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Warm, wise, and magicalthe latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death. Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats,...

"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...

Representing a pro football player whom his son admires brings a lawyer closer to his young son.

Young Luka travels to the Magic World to steal the Fire of Life needed to bring his storytelling father out of a deep trance.

Bringing his teenage son on a camping trip with an old friend and his friend's son, lawyer David Sloane embarks on a legal rescue mission when the boys are caught vandalizing a general store and sentenced to six months in a detention camp with ties to a corrupt judge.

Arthur Friedland is a wannabe writer who one day takes his sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Arthur declares himself immune to hypnosis and a disbeliever in magic. But the Great Lindemann knows better, and after he extracts Arthurs deepest secrets and tells him to make them real, Arthur empties the family bank account and vanishes. He goes on to become a world-famous author, a master of the mystical. (F is for fake.)...

Billy, unimpressed with everything his father does with him, always responds "whatever," until the world's "hungriest" tiger comes along and gets his attention.

Rick Proctor wasn't a killer. But his father was. And now old Jay Proctor was out to kill a man who had once been his friend and the father of the girl Rick planned to marry. That's when Rick strapped on his Colt. He didn't relish gunning for his own kin, but he didn't have a choice - two of his father's men had already come to kill him...

Early one morning, a little scarecrow whose father warns him that he is not fierce enough to frighten a crow goes out into the cornfield alone.

A young doodlebug describes how he and his father are alike and the things they enjoy doing together.