Carrington MacDuffie
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, but for the deeply religious Mary, farming is at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly home life for her stormy husband, Jack, and her sons, while she adapts to the isolation of a rural town through the inspiration of...
162) Burden of memory
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and on her way to a so-called primitive, untamed northern forest on Canada's Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira Madison of the fabulously rich Canadian family wishes to write her memoirs. Miss Madison isn't interested in a bestseller; she wants to leave a record of her life and, most specifically,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
It isn't every day a movie star steals your husband. When that day comes for Chiffon Butrell of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, she looks to the Bottom Dollar Girls to help her out of one fine mess. A rollicking, hilarious novel of friendship and sisterhood, A Dollar Short is a delicious page-turner worth every last cent.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?
165) Lost: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On a cold January morning Susan leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. He has Alzheimer's, and he has wandered alone into a frigid landscape with no sense of home or direction. Lost. The massive search for her husband brings Susan together with Jeff, a search and rescue expert and social worker preoccupied with his young wife's betrayal. In Jeff's care is Corey, a young boy rendered mute and abandoned by his family...
167) American music
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Honor, a physical therapist, and wounded Iraqi veteran Milo begin seeing mysterious images from the past appear to them. As the stories behind the images converge, the source of Honor and Milo's own romantic feelings are exposed in this beautiful mystery and meditation on love.
168) Secrets and shadows
Author
Publisher
Campden Hill Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When the Berlin Wall falls in 1989 Paul and his ex-wife, Eve, embark on a journey together to face their past." --
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Not your ordinary cancer memoir, this is the debut of a masterful humorist. Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Irreverent and incredibly funny, Norton rails against self-pity and victimhood and rants about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrong's cancer survival book pressed...
170) The prisoner
Author
Series
The messes ; 4
Publisher
[Kiersten Modglin]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fiona is running from a past that holds many secrets. Logan North is running from a life that feels as if it's over. Together, they fight for survival and may save each other.
171) What Ollie saw
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ollie sees things differently than others, including his older sister, and he likes the world better the way he sees it." --