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The Quincunx
Par Charles Palliser. 1989
Set in nineteenth-century England, this tale of disinheritance, murder, and deception links together all levels of society. A quincunx of…
families--the Huffams, Mompessons, Clothiers, Maliphants, and Palphramonds--are all linked together by the codicil to the will of the wealthy but long-deceased Jeoffrey Huffam. John Huffam's mother holds the codicil, but many others will stop short of nothing, including murder, to get it. BestsellerCruel in the shadow: the chronicles of Invernevis
Par Lorn Macintyre. 1979
Tale about domestic turmoil in an aristocratic Scottish household at the turn of the century. After the death of the…
Laird of Invernevis, son Niall, wounded in the Boer war and emotionally crippled by his father's dislike of him, takes charge of the difficult family. Some of the other characters include the laird's alcoholic wife; Aunt Carlotta, scourge of the family; frail sister Laura and the scullery-maid Maggie. Some strong languageAlmost paradise
Par Susan Isaacs. 1984
The title describes the once-happy Cinderella marriage of actor and actress Nicholas and Jane Cobleigh. This sweeping novel follows them…
from their cold-water-flat days to the visible success of Fifth Avenue and portrays the generation that produced them, the children of their marriage, and their collection of high- and low-born friends. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Book club main selectionThe building of Jalna
Par Mazo De la Roche. 1944
In the first book of the Jalna series, Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain…
Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their home. The building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humor of the family are describedA lifetime burning
Par Ellen Douglas. 1982
A sixty-two-year-old college teacher and mother of three grown children discovers that her poetry-spouting doctor-husband has recently been unfaithful. This…
compelling novel is her diary, at turns cynical, shocked, hurt, passionate, and crudely frank. Strong language and some descriptions of sexA house for alice: A novel
Par Diana Evans. 2023
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • A sweeping…
and beautifully rendered exploration of home and yearning, following the fracturing of a family upon the demise of its patriarch "Each character here is richly and deeply drawn...This is a novel that encourages us to stand in life’s burning doorways, and to think long before we walk away or walk through." —New York Times In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, consuming Grenfell Tower and many of the lives within it. Across town, an earlier spark has caught fire. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray. A table strewn with post-it reminders and old newspapers. And one Cornelius Winston Pitt—estranged husband, complicated dad, and Pitt family patriarch—takes his final breaths alone. These twin tragedies open Diana Evans’s A House for Alice , an aching portrait of a family of women shaken by loss and searching for closure. At the novel’s center is Alice herself, the Pitt matriarch who, after fifty years in England, now longs to live out her final years in her homeland of Nigeria. Her three daughters are torn on the issue of whether she stays or goes, and while youngest sibling Melissa also grapples with the embers of her own failed relationship, the Pitt family’s foundational pillars—of trust, love, and cultural identity—begin to crack. Intimately drawn and set against a fraught political backdrop, yet equally full of hope, humor, and humanity, A House for Alice traces the scars of grief and betrayal across generations and uncovers the secrets we keep from those closest to usThe nursery: A novel
Par Szilvia Molnar. 2023
A "brilliant...essential and surprisingly thrilling book about motherhood" ( The New York Times) and the early postpartum days, following a…
woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness and showing how difficult and fragile those days can be—and how vital love is to pull anyone out from the dark "A radical novel...I’m obsessed with this book." —Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers There is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, feeding. The instinct to keep her baby safe conflicts with the intrusive thoughts of causing the baby harm, and she struggles to reclaim her identity just as it seems to dissolve from underneath her. Feeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband, she strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbour, Peter, who hushes the baby with his oxygen tank in tow. But they are both running out of time; something is soon to crack. Joyful early days of her pregnancy mingle with the anxious arrival of the baby, and culminate in a painful confrontation – mostly, between our narrator and herself. Striking and emotive, The Nursery documents the slow process of staggering back towards the simple pleasures of life and reentering the world after post-partum depressionThe winthrop agreement: A novel
Par Alice Simpson. 2023
A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter's ascent from a miserable tenement…
to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray. When Rivkah Milmanovitch arrives at Ellis Island, her husband is not waiting for her as promised. Alone and pregnant, she makes her way to the Lower East Side tenement of an old friend. Lottie Aarons, whose husband went out for a newspaper and never returned, takes Rivkah in and they work side-by-side in dispiriting sweatshops. Rivkah gives birth to a daughter, Mimi, determined that her child will have a better life in America. Frederick Winthrop, slum landlord, lives in one of Fifth Avenue's sumptuous mansions—and preys on young girls. When he serendipitously meets fifteen-year-old Mimi, who dreams of silks, satins and velvets, imagines costumes and ball gowns, she is easily seduced, and her life takes an unexpected turn. To avoid scandal, the Winthrop family offers Mimi a rare opportunity. While Lottie, now a bookkeeper in the employ of the Winthrops, wisely advises her, Mimi knows exactly what she wants. But as she rises to international fame, she must struggle with the secrets of her past and protect those she loves. Part history, part romance, with a twist of gothic, The Winthrop Agreement is a spellbinding tale of a determined heroine who will entrance Bridgerton and all historical fiction fansThe collected regrets of clover: A novel
Par Mikki Brammer. 2023
"Jennifer Pickens provides a nuanced narration of Clover that perfectly mirrors the character's journey—gentle, compassionate, anxious, and full of joy."…
- Library Journal This program features a bonus conversation between the author and narrator. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit , Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York City, dedicating her life to ushering people peacefully through their end-of-life process. Clover spends so much time with the dying that she has no life of her own, until the final wishes of a feisty old woman send Clover on a trip across the country to uncover a forgotten love story—and perhaps, her own happy ending. As she finds herself struggling to navigate the uncharted roads of romance and friendship, Clover is forced to examine what she really wants, and whether she'll have the courage to go after it. Probing, clever, and hopeful, The Collected Regrets of Clover turns the normally taboo subject of death into a reason to celebrate life. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressHolding pattern: A novel
Par Jenny Xie. 2023
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE "Exquisite and wise." – New York Times "There is so much heart…
in these pages, so much wisdom on how we love. This book had me in its orbit, from beginning to end." – Weike Wang, author of Joan is Okay Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. She’s gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she’s back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what’s next. To her surprise, her mother isn’t the same person Kathleen remembers. No longer depressed or desperate to return to China, the new Marissa Cheng is sporty, perky, and has been transformed by love. Kathleen thought she’d be planning her own wedding, but instead finds herself helping her mother plan hers—to a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur. Grasping for direction, Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch. While she negotiates new ideas about intimacy and connection, an unforeseen attachment to someone at work pushes her to rethink her relationships—especially the one with Marissa. Will they succeed in seeing each other anew, adult to adult? As they peel back the layers of their history—the old wounds, cultural barriers, and complex affection—they must come to a new understanding of how they can propel each other forward, and what they’ve done to hold each other back. Brilliantly observant, tender, and warm, Holding Pattern is a hopeful novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we learn to hold each otherThe shadow sister
Par Lily Meade. 2023
What happens when your sister disappears, and then returns, changed in ways trauma alone can't explain? Sutton going missing is…
the worst thing that could have happened to Casey, to their family. She's trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. She knows Sutton is manipulative, yet everyone paints a picture of her perfection. People don't go looking for missing Black girls—or half-Black girls—without believing there is an angel to be saved. When Sutton reappears, Casey knows she should be relieved. Except Sutton isn't the same. She remembers nothing about the time she was gone—or anything from her old life, including how she made Casey miserable. There's something unsettling about the way she always wants to hang out with Casey and watch her goldfish swim for hours. What happened to Sutton? The more Casey starts uncovering her sister's secrets, the more questions she has. Did she really know her sister? Why is no one talking about the other girls who have gone missing in their area? And what will it take to uncover the truth?Kantika
Par Elizabeth Graver. 2023
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika?"song" in Ladino?follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen,…
feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way?a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure, and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge?her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place, and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body?in work, art, and love?serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only lifeForbidden notebook: A novel
Par Alba Céspedes. 2023
This is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba de Céspedes, whose work inspired contemporary writers like…
Elena Ferrante In this modern translation by acclaimed Elena Ferrante translator Ann Goldstein, The Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife living in postwar Rome. Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life—until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son. As the conflicts between parents and children, husband and wife, and friends and lovers intensify, what goes on behind the Cossatis' façade of middle-class respectability gradually comes to light, tearing the family's fragile fabric apart. An exquisitely crafted portrayal of domestic life, The Forbidden Notebook recognizes the universality of human aspirationsThe talk of coyote canyon (Coyote Canyon #2)
Par Brenda Novak. 2023
She's not here to make friends. She's here to make trouble. With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen…
Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon—and that's just fine with her. She's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Or is she more interested in finally proving that she was worth keeping? Either way, she's struggling to keep her rival well-drilling company afloat. And being a single woman in a male-dominated field has started to take a toll. So when Hendrix Durrant steps in to help, Ellen has no choice but to let him—even though he happens to be her father's business partner and therefore her enemy. But the closer she works with him, the more she sees what she's been missing...in life and love. And once she lets go of her anger long enough to learn the truth about her past, she might just find the family she's always wanted. Coyote Canyon Book 1: Talulah's Back in Town Book 2: The Talk of Coyote Canyon Book 3: The Messy Lives of Jane TannerThe Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction
Par Lydia Kwa, Sheung-King, Eddy Tan, Bingji Ye, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Isabella Wang, Yilin Wang, Sam Cheuk, Anna Kaye. 2023
The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel (Molly the Maid #2)
Par Nita Prose. 2023
"Prepare to be swept away again into the wonderfully endearing and unforgettable world of Molly. . . . Nita Prose…
writes like no other—I loved this even more than her utterly delightful debut." —Ashley Audrain, bestselling author of The Push and The WhispersA new mess. A new mystery. It’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty, in this standalone novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club pick. Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tea room floor.When Detective Stark, Molly's old foe, investigates the author’s unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul. Suspects abound, and everyone wants to know: Who killed J.D. Grimthorpe? Was it Lily, the new Maid-in-Training? Or was it Serena, the author’s secretary? Could Mr. Preston, the hotel’s beloved doorman, be hiding something? And is Molly really as innocent as she seems?As the case threatens the hotel’s pristine reputation, Molly knows that she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer's identity. But that key is buried deep in her past—because long ago, she knew J.D. Grimthorpe. Molly must comb her memory for clues, and revisit her childhood and the mysterious Grimthorpe mansion where her dearly departed Gran once worked. With Molly and her colleagues under investigation, she knows she must solve the mystery post-haste. And if there's one thing she knows for sure, it's that dirty secrets don't stay buried forever...romandamour (QA fiction)
Par Amélie Dumoulin. 2023
Némo rédige un journal où elle colle des étoiles trouvées par terre et des poèmes kitsch fabriqués avec des découpes…
de vieux Harlequin. Elle s'y adresse à sa défunte amie Barbara dont Némo a adopté les trois marmots. Elle lui parle d'eux, de sa maternité amateur et de ses dérapes extraconjugales avec un sulfureux collègue surnommé "Brossard"La fin de l'été (Les étés sur la côte #3)
Par Mary Monroe. 2020
"Dans l'intense conclusion de sa trilogie Les étés sur côte, Mary Alice Monroe, auteure à succès du New York Times,…
retourne au charme et à la beauté sensuelle de Sullivan's Island en Caroline du Sud et à la famille Muir - trois demi-soeurs liées par leur amour pour leur grand-mère et la côte de la Caroline - dans une histoire inoubliable sur les liens familiaux et un amour aussi fort et constant que la marée." C'est le dernier été que Marietta "Mamaw" Muir et ses trois "filles de l'été" pourront passer dans leur chère Sea Breeze avant qu'elle soit vendue. Tandis que la fin approche, c'est une période de transition pour Mamaw et les demi-soeurs Dora, Carson et Harper qui affrontent des pertes et s'efforcent de trouver leur place dans le monde. Harper avait l'intention de rester un week-end seulement, mais une dispute avec sa mère, riche et influente, l'a laissée sans domicileBreaking and entering
Par Don Gillmor. 2023
During the hottest summer on record, Bea's dangerous new hobby puts everyone's sense of security to the test. Forty-nine and…
sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless: her marriage is stale, her son communicates solely through cryptic text messages, her mother has dementia, and she conducts endless arguments with her older sister in her head. Toronto feels like an inadequately air-conditioned museum of its former self, and the same could be said of her life. She dreams of the past, her days as a newlywed, a new mom, a new homeowner gutting the kitchen-now the only novel experience that looms is the threat of divorce. Everything changes when she googles "escape" and discovers the world of amateur lock-picking. Breaking into houses is thrilling: she's subtle and discreet, never greedy, but as her curiosity about other people's lives becomes a dangerous compulsion and the entire city feels a few degrees from boiling over, she realizes she must turn her guilty analysis on herself. A searingly insightful rendering of midlife among the anxieties of the early twenty-first century, Breaking and Entering is an exacting look at the fragility of all the things we take on faithCe que je sais de toi
Par Éric Chacour. 2023
Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensaire et le…
prestigieux cabinet hérité de son père, Tarek n'a que peu de place pour se poser des questions. Mais la rencontre d'un être que tout semble éloigner de lui ébranlera son mariage, sa carrière et ses certitudes, ne lui laissant plus d'autre choix que l'exil