Adult

Julia Glover has brought her 23-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together. Rock star Jackson Quick’s glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs 30 years ago, but he hasn’t toured in a decade. This week, he’ll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades. But his secret is that every love song he’s ever written is for a woman named Celeste, who he believed to be dead, but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he’s on the first flight to France. These intertwining stories --- plus several others --- unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.

When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row, she hopes to find a fresh start --- a place where no one knows her name, her history or her secrets. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets --- and the people determined to keep them are watching her. As Ellie starts to unravel the house’s disturbing backstory, coming closer to the shocking mystery at its center, she unwittingly puts herself on a deadly collision course not just with her new home’s history, but with her own as well.

On the surface, Matthew Quick seemed to have it all. But secretly, he was depressed and some days, he didn’t want to live. Years earlier, when he first told his father he wanted to be a novelist, the response was immediate and brutal. He channeled his pain into his debut novel, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, crafting a complex father-son dynamic drawn straight from his own life. Still, the approval Quick longed for never came. In this book, Quick takes readers deep into his psyche, as he wrestles with both his own mental health and his father’s cognitive decline. Just as he is putting himself back together, his father is diagnosed with dementia. DAD, LOVE, ME is Quick’s raw, vulnerable and deeply moving account of what it means to forgive a parent who never really knew how to love you. This memoir is a must read for anyone who has been starved of love but wants to keep loving anyway.

Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca --- the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel. But now, Emery is consumed by her top research, missing dinners, forgetting anniversaries and promising herself Luca will understand once her cutting-edge discoveries come to light. Until the unthinkable happens: A tragic accident takes Luca from her. Desperate not to lose him, Emery breaks every rule, using the classified technology she’s developed to bring him back to life. And Luca would probably thank her for it, if only he could remember her. Their first kiss, their Sunny Sundays at the beach, the life they built together...all of it is gone. It may be a miracle of science, but for Emery it’s her one shot at a second chance. 

Quincy Monroe is a woman-in-STEM with a PhD in atmospheric sciences, the host of a successful online weather show, and has one million followers on her meteorology Instagram. She has spent endless hours forging her path in this male-dominated field, becoming one of the best in the industry. And with a new job opportunity, nothing can derail her success. Except for the ill-timed arrival of Sebastian Dunn. Sebastian is her best friend’s brother, her long-suffering academic and professional rival, and a flashy TV weatherman from New York City that everyone swoons over. Everyone but Quincy. Over a scorching Florida summer and record-breaking hurricane season, Sebastian and Quincy are forced into close proximity. Setting aside their grudges to chase storms and stay alive is one thing, but can they weather the inevitable collision of their hearts?

Raised in Hong Kong by their Korean grandmother in a quiet village, Eunha and her brother, Solomon, live a sheltered life. Their father is a Dragon Head, a leader within the infamous criminal organization of the Triads. While their beloved grandmother does her best to shield the children from the constant hum of violence and fear that surrounds their father and his world, Eunha only has Solomon and their one permitted companion, a boy named Kai, for company. But as Eunha grows up and marries into a supposedly respectable Hong Kong family, the veneer of her careful life begins to crack. When her young son is kidnapped, she is cast into the city’s criminal underground and back into the orbit of Kai, now a Dragon Head himself. Will Eunha finally give in to the life she has strived so hard to rise above or was her future always fated?

When Eileen meets naval officer Paul, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard and soon, Eileen has a ring on her finger and is following him to La Maddalena. Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from. Still, it doesn’t take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets --- and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.

Joey Vasquez’s life is the definition of good on paper. At 32, she’s a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents’ eyes. When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she’s secretly pined after for 14 years, she’s dismayed to find that the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino, your basic rich Silicon Beach jerk. The night couldn’t possibly get worse --- and then she dies. When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself 18 again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she’s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back. So why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?

Patrick “Kick” Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he’s in a real pickle. Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can’t remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive), Kick must survive. As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his tongue to keep from screaming at. A father who gives the Great Santini a run for his money. And a mother, who already left the family boat, so to speak, a long time ago. His family may be complicated and the pains of life may seem unbearable --- infuriating enough to leap from the deck --- but maybe the will to survive is stronger.

Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life. Each death he witnesses is meaningful to him; he listens, never judges and most importantly, never tries to change anyone’s fate. He knows that every life must eventually end to maintain the balance of the universe and he respects the cycle. Then he meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall. As Dalia and Layla come to embrace Travis, it becomes more difficult to maintain the detachment that’s allowed him to function for so long. Their time together teaches him what’s truly important in life --- and what might be irrevocably lost in death.