As a divorced 30-year-old travel writer, Laura experienced an affair with a Frenchman. Now 40, Laura wonders if her traveling lifestyle has deprived her of the kind of life she truly wanted.
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Author: Fraser, LauraSummary:
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Author: Homans, JenniferSummary:
For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is...
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Author: Isenberg, NancySummary:
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "...
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Author: Gray, Shelley ShepardSummary:
Anna, fleeing her abusive boyfriend, runs to an Amish inn. The family lets her stay, dressed in Plain clothing. But the older brother resents the intrusion--for a while. Anna feels she's found a...
Genre: Religious fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Wolf, MaryanneSummary:
A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain...
Genre: Psychology, Math and science -
Author: Banks, MayaSummary:
Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn't speak. No one, not even her...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Banks, MayaSummary:
Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortified walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the...
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Author: Mayer, JaneSummary:
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality' Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and...
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Author: Fink, SheriSummary:
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina...
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Author: Lapeþna, ShariSummary:
The new domestic suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, Shari Lapena Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did...'/b "I'm so sorry. My...
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Author: Jenoff, PamSummary:
An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attorneys who find themselves slowly...
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Author: Modglin, KierstenSummary:
Good neighbors invite you over for dinner, bring you baked goods to welcome you to the neighborhood, and wave hello at the mailbox. Good neighbors do not destroy your life. When Bryant and Harper...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: Holland, EvaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
A personal story about not only facing but conquering fears.In 2015, Eva Holland was forced to...
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Author: Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
In 1850s Missouri, the religious Bethel colony is resolved to remain pure in the midst of a tainted and sinful country. However, Emma Wagner, young and independent, is at odds with the community's...
Genre: Religious fiction, Western fiction -
Author: Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory...
Genre: Religious fiction, Western fiction