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Charlie may have changed the lawyer into a bachelor-father and made an influence on his career and friends, but can his finances take it or will he lose Charlie forever? |
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Even as a pregnant, unwed teen in 1974, Sandy Lincoln wanted to do the right thing. But when an ageless woman approached her in a convenience store with a mysterious prophecy and a warning, doing the right thing became even more unclear. She made the best choice she could ... and has lived with the consequences. More than thirty years later, a pregnant teen has come into her life, and Sandy’s long-ago decision has come back to haunt her. The stakes rise quickly, leaving Sandy with split seconds to choose once more. But will her choice decision bring life ... or death? About the Author: Robert Whitlow is the best-selling author of legal dramas set in the South and winner of the prestigious Christy Award for Contemporary Fiction. A Furman University graduate, Whitlow received his J.D. with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law where he served on the staff of the Georgia Law Review. A practicing attorney, Whitlow and his wife, Kathy, have four adult children. They make their home in North Carolina. |
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Melinda Kregg comes from a privileged Virginia family, but after her father, ruined by the Depression, kills himself so that his family cam live on his insurance money, she knows that the debutante’s life that her mother has planned for her will be a sham. Her conscience stirred, she volunteers for the Red Cross, and at the tender age of twenty becomes embroiled in a bloody Kentucky coal miners’ strike. Acting out of mercy and concern for the welfare of the impoverished miners’ families, she is suspected of being a Communist and dismissed from the Red Cross. And as she goes from this battlefield to others—the Spanish Civil War, where she meets her idealistic husband, Tye Dunston; London during World War II; and back to the South during the civil rights movement—she continues to risk being misunderstood, in order to do what her heart compels her is right. A narrative borne on the exhilarating currents of memory, Choices is not only the story of a courageous woman who puts compassion ahead of society’s expectations for her, it is also the story of our century, told with an unflinching eye and an unstinting heart. About the Author: Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. In addition to Blood Tie and The Beulah Quintet, she is also the author of, most recently, the novels Charley Bland and Celebration, and a travel book, Turkish Reflections. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is working on a memoir. |
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Billy is only nine years old, but he’s already learned that when your mum dies, you get your own social worker. He’s also learned that once you are ten, the odds of finding a family to adopt you don’t look so good. That’s the part he wasn’t supposed to overhear. Miriam Riley is up against a deadline to give Billy the “forever family” that every child deserves. Determined to cut through red tape, she finds three very different couples who might fit the bill, though prospective parents come with issues of their own. Through Billy’s watchful eyes, the summer unfolds. What does he really need? Will anyone choose him?
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Her Giant Octopus Moment (2012), among others. |
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It all begins with a fantasy... A young caseworker in her “signing paperwork” suit alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn: this is the blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of Portland’s Chosen Child domestic adoption program, happy as she juggles the demands of her boss and the incessant needs of adoptive and biological parents. But the dream job that offers Chloe refuge from her turbulent personal life soon becomes a nightmare involving three very different couples: the college sweethearts who, after suffering fertility problems, are now expecting their own baby; the wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and the couple who has nothing—except the baby everyone wants. But when a child goes missing, perceptions of family and future are challenged, posing the questions: What happens when you get what you thought you wanted? How far would you go if it wasn’t what you wanted after all? About the Author: Chandra Hoffman has been an orphanage relief worker in Romania, a horse trainer in the Caribbean, a short-order cook in a third-world hospital, and an event planner for Philadelphia’s Main Line elite. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and their three young children. Chose is her first novel. |
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IMMIGRANT. SOCIALITE. MAGICIAN. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarified circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut-paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo’s debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice. About the Author: Nghi Vo is the author of the acclaimed novellas The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind. YThe Chosen and the Beautiful is her debut novel. |
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The Christmas Bell is the story of a young woman’s search for her roots and the secrets she uncovers one special Christmas. At Christmas time thirty years ago, Taylor Winfield, at three months of age, was adopted. She was told there was nothing known about her birth parents. However, when her adoptive mother lay dying, she told Taylor that the secret of where she came from was in a bell, a bell Taylor hadn’t known existed. This information sends Taylor on a search for the bell and her roots. What she finds on this journey is truly a Christmas story, as she uncovers secrets decades old. About the Author: Ira Hughes lives near Knighstown, IN. In addition to novels, she writes poetry and short stories. The Christmas Bell is her second published novel. |
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In this epic, ambitious, and deeply poignant novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse group of people whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and the activism of the 1980s to a future New York City of the 2020s where subzero winters are a thing of the past, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, portrays the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life a bohemian Lower Manhattan of artists and idealists. On Avenue B in the East Village, the Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a gay Puerto Rican man who was at one point celebrated for his work as an AIDS activist but has now descended into the throes of drug addiction, becomes connected to Milly and Jared’s lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, Milly and Jared’s adopted son Mateo grows to see the opportunity for both self-realization and oblivion offered by New York City. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they m turn to the wealthy inhabitants of the glass towers of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Christodora is a panoramic novel that powerfully evokes the danger, chaos, and wonder of New York City—and the strange and moving ways in which its dwellers’ lives can intersect. About the Author: Tim Murphy has reported on HIV/AIDS for twenty years, for POZ Magazine, Out, the Advocate, and New York magazine, where his cover story on the new HIV-prevention pill regimen PrEP was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Journalism. He has also written for publications including the New York Times and Condé Nast Traveler. He is the author of Getting Off Clean and The Breeders Box. He lives in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley. |
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The Cider House Rules is John Irving’s sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch—saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud’s, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch’s favorite orphan, Home Wells, who is never adopted. About the Author: John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire; he now lives in New York City and eastern Long Island. His previous novels are Setting Free the Bears, The Water-Method Man, The 158-Pound Marriage, The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. |
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1151 A.D. In the aftermath of a terrible storm, an old Calusa woman hears the pitiful cries of a wild animal. Searching for the beast, she finds a child instead-a baby girl hidden beneath the rubble. It is clear to the woman that this child is a gift from the Spirits, so she names the baby Cougar and accepts her as her own. Across the sea on an island called Eire, far away from the Calusa village of Sandpoint, another child is found abandoned in the mossy banks of a stream. Though dearly loved by the family that discovers him, the boy is sent away in his seventh year to live with the Taliesin druids. Upon his arrival, it is revealed to the young boy that he is Madoc, the prophesied savior of the druids, and the son of Owain, Prince of Gwynedd, and Brenda, his favored mistress. For fear of persecution, Madoc must protect his true identity while learning the ways of the ancient druids. As the new Christians battle the ancient druids for control of Wales, Madoc must fulfill his destiny, and embark on a dangerous voyage to the land that will later be known as America. In this new world he meets his match in the beautiful, gifted young woman called Cougar. Mixing storytelling and history with consummate skill, Anna Lee Waldo links the legends of a blue-eyed, fair-haired Native American tribe to the heroic twelfth-century Welshman, Madoc. About the Author: Anna Lee Waldo Anna Lee Waldo is the author of three previous novels, Circle of Stones, Prairie, and Sacajawea, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight months and has sold 1.5 million copies. In addition to writing, Ms. Waldo has also taught chemistry at the California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo, where she currently lives with her husband. By the Same Author: Circle of Stones (1999). |
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Wales, the 12th Century: As told by Brenda, a mistress of Owain, the Prince of Wales, the court of Gwynedd faces the threat of amalgamation by the English realm and the Christian religion. Afraid of a fateful prophecy about her newborn son, Brenda flees Owain and Wales for the safety of a druid camp in Ireland. Comforted by their spiritual beliefs and the handsome Sein, Brenda begins to adapt to druid ways and to study druid knowledge. But when Owain’s men recapture her, she claims that her son Madoc has died and reluctantly returns to court. Disgusted with Owain’s bloodlust and the rivalry among his mistresses and sons, Brenda dreams of the day she’ll return to her son and the druid community. But Madoc is fostered to a local druid teacher, just as the danger of external invasion and internal betrayal threaten Owain’s power. Brenda fears the disintegration of Gwynedd’s stability and the loss of the druid values, and finds her fate closely bound to her old lover and her secret son. About the Author: Anna Lee Waldo Anna Lee Waldo is the author of two previous novels, Prairie and Sacajawea, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight months and has sold 1.5 million copies. In addition to writing, Ms. Waldo has also taught chemistry at the California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo, where she currently lives with her husband. By the Same Author: Circle of Stars (2001). |
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A letter from a woman claiming knowledge about Natalia’s Peruvian birth mother begins the supermodel’s odyssey to the origins and meaning of her existence. Along the way she encounters a wise spiritual guide, Fr. Gregory Martindale, director of a Sedona retreat center. From the Red Rock country of Northern Arizona, Natalia is drawn to the orphanage in Lima where she was born. Her hope is that the nuns at Ángel Guardián can fill the gaps in her life story. As the tale of her birth and adoption unfolds, Natalia uncovers a conspiracy of carefully scripted secrets and lies that can possibly destroy the only family she has ever known. Upon returning to the States to face the consequences of what she has learned in Peru, the professional and economic priorities that have driven Natalia to elite status in the fashion industry begin to shift. Circles of Stone is an uplifting story of courage and love about an adoptee’s journey to the center of her being. By the Same Author: Secrets of a Successful International Adoption: How to Proceed from Start to Finish (1998, Bridge Learning Publishing); Finding Isabella (2000, Genesis Press); The Wisdom of Les Miserables: Lessons From the Heart of Jean Valjean (2008, Lulu Press); and Down a Narrow Alley (2010, Lulu Press), among others. |
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As the story begins you will find yourself in a slave market, very much like those in ancient times. Why? you ask yourself as you read. Why is Thorby being sold as a slave? Why does Baslim the Cripple buy him? Who is Thorby? The book keeps its secret through Thorby’s exciting adventures on this particular planet and on the Free Trading star ship Sisu, where the Free Traders have worked out “possibly the oddest solution to the difficult problem of how to be human and survive of any society in history.” At the end the mystery of Thorby is solved, and all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place to make a truly dramatic ending, with a great decision for Thorby—citizen of the Galaxy. About the Author: Robert Heinlein is one of the outstanding science-fiction writers of today, and his stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Willy Ley has said of him: “In science-fiction circles it has become customary to use Robert A. Heinlein as the standard; unfortunately for most writers that standard is too high.” Heinlein wanted first to become an astronomer and this interest in stars persisted through his training at Annapolis and his service in the Navy. And now that he is writing science-fiction, the stars are in their proper places and his space flight formulas are mathematically correct. His other interests are chess, mathematics, figure skating, architecture and especially travel. He hopes to live long enough to go to the moon—a trip Mrs. Heinlein opposes! |
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It is 1901 ant Buffalo, New York, stands at the centor of the nation’s attention as a place of immense wealth and sophistication. The massive hydroelectric power development at nearby Niagara Falls and the grand Pan-American Exposition promise to bring the Great Lakes “city of light” even more repute. Against this rich historical backdrop lives Louisa Barrett, the attractive, articulate headmistress of the Macauley School for Girls. Protected by its powerful all-male board, “Miss Barrett” is treated as an equal by the men who control the life of the city. Lulled by her unique relationship with these titans of business, Louisa feels secure in her position, until a mysterious death at the power plant triggers a sequence of events that forces her to return to a past she has struggled to conceal, and to question everything and everyone she holds dear. Both observer and participant, Louisa Barrett guides the reader through the culture and conflicts of a time and place where immigrant factory workers and nature Conservationists protest violently against industrialists, where presidents broker politics, where wealthy “Negroes” fight for recognition and equality, and where women struggle to thrive in a system that allows them little freedom. Wrought with remarkable depth and intelligence, City of Light remains a work completely of its own era, and of ours as well. A stirring literary accomplishment Lauren Belfer’s first novel marks the debut of a fresh voice for the new millennium and heralds a major publishing event. About the Author: Lauren Belfer grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received he M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University in New York City, where she now lives with her husband and son. City of Light is he first novel. |
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The author of Tender Mercies and The Autobiography of My Mother has written a large, passionate novel about a couple, Jessie and Teddy Carll, once heroically involved in the Civil Rights Movement and now staying on in the Deep South, a couple who suddenly, just as their marriage is in crisis, are forced by a family disaster to take into their home a boy and girl brought up by emphatically segregationist parents. In the sixties, Jessie and Teddy were a romantic couple, undeterred by doubt, courageous, charismatic, his inspired speeches quoted in Newsweek, their honeymoon spent in jail on a hunger strike —they were magnetic, noticed. Now Jessie teaches at an “alternative” school that isn’t as subversive as some people wish and others fear. Teddy is a campus traveller for a textbook publishing house, unable to tell people what he does without launching into a defensive history of his life since the movement. And they are at odds with each other. Jessie feels the time is right to leave Mississippi. But it is Teddy’s home. And at this fragile point in their marriage, the phone rings and a man from Birmingham tells a thunderstruck Jessie that Teddy’s sister and her husband have been killed on a highway, and Jessie and Teddy are designated in the will as guardians of their children: the sensitive, secretive, thirteen-year-old Helen; and the tender, frightened but game, eight-year-old O’Neill, children who have been raised on the word “nigger.” The novel explores how Jessie and Teddy begin to perceive the depths of the chasm that has grown between them, the vacuum in their life together in a South shorn of its dramatic but energizing crisis. What happens as they try to face the dislocation of their family life, how their own children cope with these strangely alien cousins, what happens to the cousins themselves in this household that has such a different tone and feeling (a different way of affection, of joking, of tension) from their own and that of their suddenly dead parents—these are the threads of a novel intricately imagined, emotionally suspenseful, and the most ambitious to date from a greatly admired writer. About the Author: Rosellen Brown is the author of two previous novels, Tender Mercies and The Autobiography of My Mother; a collection of stories, Street Games; and two books of poems, Cora Fry and Some Deaths in the Delta. |
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The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran is the story of Jessica Moran, a woman whose deep sense of family loyalty collides with her equally strong sense of justice. After a failed marriage, Jessica has returned to Misp, a small logging town on the rugged Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest, to be close again to the brother she has always protected. Haunted by painful losses from her past, and still at odds with her autocratic mother, Lila, she settles back into the community, determined to help Jonah control his eccentricities and lead a more normal life. But then someone sets fire to a local halfway house, killing three of the four ex-cons who called it home as they tried to rebuild their lives. When Jonah is suspected of the arson, Jessica instinctively defends him, refusing to believe he might have done it. Yet even as evidence against Jonah mounts, most of Misp seems ready to forgive and protect him, closing ranks with a small town’s contradictory swirl of community allegiance, bigotry, compassion, and malice. Jessica must confront her own fears, come to her own conclusions, and somehow reconcile her love for her brother and her grudging respect and growing feelings for Callum Luke, the lover who once betrayed her and who now heads up the investigation that may send Jonah to prison for life. A fiercely original and poignant story about a woman’s search for redemption and the reconciliation of present and past within the complicated fabric of family, The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran is a tribute to finding triumph in tragedy, the courage to forgive, and the spiritual serenity to move on. About the Author: Marjorie Reynolds is the author of The Starlite Drive-in. A former newspaper reporter and movie advertising executive, she lives with her husband and son on Mercer Island, Washington. Compiler’s Note: The character of Jessica is a birth mother, who is actively looking for her daughter, the product of her earlier relationship with Callum, whom she surrendered for adoption at the insistence of her mother. In her Acknowledgments, the author thanks “Marilyn Dean and Mickey LeClair of Washington Adoption Reunion Movement, an organization that reunites families, [who] provided information on adoption.” |
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Of course the future is a mystery. But the past? This is nuts! Talk about ruin-your-day flights. I’m headed to Florida, when the elderly man seated next to me collapses on my tray table. I swear, if I’d known this was his final boarding call, I would have offered him my pretzels or my New York Times. But no, I was too busy feeling bloated, anxious, depressed, unloved, a failure, and did I mention bloated? You’d be bummed too if you were almost thirty, living back home in Plainview, Long Island, with your at-war parents and loser siblings. If your acting career was such a bust your last film was an X-ray. If your boyfriend and your agent dumped you the same week, but great news!—They’re in love with each other. Could things possibly get any worse? Do you even need to ask? That man on the flight? We were related. And my life story? Nothing like I thought. Oh, and then this fall in the shower? Opened up my psychic senses. Bottom line? I knew nothing about my real past, but suddenly my future was coming in loud and clear! You’ve got to follow me on this amazing spiritual adventure that sent my life into a tailspin. I promise you love, laughter, oh-my-God secrets, and a ride to the “other side” you’ll never forget. But lock the bathroom door. You’re not coming out until you’ve heard it all. Love, Claire. About the Author: Saralee Rosenberg is the author of the much-beloved novel A Little Help from Above. She lives on Long Island (where else?) with her husband and three children. |
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Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip business journalist from Boston, she discovered that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, women are family property and arc required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds; however, she has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. And start a profitable business in a third world that she has discovered, outside the family reach. She fell in love with a distant relative, but he’s dead, killed saving her life. There have been murders and betrayals. Now, however, she may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is, for instance, the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they’d never make her do that, would they? About the Author: Charles Stross, born in Leeds, England, lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife, Feòrag NicBhrìde, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas. His fiction has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. By the Same Author: The Family Trade (2004); The Hidden Family (2005); The Merchants’ War (2007); The Apocalypse Codex (2012, Ace Books); and Empire Games (2017), among many others. |
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Maria Lantos is a postgrad Yale student researching illicit eighteenth-century literature. She’s become exceptionally well-versed in the narratives of classic erotic fantasy. She’s also Claudine, an in-demand escort specializing in sexual role play for an elite clientele. Anonymous. Satisfying. And discreet. Until the tenuous separation between her worlds starts to crack. It begins with the murder of a stranger. It leads to two men who will test Maris’ limits of control and awaken her own sexual desires. As her private nights bleeds into day, Maria will discover the dangerous places that extend beyond the imagination and the secrets that are no longer consigned to the dark. Claudine combines the pace of a thriller, the deep emotional connection of a romance, and the heat of a beautiful woman’s sexual discovery. About the Author: The author is a bestselling, award-winning Canadian novelist whose work has been published in many countries. She’s writing under the pen name Barbara Palmer, inspired by the famous seventeenth-century English courtesan and royal mistress. |
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There is something special about the ancient cathedral in Chartres, with its mismatched spires, astonishing stained glass and strange labyrinth. And there is something special too about Agnès Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning it each morning. No one quite knows where she came from—not the diffident Abbé Paul, who discovered her one morning twenty years ago, sleeping in the north porch; nor lonely Professor Jones, whose chaotic existence she helps to organize; nor Philippe Nevers, whose neurotic sister and newborn child she cares for; nor even the irreverent young restorer, Alain Fleury, who works alongside her each day and whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes, her colourful clothes and elusive manner. And yet everyone she encounters would surely agree that she has touched their lives in subtly transformative ways, even though they couldn’t quite say how. But with a chance meeting in the cathedral one day, the spectre of Agnès’ past returns, provoking malicious speculation from the prejudiced Madame Beck and her gossipy companion, Madame Picot. As the rumours grow more ugly, Agnès is forced to confront her history, and the mystery of her origins finally unfolds. About the Author: Salley Vickers is the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet’s Angel and several other bestselling novels, including Mr. Golightly’s Holiday, The Other Side of You and Dancing Backwards, as well as a collection of short stories, Aphrodite’s Hat. She has worked as a cleaner, a dancer, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst. She is currently an RLF fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and she divides her time between Cambridge and London. |
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Lillis leaves behind 1990s Dublin for a summer job working at a lodge in a small lochside village in the Scottish Highlands. Leaving Dublin is a way to escape her sorrow and despair following the death of her boyfriend and a testy relationship with her mother, Verity. In Scotland she encounters love and excitement but when a series of unexpected events turn her new-found life on its head, she is forced to make a life-changing decision, one that will stay with her for the rest of her life. The Closet of Savage Mementos is drawn directly from the author’s own experiences and explores heartbreak, loss, motherhood and adoption in a gripping narrative and the same expressive, emotive and exciting prose we have come to expect of Nuala Ní Chonchúir. About the Author: Nuala Ní Chonchúir was born in Dublin in 1970 and is an accomplished novelist, poet and short fiction writer. New Island published her debut novel You (2010) and her most recent short story collection Mother America (2012). She lives in east Galway with her husband and three children. |
Abandoned at the age of five with amnesia and a life threatening disease, Constantina Sullivan finds a new life, a new family, and lives an isolated life until ten years later when she begins to unveil the truth surrounding the mystery of who she is. She must decide whether unraveling this mystery is worth losing what she has in order to gain what she lost. |
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In this magical and epic novel, the celebrated author of Urban Cowboy delivers a Texas-size love story that transplants the legend of Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Merlin alive and well to the Old West—to stunning effect. Code of the West begins when Jimmy Goodnight, a young, earnest cowhand, recovering from having been brutally abducted by Comanches who slaughtered his family, sets his life on a new and surprising course by visiting a county fair. There he agrees to try to pull out an ax that has been deeply imbedded in an anvil and that has defied the efforts of the strongest men in Texas. Jimmy’s astonishing and triumphant achievement at the fair changes his life. With the prize money he follows his dream, recruits cowboys, puts together a herd of cattle, and drives them across the plains to a deep canyon, where he intends to make his own private kingdom. Goodnight’s luck and courage bring him an early and gratifying success. Above all, they bring him the comradeship of his men, and the friendship of a lifetime, when he meets Jack Loving, who is everything Jimmy Goodnight isn’t—handsome, graceful, a naturally gifted horseman, and a great dancer. Together, Goodnight and Loving make a formidable team, and their relationship is one of complete trust, the bedrock on which Goodnight’s growing empire rests, on a seemingly solid foundation—until a woman appears with whom both men fall in love. All goes well until Goodnight makes a fearful, vengeful, and unforgiving enemy, takes on an Eastern big businessman as a partner—and falls in love with his beautiful daughter Revelie, and fails to notice the growing mutual attraction between Revelie and Loving.... Compulsively readable, cleverly interweaving Western history (Loving and Goodnight are both based on real people in the historical West) and Arthurian legend, Code of the West is a powerful love story, a sweeping adventure, a great “Western”—and just the kind of unexpected, unusual, and hugely successful work of fiction that has sealed Aaron Latham’s reputation. About the Author: Aaron Latham is best known for his novels and screenplays, including Urban Cowboy and Perfect. He has been a regular contributor to such publications as Rolling Stone, Esquire, Talk, and The New York Times. He lives in New York with his wife, Lesley Stahl. |
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Everything that happens happens for a reason ... doesn’t it? Since Azalea Lewis was abandoned as a child as a fairground in Devon, her life has been afflicted by unlucky coincidences. Overwhelmed by the patterns in her past and convinced she cannot escape her destiny, Azalea decides to consult an authority. When she enters the office of Dr. Thomas Post, she finds the man she collided with on a London escalator the week before. It must be fate. But Thomas is not so easily convinced. His professional interest ignited, he sets out to prove Azalea wrong. And as he unravels the mysteries of her past, he finds that his certainties about love, life and statistics are shaken up in ways he could never have imagined... About the Author: J.W. Ironmonger was born and grew up in East Africa. He has a doctorate in zoology and was once an expert on fresh-water leeches. He has also been part of a world record team for speed reading Shakespeare, has driven across the Sahara in a £100 banger and once met Jared Diamond in a forest in the middle of Sumatra, but that’s another coincidence. |
Megan Johnson knows what it is like to be afraid and alone. Determined to put that past behind her, she works to make people around her happy and accepted, keeping score with how many smiles she receives each week. Entering her second year at BYU, Megan is so successful that she has become the unofficial “entertainment director” for her group of friends—until the ripples of her past knock her life into ruins. Megan is left wondering if she can ever find the peace and joy that she longs for, the fulfillment that her faith promises. Even more puzzling to her is the question—should she? |
In this fourth book of The Commitment Series, Billie and Cat Charland embark on a genealogy search to build their family tree. What they find sends their lives into a tailspin as they discover dark secrets surrounding Billie’s lineage. They find unlikely allies in the personages of Alexandra Spirakis and Josephine Wycliffe, Cat’s maternal grandmothers who themselves have been harboring a family secret. Will Billie ever be on solid ground again after she learns the circumstances of her heritage? Is her lineage a twist of fate ... or predestined by the power that be? A must-read episode in the lives of the Charland clan. |
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Colonel Philemon Bigua is a man who cannot live without children. His wife is barren, so he decides the only way he can build up a family is buy borrowing, kidnapping and stealing other people’s children. First he abducts a pair of twins in the London Zoo, and then two French boys: Joseph from the slums and Antoine from an aristocratic district. Finally, to complete his "family," the Colonel adopts Marcelle. But her youth and beauty transform the peaceful household into one of conflict and tension that ends in revelation for them all—and tragedy. About the Author: Jules Supervielle (1884-1960), was born in Montevideo, of Basque descent. He made an outstanding reputation for himself in three separate fields—as a poet, playwright and novelist. Apart from one or two short stories, however, very little of his work has appeared in English. The Colonel’s Children is the first of his novels to do so. Translator Alan Pryce-Jones observes that Supervielle’s vision “perceives all kinds of surprising relationships between men and things (in which) the things may speak and feel, as though it were the most natural matter in the world for a table or a photograph-frame to drop into the talk in its own right. Supervielle’s view of the universe can be compared to the revolving beam of a lighthouse.” |
The story of a poor black farmer, who has lost his wife and child through a tragic storm, the following years of lonely desperation and a stark realistic night when a man comes to a finalization his life has no meaning are just some of the things that makes my book unique. The story of simple times and people, the willingness to give of himself to raise a child of a different race alone, in hard and desperate times. To withstand the barrage of confusion, to endure the pain of rejection and still love someone are just more reasons Color Blind is unique. A man who is gentle in spite of his size, yet strong as anyone when it comes to protecting his ward, a boy that has to walk a mile in the other man’s shoes. A story of love that has no equal. A story of values, honestly, hope and days gone by. A time when neighbors cared and helped each other. This is Color Blind. |
From the Dust Jacket:
In Meridian, Alice Walker wrote the classic novel of the civil rights movement. Her new novel goes back to the period between the World Wars. It tells the story of two sisters: one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, who sustain their loyalty and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence, in one of the most unusual and moving exchanges in fiction. The principal voice is that of Celie, who has been raped by the man she believes to be her father, robbed of her two children, and married off to a man she hates. Her sister, Nettie, escapes the same fate and is befriended by missionaries, man and wife, who have unwittingly adopted Celie’s children. Separated for thirty years, the sisters live in ignorance of each other’s circumstances. Nettie’s letters do not reach Celie; and so great is Celie’s sense of shame that she can write only to God. But life for Celie begins to change color when her husband’s lover, a remarkable woman named Shug Avery, comes to live with them. Honest, poignant, laughing, defiant, The Color Purple is a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of God, and it breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of the bonding of women. About the Author: Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, and now lives in San Francisco. Her published work includes two collections of stories, In Love & Trouble and You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down; three volumes of poetry, Once, Revolutionary Petunias, and Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning; two earlier novels, The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian; and a biography of Langston Hughes for children. She also has edited a Zora Neale Hurston reader. |
From the Back Cover:
William Kwane MacKenzie’s life has always been full of puzzles. His grandfather is able to answer some of his questions, and directs him to the place where he knows the rest of the answers can be found: Africa. Ghana, and the time William’s parents spent there as aid workers in the sixties, hold the key to the family’s secret past. And so William embarks on a voyage that will take him around the globe and into the past on a heart-wrenching quest for the truth—truth, and a knowledge of himself that can only be found in this mysterious, challenging, and beautiful land. About the Author: Audrey Thomas was born and raised in New York State but has lived and worked on Canada’s west coast since 1959. Her short story collections include Two in the Bush and Other Stories, Real Mothers, Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, and The Wild Blue Yonder, which won the 1990 Ethel Wilson Fiction Award (the BC Book Prize). She is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed novels, including Latakia, Mrs. Blood, Songs My Mother Taught Me, the award-winning Intertidal Life and Graven Images. She has written over twenty radio plays, been a finalist for an ACTRA Award and has received the Marian Engel Award, the Canada-Australia Prize and the Canada-Scotland Literary Fellowship. |
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