In the depths of winter, a woman wanders off in the snow. She is a popular former teacher and wife of a local policeman. A full-blown search begins. Meanwhile, Derek is staying with his new girlfriend and her parents while his family is...
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- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
- Author:Markovits, BenjaminSummary:
'What are you feeling so anxious about' I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.' 'That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realise. It's harder on the rest of us.'...
- Author:Whitlock, NathanSummary:
A brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest novel, A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the...
- Author:Desjardins, IndiaSummary:
A teenage girl heads towards the hospital waiting room where the doctors are going to tell her how much time she's got to live. As she walks, she thinks about her journey up to this point ... the terrible decor in the hospital,...
- Author:Touchell, DianneSummary:
Rose and Michael are good students with bright futures. They are also in love. But when Rose gets pregnant, her behavior becomes increasingly strange as she pulls away from her best friend, and from Michael, while she struggles to cope...
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A sister knows the heart of a sister like no other-and, sometimes, only the heart, mind and hand of a sister will do. The Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade, celebrates the bond between sisters in this Little Book.
- Author:Denton, RebeccaSummary:
Alexia Falls is eighteen, living in her parents' New York penthouse and working with superstar boyband The Keep. But with her heart set on independence and a career behind the camera, she trades it all for a take-it-or-leave-it...
- Author:Johnson, VarianSummary:
Sarcastic and bold, Maxine Phillips receives what she thinks is the shock of her life when she learns the father she thought was dead for 18 years is very much alive and living in Oklahoma. When she drives from her home in South...
- Author:Carlucci, PaulSummary:
Quietly atmospheric and darkly foreboding, A Plea for Constant Motion is an ominous, and occasionally unnerving, new work of fiction by award-winning author Paul Carlucci.Penetrating and visceral, yet always offset by small moments of...
- Author:Atkins, DaniSummary:
Beth Brandon has always dreamed of owning a flower shop, but today the bouquets of peonies and bright spring flowers are failing to calm her nerves...because, today, Beth has a life-changing decision to share with her husband. Izzy...
- Author:Perinovic, Jenny AdamsSummary:
She meant to help a ghost...not unleash a curse.Amelia Dupree hasn't seen the Woman in White since the night her brother died.The ghost seems to have disappeared from the woods surrounding Asylum, Pennsylvania-that is, until Charlie...
- Author:Monkton, EdwardSummary:
"Together they stand on the hill, telling each other stories and feeling the warmth of the sun on their backs. And that, my friends, is how it is with love." — Edward Monkton Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennett. Ozzie and Harriet....
- Author:Andrews McMeel Publishing LLCSummary:
In honor of our most devoted supporters, A Little Book for Mom presents a selection of some of the most insightful words ever written or spoken about mothers and the beloved act of mothering. May it be an inspiration to and celebration...
- Author:Andrews McMeel Publishing LLCSummary:
Grandmothers have a knack for making their grandchildren feel truly special. A Little Book for Grandmothers presents a collection of some of the most insightful and thoughtful words ever written about these amazing women. With this book...
- Author:Regan, PatrickSummary:
This gift book is perfect for a new generation of grandfathers who identify more with peace, love and rock 'n' roll than with shake, rattle and roll.
- Author:Regan, PatrickSummary:
For the dearest dad in your life, A Little Book for Dad presents a selection of some of the most insightful words ever written or spoken about fathers. May these words be an inspiration to and celebration of every father and father...
- Author:Miller, RoySummary:
A Life With You details the small moments of life as lived with a partner. Running out of gas, going for a walk around the neighborhood or water fights in the kitchen, the little things are the glue that keep us together over the years...
- Author:Towles, AmorSummary:
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the...
- Author:Rosemond, JohnSummary:
John Rosemond's A Family of Value presents a critical view of the child care literature of the past quarter century and argues for an end to overindulgent parenting and a return to the goal of instilling moral values, such as...