Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle.
The gripping new thriller with a difference for 2024 from internationally bestselling author Lisa StoneWhat do you do when your home becomes a living nightmare?
"e;The truest kind of story: about the inconvenience of love, and the choices people make when they're most afraid"e; (Amanda Stern, author of Little Panic).
An "e;entertaining"e; novel about a family of three women "e;navigating relationships, a half-dozen lovers and innumerable dogs"e; (Publishers Weekly).
This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "e;degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America.
No matter where you are in treatment, what side effects you may be experiencing, or your general fitness level, Pilates is a safe and effective way to help you regain flexibility, power, and endurance while relieving treatment side effects such as lymphedema, fatigue, depression, peripheral neuropathy, osteoporosis, and upper extremity impairment.
A guidebook to survival: "e;Look no further for stories that will warm your soul, encourage your heart, and give your spirit hope during a stormy season"e; (Marcia Weider, CEO/founder of Dream University).
In Kanazawa, the first literary novel in English to be set in this storied Japanese city, Emmitts future plans collapse when his wife, Mirai, suddenly backs out of negotiations to purchase their dream home.
Jennie and Alick Glenroy arrived in Maine with nothing, not even their names, starting anew in a different land, leaving the turmoil and violence of Scotland behind them.
At long last Joanna Bennett is returning to her family's island, the childhood home that her heart has yearned for ever since she was forced to the mainland by catastrophe.
Young, vivacious Joanna Bennett desperately wishes to be captain of her own lobstering boat, but despite being the favored daughter of Bennett's Island's founding family, she is still just a girl in the eyes of the community, and a girl living off the coast of Maine in the early 20th century is expected to mind the kitchen, not tend to pot buoys.
Rosa Fleming motors her way to Bennett's Island in the dark of the night, fleeing her divorce, her philandering husband and the gossipmongers of her hometown.
Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination.
Readers received a refreshing introduction to the Sims and Catts families in Owens' first novel, My Brother Michael, narrated by the inimitable Gabriel Catts.
Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for FictionOut of the shotgun houses and deep, shaded porches of a west Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption as told by Gabriel Catts.
Before Disney and far from the palm-lined Florida beaches, ten-year-old Danny Ryan is transplanted to a tiny community on the hyacinth-choked Hillsborough River outside Tampa, a place his older sister calls Nowhere.
This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler-"e;a feminist gem"e; (Michael Bronski).
The renowned Israeli author "e;once again captures the culture of modern-day Israel with provocative deadpan humor"e; in a novel of wealth, war, and family (Publishers Weekly).
In this "e;wonderful first novel"e; an astrophysicist struggles with returning to her career in science after putting it on hold for her family (The Grand Rapids Press).
Il dono di Afrodite è una storia d’amore fra una fanciulla diciottenne, figlia di un nobiluomo russo, e un ussaro squattrinato (gli ussari erano soldati della fanteria leggera a servizio dell’impero russo nel diciannovesimo secolo).
