"One of our major novelists" (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.Increasingly obsessed by Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate his diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter, Lucy. This is a novel about life, in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, for the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart. Views: 606
**Grab the first of this reverse harem series** Blake Parker believes in giving herself and helping others whenever and however she can. When she hears about an opportunity to help an alien planet repopulate and rebuild, she jumps at the chance to be a surrogate. Blake herself was born to a surrogate mother, so it feels like the right thing to do. Giving the shifter alpha males on planet Dearia a family is her ultimate pay it forward. Not long after arriving on Dearia she meets not one but four handsome wolf shifters. They all claim she's their mate. How in the world did she get so lucky? Jericho, the Wintervale Alpha, and his sentry, Mace have agreed to share a surrogate. However, two other males take an interest in her. So now four guys are ready to share her in the dirtiest ways possible and she's beyond excited about the prospect. She's a sick woman with a perverted mind. When Blake's life is threatened by a race of ancient monsters... Views: 606
Terrick Wentworth has loved Bella Walsh since she was sixteen years old. Unfortunately, she has no memory of this. Years ago, an accident left Terrick horribly scarred, and he knows the possibility of rekindling their love is hopeless. After all, he is nothing more than a beast. When the opportunity to bring Bella into his employ presents itself, he cannot resist extending an offer. Bella Walsh desperately needs money to help her ailing father. Almost as desperately, she desires answers. Seven years ago, she was abducted – and blessedly recovered – but she has no memory of the experience. The answers she craves lie with the Wentworth Estate, and when the scarred and brooding Terrick Wentworth extends an offer of employment, the offer to satisfy both needs are irresistible. However, a monster lurks in the forest surrounding the estate, and when Bella arrives, the beast follows her relentlessly with its steely eyes. Bella is told this isn't the first time she's encountered the creature, and that she was discovered in its lair after she was abducted all those years ago. Can Bella uncover the true identity of her beast and slay it before it destroys her once and for all? Views: 606
A Best Book of the Month/Season: The New York Times * The Washington Post * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple * Amazon * PopSugar * Book Riot * Paperback Paris * She Reads * We Are Bookish "[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." —The New York Times Book Review“An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the... Views: 606
Hidden in the pages of a book is a secret story...'Evocative and enchanting – a future classic and a star in the making' Veronica Henry, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beach HutThe Book of Hidden Wonders is available to PRE-ORDER now!Let the treasure hunt begin.Romilly lives in a ramshackle house with her eccentric artist father and her cat, Monty. She knows little about her past – but she knows that she is loved.When her father finds fame with a series of children's books starring her as the main character, everything changes: exotic foods appear on the table, her father appears on TV, and strangers appear at their door, convinced the books contain clues leading to a precious prize.But as time passes, Romilly's father becomes increasingly suspicious of the outside world until, before her eyes, he begins to disappear altogether. With no-one else to help, Romilly turns to the secrets her father has hidden in his illustrated books – realising that his treasure hunt doesn't... Views: 606
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes the next standalone rockstar romance in her Seaside Pictures series...I had his posters on my wall when I was sixteen and when I accidentally got pregnant in high school—his was the face I dreamt of when I closed my eyes at night.Now, over twenty years later, that dream's turned into a reality.Not only is Drew Amhurst in my tiny town of Seaside, live and in the flesh...But he's mentoring my rockstar son.Drew says he's mine for a week.And he made me three promises."No strings attached.""No falling in love.""It's only seven days."He's confident that he can help me rediscover myself both in and out of the bedroom, and I'm confident that he's too arrogant for his own good.And at the end of seven days, he swears he'll walk out of my life the way he came into it.The only problem is, the more I get to... Views: 606
