 | Family Album: A Novel
Release Date: August 31, 2010"[In this] haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." -The New York Times Book ReviewPenelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect façade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however, became an obsession that involved Ingrid, the family au pair. As adults, Paul, Gina, Sandra, Kat...
 |  | A Slipping-Down Life
Release Date: May 4, 2004"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."NEWSDAYEvie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....From the Paperback edition. ...
|  | El arte de conducir bajo la lluvia /The Art of Racing in the Rain (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 15, 2009Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off. Denny meets and marries Eve, has a daughter, Zoë, and risks his savings and his life to make it on the professional racing circuit. Enzo, frustrated by his inability to speak and his lack of opposable thumbs, watches Denny's old racing videos, coins koanlike aphorisms that apply to both driving and life, and hopes for the day when his life as a dog will be over and he can be reborn a man.Description in ...
|  | A Woman of Influence: The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series (The Pemberley Chronicles)
Publication Date: June 1, 2010| Series: The Pemberley Chronicles (Book 9) Contrary, opinionated, and headstrong, she's no typical Victorian lady... "Truly a masterpiece that any Austen fan would enjoy." -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence Becky Collins has always been determined not to submit to the pressures of Victorian society. But her marriage doesn't bring her the opportunities she'd hoped for, and her outspokenness does not find favor with the gentrified ladies of Pemberley. As the unintended consequences of her errors in judgment engulf her, Becky begins to understand ...
|  | The Winding Road (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Series: Morland Dynasty In the 34th installment, the Jazz Age is in full swing in New York, while the London General Strike calls for everyone to help out 1925. England is prosperous; the nation has put the war behind it, and hope is in the air. Polly Morland is the most feted beauty in New York—but a proposal of marriage from the powerful, enigmatic Ren Alexander takes her by surprise. Her cousin Lennie, expanding his interests from radio to television and talkies, worries that no one knows much about Ren; but his attempts to find out more threa...
|  | The Debt: The Story of a Past Redeemed
Publication Date: February 19, 2004After fleeing a painful and compromising past, Emma Rose Howard settled eagerly into the role of a pastor's wife.She and her husband, Abel, dedicated themselves to parenting a mega-church and influenced thousands of lives through its related ministries. But when Emma Rose receives a phone call from a living, breathing remnant of her troubled past, she finds herself wondering if something in her life is woefully out of balance.The presence of this unexpected intruder soon threatens everything Emma Rose has believed about her calling, her marriage, and her re...
|  | Every Last One: A Novel
Release Date: April 13, 2010In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions. Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary ...
|  | Rachel's Prayer (Country Road Chronicles #2)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006The Wortham family has been tested through hard times of injury, illness, and loss. But with the world on the brink of war, they are about to be tested again. And this time, they'll face the ultimate test: one of courage and survival.Just days after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Wortham and Willy Hammond enlist. As they head off to fight, their families are left behind to deal with fears of what lies ahead for their beloved brothers and sons. Armed with their faith in God and a bold prayer from Robert's girlfriend, Rachel, the Worthams and Hammonds...
|  | The Hungry Season
Release Date: February 1, 2010It's been five years since the Mason family's holiday at the lakeside cottage in north Eastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly perfect. But since Franny's death, the Masons have been flailing, one step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam's last, best hope of rescuing his son from a destructive path and salvaging what's left of his family. As Sam struggles with grief, writer's block, and a lo...
|  | Run
Release Date: September 25, 2007 Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children—all his children—safe. Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harva...
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