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On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look...

Who tortured this young man with such brutality, and then left him on the frozen ground, alive and alone, to wait for the blizzard to finish him off? No one has admitted knowing him. No one seems to care. No one knows why he...

Cynthia Wilkes has hit one of life's terrifying sweet spots. At this time when change is inevitable and everything is open to introspection, an unlikely would-be prot?g? arrives, forcing Cynthia to reflect on her sense of family and of self ... and causes those...

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, Just Another Sunday is inspired by actual events and follows Lia Benedict, a teenager growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey. In the spring of 1968, Lia is 15 years old...

"An astounding achievement." --Megha Majumdar * "Her best book yet." --Paul Yoon Set in midcentury America, At Last explores a rich family saga centered on two fierce and competitive matriarchs whose intertwined lives reflect the complexities of family, tradition, and personal ambition. "Whole lives...

'If you want a book that is exciting, fast-paced and impossible to put down, with plenty of twists and turns, then you need to buy this book! I can't wait to read more of Kathleen's novels.' - Emma's Book Reviews Some secrets are best...

Love is FreedomIf we open our eyes and awaken from our dream long enough, we find that the path that leads to our true home is everywhere, in all manifestations of daily existence, and in every imaginable lifestyle. It is there in our vocations,...

* A Martin Cruz Smith Award for Emerging Diverse Voices Finalist in the CALIBA 2024 Golden Poppy Book Awards * "This debut novel breaks all the rules...capturing loss in all its belligerent rage and raw humor." --Oprah Daily * "Full of heart." --PureWow *...

A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran. 1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah's expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he...

The USA Today bestselling author of Rainy Day Sisters returns to Hartley-by-the-Sea... Childhood best friends Rachel Campbell and Claire West have not only grown up, but after fifteen years, they've also grown apart... After her father left, Rachel had to dedicate her life to...

Discover the Enigmatic Beauty and Hidden Dangers of Mahone BayIn the heart of Mahone Bay lies a secret that twists through the lives of its inhabitants, weaving a tale of love, mystery, and danger that will ensnare your senses and hold you captivated till...

Author: Laura PriceISBN-10: 1529074266ISBN-13: 9781529074260Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2023Pages: 418Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.93d

A mother's love never dies....It's 1950. Pregnant and unmarried, Louisa is forced into servitude under the rule of the Galway Magdalene Asylum nuns. Her happy bright future is stolen away and her punishment is more than she could ever have anticipated. Forced to endure...

When an emotional story and a shocking secret rock her world, can this reporter write her way to happiness? Cynthia Anderson is hungry for success. Having just won a second award, the small-town journalist searches for a compelling scoop to get her to the...

Paul Tanner and Nicky Newman were two of the most highly recruited Point Guards in the country for Basketball. New Coach at the U Bob Barrows built his whole program around them. Everything was going fine and the team was on track to become...

Robert Moore is a mill owner hated by his workers because he has been laying many of them off, since the mill is deeply in debt and the workers are being replaced by the machines. Regardless to that, Robert is determined to restore his...

Maria knows she will die soon. More than anything, she longs to ask Kathleen for forgiveness, but she has no idea where her daughter has been for the past thirty years. With nothing left to lose, she confesses to her son, Darius, that she...

Meet Grace, a little girl with a big heart who wants to make a difference in her community by helping the homeless.Author: Ramone L. Outlaw, Grace TorresISBN-10: 1098594150ISBN-13: 9781098594152Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2019Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.08d

Steel Magnolias meets The Help in Beth Hoffman's New York Times bestselling Southern debut novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town's tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is...

A beloved Japanese bestseller, The Menu of Happiness is for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and asks the question: What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? "As warm and nourishing as a good cup of tea...a...

The one you marry isn't always the one you should trust . . .Author: Diane AllenISBN-10: 1447287312ISBN-13: 9781447287315Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d

A sexy, propulsive meditation on modern motherhood, tracking the lives of three women as they struggle to define themselves in the face of new obligations and heightened expectations.Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She...

Shadow Family is the story of a birth mother, an adoptive mother, and their struggles with life's pitfalls. Their son, after searching diligently for his birth mother, brings them together in the end. Told in these three voices, it is a story of perseverance...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father's love, a little boy's journey, and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox. Eight-year-old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness...

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her...

From the Booker Prize finalist and "formidably gifted writer" (New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman's descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together - of her family, stunned by a...

The Mackenzies and the Flahertys, two of the founding families of Port Kenneth, TN, have been feuding for generations. Which means Emerson Mackenzie's decision to move PharmaSci back to its historic roots didn't sit well with the Flaherty family. They have been attempting to...

The brand new emotional and heart-wrenching tale from the author of The Lost Evacuee and The Boy with the Suitcase In a time of war, an orphaned boy must embark on an epic journey... After the death of his beloved father, Arthur and a...

"A riotous exploration of ambition, passion and greed." -Christopher Smith, theater critic, The Orange County Register"A raucous satire of our times that is also an affecting study of family bonds and an acerbic tribute to the flawed, glorious, once-mighty dinosaur that was daily journalism."...

I have to stay awake... I need to keep him safe. I haven't slept properly since Riley was born. I love my baby so much - every noise he makes and every sleepy blink has me rushing to his side to make sure he's...

When unexpected change shatters the well-ordered lives of the citizens of Rockwell, the result creates a profound ripple effect. Loss and uncertainty plague the townspeople, a former resident, and a first-time visitor who wonder if and how the Midwestern community can ever recover. To...

Everything's bigger in Texas, and that goes double at the Texas Rose Ranch, home to the Rose family through five generations of toil, sweat, and scandal. From the moment CanDee McCain is hired to write a history of the Roses' empire, she's bowled over...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- A superbly crafted novel, Family Tree asks penetrating questions about family and the choices people make in times of crisis. "Family Tree is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down."--Nora Roberts For as long as she can remember, Dana...

An inspiring journey across five centuries of art in the company of 10-year-old Mona and her grandfather, Henry. They have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two masterpieces and commit to memory what is most beautiful in the world before Mona loses her sight forever....

Don't miss the next instalment of Fenella J. Miller's brilliant Harbour House series. A gripping tale of wartime bravery and courage. Wivenhoe February 1940 As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Roby family are thankful to have started their new life in Wivenhoe...

#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and...

Is evil decided at birth, or is it cultivated? In this rousing mystery thriller, readers may find an answer to the question of why villains choose the dark paths they walk.As a child, Buzz knew one thing for sure: his parents didn't want him....

"A riotous exploration of ambition, passion and greed." -Christopher Smith, theater critic, The Orange County Register"A raucous satire of our times that is also an affecting study of family bonds and an acerbic tribute to the flawed, glorious, once-mighty dinosaur that was daily journalism."...

An elderly mother and daughter retell their century long stories of withheld motherly love. These strained mother-daughter relationships are shaped by major historical events of the last hundred years. From the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic in the 1930's, Woodstock 1969, and the events...

## How far would you go for someone you love? Alison has an excellent relationship with her eighteen-year-old daughter. Lola is a hardworking, straight-A student, bound for university. They tell each other everything. Or so she thought. Lola has a secret: she's been sneaking...

A BRAND NEW emotional read from Louise Guy I loved him... but I loved my daughters more. I knew what I had to do. I had to protect them. When June Marlow was arrested for the murder of her husband nearly thirty years ago,...

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 One of The New Yorker's Best Books We've Read in 2024 "A bright new voice in fiction...A genuine young talent, one who deftly palpates the dark areas of human psyches...we might be staring before long at...

At 68, Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. Except for a brief, magical year in Manhattan when she was 21, the long-divorced, former legal secretary has always lived in her sleepy New England hometown, always the good girl, the funny girl,...

The BRAND NEW novel from Number 1 Bestselling author Beth Moran. A total joy of a book! One photo and a handful of letters can change everything. Emmie Brown has always known she was adopted. Nellie Brown sacrificed everything to make their life together...

A letter left by her dying mother reveals to Ria the existence of a hitherto unknown family. Following the funeral a grief-stricken Ria travels to country New South Wales to meet this new family and walks into an existence that she had never dreamed...

Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams--with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and...

This captivating story explores the intertwined lives of two families from vastly different social backgrounds in India's government service. The Kapoors represent the upper-middle class, with Mr. Kapoor serving as a high ranking officer in the Ministry of Home affairs. In contrast, the Khans...

The first in a BRAND NEW series from bestselling romance author Sarah Hope Laura wants to shake things up. She's thirty-eight, and has been living in her parents' house since her divorce last year. Her siblings seem to have got their lives together: successful...

"Wonderful. . . . Dark, funny, full of emotional intelligence and gripping from the start . . . beautifully written."--Daily MailThe internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel that casts a caustic light...

TheWhite Lie is an up-market historical crime thriller based on the legend of Captain Scott.THE LEGEND1913.Captain Scott and his four companions reach the South Pole to find their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen has won the race. Defeated, they set out on the 850-mile journey...