The author of Picture Perfect "explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood" (New York Times Book Review). Paige's mother left when she was five. When Paige becomes a mother herself, she is overwhelmed by the demands. Unable to forget her past, Paige struggles with the difficulties of marriage and motherhood.
Back in print by popular demand, national bestselling author Jodi Picoult's acclaimed debut novel treats fans old and new to a beautiful, poignant story of family, friendship and love. Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionaly charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of ...
Written when the author was still in high school, this is the story of Ponyboy, a teenage orphan who lives with his two older brothers. Members of the lower class known as the "Greasers," Ponyboy and his friends are at constant war with the "Socs," who represent the middle and upper classes. When Ponboy's best friend, Johnny, accidentally kills a ...
The narrator recalls an event from his boyhood that changed his family forever. In a small town composed of pioneer families and Native American residents, the boy's uncle is the local doctor and is suspected of sexually abusing his female Native American patients. Meanwhile the sheriff, who is also the doctor's brother, must decide how to walk ...
Jack and Molly Campbell enjoyed an idyllic life in their small home town outside Atlanta, with their adopted 4-year-old, Joey. Then they receive the phone call that shatters their world: a social worker tells them that Joey's biological father has been released from prison and is ready to start life over - with his son! When a judge rules that ...
The award-winning author of "The Memory of Water" delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness, in which a young woman discovers the truth of her grandmother's past from a long-buried scrapbook, a necklace, and its three charms from the 1920s.
Fanny Thornton Reed, proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, chooses her first husband's illegitimate son Jeff to run Babylon, her family's successful Las Vegas casino. For Jeff, this is a chance of a lifetime. For Fanny, it is a decision she will come to regret as it turns her children against each other. For the rightful Thornton heirs, it is ...
For ten years, Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. But when Marcies son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever. Original.
Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard ...
Overprotective of her troubled teenage son Andy, Laurel Lockwood allows him to attend a church social. When the church is consumed by fire, Andy saves the other children. But when Andy is suspected of arson, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son. Original.
First in a new series from a national bestselling author, this is the moving story of two women who unravel the betrayals of the past and discover the true meaning of family.
The first book in the Tillerman saga. From the moment Momma told Dicey, Maybeth, Sammy, and James that they were going to visit (and maybe move in with) Great Aunt Cilla, Dicey was suspicious. Then, midway through the trip, Momma suddenly deserts them. Dicey, as the oldest sibling, feels it is up to her to care for the others, but how can she when ...
For generations, the Windsor's have lived on the family's grand estate in Crestwood, South Carolina, as intertwined with local life as sweet tea and pecan pie. Now, on the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes she may be the last to carry the family name - unless she can find her second daughter, Trinity, who ...
When Fanny Thornton takes control of her ex-husband's Las Vegas casino, family passions and feuds boil at an all-time-high. This is the second installment in Thornton's Vegas trilogy.
By turns hilarious and poignant, the lives of three vibrant and unique Southern women intersect in unexpected and unforgettable ways, in this delicious debut novel.
Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), "The Toss of a Lemon" brings us intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India we've never before seen.Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next ...
The lives of two women are brought together by the ravages of World War II. Elizabeth White, a shy, young British girl moves to Ireland where she meets Aisling O'Connor, a confident, independent Irish woman destined to change Elizabeth's life.
The author of the critically acclaimed "Carry Me Home" and "The Book of Bright Ideas" pens a bittersweet first-person narrative that illustrates when it comes to matters of family and love, often it is the innocent who force others to confront their darkest secrets.
'To help mother': that was the goal of each and every one of the five Pepper children. Yet even as 'Mamsie' struggles hard to feed and educate her brood, she still manages to fill the house with joy. The adventures of this poor but loving family - Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie and the adored youngest, Phronsie - have charmed young readers for more than ...
A new voice in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve, Veitcha's familyportrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of familylife, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.384 pp.
Unfolding with warmth and passion, Fowlers vibrant and moving debut illuminates the possibility of second chances, the naive choices of youth, the tensions within families, and the wondrous designs of fate.
For her acclaimed collection of stories, "Red Ant House," Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as "a master storyteller." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest.
The Pye family of Cranbury, Connecticut adopts a dog, which they name Ginger. But they notice that ever since Ginger came to live with them, a mysterious stranger wearing a mustard-yellow hat has been hanging around their house. When Ginger disappears one day, the Pyes wonder if the mysterious stranger in the hat is involved. Winner of the 1952 ...
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