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1) Making Waves
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The first novel by the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Sunday Wife, now reissued in paperback. In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not only with his disability but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising...
2) Belonging
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Taylor Broderick has two things that matter in her life--Momma and the dream they share to find the gold-seeking father Taylor has never known. When an opportunity arises for them to continue their search for him, Taylor can barely climb the mountain fast enough to tell Momma. After announcing their fondest wish can be realized, Taylor learns the father, her hopes, trusting mother--everything she believes--is a lie. Taylor's quest to find her own...
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Aparecido en 1977, después de ser rechazado por la censura debido a sus «tendencias antisociales», Las cuatro estaciones fue el primer libro de relatos de la prestigiosa autora rumana Ana Blandiana, de quien ya publicamos en Periférica el también extraordinario Proyectos de pasado. Como éste, Las cuatro estaciones se inscribe en la nutrida tradición fantástica de la literatura de su país, a la vez que dialoga con otras tradiciones, de Poe...
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The novella 'Beyond Countless Grief' takes readers on the heartbreaking journey of Gaurav. After suffering the devastating loss of K, his beloved, Gaurav's world is torn apart. He moves through the wreckage of his life, forever hearing melodies that recall memories of K. As he assembles the pieces of his shattered existence, he finds a number of mementos that embody love, sorrow, and hope. With heartfelt grief and remembrance, Gaurav embarks on a...
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It's the week before Christmas and the historic McFarland home is buzzing with the return of four adult children and their young families. Pop made sure this was the year they all came back to town.Newly married and postpartum Ivy, a TikTok famous bus-life wanderer, struggles with the best way to parent her teen son with special needs. Ava's seemingly perfect life and marriage are wearing thin. Oliver's accidental wealth makes the perfect breeding...
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Entre las páginas de este encantador libro de cuentos de Navidad, descubrirás un mundo mágico donde la nieve cae suavemente, los corazones se iluminan con la luz cálida de la esperanza y la alegría se esparce como polvo de estrellas. Cada cuento es una joya cuidadosamente seleccionada, una pequeña lumbre que arde en el rincón más acogedor de tu imaginación.Sumérgete en relatos entrañables que te transportarán a aldeas cubiertas de nieve,...
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It's. Nice. Outside. explores that universal tension between being a parent and keeping true to yourself. In this laugh-out-loud, heartbreaking, generous family novel, Jim Kokoris returns to the heartfelt writing of The Rich Part of Life.
Meet John Nichols. He's 50-something years old, an ex-basketball player, ex-author, ex-philanderer, ex-husband, ex-high school English teacher. And he's father to three: two overachieving adult daughters, and 19...
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Recently widowed Rodger de Jonge is losing his bond with his daughters. He's a man of the African bush, and coping with 'girlie feelings' was always Helene's department, not his. When an orphaned baby elephant is found, Rodger sees an opportunity that might help him reconnect with his children. But interfering with the orphan goes against his usual conservation methods. It will require a new approach to save both the baby and his family.
10) Fly in Fly Out
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House sitter wanted. Naked men need not apply... After months working on an oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean, engineer Jo Blaine can't wait to get home. Her job is tough, and she is desperate for some long overdue girl time. The last thing Jo needs when she walks through her front door is to find a strange man staying in her house. When she learns that her uninvited guest is none other than Stephen Hardy, she's tempted to head straight back out to sea....
11) See Under: Love
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David Grossman's masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.
In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields...
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Das Leben steckt voller Rätsel. Gerade als Nell den Entschluss fasst, ihr Leben neu zu ordnen, erreicht sie die überraschende Nachricht, dass sie die Erbin eines Hauses in Prerow ist. Was mochte Elisabeth Bollnow, die sie kaum kannte, wohl dazu bewogen haben, ausgerechnet ihr das Haus zu vermachen? Und was hatte die alte Dame mit ihrer Großmutter zu tun, die lange vor ihrer Geburt gestorben war? Obwohl Nell ihre Großmutter nie kennengelernt hatte,...
13) The Germans
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Germans, either by nationality or ethnicity, made their mark on the United States in the late Ninteenth and early Twentieth Centuries in the two decades leading up to World War I. Taking up mostly agricultural pursuits, some settled in Southwestern Michigan, and Berrien County in particular. Where did they come from? How did they get to Michigan? What difficulties did they face? Emma Waldheimer and Freddie Fenstermacher were of the first generation...
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Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn son John thinks it's the end of happiness. Neuroscientist Ursula Lauder Jones sees it as sink-or-swim parenting. Whatever it is, her daughter Merin, new owner of a movie house on Barrington Street, wants to sit through it twice. Her sister Anya, summer student...
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"The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn't write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn't write that he wants to break the father clause. Instead, he writes: Welcome, Dad. Hope you had a good flight."
A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby...
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A quirky, tender work of contemporary fiction about grief, love, and starting again at middle-age set in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, from the author of The Pregnant Pause and Fishnets & Fantasies. Rose Ainsworth, the affable protagonist in Jane Doucet's debut novel, The Pregnant Pause, is back in this candid, compelling look at midlife love, loss, and new beginnings. Rose and Jim, her husband of almost twenty years, have been living happily in Halifax,...
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A luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family's survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl; from the acclaimed and award-winning Rae Meadows.
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around...
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Step into picture-perfect Wilshire, home to some of the most privileged people in the world, where one woman's desperate act could bring the precariously balanced social order crashing down…
Wilshire, Connecticut, the gilded enclave of Manhattan's prosperous elite, appears to be a vision of suburban tranquility: the mansions are tastefully designed, the lawns are expertly manicured, and the streets are as hushed as the complexities in the residents'...
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An uproarious novel about a man's often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brother
My German Brother is the renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque's attempt to reconstruct through fiction his obsessive lifelong search for a lost sibling.
In 1960s São Paulo, the teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a journalist and scholar, has spent his life...
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A "truly enjoyable" journey through one man's Jewish American experience by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Marjorie Morningstar (Newsday).
Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing time in the office by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters...
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