Henry Carter Hull

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...

Six Decades of History Unfurls on a Wyoming Ranch Journey to untamed Wyoming where four generations of women experience love, loss, grace, adoption, struggles with the law, relationships with natives, and through it all, family bonds. Eleanor by Mary Connealy 1850 – Wagon train guide, Ray “Wild Cat” Manning, can’t ignore the abandoned wagon stricken with smallpox. Eleanor Yates, now widowed with an ailing daughter, says yes to Wild Cat’s...

Christina likes to keep her distance from others. Life has other plans. Events from Christina’s childhood make her fearfully reluctant to get too close to others--even her family. Except, that is, for the one person who has admired her entire life: her adoring father. After her father’s death, the estrangement from her remaining family burns within her tattered heart. When called upon to care for her ailing mother, memories resurface fueling her...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.

From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic

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Part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age novel from the author of People of Abandoned Character . An absent father. A missing girl. Buried family secrets. Is the truth worth searching for? Sixteen-year-old Prue has grown up around secrets. Her gran's stern silence, her mother's teary breakdowns, her aunt's whispered assurances. But now, in the aftermath of her mum's latest 'episode', Prue's decided she's old enough for the truth. She wants...

Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: "[A] masterfully conceived debut, a relentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told" ( La Quinzaine Littéraire ). Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation in the craft of storytelling. Julia Deck provides this force in Viviane -- the first debut novel in a generation to be released by the most prestigious literary publisher...

Persuasion unfolds against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, where societal norms and familial expectations shape the lives of its characters. At the heart of the narrative is Anne Elliot, a woman of quiet strength and discernment. The story begins with a fateful decision: Anne, guided by the counsel of her family, reluctantly breaks off her engagement with the charming and ambitious Captain Frederick Wentworth. Eight years pass, and the...

A man reunites with his estranged, ailing father to learn the truth about his own tragic childhood in this mystery from "a very promising writer" (Sir Michael Parkinson, journalist and television presenter). In 1994, eleven-year-old Callum was abducted from his Wiltshire village. His body was found six months later by his older brother, Tom, near a Neolithic henge called the Shadowing Stones. It was the first in a series of events that would destroy...

The same sequence of days can arrange itself into several different stories, like the shifting shapes in a kaleidoscope. Seven inter-connected lives and seven stories weave themselves together over two days in London. Lily has returned to London from Cyprus, where she lived with her father, and is preparing to visit her estranged mother, Claire. Peter is Claire's younger lover, Jonas is a poet and wanderer who watches Lily as she runs through the...

Enjoy fast and deliciously nutritious weeknight meals--minus the cleanup!--with this cookbook featuring more than seventy recipes to please the whole family. Carla Snyder, author of the go-to One Pan, Two Plates cookbook series, applies her tried-and-true cooking methods to more than seventy incredible, reliable recipes that everyone--including the kids--will love. And to top it off, they’re all made in one pan and ready to eat in forty-five minutes...