Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
The Perfect Mother
A night out — a few hours of fun. What could possibly go wrong? SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “The Perfect Mother is a gripping page-turner that explores the pressures of modern motherhood as well as a mother’s absolute worst nightmare. At once wonderfully nuanced and compulsively readable, it keeps you guessing at…
Read MoreSense and Sensibility
A beloved and internationally bestselling author’s contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money and two very different sisters When their father unexpectedly dies, the three Dashwood girls–Elinor, Marianne and Margaret–must face the harsh reality of a life where they no longer have the home or the financial security that they have always…
Read MoreThe President is Missing
President Bill Clinton and bestselling novelist James Patterson set out to write the best thriller ever about an American president–The President Is Missing. What President Clinton and Patterson have created is the most dramatic three days any President has ever faced. Maybe the most dramatic three days in American history. And it could all really…
Read MoreNorthanger Abbey
Cat Morland is ready to grow up. A home-schooled minister’s daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, she loses herself in novels and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley’s narrow horizon. So imagine her delight when the Allens, neighbours and friends of her parents, invite her to…
Read MoreThe High Tide Club
When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never met her. Josephine’s cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter with Brooke,…
Read MoreSave the Date
THE DATE IS BOOKED. CAN THE WEDDING BE SAVED? Save the Date is a delightfully charming novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews. Floral designer Cara Kryzik is about to score the wedding of a lifetime—one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for Savannah society nuptials. But trouble comes when…
Read MoreShelter in Place
Almost Sisters
With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality–the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are. Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’…
Read MoreEleanor Oliphant is Fine
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon Named a New York Times 2017 “Books to Breeze Through This Summer” Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She…
Read MoreBeach Town
Greer Hennessy is a struggling movie location scout. Her last location shoot ended in disaster when a film crew destroyed property on an avocado grove. And Greer ended up with the blame. Now Greer has been given one more chance—a shot at finding the perfect undiscovered beach town for a big budget movie. She zeroes…
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