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Author
Series
Snopes Family volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Traces the growing power of Flem Snopes, a white-trash farmer, in the Mississippi town of Frenchman's Bend.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend-- the imaginary Shadow Boy-- Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet about the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan he flames of his career, has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg Wolitzer flashes back to 1950s Smith...
26) Falling in place
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
The story of John Knapp, who loves Nina but is married to Louise; and Nina, an expensively educated salesgirl who loves John but spends too much time with her old boyfriend, Spangle.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." Faulkner's classic story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness, is now available...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In a loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator, the bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" pens an enchanting, bittersweet story touched with graphic earthiness and wit. It is the tale of Jublio, who has a gift for hearing what is in people's hearts, and what happens when he puts that gift aside as an old man. Spanish-language events.
31) Tending roses
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal.
Author
Publisher
Face Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
New from the best selling author of the Nappily Series. Venus has the chance of a lifetime to take a trip alone. No children, no husband. The women's retreat promises daily massages, meditation, and divine meals prepared by a top chef. What she doesn't see in the ad are locked gates, militia style security guards, and a mysterious driver who isn't who he appears. The trip she deserves turns into a dangerous, heart pounding, sexy adventure she will...
33) Gone so long
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades. Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his...
35) Piglet: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Outside of a childhood nickname she can’t shake, Piglet’s rather pleased with how her life’s turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she’s got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she’s always...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole."--
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law,...
37) A house divided
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After an argument sends their son's girlfriend into early labor, Reverend Curtis Black and his wife experience a rift between them that may send her into the arms of another man.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to the U.S., a Scottish whisky distiller takes a break from corporate life by going to work as a gardener for a wealthy couple. Without revealing his identity, he becomes the confidant of the wife, whose husband is unfaithful, and he helps their troubled son. But a move to force him out of his company cuts short the idyll, not to mention that being a widower he has children to look after.
39) Someone like you
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Series
Language
English
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"When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds Maddie and takes her to the Quinns, they welcome her into...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of her mother's death, thirty-one-year-old, sexually liberated and economically independent Nikki Eaton comes into a startling realization of her identity as a daughter and experiences a tumultuous year of mourning that gives way to greater wisdom and love.
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