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...

Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together. When G eorgie, I ris and N ola's mother died, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what. Now, decades later, they can barely stand to be in the same room. As his health declined, their father came up with a plan to bring them back to one another. He stated in his will that before they can claim their inheritance, they must spend six months living together...

"A wanderer struggles to understand his uncle's downfall six years after a financial catastrophe George Chell has never met a man as witty, as charming, or as brilliant as his uncle. Edward Chell was a financial titan, ruling over a kingdom of profit with an emperor's savage grace--until a stock market crash revealed that everything he had was built on sand. It destroyed both empire and emperor in one fell swoop, and nephew George was cast out into...

Roseflower Creek is a compelling, fast-paced narrative that captivates from the first page to the last. It is beautifully written and sensitively told. Don't miss it! -Haywood Smith, author of Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch and The Red Hat Club "The morning I died it rained. Poured down so hard it washed the blood off my face." It seems everyone in young Lori Jean's life has a secret, but only one secret will cost her everything. A surprising tribute...

Winner of the Landerneau Prize for Crime Fiction: "A combination of a South American Western and a noir [with] airs of Faulknerian tragedy" ( Lire ). By the time Rafael is born, the family farm has already gone to hell. Rafael's father has abandoned them. His older twin brothers blame Rafael for their father's departure and exact revenge. Rafael's other sibling is a simpleton whose affections and allegiances change with the shifting winds. And ruling...

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront...

The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story.

"Questions of guilt and innocence drive the plot and stay with the reader," said Hazel Rochman in a starred Booklist review. "Highly readable."

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A touching and funny novel of a dysfunctional family and one man's struggle to both get away from them and to hold them close ( Publishers Weekly ). In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room houseand has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Seth is dying to escape from his mother's craziness...

"A beautifully written, finely wrought, race-to-the-end novel about finding your family, finding a life and finding yourself. Tish Cohen is the next great thing in women's fiction.--- Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My Life Just as Delilah's father falls further and further into Alzeimer's, she discovers that he's been harboring a horrible secret for over 15 years, but he no longer remembers...

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...