Anna McDonald enjoys listening to podcasts-- other people's problems are much better than one's own. But today her husband tells her he's leaving her ... and the podcast is about a murdered family on a sunken yacht. Anna is convinced...
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Author:Mina, DeniseSummary: - Author:Silcoff, MireilleSummary:
A dazzling debut collection from award-winning journalist and New York Times Magazine contributor Mireille Silcoff. Inspired by the real life medical struggles of the author, this stunning debut collection opens with a gripping portrait...
- Author:Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white...
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Author:Sinnott, SusanSummary:This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided. She stood at the edge, a mass of instincts and yearnings and despair, while the dawn painted itself in around her, shade by delicate shade....
- Author:Smale, HollySummary:
A Reese's Book Club Pick "Fascinating...witty...self-deprecating...We meet Cassandra on the worst day of her life. She's getting fired, her boyfriend dumps her, and her roommates hate her. On that same day, she discovers...
- Author:Portico, Bowman S.Summary:
"Was it the death of her dog, Bloom, or was she just tired of her routine as a dentist? Or perhaps her depression was the result of her (mostly) unrequited love for her former piano teacher, Bruno? As Robin contemplates a sabbatical to...
- Author:Grisham, JohnSummary:
The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
- Author:Auður A. ÓlafsdóttirSummary:
After being dumped and then winning the lottery, a woman in her thirties, along with her best friend's four-year-old deaf-mute son, takes a transformative road trip through Iceland, encountering eccentrics and finding herself.
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Author:Fielding, KimSummary:Werewolves don’t have a how-to manual—nor do men embarking on a new life together. It’s been a few weeks since Dylan Warner wolfed out and killed Andy, the crazed werewolf who originally turned him and later tried to murder Chris Nock....
- Author:Mayer, ShannonSummary:
"My name is Mara, and I want desperately to become a mother." All of my dreams were dashed when the world was promised hope but instead became a place of danger, death...and monsters.Living in a rural part of Canada, I thought life with...
- Author:Abraham, Tola RotimiSummary:
Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, is drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a...
- Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the...
- Author:Watson, S. J.Summary:
An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
- Author:Backman, FredrikSummary:
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town's junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals-and they actually have a shot at winning. All the...
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Author:Bertin, KrisSummary:The characters in 'Bad Things Happen' - professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals - are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris...
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Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret-a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved....
- Author:Stéphane LarocheSummary:
Bien décidé à fuir son quotidien monotone et ce mal de vivre qui lui ronge les entrailles, Bernard Labonté s'apprête à fermer son gîte touristique et à plier bagage, à la recherche d'un peu de bonheur sur le vieux...
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Author:McEwan, IanSummary:On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood...
- Author:Keane, Mary BethSummary:
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two...
- Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:
Three women of different generations gather at a house in Summer Hill, Virginia to discuss their marriages and look at how they'd do things differently if they could do it all over again. Olivia is in her sixties and recently married...
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