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She didn't know what she stood to lose - until hope was all she had left. Kristen was living the dream - a loving husband, adorable children, a successful career. Why hadn't it been enough? She's had a lot of time to ponder the answer - behind bars. It was a little fudging of the numbers, just once to cover some unpaid bills. Somehow, she wound up a convicted white-collar criminal, sentenced to a women's prison full of drug dealers and murderers, enduring days of mind-numbing tedium punctuated by moments of harrowing violence. A place where respect is earned with one's fists.

A New York Times bestseller ? A Library Journal and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year ? A GoodReads Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year ? A People Magazine Great Read From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a “heartbreaking…very human novel”...

Hope Carpenter received that advice from her mother decades ago. Now, with their four children grown, Hope and her husband, Rick, are suddenly facing an uncertain future after a forced retirement strains both their savings and their marriage. Seeking inspiration and a financial boost, Hope gets a job teaching crafts to inmates at a local women's prison.

"This plot isn't just twisted—it's down-right gnarled." —People Magazine It takes a special family to turn a home into a nightmare. Since her husband’s unsolved murder three years ago, Iris Blodgett’s life has unraveled. Awash in grief and buried in debt, she can’t pay her...

Connie Baltimore has her life planned. Earn perfect grades. Go to college and graduate school. Start a research career. Everything changes when her older sister moves back home with their outspoken grandmother and overworked parents. Add a handsome family friend to the mix, and Connie’s carefully ordered world collapses. When the road turns to forbidden romance, Connie faces a choice that will change her life forever. Will she stay on the safest path? Or risk it all for the unknown?

Ever been tempted to pretend you were someone exotic, someone adventurous, someone different? Set in Ireland, England and Australia, this is the funny and heart-warming story of two people whose lives are about to turn upside down and inside out. Eva is off to Australia on a break from her job in a Dublin delicatessen, hoping to forget a fizzled romance and find inspiration for a new career. Joseph is taking a holiday from his stressful London job. Each is on a search for some answers about life.

While taking a beautiful drive through the mountains, Kate encounters a driving snowstorm. Suddenly, she realizes that the storm has gotten so bad that she must find cover. As she makes to way down the mountain, she comes upon a school bus that's been pulled to the side of the road. When she checks on the bus, she discovers several children awaiting the return of their bus driver, who has gone to find help. She decides that she must try to take the children to safety.

Estamos nas cabeças de três personagens. São três filhos, mas são menos filhos que irmãos e são menos irmãos que pessoas, e são um completo abandono, mas ainda não sabem. Na aridez de fato e naquela identitária, ouvimos o que nos contam Mosquito, Rita e Mirna. Em comum, a mesma mãe bêbada, castigada e louca, que tem como descanso o amor do pai dos seus filhos que lhe ampara com o perdão eterno diante dos vexames ou dos escapismos como reação à brutalidade do nada que é a vida naquela esquina apagada do mundo.