Effie has had her fair share of lovers and husbands, including the Gillis cousins, who have been a source of as much guilt as joy. But she's more or less given up on being swept away by love, until, in a chance encounter, she meets...
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- Author:MacIntyre, LindenSummary:
- Author:Goines, DonaldSummary:
Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends, and he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-...
- Author:Knapp, RuthieSummary:
Tells the story of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci portrait known as the Mona Lisa, including its 1911 theft from the Louvre in Paris, from the point of view of the subject of the painting. Includes an author's note with facts about the...
- Author:Kellaway, LucySummary:
A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lukes is a man who is good at taking credit where it isn't due; a man who works hard at 'personal growth' but consistently...
- Author:Rosenbaum, Bev KatzSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Tanya Kofsky is invisible. She hates that no one listens to her, at home or at her new school. So as student elections get underway, Tanya starts secretly painting controversial images on the walls of the school. Soon...
- Author:Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond)Summary:
"Available for the first time as an ebook, this illustrated edition of W.O. Mitchell's prairie classic Who Has Seen the Wind is a delight to discover again -- or for the first time.Since its publication in 1947, Who Has Seen...
- Author:Little, BenildeSummary:
Twenty-six-year-old Aisha Branch has always gotten what she wants. Now she's getting an incredibly wealthy, white husband--unless self-made black man Miles changes enjoying a richly deserved sexual re-awakening. And her grandmother...
- Author:Jackson, NetaSummary:
When her husband locks her out of their Chicago penthouse and disappears with her sons, Gabby is left homeless and stunned. Taking refuge at the women's shelter where she works, she tries to salvage the shattered pieces of her life....
- Author:McMillan, TerrySummary:
After leaving her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, Trinetta disappears. BJ already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams-all while...
- Author:Belfrage, AnnaSummary:
Matthew and Alex Graham go to the West Indies to find a young man neither of them knows but who faces imminent death on a sugar plantation, condemned to slavery for treason. The journey is hazardous and along the way Alex comes face-to-...
- Author:Smith, ZadieSummary:
- Author:Klages, EllenSummary:
Living with the Gordons in their quiet desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to...
- Author:DeLillo, Don.Summary:
- Author:Cleeves, Ann.Summary:
- Author:McGrath, M. J.Summary:
Half Inuit, half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is murdered under her watch, she sets out to investigate but is shocked by the suicide of someone close to her. The events seem unrelated...
- Author:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
In 1876, in a remote mining camp in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in grizzly bear attacks. Now the historic cemetery has been dug up to make way for development. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the remains. But...
- Author:Whitcomb, ChristopherSummary:
During an anti-terrorism operation in Indonesia, FBI Agent Jeremy Waller witnesses something he struggles to comprehend--three Americans are arrested and summarily executed by the CIA. Back home, revenge comes in the form of a horrific...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Set amidst the frozen wilds of 1917 Alaska, this finale skillfully weaves an enthralling plot with an uplifting message of God's faithfulness in trials. With Leah's husband and brother still lost in the Arctic, it's difficult for her to...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Cassie Lockwood is dismayed to discover her father's South Dakota valley land is already occupied. Meanwhile, Cassie's arrival spurs the revelation of long-hidden secrets among the locals and leaves her questioning whether or not she...
- Author:Nixon, Joan LowerySummary:
After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.