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Life change events

  • Author:
    Trigiani, Adriana
    Summary:

    En 1905, dans les Alpes italiennes, Enza et Ciro, deux enfants de la montagne, se rencontrent pour la première fois et sentent que leurs avenirs sont irrémédiablement liés. Ciro, pour avoir été témoin du comportement scandaleux du...

  • Author:
    King, Stephen
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    Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and...

  • Author:
    Montalembert, Hugues de.
    Summary:

    The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence.

  • Author:
    Groth, Darren, Groth, Simon
    Summary:

    Ashley Drummond is an elite swimmer. Clayton Sandalford is a talented artist. From the  moment of their first meeting, they were destined to be together. Staying together, however, will test the limits of their love. A world-record swim...

  • Author:
    Sherman, Susan
    Summary:

    In the early 1900s, a young woman escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a domestic servant and finds the world opening to her through her connection with the scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.

  • Author:
    Koomson, Dorothy
    Summary:

    18-year-old Serena Gorringe and 16-year-old Poppy Carlisle were tried for the murder of their teacher--but only Poppy was convicted of the crime. Twenty years later, Poppy is released from prison--and she's determined to force...

  • Author:
    De los Santos, Marisa
    Summary:

    On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months earlier: break off her engagement....

  • Author:
    BOOCK, Paula
    Summary:

    This story explores the widening gap between rich and poor and two teenagers' battle to bridge it with their friendship.

  • Author:
    G'Orge-Walker, Pat.
    Summary:

    Down-on-their-luck cousins Patience Kash and Joy Karry attempt to turn themselves into crime-solving, miracle-working private detectives. Their first cases are doozies--someone's stolen a precious family Bible, and church funds...

  • Author:
    Raglin, Rod
    Summary:

    Matthew and Raminder are young, idealistic and in love. As soon as they can they plan to leave behind the small town and small minds of Pitt Landing. They will embrace life and experience the world, maybe even change it. Man plans, God...

  • Author:
    Giffin, Emily
    Summary:

    A pair of sisters find themselves at a crossroads in this dazzling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only. First Comes Love is a story about family,...

  • Author:
    Wingate, Lisa
    Summary:

    A whirlwind romance--and a leap of faith--has made Mallory Hale a mother and a rancher's wife in small-town Texas. Can she survive the wild adventure?

  • Author:
    Bunn, Davis
    Summary:

    From the internationally bestselling author of Miramar Bay comes a deeply emotional novel that explores the challenges of living, the joys of loving, and the bittersweet act of letting go. I have this, Lucius thought to himself. I have...

  • Author:
    Cole, Teju
    Summary:

    Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad. The book gains its strength as much from its subject matter (contemporary Lagosian life as experienced by a visiting former...

  • Author:
    Clark, Heather A.
    Summary:

    A testament to the healing power of unconditional love.

    Widely acclaimed for her emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, Heather A. Clark, bestselling author of Chai Tea Sunday, tackles the...

  • Author:
    McManus, Ray
    Summary:

    Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving Through the Country Before You Are Born is the first collection of poetry from Ray McManus. The speaker in these poems searches for redemption and...

  • Author:
    Stimpson, Michelle
    Summary:

    Blamed as a child for her baby sister's death, Dianne Rucker swore she'd never come back to Dentonville, Texas. But the kind aunt who took her in after her mother abandoned her is getting remarried, and she misses the cousins who came...

  • Author:
    Swinson, Kiki
    Summary:

    Karlie Houston is broke, betrayed-and running from a bounty on her head. Turns out the real owners of the payday loan office she ripped off weren't cool with her idea of employment bennies. With her lover and friends gone, she's forced...

  • Author:
    Knopf, Chris
    Summary:

    Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing persons, had it all; life was good. Then in seconds, it was all gone. The world thought he was dead. He had a choice: make it official, or go after the evil that took...

  • Author:
    STEEL, Danielle
    Summary:

    Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn...

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