Tag: Adult Fiction
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IN A TOWN CALLED PARADOX by MIRIAM MURCUTT AND RICHARD STARKS
“I wasn’t looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her, even though I knew she was in town filming River of No Return…” So begins In a Town Called Paradox, which asks the question: If each of us has a life story, then who determines how it unfolds and how it should end? Set…
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The Sunday Potluck Club by Melissa Storm
A story of four friends bound by grief and loss. All putting their own lives on hold to care for a parent with cancer. All four of them dealt with their grief differently and they agreed to allow each other that experience. Some throw themselves into mindless work giving them little time to deal with…
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THEY CALLED ME WYATT by NATASHA TYNES
Siwar Salaiha desperately wants to become a writer. The life she wants is not in Jordan. Against the wishes and advice of her family and friends, she applies and gets into a university in Maryland. Here she is free to write and date and not be gossiped about by the entire town. She is a…
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THE LIBRARY of LOST and FOUND by Phaedra Patrick
A librarian’s discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the international bestselling author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Martha Storm is a book lover and works at the library. Not in the position she wants, but she has come to terms with not getting…
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THE WATER CURE by Sophie Mackintosh
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own…
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THE SISTERS by ROSALIND NOONAN
This was an emotional read from the beginning. My heart broke for Glory. Even though I felt she had other choices. What made this even more heartbreaking is this is still happening today. There are quite a few sensitive subjects in this book but that’s life. The author has written a beautiful and deeply moving…
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The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her Los Angeles-based sister insists Lucy housesit for the summer—her only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annika’s home is a gorgeous…
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Friends and Other Liars by Kaela Coble
To all my old friends: So here you all are. Nice to see you can show up for a person once he’s dead. When Ruby St. James returns to her hometown, it is to the grave of her old friend Danny, a member of a group that was, ten years ago, Ruby’s whole world. The…
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A Little Bit of Grace ( A Cypress Key Novel ) by Phoebe Fox
Family is everything—Grace McAdams’s mom must have said it to her a thousand times before she died. Before Grace’s dad ran off with an aspiring actress half his age. Before only child Grace found out she was unable to have children of her own. Before Brian—her childhood best friend, business partner, and finally her husband—dropped…
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The Ice House by Laura Lee Smith
From a writer who’s been praised for her “intelligence, heart, wit” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls), The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings and arrows of familial discord. Johnny MacKinnon might be on the verge of losing it…
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