"What if love was right there in front of you -- you just couldn't see it? Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse's young son Luke and with her own business to run, every precious moment is made to count. But with...
"At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his unpredictable daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her...
"A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover - these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy...
"In Sweetener, recently separated wives, both named Rebecca, can't seem to disentangle their lives. Lonely and depressed, Rebecca is scraping by as a part-time cashier at an organic grocery store. Despite having less than ten dollars in her bank account, she...
"Eight unsuspecting people receive an invitation to participate in a mysterious new reality show called Break Room. But what starts as an opportunity to find fame is quickly revealed to be something far more unsettling when they learn how they were chosen -...
"Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of a radical sympathy toward criminals has become the norm and a grand skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house wrongdoers in compassionate comfort - Sympathy Tower Tokyo. Acclaimed architect...
"Ophelia Blue Rivers is a descendent of Cherokee Freedmen: Blacks formerly enslaved by rich southern Cherokee. She is 'Black' but doesn't understand why that makes her different. She is 'Cherokee' but struggles to know what that means. Their town of Etsi--once...
"A hotshot hedge fund employee must risk everything to save his job--and his life--in this timely and darkly funny thriller about race, power, and the corrupting influence of the almighty dollar. Ali "Al" Jafar is a rising star at notorious hedge fund Prism...
"When a woman wakes up on a transport bus arriving at Hanover State Psychiatric Hospital, she remembers nothing of her life up to that moment, none of the dark things she's seen - and done - that have forged her into the steely survivor she is. Dr Sherman...
"From Enoch to the Tower of Babel, this is an imaginative and exciting retelling of the story of Noah, from his early years to the post-flood world. True to the Genesis narrative, an historic adventure of what was, what might have been, and what is yet to...
"Jena Morgan, Atlantic City's favorite go-go dancer, may have overreacted when she found her boyfriend balls deep in a stripper called Candy. Instead of washing her eyeballs with bleach, she drank a bottle of tequila and bought a house off the internet. A...
"Harry Boyle's genius IQ has failed him. The alpha geek stupidly followed relationship advice from Invertary's resident evil mastermind-eighty-seven year old Betty. That's how he ended up trapped in an abandoned mine waiting to be rescued by his high school...
"Josh McInnes' biological clock is ticking and he wants to get married-now. After 20 years singing soppy love songs, he knows that there is no such thing as romantic love. There's only hormones and lust. At thirty-five, he's tired of his playboy lifestyle. He...
"Englishman Lake Benson loaned his life savings to his dippy sister so that she could buy a shop. It was a big mistake. His sister has been steadily flushing his money down the drain - and now he wants it back. Years in the special forces taught Lake that if...
"When Claire Holloway boards a luxury cruise with her three-year-old daughter, Lily, she hopes to leave the past behind. Calm seas, new memories, and a chance to breathe. But paradise shatters when Lily vanishes somewhere between the buffet and the endless...
"How do you mourn your father when you know his secrets? After many years abroad, Roz and Harun return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their father Yusuf - and to reckon with their inheritance. A renowned palm-oil baron during Malaysia's economic rise,...
"Kelly O'Mara is relentless in her pursuit of excellence. In her late twenties, she's an outstanding junior doctor preparing to sit her specialist paediatric exams. She will sacrifice friendships, a social life and romance to be the best among her peers. But...
"Though it is mysteriously located at an uncertain address, the Kokoro clinic can always be found by those who need it. And it has proven time after time that a prescribed cat has the power to heal the emotional wounds of all its patients. This irresistible...
"An adult sequel to children's novel The Illustrated Mum. 'Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who's not very well. She says she's called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?' Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting...
"May, 1945. As news of the Allied victory in Europe reaches the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a woman named Margaret Salt walks into a hardware store and asks the man behind the counter, Cal Jenkins, for a radio. What happens next will change both of their...
"Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her...
"When 37-year-old Leila suffers a health tragedy, she doesn't recover as quickly as she expected. Her partner, James, suggests a year away from the city - they'll stay on his family farm, where the wide, open spaces and clean country air will help her come to...
"Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn is well on her way to becoming an international opera star. . . until one night, mid-performance, when she inexplicably loses her voice. With no cure in sight, she's forced to put her dreams on pause, flying back to her hometown to...
"On the remote West Coast of the South Island, vast forests stretch out between mountain ranges and rugged beaches. There, in the small town of Koraha, not a lot happens - until a young girl with blood on her hands walks out of the bush and into the local...
What does a wealthy Auckland stay-at-home mother and wife do all day? What really goes on when the cat's away? On the surface Sam has everything any woman should want: successful husband, nice house, holiday home, two lovely kids, and a desirable, expensive...
"By the time this is all over, she'll know what it's like to kill, or what it's like to die... Mia Morgan doesn't let anything get to her. After freeing herself from an obsessive boss and saving loved ones from a serial killer, she feels like she can handle...
"Mitch Harris has it all. As a successful music manager, who isn't hard to look at, he has women falling at his feet. And that's just the way he likes it. For years he's laughed as, one by one, his buddies have found their women and settled down. He vowed it...
"Kirsty has planned the perfect Leap Day wedding. And it's all falling apart...The Scottish Highlands are in the middle of the worst snow storm in decades. Cell towers are down, electricity is out and roads are closed. In true Invertary style the town's folk...
"Being good is so freaking hard. And boring. Flynn Boyle has only been doing it for a couple of hours and already he's had enough. For some reason everybody thinks he's out of control when all he's doing is living his life, having fun and trying to get over an...
"Ruminating on how the pleasures of slowness have disappeared in today's fast-paced, future-shocked world, Kundera explores the secret bond between slowness and memory and the connection between our era's desire to forget and the ways in which we have given...
"Chantal begins to receive letters from a secret admirer that, after a while, begin to affect the relationship she has with her younger lover Jean-Marc."--Provided by publisher.
"On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy The Tree of Life, describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and...
"A mysterious greyness has descended on Whitehaven. Something has happened to the colour. Rumours start flying around all over the place. Is something wrong with the sun? Is it because of the chemicals the farmers are using? Mrs Rafferty announces that God is...
"When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to be turning...
"Thirty years ago, four teenagers disappeared while exploring an abandoned military bunker. Their story become a local legend in Gravesend, and when Devin and Cece come to visit their dad for the summer, they're dared to go inside. But something strange...
"In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and 'the neighborhood homosexual,' Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother,...
"Godfrey applies skills drawn from TV detective shows to attempt to solve the mystery disappearance of a local gay bartender in 1960s NZ, while exploring his own sexuality. Reggie was still missing after five days, and Gladys Harris was saying things about...
"Following an eventful stint styling Manhattan's elite, Amber Green is back in London and ready to style her biggest client yet. Superstar influencer Mandy Sykes is all-American and all-wrong for her new Surrey surroundings. Desperate to endear herself to the...
"Hometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt get her house ready to sell. But when a ragtag group of amateur bird watchers take her under their wing, she discovers long-buried family history that puts her hope for...
"A girls' getaway to Northern Italy is just what friends Grace and Claire need. As they immerse themselves in the culture and laid back way of life, both women see how God is revealing his purpose in the lives they left at home . . . lives in desperate need of...
"The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded - not physically - by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. He searches futilely among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by...
"An historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author's own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of war In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a...
"As night falls on the city of Carbon, Hal and his friends are cruising the backroads in their terrible car. From the wrestling gym to the gas station, from his mom's kitchen to the mall parking lot, Hal bears quiet witness to the beauty and the horror he...
"Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud, passionate women on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. As the sweet, traditional one, she's always been the steady hand in her family but after a sudden breakup and subsequent tragedy, she...
"In elementary school, Chloe Hanako Quinn is assigned Oliver Jones as her pen pal partner. Before sending her letter, she also whispers a note into it ... and he hears her. Little does she know it would be the beginning of a friendship that would bloom into...
"Reverend Sabre Winfrey, shepherd of the Seven Seals Baptist Church, believes in God, his own privilege, and enterprise. Besides the barbershop and radio station he owns, he has an iron hand on every aspect of Dominion, Mississippi, society. He and his wife,...
"Josie may be the youngest sister, but she takes care of everyone. She is the left-brained scientist to her twin sisters' right-brained artistic chaos. She makes sure their rent gets paid on time, they make their therapy appointments, and has also been their...
"Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a 'far more interesting' man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and...
The sixth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers's The Forgetters series. Aurora Mahoney runs one of three whale-watching businesses on the Monterey coast. It's a life of great beauty, wonder and camaraderie, but after one of her fellow captains...
"In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich Amrican (at once saint and Don Juan); a...
"When Lili sends a jokey 'knock-knock' message to her best friend Em, she doesn't expect to hear back. Because - as Lili notices the chill in the air, and the little robin in her garden - she realises Christmas must be just around the corner once again. A...
"Care assistant Sophie loves the holidays, and nothing makes her feel more festive than helping 82-year-old resident Bea keep in touch with her old friend Greta. In their Christmas letters, the women update each other on their lives - Bea's in the quiet...
"After a difficult break-up, my six-year-old Daisy is finally settling into life in two homes. She's spending more time with her dad, his wealthy and glamorous partner Kirsty, and her new stepsisters, Amelia and Freya. She seems happier. More relaxed. Like...
"Mary never planned to stop running. With a past she's desperate to leave behind and a baby on the way, she's found a new home, deep in the forest, hidden from the world. But when the time comes to go to the hospital, she has no idea that Beckett, the quiet,...
"Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning she braids her hair and wears the same costume, sings the same breakfast song in a family room identical to...
"'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?' You couldn't really call the man soon to be christened TonyInterruptor a heckler, but he seems to feel an unquenchable urge to disrupt and interrupt live cultural events. Who is he? What does he want? Why does...
"On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she's risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency. And yet Marisa hates her...
"Begins in 1944, during World War II, where Amerigo Jones, a young soldier, encounters a French woman who has become involved with a black U.S. infantry unit. He sees her not as a hardened prostitute, but as an innocent figure reminiscent of Cosima Thornton, a...
"Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if...
"Danielle, Marina and Julius are young, bright New Yorkers living at America's beating heart in the early years of the twenty-first century. They've been friends since college, but the bonds between them have loosened as their lives, loves and ambitions have...
"Plans for the expansion of the Capmeadow Business Park are in full swing - its mission is to become the greatest business park in the region. Tom Crowley, a mid-level employee, loses his daughter at 'bring your daughter to work day'. He raises the alarm, and...
"Deep in a vast tropical rain forest, Kit and Lara escape the nullness of modern life doing charitable work in a jungle village. With them is their tiny baby, Helen, who flourishes under the anxious care of her father. Their life of idyllic isolation is...
"The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving up the coast of California, Steven seeks out his father's...
"If you could find one missing thing, what would it be? As a firefighter, Ava sees the devastation caused when homes are ruined. If she uncovers precious possessions that escaped a blaze unscathed, she returns them to their owner. When Cassie and her son lose...
War: Part one of a trilogy on World War I.
"An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave...
"Eight childhood mates -- connected through golf, friendship, and deep-seated lies -- face their betrayals. In small towns, there is always that group. The privileged kids -- the ones who appear to have it all. But beneath the deep bond between the 'Master's...
"Sixty-something Elwin McClennon returns to his hometown in Lowcountry South Carolina--and the dying father--he fled fifteen years earlier. Accompanied by Thom, his odd and precocious thirteen-year-old son, Elwin embarks on a journey to reconcile with his...
"As the Great War rages, a French pianist sits down to play an arrestingly original sonata -- a piece so strange and inspired that it could change the course of classical music. The moment is captured on wax cylinders, the recording medium of the day. But in...
"Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory "all that is beautiful in the world" before Mona loses her sight forever. While the doctors can find no explanation for Mona's...
"Chef Liv Kuo's star is on the rise... until a traumatic incident leaves her emotionally unable to venture outside her Manhattan apartment. But an unexpected reason to break free comes from Ah-Ma, Liv's beloved grandmother in Taiwan. Ah-Ma needs Liv's help in...
"It's 2022, and Heron, an old man of quiet habits, has just had the sort of visit to the doctor that turns a life upside down. Sharing the diagnosis with Maggie, his only daughter, seems impossible. Heron just can't find the words to tell her about it, or any...
"Opening on the battlefields of Gallipoli, Traitor follows the story of young New Zealand soldier, David, as he is forced to confront the clash of love for his fellow man versus love for his country. Sent home in disgrace, broken and made anew, David attempts...
"Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of...
"The author's classic first novel presents a tale of love, politics, revenge, and the fate of individuals in contemporary society"--Publisher's description.
"A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters as we discover the young man's fantasies and love affairs."--Provided by publisher.
"Claire McIntyre has it all: an adoring husband, a bubbly best friend, a chic townhouse and a high flying corporate career in the city. But somehow she has forgotten what really makes her happy. After receiving tragic news, closely followed by the loss of her...
"Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
"University lecturer Gus knows that stealing the priceless Benin mask, the Dancing Face, from a museum at the heart of the British establishment will gain an avalanche of attention. Which is exactly what he wants. But such a risky theft will also inevitably...
"Eighteen-year-old Clay has come home to Los Angeles for Christmas break after his first term at college. Clay is three things: rich, bored, and looking to get high. Reacquainting himself with a world of privilege and limitless indulgence, Clay steps back into...
"Girls like Reya Samuels always come from Prince George's County. Reya is rich and she's not afraid to show it - she wears designer clothes, drives a custom pink Audi, and lives in a neighborhood tucked behind a fancy cast iron gate. She works hard, but she...
"Every month at St. Pete's Tavern in rugged western Montana, a meeting is convened by the Basic Bigfoot Society's members-both of them. Jute and Vergil are lifelong friends, bound by an affinity for the elusive North American Wood Ape. Jute more so than...
"Vida is a curandera, a local healer, who has been called to the resort to attend to a crisis. A young guest lies unconscious due to negligent resort childcare. Vida wants nothing to do with it, as she has her own unborn child to think about. Laura, a...
"The impact of a person's addiction on family is traumatic and all consuming. Lorna learned at an early age she would always play second fiddle to her older sister Kristen's addiction and her problems. It has made Lorna hard and untrusting--everyone she should...
"Ophelia Dahl has just buried her beloved father when she finds among his personal effects a blindsiding document. The mother Ophelia thought died thirty years ago isn't dead after all -- she abandoned her. But how could she, and where is she now? With some...
"Jed Rosenthal hasn't published a book in fourteen years, the mother of his child left him in a 'trial separation' that has stretchedon indefinitely, and he struggles to navigate the daily sorrows of their co-parenting arrangement. But the implosion of Jed's...
"To the world, Jane Brown, a Los-Angeles based professional organizer, is a model of composure and reticence. But inside, she's fiercely judgmental and critical of herself and others. A lover of order and tidiness, she struggles to accept the world's...
"In many ways, twelve-year-old Artem's life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He spends his days helping on his grandfather's sunflower farm, drawing in his sketchbook - a treasured gift from his father, who works in America - and swimming in the river with...
"Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for the Global Changemakers Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one...
"30 years ago, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon with their parents. But something happened on that trip that cut it short. They never made it there. And their mother was never the same again. Now, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin might be...
"Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects - the things others...
" Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with...
"Ruby blinks back tears and gazes across the violet-studded moors from the doorstep of Heather House before she turns and lifts the key. What heart-wrenching secret will she discover in her childhood home? When Ruby inherits her family's crumbling old house in...
"As I walk through the front door of my daughter Scarlett's house, looking forward to the birthday lunch we have planned, nothing can prepare me what I see, Andrew is here too, my best friend's husband....Scarlett and Andrew say they are in love. Despite the...
"My husband and I share a secret. How far will I go to keep it? ... In the middle of our school's bustling summer picnic, I watch Harriet walk purposefully toward my husband, Michael. She places her hand on his arm, introducing herself and laughing at...
"Gazing out over the lush, rolling vineyards of Verona, Kate thinks of the gift that brought her to Italy. The dusty bottle of wine from her great-grandmother's cellar, which holds the key to a family mystery that will change everything... England, 1939. After...
""I should've stayed, I should've stayed..." echoes in Janina's mind. Surrounded by the pulsating energy of a festival crowd, she stands frozen, receiving the news that changes her life forever. Just a few months earlier, Janina found herself amidst the chaos...
"On a cold winter's day, a storm is brewing in the village of Weirbridge... Georgie Dern has the chance to swap her empty nest for the job of a lifetime in Los Angeles. Can she chase her dream if it means letting down the woman who has given her the world?...
"In life, Norman George - passionate knitter, excellent friend and secret youtube sensation - liked nothing better than a good laugh. And, it seems, he gets the last laugh even in death, because at his funeral, he invites his three closest friends to scatter...
"This far north, they say the dead are with us... Hogmanay, the far north of Scotland. Alone on the shoreline, lobster fisherman Rob Sinclair pours a dram into the freezing waves of the North Sea. It's a family tradition; an offering to the sea spirit, the...
"In the 1990s, Gaia's family moves from the neglected peripheries of Rome to an idyllic lakeside town twenty miles away, in search of a new life that will lift them out of poverty. Each of them bears their own scars: Gaia's strong-willed mother is fiercely...
"In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father. Despite Margaret's reluctance, their connection is immediate. They fall in...
"Growing up was never meant to be easy for Michelle Tan. Her older sister Meredith lies in a hospital ward, unconscious and barely breathing. Sorrow-stricken, the younger girl dives headfirst into her memories - the first time Meredith taught her how to swim,...
"Two years since Rosa Petersheim mysteriously disappeared from her Amish home, there has been no word from her. Her family and friends have suffered in the silence, though they have tried to move on with life. Then one day Rosa just as suddenly reappears at...
"In 1985 Americans and Rwandans meet in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. The Americans have been sent by The New York Times to cover the ethnic violence; the Rwandans are there to treat the wounded and prepare them for interview. They all need to collaborate,...
"Skulls, Hitmen, and Deadly Secrets—One Explosive Mystery His life at a crossroads, Ric Peters is torn between his perilous job and dreams of a future with Elaina. But their trip to New Zealand throws them into chaos as they are swept up in a whirlwind of...
"Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other. Rumours were whispered through the town that its pastries offered a taste of magic, chasing away the darkest of sorrows. Just one bite of a croissant might bring...
"In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that-if he can find it-would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this...
Jamie, a forty-one-year-old drug addict recovering from surgery, goes somewhere he hasn't been in years - home, to Timaru, where his brother happens to be a chemist and his sister a doctor. Surely they, with their access to pharmaceuticals - and their blood...
"Actress Charlotte has it all: a starring role in a West End show, a glittering social life and an equally high-flying boyfriend. But when her perfect existence abruptly falls apart, she retreats to her hometown on the North Yorkshire coast, finding a summer...
"If you're given another chance at love, shouldn't you take it? Enya's life has become small. Her husband's death has left her bereft, and though she's only in her early fifties, she's happiest looking after her son, Aiden, his childhood sweetheart, Holly, and...
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