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Everyone thought they had the perfect marriage. But things are sometimes not what they seem. Lisa Hodges has always thought her best friend Sue had a dream marriage. She'd married Curt, her high school sweetheart and current business partner. After thirty-five years of marriage. She never doubted him once until Brandi Morgan joined their thriving insurance company. Brandi is fifteen years younger, blonde and beautiful and is also excellent at her...

Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.

When a black family moves into the neighborhood in 1964 Kentucky, a fourteen-year-old girl befriends him during an unforgettable summer.

Eighteen-year-old Angie Marks, tattooed and pierced, shows up in the small town of Baxter without a place to stay. When eccentric millionaire Patrick Bailey hires her to be his housekeeper, and then when Angie risks her own safety to help Mr. Bailey get his twin great-grandsons out of a rattlesnake's strike zone, she finds herself fully at the center of the town's curiosity. At Monty's Diner they say she might be involved with Billy Joe Sawyer, using...

The Anthony family, on the run from their alcoholic husband and father, leaves Minneapolis for the small town of Mills River, Ill. But they've barely begun to acclimate when sassy old lady Tillie Monroe shows up at their doorstep explaining that the house once belonged to her and her late husband.

"Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world. His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevor's aging grandfather, whose hoarding has reached dangerous levels. Trevor's mother, Elisabeth, all but ignores her son while doting on his five-year-old...

Meagan, Alexandra, Hilary. Sisters seperated for thirty years by family tragedy. When an old family friend hires a detective to reunite them, their lives ar jolted once again. For Hillary, an intense TV executive, it's unwelcome return of painful childhood memories ..."

"In this book, James and his mommy and daddy go out into the world and see many exciting things -- things like... Two toy clowns! Corn on the cob! A green snake! A taxi! Auntie's funny hair! And you get to decide which of these things James likes best.

Kelly sets this domestic drama in the farm country of downstate Illinois during the Depression. A virtuous family, Samuel and Julia Wortham and their children, are struggling to feed themselves. Their lives are complicated when Samuel's brother, Edward, shows up with a little girl named Kelly, whom he claims is Samuel's illegitimate daughter. The reader doesn't believe this for a moment, and Edward is portrayed as a snake just out of the penitentiary....

Beth is the darling of God Halsa, a pharmaceutical giant, and she's got the outrageous salary and lifestyle to prove it. Until she lands in white-collar women's prison, thanks to a high-profile whistleblower suit. Sam, Beth's husband, used to be the town's most eligible bachelor, and he's never had to do anything for himself. Until his wife goes to jail, and he's left to raise two daughters on his own. Lise, the au pair, is the whistleblower. But...