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Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection...
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Single mother Vida Avery, having earned a reputation as a strict, but brilliant English teacher at the private Maine academy where she has lived and worked for fifteen years, inexplicably agrees to marry a local widower with three children, and while her son Peter relishes the idea of a real home and family, Vida, never a fan of the real world, begins to self-destruct.
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The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and pampered as the baby of the family who could do no wrong. These...
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One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly-thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia,...
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Allison Glenn is released from prison and sent to a halfway house, where she tries to reconnect with her sister Brynn, the only one who knows the truth about the terrible events that ruined Allison's life, and their secrets soon threaten the life of one little boy who is caught in the middle.
8) Stoner
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William Stoner, the son of a dirt-poor Missouri farming family, embraces the scholar's life after attending college, but his education and marriage to a privileged young woman estranges him from his family.
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Young Manhattan architect Annie Ferguson puts her life on hold in order to raise her sister's three orphaned children, and, years later, with Annie in her forties and the children facing major challenges in their own lives, she finds a chance encounter changing her destiny yet again.
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Television personality Jolyon Chadwick takes his new girlfriend Henrietta to the Keep, his ancient family home, to meet his relatives and reunite with his mother who abandoned him years earlier and seems to want forgiveness, but Jolyon still harbors a lot of resentment, and Henrietta is too upset by her own parents' divorce to offer much support.
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A family secret explodes. A first kiss betrays. A mystery is solved. A marriage is tested. It all happens on one extraordinary night—the Last Anniversary!
Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life...
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"As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around.Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck,...
13) Night road
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Jude Farraday is worried about her twins, high school seniors Mia and Zach, after they become close to Lexi Baill, a former foster child who has recently moved to the neighborhood, and when Jude's worst fears come true, the family is torn apart and Lexi loses everything.
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Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all; she is an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of...
16) His other wife
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Hilary's son, Seth, celebrates his high school graduation by going on a camping trip, but both Hilary and Seth's lives become complicated when tragedy strikes during the campout and Seth's father, who divorced Hilary years ago, arrives in town with his new family.
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist forThe New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
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Sonnet Romano drops everything and heads home when she learns that her mother is, against all odds, pregnant, and her plans are to go back to her wonderful life once the baby comes and things settle, but, when her mother receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet is forced to make the hardest decision of her life.
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"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
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