NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life. Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in...
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Author:Steel, DanielleSummary: - Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life. Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently...
- Author:Handke, PeterSummary:
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man’s Bay is “a meditation on two decades of a writer’s life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning” (Publishers Weekly). In his most substantial...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes....
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Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs'" -Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat. Which should prevail:...
- Author:O'Reilly, TerrySummary:
The host of CBC Radio's Under the Influence, Terry O'Reilly, uncovers the surprising power of screwing up The Incredible Hulk was originally supposed to be grey, but a printing glitch led to the superhero's iconic green...
- Author:Wilson, AntoineSummary:
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 - A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this "powerful, intoxicating, and shocking" ( The New York Times ) novel that's a "slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith" (...
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Author:Brett, BarrieSummary:Is it possible that one moment, one brief encounter, can change the course of the rest of your life? If so, how will you recognize that moment? Will you let it pass you by? Will you let it defeat you? Or will you allow that moment, that...
- Author:Eberlen, KateSummary:
A chance meeting brings two people together for a brief moment--the first of many times their paths will cross. Separated by distance and circumstance, the possibility of these two connecting seems slight. But while fate can separate...
- Author:Zimmerman, VickySummary:
When her life falls apart on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she'...
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Author:Kallio, WayneSummary:Tells the true story of this middle-class couple's face-to-face battle with schizophrenia.
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Author:Wallace, JessicaSummary:Robin Kent doesn’t understand how everyone around her, including her husband, is so certain of everything. The only explanation is that they’re all following the same Guidebook—a copy of which Robin has yet to receive. When a co-worker...
- Author:Moyes, JojoSummary:
A "New York Times" bestseller--with more than one million copies sold--by the author of "The Girl You Left Behind"
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living... -
Author:Kuipers, AliceSummary:In a canoe trip gone terribly wrong, the little girl that 17-year-old Lark babysits and the boy Lark is dating fall into the lake at the same moment. They are both drowning, and Lark can only save one of them in time. In this critical...
- Author:Johnson, DebbieSummary:
For years Jess believed that Joe had abandoned her during her greatest time of need. Seventeen years later, when cleaning out her mother's house, Jess unpacks a box of cards and letters hidden in the attic and makes a discovery that...
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Author:Homes, A. M.Summary:Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always “compelling, devastating, and furiously good” (Zadie Smith). Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching...
- Author:Rayner, Mark A.Summary:
"Marvellous Hairy is a top pick for any humorous fiction collection, highly recommended." --Midwest Book Review "Mark A. Rayner is an author with a fantastical sense of humor and a dangerous imagination." --The Next Best Book Club So...
- Author:Anderson, JamesSummary:
Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through...
- Author:Mills, EmmaSummary:
When Nina decides to take a radio-broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk in the park. Instead, it's a complete disaster. The members of Nina's haphazardly formed radio team have approximately nothing in common....
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Author:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySummary:Raised in a polygamous community, Jon starts to question the rules of his faith. After he is caught kissing a girl, he is forced to flee his town and the only life he knows. He finds a community of other Lost Boys, or "polygs,...
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