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Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot
identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give . . .
On first publication in 1995, The Unconsoled was met in some quarters
with bewilderment and vilification, in others with the highest praise.
One commentator asked, 'Has Ishiguro gone for greatness or has he gone
mad?' Over the years, this uniquely strange and extraordinary novel
about a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control has come to
be seen by many as being the key work and a turning point in his career.
Another Life is a powerful, moving and hopeful story of the
life-changing impact of the connections we form, by the international
number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah.
Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now,
her marriage has crumbled under the strain. Adrift and alone, she
returns to her childhood home, a small coastal town in the Pacific
Northwest, to help try and rescue the beloved, failing family business.
Lauren Ribido is a senior in high school. She dreams of an Ivy League
education, escaping her hometown and her troubled mother.
When Angie hires Lauren to work at the restaurant, they form an
immediate bond, which deepens when Lauren’s mother abruptly leaves town
and Angie offers her a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared
Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness.
Together, these two women – one who longs for a child and the other who
longs for a mother’s love – will be tested in ways that neither could
have imagined.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The book equivalent of a beach
getaway.--PopSugar A stunning debut.--BookRiot The instant national
bestseller about the generations of a family that spends summers in
a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin
Hilderbrand and Beatriz Williams 1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde
beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her
part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond her
family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical
Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome
Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community
on the rocky coast of Maine. 1970: As the nation grapples with the
ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with
their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who
has fallen for a young man they don't approve of. Before the summer
is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests--and in the
aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point. 2008: Annie's
daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother's
ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie's view of
Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the
regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place--and
the people--snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie
never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that
fateful summer. Over seven decades of a changing America, through
wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume's
Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a
family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its
secrets.
A poignant and heartfelt novel about family ties, family lies and the truths we withhold to protect the ones we love.
When Sika is invited to a lavish family party in Accra, she jumps at the chance. Her life might be in London – with a high-powered job, demanding boss and intense friendships – but she's itching to get to know her cousins, aunts and uncles, and explore the country her mother left just after Sika was born.
The holiday is better than she could have imagined, especially when handsome, charismatic Danso steps onto the scene. But on the night of the big party, as her happiness soars, Sika discovers a dark secret that will change everything – for everyone – forever.
The year 2036; in a broken down and dysfunctional post-Federal
America, Ex-Marine Frank Dubois journeys from LA to Detroit on a
mission to find redemption from his past actions in the 20 year
Syrian war. In present day Hollywood, a British film director
hustles to get his movie made in a cut throat and sycophantic
business. Somehow, these two worlds collide. Bindlestiff begins
with a simple image of a man mending the hole in his shoe with some
glue and a cut off piece of rubber. And from there explodes into a
broiling satire on race, identity, family, friendship, war, peace,
sex, drugs but precious little rock and roll. Part screenplay, part
novel, Bindlestiff is about the power of storytelling and how we
use narratives to make sense of the world. "If it's broke, fix it."
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From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The
Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a
remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph
of hope and the promise of new beginnings.
In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic
National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and
impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious woodland, a
six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as
to her identity, no hint of her past.
Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in
ruins, child psychiatrist Dr Julia Cates begins working with the
extraordinary little girl. Naming her Alice, Julia is determined to
free her from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation, and discover
the truth about Alice’s past. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test
the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make
a home for Alice – and find a new one for herself.
An enthralling and surprising testament to new beginnings from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Oona Kelly Webster is an editor at a New York publishing house. Married with two children, her twenty-five-year relationship falls apart when she books a silver wedding anniversary getaway at a luxurious château in France and her husband Charles suddenly refuses to attend. What he tells her next will shatter her carefully built world into smithereens.
As her two children, Meghan and Will, rally around her in New York, one disaster heralds another: Oona can’t back out of her French holiday booking and must travel to a new country with a heavy heart.
It is February 2020 when she arrives and when France locks down due to the pandemic, Oona must stay put in rural, wooded Milly-la-Forêt just outside Paris.
And when a chance encounter with a famous Hollywood actor, who is renting a neighbouring château, blossoms into something deeper than friendship, Oona learns that life can change in an instant . . .
'He left you some money.'
Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had
rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to
take, not give.
After he left them for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think
of her father again. She's fine without him; yes, she drinks, but only
sometimes and, really, she can’t not.
But with only $181 to her name, she’s not above attending some mandated
therapy to access her inheritance. She’ll kneel at the Kleenex alter
and soon be bingeing Bridgerton with a bottle of Russian Standard, five
million dollars richer.
Arlo has more issues than most of her clients. Being a therapist has
not prepared her for grief. She adored her father – his laughter, his
charm, the smell of his cologne. She thought he adored her, too, but
now he’s given his inheritance to a daughter no one knows, and Arlo is
at a loss.
Two sisters are unknowingly thrown together for the first time.
It’s crazy, it's unethical.
It's perfect.
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 A Hungarian
interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in
his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller,
reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant
of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a
single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble
quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly
alien from his daily toils. In The World Goes On, a narrator first
speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids
farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars,
because I would take nothing with me'). As Laszlo Krasznahorkai
himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away
from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and
immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...' The
World Goes On is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man
Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam
Thirlwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, 'is that he
has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like
it in contemporary literature.'
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.
A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful
blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it
comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community.
Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways
but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a
lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way
through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes with
candor, sometimes with violence-and tests the strength of their
beliefs. Whether it's a gift parcel arriving on their doorstep or
Confederate soldiers approaching their land, the Birdwells embrace
life with emotion, conviction, and a love for one another that
seems to conquer all.
The Friendly Persuasion has charmed generations of readers as one
of our classic tales of the American Midwest.
It's now or never... Disappointed in love and suffering following
another harsh break up - Alice Goldsworth is on a pursuit to find
love; however, the universe has other plans... Enter - LOCKDOWN.
Entwine yourself in the highs and lows of Alice's very 'real'
pursuit of love amidst a global pandemic and fall in love with her
true grit and determination, as she overcomes many obstacles along
the way to finding her 'one true love'. Will the 'miracle' vaccine
ever be made? Will life return to 'normal'? Will Alice find love in
the pandemic when she least expects it?
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