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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest living Russian writers . After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognition for capturing the experiences of everyday Russians with profound pathos and mordant wit. Among her most famous and controversial works, these three novellas-The Time Is Night, Chocolates with Liqueur, and Among Friends-are modern classics that breathe...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational poem about a Saami family's quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial schooling"--
"A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational novel-in-verse about two Sámi families and their quest to stay together across...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the loss of her youngest daughter, Maura must learn to move forward and let go of the past when her oldest daughter Sage returns with a secret, and Sage's father, Jackson Lange, comes back into both of their lives.
''Secrets come to light as a town tries to heal in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne's beloved Hope''s Crossing series! Maura McKnight-Parker is still reeling from the loss of her youngest daughter when...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
''A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. 'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden.' The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Venus feels history repeating itself, and she’s not loving it. She ended a relationship with Clint because he couldn’t commit, cut off her long, processed hair, and started on a new path, with a new boyfriend. But she’s been with Airic for more than two years and they still haven’t set a wedding date. When a new project takes her to Los Angeles for a temporary assignment, Venus welcomes the opportunity to spend some time with her family...
Author
Publisher
Random House Spanish
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Uno de los "25 libros más esperados de 2024" de la revista Time Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Korean-American sisters Eleanor and Amelia Bae-Wood support their newly widowed mother when they are caught up in a court battle with someone claiming to be their late father's first-born child and only son-secret love child from his Korean youth-who's fighting for everything they have.
"From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their...
9) Monkeys
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When Rosie Paine dies tragically and unexpectedly, her seven children must learn to rely on each other as they begin to cope with a life bereft of the mother who held the family together.--
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the...
Author
Publisher
Union Square and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Florrie Butterfield-eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition-believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer's evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall-the adult residence where she lives-so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she, in fact, living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
""It is a privilege to read Crystal Hana Kim's fiction, which both edifies and enlightens." -Min Jin Lee A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center-a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me. In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean...
Author
Series
Chesapeake Bay quartet volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The culmination of Christopher Tilghman's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family"--
"It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic Chesapeake farm, Mason's Retreat. It isn't everyone's favorite party, but Harry Mason has once again goaded his wife, Kate, and their children into hosting a celebratory dinner. Their oldest, Rosalie, is having trouble with her marriage; the youngest,...
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