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Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor. Following the death of her former husband, Cam...

Adam has spent the last couple of years focusing on himself, trying to get his life and career in order. Now, entering his thirties, he’s painfully alone, struggling to meet and date anyone. After a series of unusual encounters with a woman whom Adam feels an attraction to unlike anyone he has before, he begins to experience strange problems, and he finds himself in deeply unsettling situations. Adam must discover what it means to love and be loved, and what he's willing to endure and sacrifice to truly be with someone.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Electric Lit From a prizewinning author comes an “electric...stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut story collection about women...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and love. His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in...

As Seth Levine dives into the intense world of medical school, he quickly learns it's not just his academic goals that are put to the test. Seth encounters a med student so arrogant he boasts that he’ll eat any cadaver part he can’t name, an instructor so dedicated she tests the student’s ability to perform a gynecological exam on herself, and a woman so captivating that Seth will do whatever it takes to make her laugh, including regale her with a story about a diagnostic squabble over an erection.

Eines Tages erhält Jana, Zukunftsforscherin aus Freiburg, ein Paket von einem ihr unbekannten Mann. Der Busfahrer Johan schickt ihr einen Kalender zurück, den sie in einer Telefonzelle in Neumünster vergessen hat. Es entspinnt sich die intensive Korrespondenz zweier Fremder. Während Johan der verlorene Kontakt zu seiner Tochter aus der Bahn geworfen hat, reißt sein Paket bei Jana ebenfalls alte Wunden auf. Bald finden die Schreibenden heraus, dass ihre Biografien nicht nur ungeahnte Parallelen haben, sondern auch eine ganz konkrete Überschneidung in der Vergangenheit.

The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just as she remembers it - right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with a beautiful little boy, Henry, who has just been diagnosed with autism. Returning to this quiet New Hampshire community seems the best thing to do, for both her father and her son's sake.

Lorain has been a prisoner of her secrets for almost her entire life. At the age of 13 she managed to keep her pregnancy a secret, discarding the infant and leaving it for dead. Years later, Lorain's mother finally met the love of her life, and Lorain couldn't find the courage to tell her mother that her new beau was the man who had molested Lorain and impregnated her. To complicate matters even more, Lorain discovered that the baby she'd abandoned all those years ago survived.

A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV’s hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen - stabbed to death with Chef Kimo’s sashimi knife - the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous.

Imagine this: you’re 60 years old, divorced, broke. You’ve squandered away being the husband and father you should’ve been to your wife and children in your quest for status among your architect peers. Don't worry: that’s all about to change. Unfortunate encounters with large trucks on the highway have a way of altering your plans, like jettisoning you back into the past to wake up next to a woman you dated in college. You’re also about to realize she hasn’t aged a day - and neither have you. Thirty years stripped away, just like that.

In Budapest Noir 1945, 1956 and 1974 merge into 1991 and a nation is allowed to remember the dark days of its past and come to terms with its history before seeking to move on to a different future.

Short story told in a lyrical second-person voice. The speaker is a young girl whose narration of her uncle's visit reveals her troubled home and the way that she protects her younger brother.

Citizen Kain, an enigmatic and eclectic figure, embarks on a groundbreaking quest to forge a comprehensive string theory integrating ethics and emotions. Challenging the greatest minds in philosophy, psychology, and social science, Kain endeavors to define objective, universal principles governing the good life, the pursuit of happiness, and the making of a new morality.

From being a resident physician during the COVID-19 pandemic to living passionately in travel, romance, and heartache, Rodolfo Villarreal-Calderon is a literary chef to an audience who did not realize their hunger—until served his Word Meal.

En couple avec Jean-Michel, maman de deux enfants et journaliste quand ils lui en laissent le temps, Isabelle tente de garder la tête hors de l'eau. Et puis, un jour, elle en a assez. Assez de gérer le calendrier familial avec ses rendez-vous à gauche et à droite, ses fêtes d'anniversaire de camarades d'école ou de garderie que, bien souvent, son fils et sa fille connaissent à peine, ses loisirs toujours choisis selon les goûts et les désirs des autres. Assez de cuisiner, de faire des courses, de ramasser des bas et des jouets.

Discover an addict's story of substance abuse through the voice of the character Sally, who could be anyone's daughter, sister, or friend. Sally tells her story of the challenging journey to get and stay abstinent from all intoxicants. The message is that the journey is tough, and there are landmines along the way.