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Two best friends rewrite the rules of friendship, love and family…and change everything they thought they knew about motherhood Paris Kahn Fraser has it all—a successful career as an assistant district attorney, a beautiful home in New York City, and a handsome, passionate husband who chose...

The skies of Oxford are aflame with meteors the night Edgar Jones comes into the world–clearly this porter’s son, born in a small cottage in 1847, is no ordinary boy. While his mother is apprehensive about her restless, inquisitive child, Edgar’s father believes without a doubt that his son...

“A fast-paced, entertaining summer read” (People), The Why of Things is a “keenly observed” and “richly drawn” (The New York Times) novel about a family fighting towards hope in the wake of a terrible tragedy. Since the loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago,...

"'Similarly thrilling' to Gone Girl...Smart social commentary meets taut heist when mom Sophie dips her toe into the black market art world, just so her family can have a nice home." — Better Homes & Garden Her Heists Paid the Bills. Her Family Paid the Price. Sophie...

The Silverstein family is coming together in Great Neck, Long Island, for the nuptials of the youngest daughter. Always considered the favorite—and the object of much envy and resentment—Angelica has planned a fairy tale wedding to her fiancé, a former fighter pilot. But there are storm clouds...

This vintage book contains Dame Rose Macaulay's 1921 novel, "Dangerous Ages". A young writer with a sizeable family returns to college as a way to spend her free time, but finds that she is perhaps not as sharp as she once was. Sick of her chaotic family, she decides to settle down, but realises that...

Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956. Introduction by Sonya Hartnett. 'Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the nursery fireside, but it is no longer there.' Handsome,...

Welcome to Desmond Connelly's Horde or better known as his extended family at Wheels & Hogs Garage. For years these survivors have been dealing with what life throws at them while trying to move forward from the atrocities in their lives. Some have secrets not shared while others are working through...

Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, grew up in Michigan with her single mother. For as long as she could remember, it was just the two of them. When a new stepfather and a baby half sister enter her life, she finds herself on the margins. Having recently come into...

If there's one thing author Olivia Novak loves more than books it's family dirt. The success of her deceased mother's best-selling novel, Indigo to Black, begs for further investigation to find out if the so-called fictional murder is true. But she has one complication: the new love of Olivia's life,...

“Manages to be both warm-hearted and violent at once—a complex, deeply imagined family tale which finds unexpected gifts at its conclusion.” —Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong Hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling...

High school graduation was supposed to be the beginning of the rest of Kendra Larson’s life. Instead, longer days are full of farm chores and trying to overcome her father’s incessant strict expectations. Friendship with the family horse, Sage, makes farm life bearable.  Kendra’s best...

Claire Sinclair knows she must say goodbye to a lot of things in order to move forward with her life—her beloved Aunt, Zia Regina and Ryan, the love of her life… along with the dream of graduating from a prestigious University.  Through a simple Twist of Fate, Claire instead chooses to...

While taking a beautiful drive through the mountains, Kate encounters a driving snowstorm. Suddenly, she realizes that the storm has gotten so bad that she must find cover. As she makes to way down the mountain, she comes upon a school bus that's been pulled to the side of the road. When she checks on...