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Life on the isolated island of Guernsey can be tough, but things have become particularly claustrophobic for Cat Rozier. It's 1985: she's fifteen and an overweight bookworm. To make matters worse, she's just killed her best friend, the beautiful and popular Nicolette, by pushing her over the island's most picturesque cliff. But given Nic's unforgivable betrayal of their friendship, can we blame her? Twenty years earlier, Cat's uncle, Charlie Rozier,...
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The Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya and Keith's strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and the family's foundation cracks as each member struggles to seek a way forward. This is an intimate portrayal of four individuals as they grapple with what it means to be...
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Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching on to something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.
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The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper, and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. Erasmus Renfrew, the avowed enemy of Smoke, is now Lord Protector of what remains of the English state. All these people seek to discover the true nature of Smoke and thereby control its power. As their destinies entwine, a cataclysmic confrontation looms. The Smoke will either bind them together or...
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Taking place in England a century ago, here the sinful are marked by Smoke, a sign of their fallen state. Three friends are about to discover that everything they've been taught about Smoke is a lie. And so, their adventure begins. This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric, and intensely suspenseful. Dan Vyleta's most recent novel "The Crooked Maid" was...
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When a brutal explosion in a summer-cottage town in Vermont brings together Amos, a disfigured handyman, and Aubrey, the cosseted son of a wealthy new England family, neither has any idea that this one event will shape them forever. A masterly evocation of friendship and a profound meditation on the compromises exacted by life. 'A remarkable coming-of-age story, told in a stunning voice that beguiles and enchants on every page. This novel anticipates...
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A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life, from the author of the Giller Prize finalist "Summer Gone." A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italy - and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find...
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"David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together--and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a...
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