Megan and Josh are on a two-week vacation in Florida from Atlanta. Coming back from a day trip exploring the antique shops in Arcadia, a cow on the road puts them in a ditch on a rural back road. A miscommunication over cell phones has them stranded. They find their way to a farmhouse and an old woman willing to rescue and take them in until help can arrive. Mrs. Sullivan entertains her guest with the story of how she came to live at Honey Tree Farm. She recounts meeting Jesse, the love of her life, and how a jealous bully tried to destroy their life together. What Megan and Josh discover is that love is precious and can indeed last beyond a lifetime. Views: 446
Elsie Richardson's world crumbles when her dad drops from a seizure at the 4th of July festival. The reality that his brain tumor is back with a vengeance slams the 17-year-old aspiring artist and her family into intense hardship. Her mom needs help to make ends meet, forcing Elsie into adulting overnight. On top of that, Elsie's caustic, grudge-holding brother is on his way home, and Elsie fears he will only make matters worse. Feeling alone and hopeless, Elsie does as she's told and goes to work with her mom. That's when she meets Tyler Vaughn, the grandson of her mom's wealthiest client. After he invites her to go jogging at the historical Shiloh National Military Park, Elsie is warned by her mom to stay away from the wealthy, young man. Elsie gets the notice a bit too late, and so she lies about who she's meeting each morning. Over the next few weeks, Tyler becomes her secret solace amidst all the uncertainty she's facing. But when reality strikes and her private world... Views: 446
Two boys and two girls—Sparky and Notch, and Sandy and Neff—are best friends. They have skied and snowboarded together into every corner of Jagged Peak in search of adventure, but always within the safety of that ski area's boundaries. Until now, when they follow the tracks of a strange, snow-sliding creature into the volcanic out-of-bounds. And vanish......Into another world. Three land deep in an eerie jungle and one falls high on an icy cornice—all of them ditched by a tricky, rogue wormhole, which disappears over distant, snow-covered peaks. The four have no idea—yet—that they're on a volcanic island in the middle of a vast sea, and that the wormhole—their only way home—has vanished across that sea. Nor can they possibly imagine the dangers that lie ahead.Filled with wildly imaginative creatures, humanoids, jungles and mountains—plus a wormhole with a mind of its own—this hair-raising adventure should appeal to... Views: 446
In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America series with this deluxe hardcover volume gathering two of her masterworks. Published in 1946 to widespread critical and popular acclaim—it was the first novel by an African-American woman to sell over a million copies—The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of opportunity, sexual harassment, and racism conspire to limit... Views: 446
When an art auction ends in murder, unlikely sleuth Asey Mayo embarks on a search for the perpetrator in a crime that could by linked to the fierce competition between rival art dealers Miss Pitkin and Mr. Harmsworth, the discovery of an unexpected treasure, or the secrets of Quin Sharp, the auctioneer, in a mystery set on Cape Cod. Views: 446
The laugh-out-loud Sunday Times bestseller is back and funnier than ever! Perfect for fans of WHY MUMMY DRINKS. When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia's life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels suddenly huge, laundry doesn't take up half her week, and she no longer has to buy 'the Big Milk'. After almost two decades of putting everyone else first, Nadia is finally taking care of herself. And with a budding romance with new boyfriend Jack, She's never felt more alive. That is, until her son Alfie drops out of university, and Nadia finds her empty nest is empty no more. With a heartbroken teenager to contend with, Nadia has to ask herself: is it ever possible for a mother to get her own life back? And can Jack and Nadia's relationship survive having a sulky teenager around? A gloriously funny and uplifting new book perfect for fans of Gill Sims and Jill Mansell. Views: 446
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances. Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, midwife Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. High in the Bavarian hills, Eva Braun is pregnant, and Anke is assigned as her caregiver. Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world? Views: 445
"Tell me something true?" Her sweet voice was like a siren calling me to her. My truth? I was a bastard. I hated everyone. My past was as dark as my soul. And she was the only light in that cold darkness. Views: 445
A story told in reverse. The only way to understand the beginning... is to start at the end.Her best friend's murder and the subsequent spiral into near madness sent Amari on a mission that destroyed more lives than just hers. Now twenty-three years old, Amari quits school and moves in with her supposedly dead father and the family she didn't know existed, hoping that living among her own people will help her heal. Views: 445
