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A Letter to the Last House Before the Sea: An absolutely stunning page-turner filled with family secrets (Heaven's Cove) by Liz Eeles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHigh on the clifftops, Lettie takes a deep breath of salty air and opens the letter. There is no signature, and the old-fashioned handwriting is faint against the yellowed paper...Categorized as:
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![All for Victory by Beverley Watts]()
All for Victory by Beverley Watts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you’re looking for the perfect holiday read, with lots of romance and laugh out loudcomedy, then curl up with the latest entry in the Dartmouth Diaries...It’s not often that a fledgling career in Event Management kicks off with the wedding of a Hollywood superstar... -
![Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan]()
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy.So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. Everything that's worth living for.1. Ice Cream2. Kung Fu Movies3. Burning Things4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose5. Construction cranes6. MeYou leave it on her pillow... -
![Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins]()
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours... -
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![Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy) by Maria Nhambu]()
Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy) by Maria Nhambu
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman Africa’s Child is an unforgettable and searingly personal book….In the face of repeated obstacles and injustices, Nhambu continued to analyze the world around her with wit and a sharp sense of humor... -
![Easter on Lovelace Lane by Alice Ross]()
Easter on Lovelace Lane by Alice Ross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Dillon Delaney’s life might be far from perfect, but it’s one he’s grown accustomed to. Which is why, when his mother announces her ‘most fabulous idea’ of dispatching him to Lovelace Lane to stay with a grandad he barely knows, he has more than a few reservations... -
![Stolen by You by Lindsey Hart]()
Stolen by You by Lindsey Hart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInfiltrating Mr. Hotshot's house in the middle of the night?Yes, that was the plan.Getting my hands on his family jewels?Definitely what I was going for.And I mean actual jewelry, not the other round ball kind of things, alright.Now, catching the guy practically naked in his house?Oh God, definitely not what was supposed to happen... -
![David Goes to School by David Shannon]()
David Goes to School by David Shannon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNo, David!David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each school day with trouble—and are sure to bring a smile to even the best-behaved reader... -
![Gettin' Hooked by Nyomi Scott]()
Gettin' Hooked by Nyomi Scott
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsClick for your dream dateCould she go to the senior dance with just any guy? No way. Imani Lane has her heart set on Maurice, the hottest guy in town. But he isn't exactly asking. So she comes up with an idea to help herself--and everyone else, too... -
![Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi]()
Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada...Categorized as:
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![Ticket to Childhood: A Novel by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh]()
Ticket to Childhood: A Novel by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, Give Me a Ticket to Childhood has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country: it has sold over 350,000 copies and has gone through thirty-five printings. This, the novel’s first appearance outside Vietnam, marks the arrival, in English, of a hugely appealing and engaging author... -
![Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett]()
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town... -
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3 stepbrothers by Animallover55
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTori lived with her dad and little sister. She never expected to have a stepmother, much less a stepbrother. But whats worse is not only one stepbrother, not two either. No three stepbrothers. But it gets worse, the three boys just happen to be the three triplet sport stars of the school. The same three boys that have gone out with nearly all those girls that wear short short skirts... -
![Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel]()
Einstein's Beach House by Jacob M. Appel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA couple adopts a depressed hedgehog; a stranger shows up, claiming to be the father of a girl's imaginary friend; a woman kidnaps her ex-husband's turtle; a family is evicted from their home, but was it ever really theirs? Heartbreaking and hilarious, the eight stories of Einstein's Beach House examine how we deceive ourselves and others, all to arrive at something far more real... -
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![On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety by Michael Kroft]()
On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety by Michael Kroft
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his retirement years as a stoic thirty-year converted introvert who has no interest in people, despises change, and is more than content to have his wife navigate his life... -
![Hangwoman: Everyone Loves A Good Hanging by K.R. Meera]()
Hangwoman: Everyone Loves A Good Hanging by K.R. Meera
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAward winning novel Aarachaar(Executioner) is a story based on the Indian culture of caste and religion. Set in Bengal, it tells the story of a family of executioners with a long lineage, beginning in the fourth century BC. The protagonist of the novel, Chetna, is a strong and tenacious woman who struggles to inherit this profession.According to noted literary critic M...Categorized as:
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![Kidnap My Heart by Alexandria Michelle]()
Kidnap My Heart by Alexandria Michelle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmma van der Bilt is clever, snarky, and spoiled rotten. William Knight is cocky, impatient, and slightly dimwitted... -
![Abbott Awaits: A Novel by Chris Bachelder]()
Abbott Awaits: A Novel by Chris Bachelder
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA quiet tour de force, Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence... -
![The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt]()
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMaman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation)...Categorized as:
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![The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: A Christmas Short-Story Collection by Jodi Taylor]()
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: A Christmas Short-Story Collection by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the always eventful worlds of Jodi Taylor, it's never Christmas without illegal expeditions, riotous misbehaviour and stories you just can't put down . . .This festive collection takes readers from Frogmorton Farm to Time Police HQ via the Institute of Historical Research at St Mary's in five (and a bit) short stories. A Bumper Bundle of Christmas tales all in print for the very first time...Categorized as:
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![I'm an Old Commie! by Dan Lungu]()
I'm an Old Commie! by Dan Lungu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEmilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada, telephones urging her not to vote for the former communists in upcoming elections... -
![E. by Matt Beaumont]()
E. by Matt Beaumont
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fast-paced, wickedly funny tale of office back-stabbing and corporate intrigue that unfolds in a succession of escalating e-mails. Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm to: All Departments re: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know . . -
![Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy by Lucy-Anne Holmes]()
Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy by Lucy-Anne Holmes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'My love story may not be the sort you read about in books or see in films . . . Love stories have glorious highs and ghastly lows. But when it comes to my own life, I'd have to say, you can keep your fabulous highs and I'll happily steer clear of the terrible lows... -
![The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon]()
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet...Categorized as:
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![The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo]()
The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Frank, an Irish dwarf, writes a personal memoir, he moves from dark isolation into the public eye. This luminous journey is marked by memories of his lonely childhood, secrets of his doomed young mother, and his passion for a woman who is as unreachable as the stars... -
![The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories by Mark Richard]()
The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories by Mark Richard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner... -
![Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories by Jim Shepard]()
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories by Jim Shepard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I’d have to list darts, re-closing Stay-Fresh boxes, and staying out of the way...Categorized as:
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![I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani]()
I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in awful and inexorable ways...Categorized as:
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![Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus]()
Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun. Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack for happiness might thwart his literary ambitions...Categorized as:
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![The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville]()
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the "The Machine of Understanding Other People," the story of a Chicago man who is bequeathed a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner worlds of those around him... -
![The Island Dwellers: Stories by Jen Silverman]()
The Island Dwellers: Stories by Jen Silverman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor readers of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic... -
![Moon Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme]()
Moon Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have given us a stunning, cautionary, funny, sometimes bleak, and often transcendent portrait of contemporary life in the sprawl of suburban America. Barthelme made his remarkable debut with these tender and affectionate stories, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker... -
![No Ordinary Guy (No Ordinary Bloke) by Mary Whitney]()
No Ordinary Guy (No Ordinary Bloke) by Mary Whitney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m not a philosophical kind of bloke, but I know something about luck. A childhood on the wrong side of advantage will teach you that. It’s all a matter of chance. It’s both your circumstances and the chances you take. So I've always been a gambler and a ladies man — they love me and I love them. Now I've found one like no other — an American, Allison Wright... -
![The Paragraph Ranch by Kay Ellington]()
The Paragraph Ranch by Kay Ellington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEVERY WRITER KNOWS YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN. But that's just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident. Single-again “Dr. Dee” has never been on the “A-team” in her trendy East Coast MFA program... -
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![Time, for a Change by Adam Eccles]()
Time, for a Change by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a mysterious wooden box help an IT project manager with his dead-end life? Terry Ward is a lonely, sarcastic, and utterly burnt-out IT project manager. He’s in a dead-end rut with his job and his life. Sound familiar? Time for a change. When clearing out his late-father’s workshop in the wild west of Co. Clare, Ireland, he finds a box full of mysteries... -
![The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass]()
The Franchiser by Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Flesh is one of the men "who made America look like America, who made America famous." He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy... -
![Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem by Sholom Aleichem]()
Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem by Sholom Aleichem
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook by Aleichem,...Categorized as:
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![Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson, W Morgan Sheppard]()
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson, W Morgan Sheppard
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. “Nirvana" portrays a programmer, whose wife has a rare disease, finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States... -
![The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna]()
The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Ruby Clare’s father was alive, they happily toiled together on their small dairy farm in Northern Ireland. Since his death seven months ago, Ruby—thirty-three years old, plain, and plump—has become a veritable drudge for Martha, her endlessly critical mother. Then comes the day when Ruby finds her late grandmother’s old suitcase in the attic... -
![Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiction from Ireland. No 1 Bestseller... -
![Bear Necessity by James Gould-Bourn]()
Bear Necessity by James Gould-Bourn
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA heartwarming, poignant, and charming debut novel for fans of Nick Hornby and The Rosie Project, about a father and son overcoming their grief in surprisingly inventive ways.Danny’s life is falling apart. He’s become a single father to eleven-year-old Will—who hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier—and Danny has just been fired from his construction job... -
![Carved In Stone by Donna McDonald]()
Carved In Stone by Donna McDonald
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven though his sons tease him about not dating, and his ex thinks he is still hung up on her, 53 yr old William Larson is glad he waited to date until he found 47 yr old high school art teacher, Jessica Anderson. Jessica assures Will she is incapable of love, but Will refuses to believe it. When Jessica promises him sexual fidelity, Will settles for that until he can convince her to love again... -
![The Many Colours of Us by Rachel Burton]()
The Many Colours of Us by Rachel Burton
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘A gloriously romantic tale of family secrets’ – Rachael Lucas ‘This wonderfully warm debut is full of heart – I defy you not to devour it in a day!’ – Ali Harris Fall in love with Rachel Burton’s stunning debut novel, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Adele Parks and Sheila O’Flanagan What if your life was built on lies? Julia Simmonds had never been bothered about not knowing who her father... -
![The Never-Ending Summer by Emma Kennedy]()
The Never-Ending Summer by Emma Kennedy
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Emma Kennedy's books are as funny, warm and life-inspiring as she is' Jenny Colgan'An excellent read. I loved all the characters' Claudia Winkleman'A warm, funny and truly life-affirming read. ****' Heat ________________ Three women. Two unforgettable road trips. Wherever you are in life, it's never too late to find yourself...Categorized as:
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![Entertaining Angels by Marita van der Vyver]()
Entertaining Angels by Marita van der Vyver
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGriet Swart is a recently divorced, 30-ish woman living out of a suitcase in a borrowed flat in Cape Town, South Africa. A collector of fairy tales for a children's book publisher, Griet soon finds herself viewing her own life in storybook terms...Categorized as:
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![Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah]()
Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMarie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts a baby abandoned by refugees and names him Moïse. But when Marie dies, Moïse is left completely alone, plunged into uncertainty and turmoil, set on a collision course with the gangs of the largest and most infamous slum on Mayotte: Gaza... -
![The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin]()
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the "stunning and audacious" (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow.Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture... -
![Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan]()
Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unsentimental, beautifully written, Raymond Carver-esque tale of a childhood in jeopardyto face up once and for all to the twisted violence in her home and engineer a way out of this childhood to reach a place of safety and freedom... -
![After the Workshop by John McNally]()
After the Workshop by John McNally
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story published in The New Yorker and subsequently Best American Short Stories. You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have passed and you are working as a media escort for author tours and your unfinished novel sits in a box under your bed. Your girlfriend has left you... -
![The Lake Wobegon Virus by Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky]()
The Lake Wobegon Virus by Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition...
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