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat. It's time to revisit the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Though it's a mysteriously located clinic with an uncertain address, it can...

This stirring debut novel is an unflinching, darkly funny look at loss, family, and coming home--perfect for fans of This Is Where I Leave You and Competitive Grieving. When Cy Adler dies, it's a shock to everyone, especially his daughter, Cammy. Almost thirty, slightly...

"Middle Spoon subverts the ordinary novel with intelligence and vulnerability. . . . Varela has made a sly, analytical opera of the heart." --Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less and Less Is Lost "A rollicking delight! . . . Varela asks provocative questions about...

Author: Harper LeeISBN-10: 0063460513ISBN-13: 9780063460515Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2025Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

The return of a prodigal daughter to her sleepy Cape Cod town brings the community together in this heartwarming all-new beach read from the acclaimed author of the "absolute treasure of a novel" (Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author) The Darlings. After...

To heal their friendship, they'll have to face their past. Jewel Stone has it all--the perfect marriage, a bestselling author career, her dream home--or so she likes everyone to believe. But between her writer's block and her husband losing his job, her picture-perfect life...

Winner of the English PEN Translates award and the Swiss Prix Goncourt In 1970s Switzerland, high up in the Valais mountains, is a village where everyone knows everything, and no one says anything. Jeanne learns from an early age to dodge her father's abuse,...

A magical theater atop a cobblestone path alters what a couple knows about themselves--and each other--in this scintillating debut brimming with nostalgia and life-affirming wonder. At the end of a fog-covered alley, glitters a glamorous cinema. It's nearly impossible to find. When Ellie and...

Shortly after the untimely death of her mother, Lucy makes a series of discoveries that shatter her idea of who she is and where she belongs. First, Lucy finds letters to her--letters her mother hid--from a Costa Rican named Gabriel, claiming he is her...

The announcement of a major literary debut: What begins as a celebration takes a sudden turn when a shocking betrayal shatters the trust between families. It's an autumn weekend at a comfortable New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to...

It was the year 1920, and Namiquipa, a sleepy village in the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico, had become a place of nightmares. The Revolution was a raging fire consuming everything in its path. Pancho Villa, the famous revolutionary leader, and his army of...

Life can sometimes be a collection of random storms that we must weather, like ships at sea. Families maneuver these storms throughout their lives.Ian and Dee Conner share the storms their family members experience in this third book of a series. The Conners are...

Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the compelling final installment in New York Times bestselling author Kate Kerrigan's sweeping immigrant trilogy begun in Ellis Island and City of Hope--a story of family, love, danger, and ambition in Hollywood during World War II.Irish immigrant Ellie Hogan...

White Bear: Blood and HonorBook Summary "White Bear: Blood and Honor" is a gripping tale of identity, duty, and the long road home. Michael White Bear Black Elk was born between worlds-raised in the traditions of the Lakota Sioux yet marked by questions that...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, People, LitHub, and BookRiotAn unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel to the Thurber Prize-winning novel The Guncle, in which Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties... this time for a big family wedding in Italy. Patrick O'Hara is...

Author: Tita RamirezISBN-10: 1982157321ISBN-13: 9781982157326Publisher: S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback

Author: Camilla BarnesISBN-10: 1668111101ISBN-13: 9781668111109Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2025Format: CD

'Remember I Love You will break you heart and put it back together again... this novel will captivate you and leave you feeling uplifted and hopeful' Sinead Moriarty Recently-widowed father of one Luke is desperate for a sign. Since his beloved wife Helen passed,...

Don't miss the next instalment of Fenella J. Miller's brilliant Harbour House series. A gripping tale of wartime bravery and courage. Wivenhoe February 1940 As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Roby family are thankful to have started their new life in Wivenhoe...

Title: Against the OddsIn the heart of Harlem, Devon Walker's journey begins with the legacy of his father, Marcus-a man who taught him the value of loyalty, hard work, and perseverance. From the backseat of Daniel Sutton's town car to the towering heights of...

Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil. At ten years old, she catches more than her parents...

From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times best seller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle. Adela is sixteen...

While exploring deeper in the woods than they ever had, Chase and his two buddies discovered a seldom-used railroad spur built to service a facility that had long since seen its better days. With nothing better to do, they followed it to see where...

This is Aotearoa, New Zealand. This is a novel about who we are now. Past, present and future. All that we have is All That We Know. Meet Māreikura Pohe: she's in love with her best friend, though he's about to abandon her; and...

""The Unwanted is a tightrope of a novel: tense, precise, stunning in its scope and power.""--Tea Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Morningside"Urgently contemporary and prescient in equal measure, Fishman's The Unwanted channels the spectrum of literature's finest, emotionally visceral dystopian masterworks,...

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.They...

'Why this novel? Because we need empathy, understanding, some magic and hope more than ever in our lifetimes.' HOLLY RINGLAND 'Most novels leave us with learnings, but very few refine your character. I left more astute, more empathic, and somehow wiser after I read...

A timeless love story set against the backdrop of aristocratic society in Victorian England. Doctor Thorne is a classic tale of romance, intrigue, and scandal that explores the social hierarchies of 19th century England, while also illuminating the timeless struggles and desires of the...

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. The working title of Mrs....

This defiant and unapologetically sardonic debut novel explores the collision between fear and longing. Eyes in Front When Running is a quick-witted family drama that uses humour to tackle heavy topics, such as the crumbling of a relationship, miscarriage, abortion, infertility, and postpartum depression....

Friendships, illness, family troubles, and insecurity.Get Off the Struggle Bus leads you to look for God in the middle of all you don't understand about life.God revealed himself in the Old Testament through names that describe his character and power.Creator, Healer, All Powerful, The...

A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone edition This dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Katherine Mansfield, hailed as "one of the great modernist writers. Virginia...

For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five...

Twelve tense hours, three women, and the suicide standoff that turns one family's little piece of heaven into a scene from hellRonnie Farnham's husband is supposed to move out today. But when Jeff pulls into the driveway drunk, with a shotgun in the front...

"Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi's style is all her own."--Chicago Tribune New York Times Editors' Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author Trezza Azzopardi is at once a powerful love...

As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work--a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In the windswept town of Horizon, an unamed diarist paints...

When tragedy strikes across the ocean, Ellie Lerner drops everything--her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs--to travel to London and pick up the pieces of her best friend Lucy's life. While Lucy's husband, Greg, retreats into himself, his and Lucy's eight-year-old...

Envision an imaginary dial with which you can turn all sounds from your everyday experience onto the highest level of volume: that is the world of 13-year old Ship Sooner whose incredible ability to hear sounds normally indiscernible to the human ear defines her...

For fans of Midnight Mass comes a haunting new horromance. Something dreadful is festering in the old Thomas Bog. For years, it's done what it has been taught to do--it swallows. But it's done following orders.It's been three years since Mila Thomas' brother Jed...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in TroubleNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - New York Magazine's Beach Read Book...

For fans of Midnight Mass comes a haunting new horromance. Something dreadful is festering in the old Thomas Bog. For years, it's done what it has been taught to do--it swallows. But it's done following orders.It's been three years since Mila Thomas' brother Jed...