From the Publisher: Dayne Matthews is at the top of the Hollywood list—a successful, popular actor with a bright future. He has everything a man could want—fame, fortune, and friends. But his heart is pulling him toward a woman and a family who have no idea how their lives are tied to his....

Katy Hart, the director of Christian Kids Theater, is immersed in her new life. Glad to move on and forget her past, she finally feels at home in Bloomington, Indiana. With a successful community theater and the love of many friends, she thinks she is content. But that changes in an instant when she meets Dayne Matthews and he promises a future she left in her past.

As Elizabeth Baxter lay dying, John made a promise that he must keep. A promise to reconnect the entire family—including the one child they never spoke of.

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By the Same Author: When Joy Came to Stay (2000, Multnomah); Halfway to Forever (2002, Multnomah); Reunion (with Gary Smalley) (2004); A Treasury of Adoption Miracles: True Stories of God’s Presence Today (2005, Warner Faith); Forgiven (2005); Even Now (2005, Zondervan); Like Dandelion Dust (2006, Center Street); Found (2006); Family (2006); Ever After (2007, Zondervan); Forever (2007); and Between Sundays (2007, Zondervan), among many others.

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Compiler’s Note: Much of Kingsbury’s prodigious output centers on the “Baxter Family Saga,” which began with the Redemption Series (co-written with Gary Smalley), and continued with the Firstborn Series, Sunrise Series, Above the Line Series, and Baily Flanigan Series, among others. Following the revelation (in Reunion) that the Baxter family matriarch had given up her firstborn for adoption, and the subsequent efforts of the family to become reunited with its lost member (in the Firstborn series), the adoption theme fades to background noise. Readers who find Kingsbury’s intensely Christian point of view appealing will likely enjoy all of her books; not just the ones I have chosen to list here. All others are hereby forewarned.

They are three ambitious wannabes, each with an insatiable appetite for celebrity—all grasping, clawing, and backstabbing their way up the show biz ladder. Meet Mikki Britten. Smoldering, gorgeous, she’s got the heat, the talent, and the drive. A promising model she just needs the right people to open up the right doors ... and she’ll have the acting career she’s desperately craved. She’ll play dirty to win. Meet Carla Christaldi. She’s the troubled daughter of famed Hollywood director Jonathan Christaldi. All Carla ever wanted was to make it on her own. All she’s missing is that magical "spark" that makes people take instant notice. She’ll deceive anyone to win. Meet Mario DeMarco. The sultry hustler with an idea for a screenplay—he’s the guy who has cruised through life on his looks, whether it’s bedding a man for love or for money. All he’s ever wanted is the recognition for the talents that lay beyond the bedroom. He’ll barter his soul to win. Take one fateful party ... toss in a chance meeting ... stir in a startling betrayal ... and suddenly the game has begun-a merciless sport where the rules are constantly changing. The reward for one is the ultimate: fame. The penalty for another: obscurity. The price for the last of them: death. Dripping with sardonic New York attitude, laced with the seductive glamour of Hollywood, Charles Casillo gives readers a hip, modern-day cautionary tale of just how much our dreams cost us. The Fame Game. Wanna play? About the Author: Charles Casillo is the author of the novel The Marilyn Diaries and the biography Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, New York magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. He has worked in New York and Los Angeles as a model, actor, and entertainment journalist.

From the Dust Jacket: The passions Nina Bawden is writing about in her new novel are those familiar to everyone, the passions of family life; remembered insults, ancient scars, old deceptions...

Bridie is the adopted daughter of loving parents. She believed herself happily married until her thirteenth wedding anniversary when her husband, after an excellent and expensive dinner, calmly announces he is leaving her. From this episode, both cruel and comic, the novel develops into a compelling story of an adopted child’s search for her origins. Until she has found them, uncovered her past like reclaiming land from the sea, Bridie feels she has no future.

The mysteries and the consequences of the act of adoption provide the main strand of a tense and complicated, almost operatic plot. And from these consequences spring the ironical conclusion of the novel. But there are other strands, too, that skillfully weave in to support and embellish the main theme: the story of Bridie’s “real” parents, of ridiculous skeletons rattling in family cupboards, of patterns repeating in each generation.

Nina Bawden, with her quick sense of humour, is a cool and exact observer of the social and the private scene. Her last novel, Afternoon of a Good Woman, won the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award. Familiar Passions will enhance her reputation still further and delight her admirers.

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About the Author: Nina Bawden was born in London and spent the war evacuated to Wales before winning a scholarship to Somerville College. She has been writing for most of her life, not only such novels as A Little Learning, Anna Apparent, George Beneath a Paper Moon and Afternoon of a Good Woman, but also books for children of which The Peppermint Pig was the Guardian prize winner for 1975.

She is married to Austen Kark, Controller of the BBC’s World Service, and they now live in London. Her hobbies include travel, talk, food, garden croquet, friends and politics.

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By the Same Author: Princess Alice (1985, Andre Deutsch) and The Finding (1985, Victor Golancz), among many others.

From the Publisher: Katy Hart travels to Los Angeles to testify against the knife-wielding fan who tried to kill her. She is hunted by paparazzi who figure out that she is the mystery woman photographed with Hollywood movie star Dayne Matthews. Tension and pressure build to a dangerous level as Katy and Dayne seek private moments amidst the frenzy. In the end, Dayne’s celebrity life makes Katy certain that a future with him is all but impossible.

As the trial comes to a close, Dayne searches for answers he cannot seem to find. Not until he talks to his childhood friend does he realize his desperate need for wisdom and direction. Ultimately his journey leads him to an isolated beach where God makes Dayne’s future as clear as the waters of Cancun. But can he live with the decision God places before him?

Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake are celebrating the happiest days of their lives, enjoying Cole and their newborn son. But Ashley cannot find peace until she finds her older brother—the first-born Baxter sibling. Her constant questions to her father, John Baxter, have netted nothing. Now she receives news that rocks her world and threatens to end her search in heartbreaking finality.

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About the Author: Karen Kingsbury is currently America’s best-selling inspirational author. She has written more than 30 Life-Changing Fiction™ titles and has nearly 4 million books in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction, Karen receives hundreds of letters weekly and considers her readers as friends. Her fiction has made her one of the country’s favorite storytellers. One of her novels—Gideon’s Gift—is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Redemption series, the Firstborn series, Divine, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Oceans Apart, and A Thousand Tomorrows. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to one girl and five boys, including three adopted from Haiti.

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By the Same Author: When Joy Came to Stay (2000, Multnomah); Halfway to Forever (2002, Multnomah); Reunion (with Gary Smalley) (2004); A Treasury of Adoption Miracles: True Stories of God’s Presence Today (2005, Warner Faith); Fame (2005); Forgiven (2005); Even Now (2005, Zondervan); Like Dandelion Dust (2006, Center Street); Found (2006); Ever After (2007, Zondervan); Forever (2007); and Between Sundays (2007, Zondervan), among many others.

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Compiler’s Note: Much of Kingsbury’s prodigious output centers on the “Baxter Family Saga,” which began with the Redemption Series (co-written with Gary Smalley), and continued with the Firstborn Series, Sunrise Series, Above the Line Series, and Baily Flanigan Series, among others. Following the revelation (in Reunion) that the Baxter family matriarch had given up her firstborn for adoption, and the subsequent efforts of the family to become reunited with its lost member (in the Firstborn series), the adoption theme fades to background noise. Readers who find Kingsbury’s intensely Christian point of view appealing will likely enjoy all of her books; not just the ones I have chosen to list here. All others are hereby forewarned.

The Takatsu family is really close. Kenji Takatsu is in his last year of college. He’s the middle brother. Reiichi is in med school. He’s smart and handsome but he has a rather tough exterior. Miya, the youngest, is a senior in high school. He gets sick easily so he gets everyone’s attention in the family. They all love each other very much, but they all have secrets and desires that are yet to be explored... And everything is sure to get confusing when they all find out that one of them was adopted 21 years ago! With a love triangle amongst them and secrets that are bound to tear them apart, how will this Family possibly survive? This is a sexually explicit YAOI/Manga graphic novel.

From the Dust Jacket: Sorting through her father’s papers after his death, Gina Porter discovers evidence of a secret in his past. Though her two daughters make many demands of her, expecting her to babysit their children at a moment’s notice, she is determined to travel to England and investigate. Anyway, it’s time she did something more exciting with her life.

At her home near Blackpool, Peggy Wilkes wakes every day to verbal abuse from her bullying husband. She too has decided that the time has come to make a new start.

As these two women embark on their personal voyages of self-discovery, they meet new people and forge bonds which will reinforce for both of them the value of family connections...

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About the Author: Anna Jacobs was born in Lancashire, but emigrated to Australia. She has worked as a teacher, lecturer and human resources officer. She and her husband have two grown-up daughters. Her first novel was published in 1992 and she is the author of nearly forty novels—including the acclaimed Gibson Family saga, beginning with Salem Street.

Anna Jacobs also wrote Seasons of Love, A Forbidden Embrace, Replenish the Earth, Mistress of Marymoor, Change of Season, Marrying Miss Martha, The Wishing Well, An Independent Woman and The Corrigan Legacy, all recently published by Severn House.

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By the Same Author: In Focus (2009) and In Search of Hope (2014)

From the Dust Jacket: Maile Meloy’s debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with a novel even more dazzling and unexpected than her first. A Family Daughter is a brilliantly entertaining, powerfully moving novel about families, love, and the desire to reimagine one’s own history.

It’s 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with the chicken pox during a heat wave. The events set in motion that summer will span decades and continents, as the Santerres become entangled with an aging French playboy, a young Eastern European prostitute, a spoiled heiress, and her ailing jet-set mother. With elegant precision, Meloy takes us through the world of this changeable family, its values and taboos, its heartbreak and bitterness and fierce devotion.

A rich, full novel about passion and desire, fear and betrayal, A Family Daughter illuminates both the joys and complications of contemporary life and the relationship between truth and fiction. For everyone who has yet to meet the Santerres, an unmatched pleasure awaits.

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About the Author: Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love and the novel Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.

From the Dust Jacket: In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her.

A nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. She’s convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional.

And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.

In ways both poignant and unexpected, the three lives are intertwined in a heartbreaking story of prejudice and motherless children, of chances missed, of wartime secrets and the search for belonging...

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About the Author: Caitlin Davies is a journalist, teacher, non-fiction writer and novelist. She lives in north London.

Before falling madly in love with the boy of his dreams at sixteen, Justin Reed’s childhood had been complicated. Meeting Niall Casey had turned Justin’s life around, and with Niall by his side, Justin felt sure he could cope with whatever the world threw at him. Ten years on, as Justin and Niall begin to think of marriage and starting their own family, cracks begin to appear in their perfect world. Justin’s father has remarried and this latest addition to the Reed family has some very strange ideas. To make matters worse, Niall’s mother begins to edge her way back into his life. Niall tries hard to believe she has changed but can’t quite leave behind the painful memories of religious intolerance and rejection. Justin and Niall’s lives are taken over by events they can’t control. Just as it seems that their plans for a family lie in tatters, they are forced to revisit the past and lay some ghosts to rest once and for all.

From the Dust Jacket: Here are three generations of strong and intriguing women; women who have the unfortunate capacity to love men who are mostly memory, men who drift in and out of their lives, initially with love, but ultimately with disastrous results.

At the age of thirty-five, Betsy Ruscoe, a college professor, still knows little about her family history. She is a dedicated daughter to her mother, who is enduring a slow, yet oddly graceful death by cancer. Knowing the end of her life is near, Betsy’s mother, Violet, decides she needs to find her own “real” mother, the woman who gave her up as a child. In an effort to fulfill her mother’s last wish, Betsy begins to search for her grandmother.

Raised by her mother alone, Betsy finds that she, too, is looking for answers in her past to questions she now faces; she is unmarried and pregnant. Her live-in lover, Judd, makes plans to leave her, unwilling to face the confines of fatherhood. If she refuses to have an abortion in order to “keep” Judd, Betsy will be raising the child alone. In a parochial university community, the price for unwed motherhood may be high.

Finally finding Emily, her real grandmother, Betsy learns a good many more family secrets than she set out to uncover. Her roots, she finds, are an entanglement of diffuse relationships, of lies and half-truths that depend on the continuing collaboration of the women as mute accomplices to the evasions and infidelities of their men.

Betsy is subtly changed by her discoveries, unwelcome as they are. She begins to feel the power of making her own choices, and to resent the damage wrought by silence and secrets.

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About the Author: Kitty Burns Florey, a former journalist and drama critic for two Connecticut newspapers, lives in Hamden with her husband and daughter.

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By the Same Author: Real Life (1986, William Morrow & Co.), among others.

What do you do when your once charmed life falls to pieces? Karsen Woods’ life seems charmed from her hunkalicious boyfriend to her picture-perfect Midwestern roots. Away at college, even the necklace she wears serves as a constant connection home—a family tradition created when her grandfather handmade each immediate relative an interlinking charm. Each piece crafted in the shape of a puzzle piece, each one interlinking perfectly together. But when the unexpected death of her mother turns her world upside down, she discovers there is a missing piece of her treasured family tradition and her life as she once knew it may never be the same. Addison Reynolds resides in her posh Manhattan condominium and wraps her personal identity around running Urbane, the magazine empire built by her father. In a moment of haste, Addison divulges her deepest secret to her closest friend Emily—a secret she never intended to disclose. Could one choice, one secret, bond two unlikely women forever?

Adopted as an infant and orphaned by a tragic accident at the age of three, Charlee Hudson grew up in poverty, dragged around by her drug-addict aunt and surrounded by criminals. Then one day she learns that she has inherited a fortune from the biological grandmother that she never knew. Although she is now very wealthy, almost everything about her past remains a mystery. Charlee leaves St. Louis headed for the Deep South in search of answers. Will she be able to unravel the mystery surrounding her birth and adoption? Will she figure out the secrets that her late grandmother refused to reveal?

From the Back Cover: Taxi driver, Julian Knowles takes a distraught early morning passenger home beginning a day that will change his life forever. His thoughtful, caring commitment to an intellectually disabled client gradually exposes him to the members of the dysfunctional Stewart family. Their bizarre behaviour following the death of their sister leads to lies, deception, blackmail and extortion on an unprecedented scale. Set against the background of a family tragedy and a deceased estate this intriguing drama demonstrates the destructive heights sibling rivalry can climb when ambition meets desperation on a level playing field.

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About the Author: Born in 1945, John Kelly is married with two children and three grandchildren. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. He began writing in the late nineties and has since self-published five novels and a memoir. He is a member of the Eltham Writers’ Group in Melbourne and assists other new writers to self-publish their work. He also writes regular articles on a variety of topics for an online media network in Australia.

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By the Same Author: Andrea’s Secret (2006), among others.

From the Dust Jacket: A major novel of rare richness and emotional power ... The saga of a woman whose heritage forbids her what her heart desires.

Raised in the warm, affectionate bosom of her affluent New York Jewish family, Regina has everything—beauty, intelligence, grace and charm. She is, in fact, a princess, destined to make a most distinguished marriage. But when she falls in love, in those heady days that follow the First World War, it is with a boy she has known since childhood—her first cousin Jerold. Too late she discovers a tragic secret lurking in the family’s past, a secret which condemns their union and sends her suddenly, heart-breakingly, into exile.

Fleeing to the flamboyant Paris of the twenties, mourning a passion which must be lost to her, she meets a second love—ironically, linked also to childhood memories—an older wiser, man, who can offer her wealth, security and adoration, all but the one thing she most desperately craves.

As the decades fly—through the euphoria of the twenties, the desolation of the Depression and the nightmare rise of Hitler—as the curses of the past wind ever more tightly around the present, through births and deaths, triumph and cataclysm, Regina must come to terms with her family’s destiny—in order to move toward a glowing future for herself and those she treasures.

Wonderfully pictured, brimming with characters of extraordinary vividness, Family Ties is as notable for the scope of its events as for the great range of its emotions. Here, indeed, is a novel of unparalleled excellence and readability, certain to touch the heart and fire the imagination.

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About the Author: Syrell Rogovin Leahy lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children and is presently doing what she wants to do most—writing a sequel to this novel.

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By the Same Author: Family Truths (1984), among others.

This a tale told by members of a family. Each story highlights the journey of that person and provides a unique perspective. Some say that there are three sides to every story but I challenge that point of view. There is as many sides to a story as the number of people that bear witness to the story plus one. It is not to say that any story is not true but stories are skewed by the storytellers’ perception. Every story highlights a family secret. Some secrets are kept because the truth is so hurtful and shameful it can potentially endanger the very fiber of the family unit. No matter what the motivation for secrecy, when the truth comes out, as it often does, the ties that bind the family together are made either stronger or completely destroyed. I invite you to witness the journey of these characters, observe their drama, and watch their growth. These stories will make you laugh, cry, shake your head, get angry, feel empathy, and even think about someone you know.

From the Publisher: Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She’s a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she’s found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she’s fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered.

Before the day is over, she’s received a locket left by the mother she never knew-the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knotwork pattern, which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she’s transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality—a world where her true family runs things.

The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between the worlds makes them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but a recently-ended civil war has left the families shaken and suspicious.

Taken in by her mother’s people, she becomes the star of the story of the century-as Cinderella without a fairy godmother. As her mother’s heir, Miriam is hailed as the prodigal countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, and feted and feasted. Caught up in schemes and plots centuries in the making, Miriam is surrounded by unlikely allies, forbidden loves, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her family. Her unexpected return will supercede the claims of other clan members to her mother’s fortune and power, and whoever killed her mother will be happy to see her dead, too.

Behind all this lie deeper secrets still, which threaten everyone and everything she has ever known. Patterns of deception and interlocking lies, as intricate as the knotwork between the universes. But Miriam is no one’s pawn, and is determined to conquer her new home on her own terms.

Blending the creativity and humor of Roger Zelazny, the adventure of H. Beam Piper and Philip Jose Farmer, and the rigor and scope of a science-fiction writer on the grandest scale, Charles Stross has set a new standard for fantasy epics.

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About the Author: Charles Stross is a full-time writer who was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He studied in London and Bradford, gaining degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs, including pharmacist, technical writer, software engineer and freelance journalist. After gaining considerable attention with his short fiction, his first novel, Singularity Sky was published in 2003. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

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By the Same Author: The Hidden Family (2005); The Clan Corporate 2006); The Merchants’ War (2007); The Apocalypse Codex (2012, Ace Books); and Empire Games (2017), among many others.

From the Dust Jacket: In a triumph of emotional power and unforgettable romance, Syrell Rogovin Leahy continues the story of the Wolfes in a new novel that will move you, make you weep—and remember...

In the dazzling world of early sixties Manhattan, where wealth and beauty abounded, Judy Wolfe was special. The quintessential shining coed, she was more than a match for her infinitely promising times—a prime example of that new generation of women who could, at last, have it all. Destined to follow her distinguished father into the law, certain to make a brilliant marriage, Judy was the kind of girl, it seemed, to whom only good things happen.

But, along with the privilege her family’s wealth and prominence afforded her, there came a heavy penalty: for, woven into the complex tapestry of her background was a tragically repetitious pattern of heartbreak.and betrayal—and Judy was its inheritor.

Here, as only an author of Syrell Rogovin Leahy’s magnificent sensitivity could tell it, is the deeply moving story of a valiant woman, daring to challenge the ghosts of her dangerous lineage. It is, as well, the story of the men who adored her:

Roy—The gentle lover who taught her about life. Older, gifted, and married, he was willing to sacrifice his respectability if she had the strength to let him...

Marcel—As handsome and as arrogant as a Greek god, with a past more devastating than her own. He offered her a passionate future, one that could bring disaster down upon them both...

Jerold—Her stern yet loving father, about whom Judy knew too little, then too much, when it was too late...

In brilliantly recreating the intricate layers of need and desire that are the stuff of any family’s myths; in blending loss and reunion, defiance and warmth into a narrative of real humanity, Family Truths cannot fail to reach the hearts of readers everywhere.

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About the Author: Syrell Rogovin Leahy lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. She is already hard at work on a new novel.

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By the Same Author: Family Ties (1982), among others.

From the Dust Jacket: The savvy and provocative author of the bestselling novels The First Wives Club and Flavor of the Month now turns her razor-sharp pen on the tumultuous world of international fashion. With her unique blend of humor and gusto, Olivia Goldsmith wickedly skewers the obsessive romance so many American women have with clothes and shopping, while skillfully probing their real concerns: career, marriage, motherhood, and self-empowerment.

Karen Kahn is one of those women others envy. As a New York fashion designer, she’s at the brink of megastardom after making the transition from hardworking Brooklyn girl garmento to designer du jour. She’s happily married, has a fat bank balance, and heads her own successful fashion company, ꓘKInc. Now, just over forty, she’s ready to take the plunge: Karen wants a baby. But she’s lost the race against her biological clock. Karen Kahn, the woman who has it all, cannot conceive. She may have the designer label, but she hasn’t got designer genes.

Though devastated, she decides to take two steps to adopt a child and to launch a search to find her real mother. Ironically, while Karen has created an international identity and logo, she—an adult adopted child—has never discovered her own parentage.

But Jeffrey, her husband, is opposed to both the adoption and the search and is pushing for the sale of ꓘKInc. Karen’s marriage, the touchstone of her life, suddenly feels fragile.

Karen’s growing isolation and her search for her true identity are played out against an insider’s view of the world of high fashion that moves from Seventh Avenue to Paris to Bangkok and the Marianas. Fashionably Late tears away the industry’s mystique, revealing its multilayered exploitation of women.

Bursting with colorful characters, crammed with industry gossip, and cleverly intercut with entertaining subplots, Fashionably Late is the witty, passionate, and irresistibly readable story of one woman’s—and every woman’s—search for her own identity.

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About the Author: Olivia Goldsmith is the author of the mega-bestsellers The First Wives Club and Flavor of the Month. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Hollywood, Florida.

From the Back Cover: Feel the buzz of revolution coming from Dig City, where thousands of bottom-feeders have formed a subterranean colony in trumped-up tunnels built by century-20 swindlers. Fast Eddie, an acrobatic whiz kid left on the steps of this freaky future metropolis, boogies through a half-dozen levels of deception—street magician, pickpocket, professor of grift, double-dealing adoptee, casino employee, and commander of the underground hive—to the tragicomic source of his genealogical secret.

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About the Author: Robert Arellano was born in Summit, New Jersey to Alicia Maria Belt y de Cardenas and Manuel Enrique Maria Ramirez de Arellano. Fast Eddie, King of the Bees is his first print novel. As the alias Bobby Rabyd, he created the Internet’s first interactive novel, Sunshine ’69, published by Sonicnet in 1996. Experience the digital narrative at sunshine69.com. Arellano lives in Cranston, Rhode Island and teaches hypertext fiction and Cuban studies at Brown University. When touring and recording with Bonny Prince Billy, Arellano uses only Gibson guitars.

Marek Bennett grew up in Henniker, New Hampshire and studied at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. His works include the serial sci-fi comic Quasar Blasters and an illustrated history, The Squirrel Wars.

From the Dust Jacket: Linden Avery, who loved Thomas Covenant and watched him die, has returned to the Land in search of her kidnapped son, Jeremiah. As Fatal Revenant begins, Linden watches from the battlements of Revelstone while the impossible happens—riding ahead of the hordes attacking Revelstone are Jeremiah and Covenant himself, apparently very much alive. Linden has heard his voice in her dreams, has heard him urge her on—“Linden, find me.” But the prospect of being reunited with Thomas Covenant drives her to her knees in shock and disbelief.

Here in the Land, Jeremiah is healed of the mental condition that kept him mute and unresponsive for so many years. He is full of life, and devoted to Covenant. But Covenant is strangely changed: he no longer seems like the man Linden adored. And yet he says he has a plan: a plan that will save the Land as well as both Linden and Jeremiah, but that he refuses to explain. Instead of trying to win her trust, he insists that he needs her help. He is Thomas Covenant. How can she make any choice except to aid him?

But is he still the man who has twice saved the Land, or has he been twisted by death and time into something darker? Fighting for her life against new enemies and old, across appalling distances, Linden Avery is forced inexorably toward a terrible leap of faith that could cost her everything, including Covenant and her son.

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About the Author: is the author of the six volumes of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a landmark in modern fantasy. Every volume, beginning with Lord Foul’s Bane in 1977, has been an international bestseller. Donaldson returned to the series with The Runes of the Earth in 2004. He lives in New Mexico.

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By the Same Author: The Runes of the Earth (2004); Against All Things Ending (2010); and The Last Dark (2013).

From the Publisher: In his early twenties, Riley Dorais has a good life. He lives in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; has a good job in the post office; two loving parents; and a girlfriend, Cindy. All in all he’s content, but one unanswered question continually nags at him, leaving him feeling incomplete.

Riley is adopted and has a deep emotional need to find and meet his birth patents. His adoptive parents, Frank and Jean, are hurt by their son’s search, but for Riley this is about discovering his past and hopefully reconciling with the parents who gave him up.

Locating birth parents who don’t want to be found is a difficult endeavor—one that leads to Riley hiding in a county records office in Minneapolis and stealing his own birth certificate. As the young man draws closer to his goal he comes to two conclusions: one of his birth parents is dead, and the other may not be willing to welcome a long-lost son.

Written by David Gidmark, Father and Son offers a touching, bittersweet examination of the drive many adoptees have to find their natural parents and the unpredictable nature of such reunions.

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About the Author: David Gidmark is the author of ten books and has written for over fifty publications, including The Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Reader’s Digest, National Law Journal, and American Bar Association Journal.

From Kirkus Reviews: Even if Mr. Delbanco has abandoned some of his most capricious stylistic tics, Fathering is still pretty heavy weathering and the occasional word remains “echoic” of perhaps Durrell, not so much in the shifting perspectives—there’s that—but in the truly pate de foie gras prose. Some of it is romantic and elegant particularly in the paraphernalia it summons up; too much of it is another thing. The story which advances slowly and sometimes not at all concerns the search of Robert Mueller for his progenitors who have not really been revealed to him; his worldly, melancholy grandmother Elizabeth, wife of Hans, drops him as an infant with a French couple before he is moved and brought up by her son Alexander and his wife Susan whom Robert—when he’s old enough—will share. In what seems to be a grandly generous family tradition since Hans and Alexander and then Robert will also know—in the biblical sense—Chloe who is probably Robert’s mother but by Hans? or Alexander? Robert’s estranged and vague and footless years of wandering are indeed justified although by the close (Elizabeth commits suicide; Hans dies; Alexander shoots himself but only succeeds in losing his sight; etc., etc.) all these “linkages” and “couplings” will not have corroborated his “provenance” or restored his real and psychic identity, both a word and a concern which have become the cliche of our time. © VNU Business Media, Inc.

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About the Author: Nicholas Delbanco was born in London in 1942 and is a naturalized American citizen. He lives with his wife in upstate New York and teaches at Bennington College. His previous novels are The Martlet’s Tale Grasse 3/23/66, Consider Sappho Burning, and In the Middle Distance.

From the Dust Jacket (U.S. edition): Mary and Bill Woodthorpe had not been able to have a baby. They very much wanted a child, and they were finally able to adopt a little boy named Hugh. The judge who approved the adoption said, “I’m pleased there were no complications in your case. And I’m sure the child couldn’t go to a better home. Good little chap. I hope you all will be very happy.”

Judge Bramcore had been recommended to the Woodthorpes as a judge who made things easy as possible for the adopting parents—unlike other judges, who asked an almost endless list of questions.

But the Woodthorpes would have done far better with more questions and another judge.

However, for several years they were very happy with young Hugh. His real mother had put him up for adoption, she told the authorities, because his father had been a solicitor she’d met only once, at a dance.

His real mother had explained that she couldn’t bring the child up by herself and that his father didn’t even know he existed.

But his real mother had lied.

And one day a blackmailer approached Mary Woodthorpe. He said that he knew her son’s real father and that he was in prison.

If the blackmailer’s story was true, could the Woodthorpes keep the child they loved? Mary Woodthorpe tried to hide the blackmailer’s existence from her husband. She began to pay the blackmailer secretly—until it was no longer possible, and her husband found out what was happening.

And then the Woodthorpes’ problems multiplied until they had to resort to law—and a legal battle to keep their child.

Henry Cecil has written a tense and sobering, though often very funny, novel which will fascinate its readers and start a lot of discussions.

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About the Author: Henry Cecil was the pseudonym of Judge Henry Cecil Leon. He was born in Norwood Green Rectory, near London, England in 1902. He studied at Cambridge where he edited an undergraduate magazine and wrote a Footlights May Week production. Called to the Bar in 1923, he served with the British Army during the Second World War. While in the Middle East with his battalion he used to entertain the troops with a serial story each evening. This formed the basis of his first book, Full Circle. He was appointed a County Court Judge in 1949 and held that position until 1967. The law and the circumstances which surround it were the source of his many novels, plays, and short stories. His books are works of great comic genius with unpredictable twists of plot which highlight the often absurd workings of the English legal system. He died in 1976.

From the Publisher: Huston’s novel is a profound and poetic story that traces four generations of a single family from present-day California to WW II-era Germany. Fault Lines begins with Sol, a gifted, terrifying child whose mother believes he is destined for greatness partly because he has a birthmark like his dad, his grandmother, and his great-grandmother. When Sol’s family makes an unexpected trip to Germany, secrets begin to emerge about their history during World War II. It seems birthmarks are not all that’s been passed down through the bloodlines. Closely observed, lyrically told, and epic in scope, Fault Lines is a touching, fearless, and unusual novel about four generations of children and their parents. The story moves from the West Coast of the United States to the East, from Haifa to Toronto to Munich, as secrets unwind back through time until a devastating truth about the family’s origins is reached. Huston tells a riveting, vigorous tale in which love, music, and faith rage against the shape of evil.

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About the Author: Nancy Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta. Her previous books have won the Prix Goncourt des Lyséens, the Prix Elle (Quebec) and the Governor Geeral’s Award. Her novel The Mark of the Angel was an international bestseller, which won the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle, the Canadian Jewish Fiction Book Award, the Torgi Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Fault Lines won the Prix Femina in 2006. Nancy Huston lives in Paris with her husband, the writer Tzvetan Todorov, and their two children.

From the Back Cover: It’s up to Kathleen to put the pieces of her fragmented life back together. A woman in her forties, Kathleen was recently widowed and is missing her son, who ran away to join the army after he discovered he was adopted. She could use some support right now, which is why her feisty Irish grandmother is coming to visit.

Fearfully Made is a heartwarming and inspiring book that dares to look at family and love with honesty and grace. Kathleen has always known that no family is perfect, but throughout all her ups and downs, she will soon discover a family that is perfect for her.

God’s grace is a guiding light in the lives of the characters in Fearfully Made. As their secrets are touched by his spirit, we learn that sometimes the things we lock away are keys to our true happiness ... and to a life worth living.

From the Dust Jacket (2021 reprint edition): Each guest had retired, as an animal retires with a bone to the back of its cage, to chew over some single obsession...

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God-or Man?

Over the week before the landslide, we meet the hotel guests in all their eccentric glory: the selfish aristocrat; slothful hotelier; snooping housekeeper; bereaved couple; bohemian authoress; and poverty-stricken children. And as friendships form and romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cliff cracks widen ...

Both a glorious portrait of seaside holidays in post-war Britain and a wise, witty fable, Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast is a banquet indeed.

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About the Author: Margaret Kennedy was born in London in 1896 and read history at Somerville College, Oxford, where she first began writing. In 1924, Kennedy’s second novel, The Constant Nymph, became a worldwide bestseller. She then adapted it into a hit West End play; three film versions followed. Kennedy wrote fifteen more acclaimed novels including The Feast (1950) and Troy Chimneys (1953), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as literary criticism and a biography of Jane Austen. She died in 1967.

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold’s opportunistic values and Holt’s profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband, or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt.

From the Dust Jacket: Suzanne was not capable of falling in love. Nevertheless she found herself booked to meet Robert, her sailor-boy, at the church door, after the most matter-of-fact romance that was ever arranged, by kindly officials and with the least possible effort by bride and bridegroom. The reason why Suzanne could not love anyone is related in this story about a runaway mother, a “Lady from the Town Hall” and the passionate, broken-hearted child who never recovered from the shock of being deserted. It was Jackie, the warm-hearted, unconventional “Town Hall Lady” who finally brought Suzanne happiness at the cost of her own. This story, comic and tragic in turn, follows the fortunes of the “deprived children” who are taken into Public Care from the ruins of broken homes. Ruth Adam deals with a topical subject and her book should appeal to all who have the interest and welfare of children at heart.

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By the Same Author: So Sweet a Changeling (1954), among others.

From the Dust Jacket: A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italy—and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boy’s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole.

When Oliver Hughson meets wild, bohemian Anna in Italy, he knows right away that he will fall in love with her. After one glorious summer together, however, his sense of responsibility to his parents in Canada compels him to leave her, an act he will regret for the rest of his life. Narrated by the daughter he never knew he had, The Figures of Beauty brilliantly weaves together the stories—some true, some, perhaps, mythical—that led to Anna’s birth and Oliver’s, and the moment of their meeting. Through luck, fate, and great good fortune, Oliver found the one place and the one woman he should never have left. This is the story of how he might find his way back.

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About the Author: David Macfarlane has won numerous National Magazine and National Newspaper Awards. His memoir of Newfoundland, The Danger Tree, won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Non-Fiction, and his novel Summer Gone was nominated for the Giller Prize and won the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. He writes a weekly column in the Toronto Star and lives in Toronto.

Nineteen-year-old Aaron Rutherford is already reeling from the loss of his mother, when the unexpected revelation of a dark secret from her past changes his world forever. Forced to question everything that he has ever believed, should he simply follow the path that has been laid out for him, or will pursuing the truth help him to find what has always been missing? As the tangled web of lies unfolds and uncertainty takes over, a startling chain of events are set in motion that will see Aaron make the journey of a lifetime to discover not only who he really is, but ultimately who he wants to be.