Henry Carter Hull

Originally titled Assignment China, this book portrays life in China as Mao's new revolutionary government came to power. These are the author's observations as a working reporter.

Anne, a mother of five and married for fifteen years, suddenly begins to worry that Gilbert doesn't love her anymore.

In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.

The Sleators are not your average family . . . When author William "Billy" Sleator was growing up, life was a never-ending adventure. The best presents his parents ever gave him and his sister, Vicky, were 2 younger brothers, Danny and Tycho. The 4 siblings delighted in playing pranks on one another and on their unsuspecting friends and neighbors. The children's mother and father also liked to joke around. Their mom, who was a pediatrician, came...

Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

Two sisters and the daughter of a third recount life in a rural South Carolina mill town over three generations.

Sex. Yes. She remembered that. Wasn't that the thing that happened somewhere between the talking-and-going-out-to-dinner bit and the sobbing-and-eating-too-many-biscuits bit? Still, Bella was sure she could handle some -preferably before her as yet unopened packet of condoms reached their expiry date. She must be practically a virgin again by now, all sealed over like pierced ears if you don't wear earrings for too long. But the 'L' word? Uh-huh....

«Ça ne me convenait pas du tout d'être le fruit d'une fille dénuée d'intelligence et d'un gars en rut qui, réunis par le plus pur des hasards, tirent un coup en vitesse, sans amour, sans connivence, sans penser aux consequences, c'est-à-dire moi.» Quand elle découvre, à 37 ans, que sa mère biologique est une simple d'esprit, Rachel Briand espère très fort que l'autre partie de l'équation, son géniteur, est de nature à rétablir l'équilibre...

From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak comes a novel about finding family in unexpected places and the lifelong bonds that don't need a lifetime to forge. When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these...

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...