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"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...

"What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one"----- jacket.

Falling in love unexpectedly during an archaeological dig in Mexico, Lisanne enters into a brief extramarital affair and subsequently travels to Ireland, where she explores secrets that she has discovered about her late father.

Struggling writer Jess Conover's ordinary life is turned upside down by an encounter with Elena, a lovely but mysterious woman who is the leader of an ancient mystery school called "The Daughters of Joy," who pass on sacred lessons of love from generation to generation.

"'My husband has been murdered. Everyone thinks I did it. Now I have to prove my innocence but I can't tell the truth. Because then I'd have to confess who I really am...My name is Sarah Shaw. I'm a nurse. I'm working at the hospital on my usual night shift when I receive an urgent call from the nurse's station. As I rush down the brightly lit corridor I see two police officers. And I know it's terrible news...The words blur together as the officer...

Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.

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As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed.

Three friends cope with the diverse challenges of maternity as Julia struggles to conceive with her uninterested boyfriend, career woman Maeve deals with unexpected pregnancy, and happily married Samantha finds marital strife after a new baby.

"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual...