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Paul Phillips, a carpenter living in upstate New York with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, commits a crime whose only witness was a mixed-breed dog, and fears getting away with the crime as much as he fears the discovery of his terrible secret.

"The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope. It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary."Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarahs Key. The New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us creates a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II in this emotionally charged, beautifully rendered story that spans a generation,...

"It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group of young friends, including the bride and groom, drive out to the beach. There is an accident. Three survive, but three are killed. The lives of the families are shattered and the rifts between them are felt throughout the small town. Connor is one of the survivors. But staying among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as living with the...

"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...

A couple and their troubled cousin are caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge during a scalding, psychologically complex summer spent in their idyllic mountaintop home.

Brown teaches listeners how to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, free of shame. She explores the differences and similarities between the experience of shame for men and women; guilt vs. shame--why one is useful, while the other is not; and the four elements of shame resilience--identifying triggers, critical awareness, reaching out, and speaking honestly.

A young mother, crushed by guilt after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is presented with a bizarre offer to learn the truth and set things right. But is she willing to pay a terrifying price for a chance to hold her boy again?

After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city and must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life. "...The beginning of a great saga..." NPR.org. "This compelling Nigerian-influenced fantasy has a wonderfully unique premise and lush, brilliant worldbuilding that will consume you until the last page."Buzzfeed. "...Unforgettable in its darkness,...

This is an inspirational tale of a young man's dream to reunite his family through amateur wrestling. Mike Chetley, a former high school and collegiate champion, is estranged from his family. Things change when his awkward, undersized, younger brother Cal comes back into his life with a plan to unify Mike and their widowed mother Sharon, but not without major setbacks. Cal Chetley is an extremely bright, engaging, undersized fifteen-year-old. Mike,...