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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all...
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Language
English
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Everyone knows the story of the girl from Widow Hills. When Arden Maynor was six years old, she was swept away in a terrifying storm and went missing for days. Against all odds, she was found alive, clinging to a storm drain. Fame followed and so did fans, creeps and stalkers. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and left Widow Hills behind. Twenty years later, Olivia, as she is now known, is plagued by night terrors. She often finds...
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When you’re looking for love amid the mundane and the ridiculous, every day counts. “[Brotzel is] a master storyteller and observer of people and relationships.” --Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo Luke Milvaine is a drifting thirty-something stuck in a dead-end job with an even deader love life. But when an old school friend dies suddenly, they leave Luke with a cockapoo puppy and a bizarre challenge: to celebrate a different...
8) Trajectory
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In "Horseman," a tenured professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches--"And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward... or not. In "Voice," a semi-retired English professor is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Biennale, fleeing...
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English
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Magically written, heartbreakingly honest." -Jodi Picoult
Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman, April, has left behind. Together, they try to solve the mystery of where April was running to, and why....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Single mom Shandi Pierce's life takes a turn when an enigmatic geneticist saves her and her 3-year-old genius son from an armed robber.
"At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station...
15) The shack
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
16) Elizabethtown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a flight attendant, Claire, with whom he falls in love. Their romance...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down....
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English
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Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.
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