By: Jean Kwok
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister…
Want to Read $ 14.99"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
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By: Judith Stone
Format: 96 pages,
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By: Kristin Hannah
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
By: Anna Quindlen
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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By: Amanda Peters
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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By: Angie Kim
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
By: Ariel Lawhon
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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By: Lisa See
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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By: Ann Patchett
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
By: Fran Littlewood
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more
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By: Ann Napolitano
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more
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"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful
By: Rachel Khong
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
By: Steven Rowley
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
By: Cristina Henríquez
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
By: Thao Thai
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
By: Tara Conklin
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves." When the renowned poet F… read more
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"I believe now that certain events are inevitable. Not in a fateful way, for I have never had faith in anything but myself, but in the way of human nature."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"For many years love seemed to me not something that enriched or emboldened but a blind hole into which you fell, and in the falling you forgot what it was to live in your own light."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
"Caroline. Listen to me. You have to decide what you love. Joe wasn't the only one. You have to decide now and hold on. Start small. Begin with the small things and work up from here."-Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship.Flora Mancini has be… read more
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By: Jean Kwok
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more
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"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Julie Yip-Williams
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story… read more
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"Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"I think God is beyond what my little, limited, human brain can fathom. But, perhaps, something my limitless soul can just being to grasp in my moments of utmost clarity."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
By: Cara Wall
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are … read more
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""-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"She would never be free again. But she would also never be alone."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"This minister, a small, balding, quick-spoken man, said often that faith, at its simplest, was the acceptance of the possibility that things one had never seen could be real."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a…"-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
By: Linda Holmes
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, … read more
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"Oh, that's right, she thought. I remember having good days."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"Everything she said, he treated like it ended in a semicolon."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"Trying to buck yourself up is the tooth pliers of mental health."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
"All she could think as she finally, finally kissed him was finally, finally."-Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over
By: Chris Whitaker
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more
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