Nothing is missing from Eleanor’s carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, but everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living.
Elegant, aristocratic and quirky, Celine is more than a private detective. As she travels from Brooklyn to Yellowstone to reunite a family she discovers love, hope, and learns how the past can unite all of us.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers.
Just because you are, a family of Psychics does not make you any stranger, odder or less loving of a family. Teen Matty finds that what brings a family in crisis together can be magic.
Marion Palm embezzled over $180,000 from her daughters’ private school so when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house.
Based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine’s history, a young wife finds that tragedy allows her to reinvent and begin again. Is she able to support her family and take care of herself?
Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, 'The Nest, ' which they are but months away from finally receiving.
For the woman who now calls herself Ruth, every day is a chance to heal, to put together the pieces of her shattered life. Bobby said he will never let her go and she believed him. How can she move forward while still looking back?
Former Wall Street trader Jason Stafford steps out of prison and into parenthood. His son “the Kid” is loveable, challenging and in danger. As Stafford looks into financial irregularities on Wall Street he puts his family in danger and the only way out is to solve the crime.
A married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves.
Best known for his Stone Barrington series, Woods discovered a new passion: sailing. Join him on his journey, a solo adventure with all the twists and turns of his suspenseful novels.
Meet the Alter sisters--Lady, Vee, and Delph--three delightfully witty, complicated women who live together in their family's apartment on the Upper West Side. No matter what curves life throws at these siblings, they always have a wisecrack--and each other. Now, in the waning days of 1999, as the century comes to an end, Lady, Vee, and Delph decide that their time is up too. First, they must write a note: a mesmerizing accounting of their lives that stretches back decades, to the brilliant scientist--their great-grandfather--whose sinister legacy has defined them.
This true to life novel by the author of the memoir Glass Castle tells the extraordinary story of the author’s frontier grandmother. From riding 500 miles at the age of 15 to get to her teaching job to surviving droughts, flash floods and the Great Depression, this dramatic story will keep you riveted from first page to last.
Aviva Grossman is an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She is forced to change her name and move to Maine. She tries to start over as a wedding planner, but when, at the urging of others, she decides to run for public office herself, that long ago mistake trails her via the Internet like a scarlet A.
Britain’s Queen needs cheering up and what better way to feel better than to escape from real life and take a train trip? Without telling anyone where you are going. And you are the Queen. In a hoodie. This witty social and political novel is charming and clever.
Laura, Memphis-bred and struggles to adjust to new home on the Mississippi delta. Brought there by her stoic and insensitive husband, she feels isolated, and finds rural life full of prejudices. Two celebrated soldiers returning to rural Mississippi from World War 2 and find that as much as they have changed the prejudices of the Jim Crow south have not. How do these families cope with tragedy, love and country?
Teenager, Evie is enthralled by Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged--a place where she feels desperate to be accepted.
Did you know that Shanghai was a safe haven for Jews fleeing Hitler’s Europe? Chinese American private detective Lydin Chin is on the case that spans cultures, decades and history.
Not a tree, no shade, no water, just sun, wind, and dust. Telling this dramatic story with empathy using real survivors’ words, the author conveys both the horror and the hardships that pioneers and homesteaders found in the great American dream.
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After neurosurgeon Eitan Green hits and kills an African migrant while driving on a deserted road late at night, the victim's wife tracks him down and confronts him the next day, and her price for silence shatters his safe existence.
Strong willed Gertie Nevels is uprooted from her peaceful Kentucky life to chaotic wartime Detroit. In a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie will battle fiercely to protect those things she holds most dear- her children, her heritage, and her ability to create beauty in ugliness and despair.
A young girl, Elvis, tries to deal with her mother's death in a variety of ways. A unique, hilarious, and heartbreaking story.
