Inspired by a love of trains and the nature of love, a series of intertwined romantic tales follows the experiences of four strangers traveling from Edinburgh to London who entertain each other with reminiscences about how trains have...
Strangers
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Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary: - Author:Cross-Smith, LeesaSummary:
Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he reluctantly shares his first name: Emmett. Over the course of the...
- Author:Fox, PhoebeSummary:
Marcie Malone didn't think she was either, but when she drives from Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up in a stranger's home, she doesn't seem to know anymore. Despondent and...
- Author:Nolan, YvetteSummary:
Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena and Bern retreat from the remains of civilization to a freezing, desolate landscape where they attempt to continue their lives after the end of the world. When a...
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Author:Hendrix, GradySummary:A women's book club in South Carolina must protect its community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
- Author:Mcwatt, TessaSummary:
Tessa McWatt's breathtaking new novel explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered. Northern India, 2009. Four travellers...
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Author:Fagan, CarySummary:These thirty-five brief stories — and the found photographs that inspired them — are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling. Award-winning author Cary Fagan has created a mesmerizing series of...
- Author:McConvey, J.R.Summary:
Part dark satire, part surreal Gothic folktale, The Last Ham is a story about populist politics run amok in the age of illusion. Weeks before Easter in the sleepy town of Bedford, a macabre death coincides with the arrival of a stranger...
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Author:Givner, JoanSummary:It was supposed to be a homecoming and reunion, but when Anne Tennyson Miller (Tenn to her friends and family) returns to Driftwood Bay with her new friend Una, they find a ghost town.
Something has gone terribly wrong in the... - Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
On Tuesday nights in the backroom of Cassie's café, six strangers seek solace and find themselves part of a "Company of Good Cheer" Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband. When her...
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Author:Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:Malcolm Gladwell argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding...
- Author:Winman, SarahSummary:
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick. A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied...
- Author:Foster, SaraSummary:
Two years ago, Desi Priest made a mistake and destroyed her family. But as Desi returns to make amends, she finds a stranger waiting for her whose arrival will reveal secrets hidden for decades.
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Author:Moriarty, LianeSummary:"A deeply satisfying thriller. Moriarty delivers yet another surefire winner."-Publishers Weekly From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies. Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever' In Liane...
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Author:Griggs, TerrySummary:Strange things are happening in town, but only Nieve seems to notice that something is up. But when two strangers come to town, trailing night along behind them, and people, including Nieve's best friend Malcolm, begin to disappear,...
- Author:Moriarty, LianeSummary:
Neuf parfaits étrangers en quête de sérénité. Une station thermale de rêve. Dix jours de cure pour tout changer... Neuf citadins stressés, prêts pour un break dans une sublime station thermale. Le Tranquillum House leur propose...
- Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger ... and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle -...
- Author:Cavanagh, SteveSummary:
For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl , a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink. One dark...
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Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers accidentally collide with darkly hilarious results. The unlikely trio forms an unusual new business which quickly becomes successful, but when Killer-Anders...
- Author:Roberts, NoraSummary:
Pregnant, alone, and on the run to protect her unborn child, Laura Malone finds herself stranded with Gabriel Bradley, with whom she forms a bond after he provides her with shelter and friendship through the storm.
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