"After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn't dare...
"Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation,...
"After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent...
"Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who...
"Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the apartment they shared and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him....
The night of the accident changed everything. Now, five years on, Rachel's life is crumbling. She lives alone in a tiny flat, working in a dead-end job, desperate with guilt over her best friend's death. She would give anything to turn back the clock. But life...
"What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged, blind and perilously frail, John the Apostle has walked ten thousand miles to tell of love. In...
"A man dies twice, once when he is buried in the ground and a second time the last time someone says his name. Graeme Thompson has a simple task. Keep their memories alive. But age doesn't stand still for anyone and he is afraid of what will happen when he is...
"The peace that cousins Niz and Lia McGregor had hoped to find by each coming back to live in their old home town, could well be compromised with the arrival of young Dallisse, Niz's granddaughter, for an extended stay. Ex-resident Finnbarr Reilly's visit...
"Melanie "Mel" Roberts is sensitive, bookish, and Muscogee-Odawa. Ray Halfmoon is upbeat, artistic, and Cherokee-Seminole. They may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have become like siblings since their families moved in together. And they...
"Zenith and her friends may be dead--but lucky for them, even getting ghosted wasn't enough to tear them apart. The four of them were thick as thieves long before an unfortunate lab accident sent them careening into the afterlife. So when they hear about a...
"Commanded by the magical artifact known as the Dragon's Eye, junior con artist Callan and his friends are eagerly reaching the end of the epic quest that will finally free him from the Eye's sinister hold. But their final task is their most ambitious:...
"Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart, and their indomitable matriarch, Rosaleen. In a masterful prose, Enright weaves together a spellbinding story...
"A young woman named Izumi details her turbulent twenties in thirteen disarmingly candid vignettes set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo"--
"While shopping in Brickmart one night, Ari and his friends encounter a nasty surprise: Brickmart has replaced all their avatar store assistants with robots! When the school bully locks them in, they are trapped inside the store ... and they're not alone!...
"Eclipse tells the story, cast in the form of a memoir, of a young Dominican friar, fascinated by the fragments of pre-Christian philosophy that have come into his hands and determined to achieve a synthesis of Hermetic and Neo-Platonic thought with the...
"Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's brother, Ricky, shows up unannounced on her doorstep, along with his daughter, Jez--a peculiar...
"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding...
"In 1997 Anne's eighteen-year-old son Torran walked out of his hotel in the notorious Himalayan town of Manali - and disappeared. Seven years later Anne is still searching, haunted by the idea that someone must know something, following every tenuous lead,...
"With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain--a resemblance that has often marked him an outcast. When the long-simmering abuse from his uncle finally boils over, Justin has no choice but to break...
"Nursing a broken heart, Romy lives alone in a windswept cottage on an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Once the site of a haunting monastery, the island now serves as a bird sanctuary, where Romy and the enigmatic warden, Pen, coexist amidst ancient...
"One of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics,...
"Nathan Blake knows the time for keeping secrets has passed. He has lied to his family for long enough, and now the only way to keep them safe is to admit to truths he has been too afraid to share. But in the midst of the Jacobite Rising, unrest is never far...
"Commited to building his new church, dynamic young preacher Paul Hudson loses sight of the purer intentions of his ministry and struggles to choose between his own will and God's plan."--Provided by publisher.
"In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin....
""I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." ... Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate,...
"This novel from the dawn of the Beat movement by two hugely influential writers shows the two authors' developing styles. On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout...
"Thirty-year-old Brooke Padgett is the landlady of The Highwayman's Drop in the beautiful Yorkshire village of Leyholme. Commitment-averse and obsessed with work, she isn't looking for anything serious - and she certainly isn't interested in the pub's new...
"Sometimes decisions we make can last a lifetime ... and sometimes we cannot shake off the shackles of decisions made by others in the past. Kate Flynn has spend her whole life running away. She reckons the best decision she ever made was to leave Ireland the...
The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide...
"Tidings is an anthology of freshly commissioned Irish Christmas writing - short stories and essays by some of Ireland's best writers, written on the theme of 'Christmas parties'. This array of writers all also have one thing in common - they have all been...
"After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app - a disappointing yet addictive experience - he spends his final months before university escaping into a dizzying new world of casual sex with forgettable men. This all...
"The evocative story of a man without a country, Arch of Triumph is a World War II - era classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front. It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in...
"Some years after the war has ended Alan Duncan returns to the family farm in Australia. But his homecoming is upset by the suicide of his parent's much-loved maid. A long night's vigil at the fireside bring back his harrowing memories of wartime...
"When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love."--Provided by publisher.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay...
"In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel...
"When young bride-to-be Zoey Hillcrest chooses the newly refurbished Inn at Mirror Lake for her destination wedding, life in the small Rocky Mountain town will never be the same for Genevieve Prentice and her sister Helen McDaniel. A chance run-inafter Zoey's...
"Ezzie Wynter can't wait for Christmas on the beautiful Isle of Skye. Her island home sparkles at this time of year thanks to the snow-capped mountains and frosty winter walks, topped off with family gatherings with those she loves the most. But her peaceful...
"In book one of A Mifflin County Mystery series, after a night out with her boyfriend, Rosa Petersheim has disappeared from the Big Valley without a trace. Norman Petersheim always considered himself his sister's protector, and he can't believe she would have...
"In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts...
"Exploring the true story of the St Kilda merry go round during World War 1, by Australia's most revered verse novelist. In Melbourne's St Kilda, as World War 1 begins, Anton, a German immigrant fulfils his dream of creating the most beautiful steam-driven...
"During a hiking trip with their parents in the mountains of California, cousins Owen, Vivian, and Amy are finally allowed to camp for one night at a little lake all on their own. But when a massive earthquake blocks their return path, there's only one way...
"Libby loves science -- and experimenting! In this Level 3 I Can Read! title, Libby and her classmates are excited to welcome a new student into their classroom. When the ice cream for the welcome party melts, Libby is curious to see how the three states of...
"When sixteen-year-old Keeper Chance receives an invitation to join E.V.I.L., a society of villains, he embarks on a journey of low-grade villainy until members begin to disappear and Keeper races against time to save his newfound friends and uncover his true...
"This was not the Friday night they had planned... Chloe, Avery and Madison can't wait to camp out in the backyard. It will be a night of telling scary stories and trading secrets while roasting marshmallows. Elijah, the kid next door, keeps trying to prank...
"A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees... Airline Captain Connor Evans has nearly forgotten that stormy weekend in Hawaii eight years ago when he broke the greatest promise of all. Now Connor...
"Takes a humorous look at the normal way cats bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to bathe that way, and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water."--Provided by publisher.
"Kessie and Robin have been best friends since they were small. Now they've reached their mid-thirties, and biological clocks are ticking loudly. But Kessie is single, Robin's partner is ambivalent about trying for a baby, and single parenting sounds almost...
"In the heart of the Cheshire countryside, Cholmford Hall Mews, a converted eighteenth-century barn, is far more than an exclusive home to its new inhabitants. For Jessica Lloyd, it is a haven where she can recover from a love affair long past its sell-by...
"Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting...
"Claudine is a headstrong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. The horrors of examinations and good-humoured bullying are the backdrops in this funny and delightful novel with which Colette established the character of Claudine."--Publisher.
"TDesmond and Deirdre Doyle's silver wedding anniversary is drawing ever closer, and it falls to the couple's eldest daughter, Anna, to decide how best to commemorate the big day. No use asking her sister Helen, living in her London convent, or her brother...
With her stunning beauty, brilliant talent, and almost magical allure, the irresistible Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Her rise from unknown actress to Hollywood legend is one marked by dazzling performances and a carefully concealed, yet...
"When Leila moves to Samoa, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns...
"After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write to his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his...
"At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed via his cousin, she agrees to elope with him, and on a dark night the two come together for the first time. As they rush to catch a train...
"In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve...
"Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on...
"In 1553 Catherine lives in Coity Castle in Wales. She is a young girl, well looked after, highly educated but has no family and no knowledge of her background. The same year, a young Maori girl, Mihingarangi undertakes a long walk across an island off the...
"Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesn't remember his wife, or his children's names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-center is connected to sexual...
"English teenager Lewis spends the summer of 1994 exploring Paris while his mother translates a medieval romance. The workings of Lewis's mind provide an experience which is utterly out of the ordinary."--Provided by publisher.
"Anna is thrilled to move into a black and white house in Adam Park, confident she will thrive in Singapore, find a job, make local friends. But echoes of footsteps in the hallways make her wonder whether rumours of the house being haunted are true....
"As she gazes at the lights of Siena glowing in the dusk, Jess flips through the yellowing pages of the diary that led her here. Written by her grandfather during the war, it holds the answers to a family secret that might just change everything... When...
"In 2019, Rachel is stuck in a rut when she discovers what appears to be a Canaletto painting in her grandmother's loft along with a note addressed to Philippa in 1782. With help from Jake at the local art gallery, Rachel endeavours to find out if the painting...
"The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered...
"Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself-before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon...
"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a...
"This is the story of a family and the secret that lies at its heart. André is the son, raised by his aunt in the French countryside. His mother Gabrielle, beautiful but distant, lives in Paris. Surrounded by his cousins, far from the noise of the city,...
"Diana Wood, a financial advisor and mother, struggles in a sexless marriage while leading a secret double-life, in which she records real women describing their erotic fantasies for her successful website."--
"Sisters Evelyn and Sophie, estranged after Evelyn's affair with Sophie's husband, must confront their tumultuous past while attempting to summit the unclimbed 8,000-meter peak Yama Parvat, where their survival depends on their ability to forgive and trust...
"Andrew Williams's perfect Delray Beach house has become a pressure cooker. He and his wife, Amy, are struggling to conceive, and it's fracturing their marriage. When a chance encounter reunites him with Kathryn Moretti, the former love of his life, Kathryn...
"Ai’shah, and her favourite professor, Dr. Cassandra, are kidnapped in Dubai and taken on a terrifying journey into the heart of the Taliban, just two years after 9/11. While in Quetta in Pakistan, their strength, character and loyalty are put to the ultimate...
"Guy, an architecture student on his school's tennis team, is tired of going through everyday movements without fully living. One day he decides to hide in a man's pickup truck that is filled with hay. At a gas station far away, Guy hops off and lets his...
"Isabelle Duprees is one of Forbes' most powerful self-made women and has built a reputation as one of New York's savviest investors and sharpest advisors. With a penthouse overlooking Central Park, an open invitation to any event she wishes to attend, and a...
"In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon they discover a deeper...
"Sometimes the truth sets us free. But most of the time, it's the scariest thing in the world - so scary it keeps us on the run for our entire lives. Which is why, when an eight-and-a-half-year-old homeless boy and an eccentric elderly woman trapped in a...
"Annabel Cooper wants to save the world. Her story begins in 1964 with her journey to Freedom Summer in Mississippi, where the disappearance of her first love ignites a lifelong fight for justice. Years later, she, her husband, and four other couples form a...
"Saddle up for an adrenaline-fueled gallop through the eventing season with Jules and Pete! Traveling to Maryland for two months of competition wasn't Jules's first choice, but she's making it work. With great new horses plus old friends like Mickey and Rogue,...
"Jules the riding instructor. It's not exactly what she expected out of her career, but things are going fine, and it's better than living in a horse trailer, right?Most of the time, sure. But the cracks begin to show as the eventing season winds up and summer...
"Jules has a new baby on the way and her life has changed in unexpected ways. Her career is on hold, she is finding it hard to ride, and her patience for drama is wafer-thin. So when the co-op board's difficult chairwoman decides to create trouble for Jules...
"After her big win in New York City, everyone seems to want a piece of Jules. And the members of her eventing co-op are ready to cash in on her newfound success. When a new shot at stardom comes her way, Jules knows she can't turn it down... even though the...
"Welcome to the great kingdom of Camelot! Prince Arthur's a depressed botanist who would rather marry a library than a princess; Lancelot's been demoted to castle guard after a terrible misunderstanding, and bisexual Emry Merlin travels to the royal court to...
"Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams - invasive images of blood and brutality - torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of...
"Vivian Molloy hardly expected to retire early from teaching, but for her husband, Dave, she'd do anything. But when Dave abandons her after a weekend away, she returns home to their picturesque town in Tasmania, shell-shocked and alone with nothing to fill...
"The story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people...
"Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to...
"A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he...
"In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her...
"At an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr Janos Batky, is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a...
"Bored with the distractions of London, Judy Cameron insists on taking herself, her parents and her fiance to remote Glen Suilag in the Scottish Highlands. Leaving behind the busy whirl of the capital, she becomes absorbed in an unknown and yet strangely...
"It is New Zealand, and the first decade of the twentieth century. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children following the death of her husband, when a chance encounter with a Chinese shopkeeper blossoms into friendship and, eventually, love....
"This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorce, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter lead an itinerant existence - Venice, Canne and Paris as a backdrop - glamorous and dependent. When Flor...
"Christmas, 1915, a grieving father gives his motherless daughter an exquisite, one-of-a-kind A. Marque doll, one she'd gladly exchange for her heart's desire... Summer, 1975, sheltered Midwesterner Helen Kenyon is set to marry her college sweetheart, when she...
"When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware their relationship will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the loss of sixteen-year-old Alice Weil, Benji's sister and Morgan's best friend. No one is...
After a tumultuous term in Paris, Libby and Connie are looking forward to a quiet holiday at Connie's family home. But before long they find themselves caught up in another mystery, this time set against the dramatic backdrop of the Scottish Highlands and...
"Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most thrilling tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor...
"In early twentieth-century Rwanda, Catholic priests, sponsored by the European colonial powers, celebrate Yezu and Maria, forcing mass conversions upon the rural population. Meanwhile, a small band of Black American evangelists preach the imminent coming of a...
"They say we're the Paradise Generation. No more wars or plagues or rapid sea rise. Nothing bad is supposed to happen to us. But it does. When Kieran was twelve, he crashed a "liberated" car deep in the suburban wilds. The accident left his cousin Lucas in...
"While travelling through the Great Alfold, the vast plain in southeastern Hungary, the narrator of Seeing Further stops in an all but vacant town near the Romanian border. There she happens upon a dilapidated cinema. Once the heart of the village, it has been...
"Asha's husband, Charlie, isn't dead, but he's been gone just the same since the day his aneurysm trapped him in a coma. Everything that made him Charlie left this world a year ago for a limbo that has trapped Asha, too. She doesn't want to stay in this...
"Every Arc Bends Its Radian is an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman's strange disappearance - which may be connected to one of the...
"In both her writing and her visual art, Renee Gladman is a brilliant investigator of life, always pushing into new ways of experiencing the world. My Lesbian Novel is a book of candor, wryness, and wit but also warmth and circumspection. Written as an...
"A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre - at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia. There are few love stories in the holy books....
"Les Norton has just hit town! You Wouldn't Be Dead For Quids is a series of adventures involving Les Norton, a big red-headed country boy from Queensland who is forced to move to the big smoke when things get a little hot for him in his hometown. Working as a...
"After sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter they embark on one of the funniest-and saddest-love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt."--Provided by publisher.
"A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Shortly afterward, while moping around a park in suburban Tokyo, he spots someone drowning in a nearby aqueduct. He...
"Somewhere in the Catskills there's a camp, Camp Jeff. The place is named for Jeffrey Epstein, not that Jeffrey Epstein, this is the good Jeffrey Epstein, though the bad one's not entirely irrelevant to this story. Tova Reich's newest novel is a raucous and...
"Billie Breslin has traveled far from her home in California to take a job at Delicious!, New York's most iconic food magazine. Away from her family, particularly her older sister, Genie, Billie feels like a fish out of water, until she is welcomed by the...
"Adam Dannoun's story is one of beginnings. Born in a war-torn Israel, Adam dreams of becoming a writer. He is just an infant when Jewish forces uproot and massacre thousands of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba, including his own father. Adam's mother, crumbling...
"Susan finds her year-old marriage to Alistair less than ideal. Just as she contemplates leaving him, she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. As she grapples with this news, she learns that her loathed father has killed himself. Left confused and...
"Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life. Now, after decades of heartache and...
"Harper is living a life she never expected. After a failed attempt at making it as an artist in New York while falling for and losing her first love, her dreams crumbled in the span of a week. A decade later, Harper is happily living a simpler life as an art...
"Acclaimed children's author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanaian family, Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her...
"When Lila, a rising 29-year-old Indian American editor based in Brooklyn, unexpectedly inherits a huge ancestral home in the center of Calcutta, she must return to India, where she must also confront her mother after a decade's estrangement, along with her...
"Claire Meadows, 92, is lying in bed on a Sunday morning, looking forward to the 102nd birthday party of her friend Martin in his retirement home. As she reminiscences about her life, her failed ambition to become a concert pianist, her missed opportunity to...
"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned, from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena...
Offshore: "The story of a houseboat community set in 1960s Battersea. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither. This book won the Booker Prize in 1979."--
"Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie Chandran is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the immigrant and bohemian...
"The Wilderness Years are over! But for how long? Bridget's second diary takes us through a year that begins with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy (who never does the washing up) and lurches onwards through a sea of self-help books and lunatic advice from her mad...
"It all starts with a fire. Seven children, asleep in a big house in the Italian countryside. A forgotten candle. Their parents are not there. They are in a different country, a different continent, Africa, where other siblings are growing as part of the same...
"Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, our unnamed middle-aged narrator embarks on a highly dubious road trip through Switzerland with his terminally ill and terminally drunken mother. They try unsuccessfully to give away or squander the...
"Maggie Blount, divorced mother of two and California physician, puts her private practice on hold when disaster strikes. Doctors on Wheels takes her and Alex - Maggie's professional and romantic partner - wherever they're needed. After rolling into rural...
"Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants--an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants' losing record, and the shoe Lionel paid a Romanian shoemaker re-sole but which now squeaks with every...
"Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the apartment next door, the noise is extraordinary - impossible to believe, really - and Cole...
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