Kate Reading
Adelia is not happy to be called out of retirement. She has been living contentedly in the countryside, caring...
85) The outcast
As menacing as it is beautiful, THE OUTCAST is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice poised for international recognition.
It’s 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community.
A decade earlier, his father’s homecoming casts a different
...87) Tomorrow
In his first novel since The Light of Day, this Booker Prize winning–author gives us a new, quietly searing novel about the nature of family and about the combination of fact and story that can be made to form the most essential truths.
1:00 a.m. Paula Hook lies awake next to her husband, Mike; her sixteen-year-old twins, Kate and Nick, are asleep down the hall. When the day begins, she and Mike will share a secret with their
...91) Mommy tracked
Praised for her "refreshingly real" novels, Whitney Gaskell delivers a warm and witty story of four women coping with the challenges of motherhood, men, and each other.
With a son in his Terrible Twos, divorced working mother Anna is too busy to reenter the world of dating, no matter how expertly her new admirer woos her. Grace has three beautiful daughters and the perfect husband, but she's increasingly obsessed with her weight. Juliet wants
...92) The way of kings
95) The dig
97) Shadow Man
Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger...
98) Split Estate
In elegantly modulated, brisk, and engaging prose, Charlotte Bacon,...
Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby. Just before Christmas, she accepts a position...