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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
A man's journey of understanding, uncovering a dark secret from his past.
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of ... (Goodreads)
A Hundred Summers
by Beatriz Williams
A love story set in the 1930s, where secrets and betrayals threaten to tear apart the lives of two childhood friends.
Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the ... (Goodreads)
The Good House
by Ann Leary
A witty and poignant novel about a woman's struggle with alcoholism and the secrets that haunt her family's history.
Hildy Good is a townie. A lifelong resident of a small community on the rocky coast of Boston's North Shore, she knows pretty much everything about everyone. And she's good at lots of things, too. A ... (Barnes & Noble)
On Such a Full Sea
by Chang-rae Lee
In a dystopian future, a young woman named Fan searches for her missing boyfriend. Her journey takes her through different social classes and reveals the harsh realities of society.
Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae ... (Goodreads)
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
A woman's journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of a passionate and tumultuous relationship.
The Paris Wife focuses on the romance, marriage and divorce of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson, who met when Hemingway was 20 years old, and Richardson 28. They marry and move ... (Wikipedia)
The Silent Wife
by A.S.A. Harrison
A tense psychological thriller, exploring the complexities of a marriage on the brink of collapse.
A chilling psychological thriller portraying the disintegration of a relationship down to the deadliest point when murdering your husband suddenly makes perfect sense. Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett ... (Goodreads)
The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
After the death of her magician husband, Sabine learns about his past and discovers secrets that challenge her understanding of their relationship.
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781857028157 Sabine– twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband-- is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a ... (Goodreads)
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
A small-town woman's quest for freedom and self-expression in a repressive society.
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer. Main Street , the ... (Goodreads)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
by Alice Munro
Interconnected stories exploring the complexities of love, relationships, and family.
In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship ), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and ... (Goodreads)
The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers
A soldier's haunting experience in the Iraq War and the aftermath of his return home.
The Yellow Birds begins: "The war tried to kill us in the spring" and follows Pvt. John Bartle, the novel's protagonist and narrator, in Al Tafar, Iraq; Fort Dix , New Jersey ; Kaiserslautern , ... (Wikipedia)
Circling the Sun
by Paula McLain
A fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of aviator Beryl Markham.
Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl Markham is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing ... (Goodreads)
Faceless Killers
by Henning Mankell
A Swedish detective investigates a murder and uncovers a complex web of secrets and lies.
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this ... (Goodreads)
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
A collection of stories about the Vietnam War, interweaving the past and present.
In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato —a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again ... (Goodreads)
The Dream Thieves
by Maggie Stiefvater
A thrilling supernatural adventure where a group of teenagers must protect the magical power of dreams.
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams ... (Goodreads)
Leaving Time
by Jodi Picoult
A young girl's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna ... (Goodreads)
Park Avenue Summer
by Renée Rosen
A young woman becomes the first female editor of "Cosmopolitan" magazine in the 1960s, navigating the cutthroat world of publishing and finding her voice.
Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief–Helen Gurley Brown--shocks ... (Goodreads)
Defending Jacob
by William Landay
A father must defend his son who is accused of murder, unraveling the truth of a complex crime.
Andy Barber is an assistant district attorney in Newton , Massachusetts. He is investigating the murder of a 14-year-old boy, Ben Rifkin, who was a classmate of his son Jacob and was found stabbed to ... (Wikipedia)
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
A woman's quest for knowledge and self-fulfillment, spanning through the 19th century.
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, ... (Goodreads)
Such a Rush
by Jennifer Echols
A teenage girl with a passion for flying planes navigates love, loss, and family secrets in a small town in South Carolina.
From acclaimed bestseller Jennifer Echols comes a sizzling tale of a young airplane pilot torn between two brothers When I was fourteen, I made a decision. If I was doomed to live in a trailer park ... (Barnes & Noble)
Zac and Mia
by A.J. Betts
Two teenagers with cancer form an unlikely bond, navigating life, love, and loss together.
The novel follows seventeen-year-old Zac Meier as he undergoes leukaemia treatment in Perth, Australia . He meets Mia, a fellow cancer patient in the adjacent room, and the two quickly form a ... (Wikipedia)
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
A journalist's exploration of a conflict between a French colonial regime and Vietnamese nationalists.
Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years. He meets a young American idealist named Alden Pyle, a CIA agent working ... (Wikipedia)
Instant Attraction
by Jill Shalvis
A small-town girl and a big-city guy find themselves attracted to each other, but their pasts threaten to keep them apart.
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis introduces the charming little town of Wishful, California, the perfect place to start for a woman wanting more from life . . . LET THE DREAMS BEGIN ... (Barnes & Noble)
Her Pretty Face
by Robyn Harding
A psychological thriller about two women, one with a dark past, and the other with a secret. Their lives intertwine in unexpected ways.
Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day ... (Goodreads)
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
An ambitious young woman looks to make her mark in 1930s New York, learning the complex rules of high society.
This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a ... (Goodreads)
Nobody's Princess
by Esther M. Friesner
A young princess defies societal norms and expectations to forge her own path and become a legendary warrior.
She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care ... (Goodreads)
The Hopefuls
by Jennifer Close
A young couple moves to Washington D.C. to pursue their political dreams, but their marriage is tested by the cutthroat world of politics.
When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that descends each summer. At dinner parties, guests ... (Goodreads)
Sinner
by Maggie Stiefvater
A musician seeks redemption by joining a religious pilgrimage, but his past sins and forbidden love threaten to unravel everything.
Shiver begins against the backdrop of winter, with the character of Grace Brisbane at age 11, who has been pulled from her backyard tyre swing by a pack of wolves. Saved from their attack by a ... (Wikipedia)
Family Pictures
by Jane Green
A family's secrets and lies are exposed when a daughter discovers a hidden photo album.
Who can you trust if not the ones you love? That is the question at the heart of, Family Pictures, an emotional, page-turning story about what it means to be a family from, New York Times, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
An exploration of the life of a small-town woman, revealing her struggles and emotional complexities.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. At times stern, at other times ... (Goodreads)
Breakable
by Tammara Webber
A college student struggles to overcome a traumatic experience and finds love and healing in unexpected places.
He was lost and alone. Then he found her.,And the future seemed more fragile than ever. As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with ... (Goodreads)
