The New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto creates a resonant portrait of a life in this collection of writings on love, friendship, work, and art. "The tricky thing about being a writer, or about...
Families
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Author:Patchett, AnnSummary: - Author:Moore, LisaSummary:
From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love? As the snowstorm of the century rages, twenty-one-year-...
- Author:Frankel, LaurieSummary:
"It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think."--Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies. This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives...
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Author:Carter, LaurenSummary:Set in Northern Ontario in the 1990s, this is a thrilling literary novel about two siblings coming to terms with their mother murdering their father and his mistress, and the history of abuse that fuelled her crime. It also features a...
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Author:Carr, Emily, Switzer, Ann-LeeSummary:Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.. Carr began to write...
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Author:Deriso, Christine HurleySummary:Forrest Shepherd is convinced she's right. About what's best for her brother and his horrible girlfriend, Olivia. About her mother's need for control. Most of all, she thinks she's right about Scott, the first cute guy to hit on her....
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Author:Molavi, FereshtehSummary:To pursue her dream of building a life free from violence for her son and herself, Yalda flees from her nightmarish past as well as her troubled homeland, Iran. But in her new haven, she realizes that nightmares haunt not only her past...
- Author:Adams, HollieSummary:
Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. To get over her mother's death from ovarian cancer, she launches a passive-aggressive war with her fellow office workers, embarks on a campaign designed...
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Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:Zack Bernard has a thing for crime shows, especially the forensic-investigation kind. So when his friend Ella goes missing, Zack can't help piecing together what he thinks is concrete evidence that could lead to her whereabouts....
- Author:El-Wardany, SalmaSummary:
A razor-sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all. It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their...
- Author:Card, MaisySummary:
Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" ( T he New York Times Book Review ) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of...
- Author:Lewis, Amanda WestSummary:
New York City in the 1960s is the humming backdrop for this poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a fresh start. Missy’s mother has gone back to...
- Author:BLUME, JudySummary:
Ever since his father got rich from his invention, Tony Miglione has had nothing but problems. His mother is becoming a social climbing phoney and his grandma is miserable now that she's no longer allowed to cook!
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Author:Didion, JoanSummary:In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her husband's sudden death "cut loose any fixed...
- Author:Fisher, TarrynSummary:
Juno was wrong about the Crouch family. She thought that they had the perfect life. But after overhearing a chilling conversation, she knows this could be her chance to make a few things right.
- Author:Enright, AnneSummary:
An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil...
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Author:Patterson, James, Tebbetts, ChristopherSummary:With his best friend awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's...
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Author:Bissoondath, NeilSummary:This beautiful novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Casual Brutality and The Innocence of Age, joins politics and love in a powerful story set in both the Caribbean and Canada. Neil Bissoondath draws us...
- Author:Bell, KristenSummary:
Actress, producer, and parent Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Veronica Mars, Frozen) and creative director and parent Benjamin Hart have a new challenge for you and your kids: become a purple person! What is a purple person? Great...
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Author:Wiersema, Robert J.Summary:Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behind the house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper than anyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Those...
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