**From the #1 *New York Times* Bestselling author of *Leaving Time ***Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave.
*Harvesting the Heart* is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin Hannah. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters, and explores motherhood with a power and depth only she is capable of.
“A brilliant, moving examination of motherhood, brimming with detail and emotion.” —*Richmond Times-Dispatch*
“Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. This story belongs to… the lucky reader.” —*The New York Times Book Review* Views: 230
In a collection of new Riverworld stories, all the world's dead awaken in Riverworld and play out the grand saga of human history by a new set of rules along the banks of the ten-million-mile river.
Contents:
ix · Foreword · Philip José Farmer · fw
1 · Crossing the Dark River [Part 1 of 2] · Philip José Farmer · n. *
65 · A Hole in Hell · Dane Helstrom · ss *
73 · Graceland · Allen Steele · nv *
101 · Every Man a God · Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg · nv *
141 · Blandings on Riverworld · Phillip C. Jennings · nv *
173 · Two Thieves · Harry Turtledove · nv *
207 · Fool’s Paradise · Ed Gorman · nv *
237 · The Merry Men of Riverworld · John Gregory Betancourt · na *
283 · Unfinished Business · Robert Weinberg · nv * Views: 230
SUMMARY:
During World War II, a special rescue team assembles to save two Marines trapped on a small Coastwatcher island. Views: 228
A traditional Regency romance novella, chock full of humor, trouble, and the mysterious ways of the human heart.At his first meeting with Miss Penelope Wright, Colonel Lord John Corbett fell head over heels in love and immediately tripped himself up. After proposing a speedy marriage, he is on his way to the London wedding when he spots her scarpering full speed in the opposite direction. Views: 227
Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth. Views: 224
A secret that could destroy two legendary families threatens to change the course of true love in Caroline B. Cooney’s mesmerizing novel
Annabel Jayquith and Daniel Ransom meet at a party. They fall instantly in love, unaware that their lives are inextricably bound together by the crime that shocked a nation.
Daniel is the high-profile son of a slain US senator who had presidential ambitions. Annabel is the daughter of a billionaire businessman. Like Daniel, Annabel is haunted by the discovery of her family history—a past she never knew existed.
Annabel is rich and beautiful, but eighteen-year-old Jade O’Keeffe is poor and alone. She hates her mother, the fabulously successful TV talk-show host Theodora Jayquith, for giving her up for adoption. But most of all, she hates Annabel, Theodora’s spoiled, much-loved niece. And Jade is going to make them all pay.
As Daniel’s search for the truth about his father’s unsolved murder puts him in the crosshairs of Jade’s revenge, a killer slips from the shadows. Now a secret that could bury two powerful families could also destroy Annabel and Daniel’s growing love. Views: 216
writing as Sterling Blake Views: 214
When the accountant of Riverview's hot new comedy club is sent to jail for embezzlement, Nancy is convinced that he has been framed, and she goes undercover at the club to catch the real crook. Views: 212
SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIESWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN'Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel' Hilary Mantel'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm TóibínIt is 1883 and against the fearsome, unforgiving beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters unfolds. Beth is determined to decide her own destiny but charmed by the roguish Liam Ward she seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family's past. Through the events of her twenty-fifth birthday, decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating, deadly climax. Views: 209
An award-winning collection of short fiction from one of "the strongest American writers of his generation" (The Washington Post Book World). Proclaimed "a master" by the New York Times and selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Stewart O'Nan started his literary career with this outstanding collection of short stories. Selected as the winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, this volume features twelve journeys into the lives and souls of a broad range of characters—including a ruined farmer, a black day laborer, an old Chinese grocer, and a young policeman who has become separated from his family and is descending into madness. Intimate and generous, these stories illuminate the connections that bind us and the obligations and sorrows of love. From The Speed Queen to Names of the Dead to West of Sunset, O'Nan has dazzled readers again and again. Fans... Views: 209
Many little girls are sure to relate to Karen's excitement when she is asked to be a flower girl in Ms. Coleman's wedding. Views: 208
