After Lindsey Bakeswell catches her celebrity chef fiance sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey leaves big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan, to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker-and gets mixed up...
City and Town life
- Author:Hannah, DarciSummary:
- Author:Doody, LoriSummary:
Key Selling Points - A simple and playful picture-book mystery.Bright colorful illustrations include lots of clues for young readers to find and help Mr. Beagle solve the puzzle.Story includes a resolution that emphasizes sharing,...
- Author:Joyce, Arthur, 1959-Summary:
Welcome to the tiny villages of Eldorado and Elkville, in the shadow of the glacial Valhalla mountain range. Everyone knows everyone and the place is wall-to-wall with lovable, weird and wacky eccentrics, many of them refugees from the...
- Author:Maupin, ArmisteadSummary:
- Author:Rice, WaubgeshigSummary:
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While...
- Author:Russo, RichardSummary:
Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls - Richard Russo's Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first...
- Author:King, CharlesSummary:
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul, people were looking toward...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village. Dorothea, seeking a life of noble service, falls for the dry intellectual Edward Casaubon, much to her light-hearted sister’s dismay. Eight hundred pages of...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
- Author:Baker, TiffanySummary:
In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in...
- Author:Taylor, CraigSummary:
A collection of interviews with contemporary Londoners from all parts of the city and all walks of life.
- Author:Burns, AnnaSummary:
An irate woman bursts into the best gun shop in the town of Tiptoe Floorboard, helps herself to a Kalashnikov rifle and sets off in a taxi on her mission of retribution. So begins this kaleidoscopic, surreal and enigmatic tale of dark...
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
Set in the quiet, small town of Mitford and starring aging Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, the books are welcome reminders of the simpler and gentler pleasures of life. Now the series concludes with Light from Heaven. An old,...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
A newly-single woman revisits the poor choices she had made through her life, returning to the small town in western Canada where she grew up and lived through the violent death of a close friend in an unsolved hit-and-run accident.
- Author:Bloodworth-Thomason, LindaSummary:
Dr. Wood McIlmore is the leading citizen of Paris, Arkansas. Married to his high school sweetheart Milan, Wood has it all. But everything changes dramatically when his daughter Elizabeth announces plance to marry Luke, her college...
- Author:Bock, Maxime RaymondSummary:
Amis d’autrefois, amoureux incertains, familles amochées, artistes se mesurant à la puissance de l’art et athlètes déchus – trahis par leur corps défaillant – se côtoient dans une ville de Montréal chargée des traces fuyantes de son...
- Author:De La Pena, MattSummary:
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to...
- Author:Walsh, AliceSummary:
Set in the fictional town of Paddy's Arm, Newfoundland, Alice Walsh's debut mystery novel is at once harrowing and homey, equal parts police procedural and diner gossip. When Claire and Bram?s only child dies suddenly, it at first...
- Author:Brooke, JohnSummary:
Montreal is a city that has always represented the ideal of languages and peoples meeting, mixing and producing a culture greater than the sum of diverse parts. Last Days of Montreal travels through an imaginary cityscape, powered by...
- Author:Gougeon, RichardSummary:
Montréal, 1936. Les ambitieux projets que l'entêté épicier Théodore Sansoucy caressait ne se sont pas concrétisés comme il l'entendait. Pour l'instant, dans le petit logement à l'étage supérieur de son...