When Mitchell van Leuven captures Esme Garland’s heart, life seems truly glorious. Before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, however, he ends their relationship. He eventually recants his criticism, and his passion and promises are hard to resist. But if Esme gives him a second chance, will she, like the struggling bookstore at which she works, lose more than she can handle?
Kate is ready to put her city-dwelling past behind her when she marries Joe Krause and moves to an Iowa farm. But life on the farm isn't as idyllic as she'd hoped.As Kate struggles to find her place in the small community, she begins to realize that her husband and his family are not who she thought they were.
Iris Crane’s tranquil life is shattered when a letter summons memories from her bittersweet past: her first love, her best friend, and the tragedy that changed everything.
Over three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and glowing critical praise. Her latest novel,CONSTANCE , is a powerful story of a woman's anguished reckoning with her past.
They were the original power couple --- outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare, behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kennedys in their final year together, biographer Christopher Andersen shows us a side of JFK and Jackie we’ve never seen before. Theirs is a love story unlike any other --- filled with secrets, scandals and bombshells that could never be fully revealed...until now.
This latest volume of tales by the bestselling author of THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE features characters who pursue connections through love, sex and family, including a golden-haired girl who appears in an orchard to apple-eating attendants, a woman who cannot resume normal life after sharing a fantasy with her husband, and an unattractive woman who stays with her ogre husband after he accidentally eats their children.
Anya, a child psychologist, is about to meet the most extraordinary boy she's ever feared. Alex Connolly is under observation because his mother's destructive tendencies have put them both at risk. He exhibits deeply disturbing signs: seeing an imaginary "friend" named Ruen, a demon who makes increasingly violent demands of Alex. Getting inside Alex's head could save the child from himself, but it's Anya who is most desperately seeking redemption.
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December's Books on Screen roundup includes the films The Housemaid, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, 100 Nights of Hero,The Chronology of Water and Not Without Hope; the series premiere of Paramount+'s "Little Disasters"; the season premiere of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" on Disney+ and Hulu; the season finales of HBO's "IT: Welcome to Derry" and Apple TV+'s "Down Cemetery Road"; the midseason finales of "Tracker" and "Watson" on CBS; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring and Black Phone 2.