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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this gripping novel from Danielle Steel, a top Hollywood executive seeks a new beginning when his career takes an unplanned turn. As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every...

Alice Adams follows the day-to-day life of a young woman who dreams of climbing the social ladder and escaping from her middle-class background. She struggles with the constant tension between her parents and her older brother. When a wealthy young man becomes interested in...

Gigi isn't looking for the one. Just someone...!As she gears up for her sister's destination wedding in Hawaii, the countdown is on for Gigi to find a date. Just someone to prove to her friends and family that she's ok, and to stop the...

The moving story of Silver Bangles and Gold Bangles is an insightful exploration unveiling the dark side of a once exemplary, brilliant young man who has become Sri Lankan culture. When the young man reacts negatively to his father's offer to buy gold jewellery...

Meet Tilda Wright...Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl who was scared of everything, whose family pushed her away, who hit rock bottom. Now she runs her life - as she does her successful...

Preorder the next Primrose Woods story now!Primrose Hall is more than Jackson Moody and his fianc馥 Pia's home - it's the heart of the community.The Sunday craft fairs in the renovated stables are a popular draw for the locals and tourists alike, enticed by...

Lonely, middle-aged, at a personal and professional dead-end, Iti Arya fleesthe towers and bright lights of Gurgaon for The Dacha, a remote cottage inthe Kumaon Himalayas where she had spent perhaps the happiest years ofher childhood. Over the course of that single monsoon in...

Through the Hibiscus Hedge tells of children who veer off course into sticky situations and amuse themselves by pushing boundaries, and the adults who outwit and surprise them. Set in the beautiful Jamaican countryside where trees grow in all shades of green, roosters crow...

"Out!" Who said that? Einstein, a brilliant Border Collie (aren't all of them very smart?), has told his family he wants to go outside. He hit a prominent button with his paw that triggered this recorded message. The button is one of many buttons...

There's no place like home...Although dog trainer Sally is relatively new to Wagging Tails, the team she works with have quickly become her family and the dogs her friends.But when Andy, the one that got away, turns up for a brief respite from the...

A summer getaway triggers a psychological game of cat and mouse in a novel about the frightening damages of love, family, and obsession by the bestselling author of Open House and We Were Mothers.When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August,...

From the author of The Rise and Fall of Ava Arcana comes an emotional and empowering multigenerational family saga about a mother and daughter, and the secrets they keep from each other--and from themselves.For more than thirty years, Elizabeth Stone has been an irreplaceable...

"Powerful." --The New Yorker "Brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal "Astounding." --NPR Now in paperback, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, New Statesmen Best Book of the Year, and Mother Jones favorite book of the year, Forbidden Notebook is a classic domestic...

Nominated for The 2023 Asian Prize for FictionA contemporary South Asian drama of love, loss and trauma that transports you from the urban elites of Pakistan to the mountains of Peru and the hustle and bustle of London.Zohaib, Misha, and Nadia were once inseparable,...

In a funny and suspenseful debut, Christine Gunderson explores the myth of the perfect mother, the bonds of female friendship, and the haunting impact of secrets.What you see isn't always what you get.Take Ainsley. The gorgeous mother of two lives a picture-perfect life with...

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman's struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in...

When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people--and their families--reeling, in this poignant novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Women in Sunlight A great marriage is...

The intense novel Dalia: Lost Youth follows a young girl's difficult journey through her childhood in Mexico. Hers is a story filled with pain and heartache. Before Dalia was five years old, she had the responsibility of helping her mother serve her abusive father...

'Simultaneously tragic and uplifting. And I have to say at times funny. Charlotte Levin is SUCH a clever writer . . . A magnificent read.' - Ruth Jones, author of Love Untold 'This emotional rollercoaster is alternately heart-breaking and hopeful. I was gripped.' -...

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at...

Sandra "Sandy" Wood is a kid like any other who is trying to learn the ways of people. Through her life's journey, she learns that people are not always as they seem on first impressions. As her conflicts with others, and circumstances beyond her...

Women in Love (1920) is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915) and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a...

Author: Jean Hanff KorelitzISBN-10: 1538707802ISBN-13: 9781538707807Publisher: Grand Central PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2021Pages: 454Format: Paperback

At the beginning of her college sophomore year in 1994, Sabella Pierce surrenders to her semester-long psych class assignment: volunteer as a companion for eighty-three-year-old nursing-home resident, May. Having grown up with a bitter grandmother and a well-earned lack of enthusiasm for old people,...

Single-handedly, Lynn shatters the hopes and dreams of her close-knit family and severs the bond with her twin sister, Ruth. Each person fights to survive in the face of betrayal, deceit, loss, pain, even regret. An unexpected ray of hope occurs but it is...

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016. In the wake of resettlement from the desert to the hills overlooking Jerusalem, aging Bedouin patriarch Mannan wants his son Muhammad al-Asghar (the Youngest) to take on leadership and hold the clan together. But the...

Six fascinating and touching diaries are discovered in an old rooming house that detail the lives of the owners and tenants spanning over a century of change in Chicago's Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood. An unwed pregnant teen shows up; a teen from Paris, France appears, the...

An impossible love triangle on the backdrop of ultraorthodox Brooklyn.Jeff Palmer is a young Christian arriving in New York from a distant town in Arizona after a clash with his abusive father, with the aim of building a new life for himself. In Brooklyn,...

A story to be read by all honest lovers of romance in terms of whimsy. It is altogether spirited and delightful, a masterful fantasy released from the sober interpretation of American life and character.Author: Meredith NicholsonISBN-10: 1522783539ISBN-13: 9781522783534Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2015Pages:...

Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk's The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores her husband and three young sons, but she's deeply...

Steve Daly wasn't born to kill. It just worked out that way. But after a career as an elite soldier in the military as a member of a squad that didn't officially exist, he wanted to do something a little different. But what could...

A heartwarming small-town romance that will make you believe in love and second chances. She has a million reasons to leave. Can he give her the one she needs to stay? Cat McGuire's return to Firefly Lake is turning into much more than she...

From a veteran writer new to the Accent list, a novel about four women who find strength and insight in each other. Mamie is facing an overwhelming secret. Margaret has lost her home. Billie can no longer care alone for her disabled daughter. And...

These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she's pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Ian...

As Cynthia Wright's marriage implodes, she is forced to raise her teenage son, Isaiah, alone. The pressure of providing for them through her salon is a full-time job in itself. When Cynthia sees Isaiah pulling away and escaping into video games, tensions rise and...

In the tranquil wilderness of Northern Michigan, school custodian Buddy Robertson finds all that he needs: the rhythms of nature, the unpretentious companionship of Mags and their seven cats, solitude from others - and a safe escape from the loss and abuse of his...

Victoria Patterson, whose writing Vanity Fair has called "brutal, deeply empathetic, and emotionally wrenching,"" returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. There's a pitch-perfect blend...

A Journey of Defiance, Grief, & Hope: Rediscover Life After Loss.In Soulless, Fatoumata Nabie Fofana crafts a poignant narrative that captures the essence of a young woman's struggle against a tapestry of cultural expectations, yearning for self-identity.Manatou Lahai, raised in a strict Islamic household,...

Author: Aimie K. RunyanISBN-10: 006332928XISBN-13: 9780063329287Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 368Format: Paperback

Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence...

Newly heartbroken, a woman embarks on a glamorized summer of couch surfing to rediscover herself and learns that though life may not go according to plan, there is magic in the unexpected. Avalie Monfared has a theory about saying "I Do"--that the magic ends...

In the multi-ethnic immigration paradise of Minnesota's Iron Range, a woman's suspicion that her husband might be cheating on her leads to the unexpected response from the private investigator she hired. He is, instead, spending the time investigating his adoption at the request of...

In the novel Securely Insecure, four strangers meet at a Delaware college in the hope of leaving their abusive childhoods in the past. Lynnie, Myra, Jessica, and Amanda are kindred spirits, soon forming an unbreakable bond through a shared commonality of trauma. As the...

A debut literary page-turner from a new South African voice about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging. Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man...

The printed book is finally here, containing the E-books: Smoke in the Distance and The Search for Home. The year is 1852. Tragedy strikes the once lively town of Wasa, when an innocent flame sets the whole community ablaze on a hot summer's day....

For decades, the Campbell women have reunited at the family's rambling seaside cottage known as Beech House to celebrate life's many occasions. But this year, they will be called back to Martha's Vineyard for a celebration of a different sort: their beloved matriarch Cora...

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the...

My Twin Friend takes AJ on an adventure with his best friend Blake. They spend spring break together at AJ's house. The boys always have fun together. AJ learns a valuable lesson about embracing the diversity of their personalities after he makes a wish...

Pap worried Harry would be so very far from the farm if he made it to the finish line. He knew his number-three son was not cut out for the life he had chosen for himself. But Cleveland? The city was filled with sin...

A romantic break-up . . . A shocking break-in . . . They say bad things come in threes . . . so, what's next? When thirty-seven-year-old Sarah Harding tries to piece her life back together after losing her boyfriend and some of her...