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Rain Gods
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James Lee Burke
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Jacob Hochstetler is a peace-loving Amish settler on the
Pennsylvania frontier when Native American warriors, goaded on by
the hostilities of the French and Indian War, attack his family one
September night in 1757. Taken captive by the warriors and grieving
for the family members just killed, Jacob finds his beliefs about
love and nonresistance severely tested. Jacob endures a hard winter
as a prisoner in an Indian longhouse. Meanwhile, some members of
his congregation the first Amish settlement in America move away
for fear of further attacks. Based on actual events, Jacob's Choice
describes how one man's commitment to pacifism leads to a season of
captivity, a complicated romance, an unrelenting search for missing
family members, and an astounding act of forgiveness and
reconciliation. This expanded edition of Jacob's Choice includes
maps, photographs, family tree charts, and other historical
documents to help readers enter the story and era of the
Hochstetler family.
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Before I Let Go
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Kennedy Ryan; Read by Jakobi Diem, Wesleigh Siobhan
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Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything.
It couldn’t save their marriage.
Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she’s is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had.
Soon, one stolen kiss leads to another…and then more. It's hot. It's illicit. It's all good—until old wounds reopen. Is it too late for them to find forever? Or could they even be better, the second time around?
THE FUN FACTORY is set in the golden decade before the Great War, when the music halls were the people's entertainment, before radio, television or cinema, and bigger than all of them.
Arthur Dandoe is a gifted young comedian trying to make his way within the prestigious Fred Karno theatre company. Determined to thwart him at any cost is another ruthlessly ambitious performer - one Charlie Chaplin. Things turn even nastier when Arthur and Charlie both fall for the same girl, the irresistibly alluring Tilly Beckett.
One of the two rivals is destined to become the most celebrated man on the planet, with more girls than he can shake his famous stick at. The other. . . well, you'll just have to read this book - his book.
It could have been so different.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize "A hypnotic and electrifying
Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." --Lily King,
New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers Small
Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark
new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of
love and family It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks
leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family
man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while
delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery
which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit
silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an
international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply
affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our
most critically lauded and iconic writers.
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The Operator
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Gretchen Berg
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The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde is a heartfelt,
intelligent and uplifting novel about true love in all its forms . . .
Bound together by their parents’ tragic death, devoted siblings Mimi
and Art have different ideas about everything – most recently, how Mimi
should find love.
Mimi believes that love is more than just a numbers game. Art, a maths
genius, thinks people are incapable of making sensible decisions,
especially about romance. That’s what algorithms are for.
So, when Mimi meets someone, Art starts looking for a glitch. Because
something doesn't add up and Art fears he's in danger of losing his
sister forever . . .
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS HIS NAME. BUT IT'S YOU HE WANTS.
To the media, Hayes Campbell is the star of a record-breaking British
boyband.
To his fans, he's the naughty-but-nice front man - whose dimples and
outlandish dress sense drive them crazy.
To Solène Marchand, he's just the pretty face that's plastered over
every girl's bedroom wall.
Until a chance meeting throws them together . . .
The attraction is instant. The chemistry is electric. The affair is
Solène's secret.
But how long can it stay that way?
Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives
with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a
body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is
Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted
fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of
their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all?
And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and
thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets
are the ones we keep from ourselves.
Defending Britta Stein is a story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption—from Ronald H. Balson, the winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Chicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II—most consider him a hero.
Britta Stein, however, does not. The ninety-year-old Chicago woman levels public accusations against Henryks by spray-painting “Coward,” “Traitor,” “Collaborator,” and “War Criminal” on the walls of his restaurant. Mrs. Stein is ultimately taken into custody and charged with criminal defacement of property. She also becomes the target of a bitter lawsuit filed by Henryks and his son, accusing her of defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Attorney Catherine Lockhart, though hesitant at first, agrees to take up Mrs. Stein's defense. With the help of her investigator husband, Liam Taggart, Lockhart must reach back into wartime Denmark and locate evidence that proves Mrs. Stein's innocence. Defending Britta Stein is critically-acclaimed author Ronald H. Balson's thrilling take on a modern day courtroom drama, and a masterful rendition of Denmark’s wartime heroics.
The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambeed
her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now
stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted car and her
three temperamental siblings, who she hasn't seen in years. When
rescue shows up-six-feet-plus of charming hotness on a
motorcycle-Rita's pretty certain she's gone from the frying pan
right into the fire . . . Jasper Ellis has a bad boy reputation in
this town, and he loathes it. The moment he sees Rita, though,
Jasper knows he's about to be sorely tempted. There's something
real between them. Something raw. And Jasper has only a few days to
show Rita that he isn't just for tonight-he's forever. "One of my
all-time favorite authors!" -Sally Thorne, author of The Hating
Game
In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives
and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution
of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and
conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight,
midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths in learning who
they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those
paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and
wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our search for
connection and all the ways we undercut it, unwittingly and
intentionally, when we do find it. How do we hold ourselves
together-to function, work, and survive-while endlessly yearning to
be undone, unraveled, and laid bare, however untenable and
excruciating? How Other People Make Love contains nine stories.
"Win's Girl" features a single woman who works at an Iowa
slaughterhouse and uses the insurance money from a car accident to
update the electric system in her dead parents' old house, only to
be unwittingly embroiled with a shady electrician who ultimately
forces her to stand up for herself. In "Home Is Where the Heart
Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass," a young woman flees after
cheating on her husband and winds up at a Nebraska roadside motel
populated by participants in a regional dog show who help her
decide what to do next. In "Unity Brought Them Together," a young
man heads to his favorite New York coffee shop intending to finish
the Christmas cards his vacationing fiancee insists on sending, but
winds up meeting another displaced young midwestern man there and
going home with him instead. All these stories explore the
question, "how do we love?" as well as the answers we find,
discard, follow, banish, and cling to in all our humanness and
desperation. How Other People Make Love asserts that there aren't
right and wrong ways to love; there are only our very complicated
and contradictory human hearts, minds, bodies, and desires-all
searching for something, whether we know what that is or not. These
are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved.
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