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A bank internship in Japan's booming 1981 economy is supposed to be twenty-three-year-old Dorothy Falwell's ticket into a prestigious international MBA program. But the internship is unpaid-so, to make ends meet, she accepts an evening job as a hostess in a rundown suburban bar, a far cry from the sensuous woodblock prints she's seen of old Tokyo's "floating world."
Like her namesake, Dorothy hasn't planned on the detours she encounters in her own...
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Sometimes the most enviable life is really a private hell.
On the surface, Sarah Jenkins appears to have it all: a handsome, wealthy and successful husband, a precocious five-year-old daughter, and a beautiful home in an affluent Seattle neighborhood. Her quirky best friend and fellow high school teacher, Maggie, marvels at her luck-and envies her happiness.
But Sarah is far from happy. She feels empty and on edge, harangued by a critical inner...
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Joanna and Ev have been partners for ten years-in business and in love-when one of the only women in government in the Middle East invites their firm to design a children's museum in Riyadh. Jo sees a chance to solidify her name in the design world, and help Saudi girls along the way, in the venture. Her husband, however, has no desire to work in a vigorously policed society; he prefers to remain in his workshop, fashioning gadgets for museum displays....
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Though twenty-one-year-old Karla Most manages to bag Saxton Perry, a virtual prince thirty years her senior, she has no idea how to live happily ever after, with or without him. Karla cannot get past her anger at having been deceived by her single, now-dead mother, Mutti, who-supposedly a "Holocaust victim," complete with tattooed numbers-was in fact a German Christian who got into the United States by falsifying her background. So what does that...
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Sixty-three-year-old Dart Sommers-a professor of psychology and the founder of The Raindrop Institute (TRI), a think tank dedicated to eradicating poverty-is intelligent, resourceful, and ambitious. She has always considered her brain to be the best part of her. When she finds herself reacting inappropriately to situations at work and forgetting pieces of her day, she realizes that her mind is betraying her. Before she gets confirmation from a doctor,...
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When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her-threatening the life she's built, including her marriage-the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe.
Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fiancée,...
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It happens without warning: At a folk-rock show at her son's college, Lily becomes transfixed by the guitarist's unassuming onstage presence and beautiful playing-and with his final note, something within her breaks loose.
After the concert, Lily returns to her comfortable life-an Upper West Side apartment, a job as a videographer, and a kind if distracted husband-but she can't stop thinking about the music, or about the duo's guitarist, JJ. Unable...
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The End of Miracles is a twisting, haunting story about the drastic consequences of a frustrated obsession.
A woman with a complex past wants nothing more than to become a mother, but struggles with infertility and miscarriage. She is temporarily comforted by a wish-fulfilling false pregnancy, but when reality inevitably dashes that fantasy, she falls into a depression so deep she must be hospitalized. The sometimes-turbulent environment of the...
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Julia, an aspiring poet, is living with her British boyfriend, Ben, a restrained Princeton professor, when she runs into Michael, a long-lost friend. A complex and compelling composer, Michael was once a catalyzing muse for her-but his return to her life is a destabilizing influence.
Julia is drawn to Michael, but feels enormous guilt at the thought of betraying Ben-not to mention fear at the idea of giving up the security of her relationship with...
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When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, Maddy, her distraught single mother, begins a desperate search for her daughter. Maddy's five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn, where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Ultimately, her artist neighbor Evelyn reconnects Maddy to her passion for painting and guides her to a life transformed through art.
Detective John D'Orfini sees more than a kidnapping in the...
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For most of his adult life, the only place he felt at peace was at home in Silver Lake, Ohio with his parents-but after their sudden death, he is left on his own. Eager to help their brother, Steve's siblings, Scott and Sylvia, who both live in Los Angeles, scramble to find someone reliable to live with Steve. The answer to their problem comes in the form of Sylvia's sister-in-law, Nancy, who is desperate to find a place to live; within days, she...
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Rebecca Lev, a Chicago psychotherapist, is balancing a heavy workload, two demanding kids, and an unhappy second marriage-so when she learns that her father, Charlie, is in trouble, it's just one more worry to deal with.
Charlie's moved into a grand home in the Bay Area with his new wife, Vicky, and Rebecca's convinced that her new stepmother is physically abusing her father-but Rebecca and Charlie have grown apart, and he rejects her offers of...
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John and Erica Mason-Grey are hard-working artists and loving parents-but when John dies, their teenage daughter Mona's casual drug use spirals into heroin addiction. She and her mother soon begin an anguished game of hide-and-seek leading to countless arguments, arrests, thefts, rehabs, and relapse, a recurring nightmare that seems to have no end. Ultimately, it's only when each of them finds a way to accept their new reality-Mona by taking charge...
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Boston, 1984. Even in a world without cell phones, messages come through loud and clear if one is listening. When thirty-something Nora Forrest travels to Manhattan to see a Broadway play starring her idol, an aging Irish actor named Hugh Sheenan, she doesn't know whether what happens in the theater that night should be credited to witchcraft, extrasensory perception, synchronicity, or simple accident-and she knows that many people would tell her...
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Imagine growing up the gay daughter of Sigmund Freud, who taught that lesbianism can be a gateway to mental illness. Furthermore, he said that lesbianism is caused by the father and is curable by psychoanalysis.
Now imagine that he analyzes you.
That's the premise of award-winning science journalist Rebecca Coffey's fact-based novel, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtable of the American Library...
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Recently widowed and adapting to the challenges of single motherhood, Mercedes Bell is a paralegal at Crenshaw, Slayne & McDonough when she meets Jack Soutane, a dashing San Francisco lawyer who has recently begun leasing office space from the firm. It's the 1980s. The crack epidemic, homelessness, and AIDS explode on the scene, Jack's law practice booms-and the Crenshaw firm eagerly shares his bounty. Meanwhile, despite all the warning signs, Mercedes...
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At seventy-three, eccentric widow Clara Breckenridge is on a last-ditch journey to reconcile with her estranged son, finally confront the guilty secrets surrounding her daughter's death, and maybe find love again before she dies miserable and alone. But Clara is her own worst enemy. Rigid and afraid of change, she has cocooned herself in her old house to escape from life. Magic purple wasps saved her as a child from an abusive father and they want...
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"Exquisite" (Lisa Barr, author of Woman on Fire) and "utterly engrossing" (Katherine Gray, cohost of the Netflix series Blown Away), The Color of Ice will wrap you in its spell, all the way to its unforgettable ending . . .
Set among the glaciers and thermal lagoons of Iceland, and framed by the magical art of glassblowing, The Color of Ice is the breathtaking story of a woman's awakening to passion, beauty, and the redemptive power of unconditional...
19) Behind the Lies
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Will Franklin-former academic geek, now recognized as a rare talent in the "fake it 'til you make it" biotech industry-is in the wings for his dream job as next CEO of a global powerhouse. Or so he thinks, until his boss, Chet, calls him into his office and angrily tells him he is going to be fired. Chet hints at impropriety, but won't say more-and before Will can press him he falls so ill that he's put on ventilator care.
Now, instead of losing...
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Who is the father of Brenna's daughter?
When Brenna Riley and Dennis Griffin meet on the Stanford rowing team, they are immediately and inexorably drawn to each other. Their attraction leads to an ill-fated hookup. For Brenna, that's the end of the relationship. But for Dennis, it's the beginning of an obsession.
What follows is a nearly forty-year preoccupation for Dennis. Everything about Brenna, from her relationships to the strands of hair...
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