The Embers
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Rumor has it that nothing ever happens in small-town Vermont, but for Bella Bree MacGowan, there is no shortage of excitement. She becomes the prime suspect when she finds her boss dead in a pool of blood and can’t convince the officer in charge, hunky Lt. Miles Brooks, that she isn’t capable of murder....
| Author | Myne Whitman |
| ISBN | 1449047505 |
SHE HAS AN OPEN FUTURE Gladys moves to live with an estranged aunt in Lagos and to continue her search for a job. Before long she lands the job of her dreams with the foremost oil company in the city and makes several new friends. She also gradually resolves the mystery of why her aunt previously cut all ties...
| Author | Eve Brown-Waite |
| ISBN | 0767929357 |
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...
| Author | Aminta Arrington |
| ISBN | 1590208994 |
When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too. Aminta hopes to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy,...
Permanent Obscurity: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death
| Author | Richard Pérez |
| ISBN | 0971341540 |
PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls
and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)
* A youthful bohemian satire,
* a story of alienated nonconformists,
* a "girls on the lam" story,
* a sexploitation...
| Author | Mindy Friddle |
| ISBN | 0312537026 |
At age seventy-two, Emma Hanley plans to escape small-town Palmetto, South Carolina, and travel the globe. But when her fickle husband dies in undignified circumstances, Emma finds herself juggling the needs of her adult children. Her once free-spirited daughter Dora turns to compulsive shopping...
| Author | Laurie L.C. Lewis |
| ISBN | 1935217615 |
Every once in a while I like to change things up and read a book that is by a Christian writer. I won this book, it was written by an LDS author. The story was extremely well written. There was a story or two within the main story and I won't go into it more so I won't spoil it for those who haven't read it yet, it was...
| Author | Laurie Gray |
| ISBN | 1935462342 |
Matthew knows that this summer is going to be the worst ever. His best friend Kyle is gone, his younger brother Mark has surpassed him in size and athletic ability, and his mother is pregnant for the fifth time. The eldest home-schooled son of a preacher, Matthew plans to bury himself in books about the...
| Author | Joan Sowards |
| ISBN | 1935217623 |
She’s in love . . .
he’s out of reach . . .
Is there any hope?
Janie Rose Whitaker’s world revolved around her chocolate shop until Roger Wentworth and his young daughter moved into the apartment across from Janie’s. Anyone would think Roger fit the mold of the “perfect”...
| Author | Teresa Link |
| ISBN | 0312643411 |
A gorgeously written, sharp debut novel about three middle-aged couples who find themselves unmoored in the prime of their lives, in the vein of Sue Miller, Anne Tyler and Meg Wolitzer
Three couples in San Diego—best friends, empty nesters living the California dream—have reached...
| Author | Suzanne Young |
| ISBN | 0615290108 |
When her handyman dies of taxine poisoning, Edna Davies, amateur herbalist, becomes the prime suspect. Nearly certain that she hadn't concocted a poisonous potion and desperate to save herself from arrest, Edna taps into strengths she never before realized she possessed. Shunned by the townsfolk,...
| Author | Christine Lemmon |
| ISBN | 0971287422 |
Twenty years ago, Anna Hott thought she could control everything -- her crumbling marriage, her demanding children, her hectic life -- by quitting her high-placed job in New York City and moving her family to tranquil Sanibel Island, Florida. But she brought her untamed emotions, her rage toward her...
| Author | Kaylin McFarren |
| ISBN | 1926681193 |
From Pacific Northwest's award-winning author Kaylin McFarren comes a powerful novel about love, loss, and the power of forgiveness...
Successful yet emotionally stifled artist Kate Flaherty stands at the deathbed of her estranged father, conflicted by his morphine-induced confession...
| Author | Carrie Adams |
| ISBN | 0755329570 |
Two women are vying for position in one man's life. Their greatest fear is each other. But there's no point taking sides because, as they are about to find out, there are just too many.
The Ex: She managed to keep her divorce amicable by burying past hurts. It cost her dear, but it's worth it to see...
| Author | Kylie Brant |
| ISBN | 0425238539 |
No one knows the patterns and nuances of communication like forensic linguist Macy Reid. She is also an expert on kidnapping, having experienced firsthand the stark terror of being abducted when she was a child. So she is the perfect investigator to be called in when a Denver tycoon's eleven-year-old...
| Author | David Matthew Klein |
| ISBN | 0307716813 |
From Debut Novelist David Klein – A Page-Turning Story of Suburbia and Its Secrets
Gwen Raine is a woman readers will instantly recognize: an attractive, thirtyish stay-at-home mom who lives in the kind of tranquil suburban community where the wives spend their days ferrying the kids to...
The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit
| Author | Therese J. Borchard |
| ISBN | 1599952998 |
Whenever Therese Borchard was weathering a personal storm, and help was nowhere to be found, her one guiding light was the question, "What would a therapist say?" The result was a sort of therapy scrapbook for rough days--a quick reference for anyone who needs a dose of encouragement, support and tried...
| Author | Debbie Williamson |
| ISBN | 0980123402 |
One courageous woman shatters the chains of abuse that bound her family for generations and dares to brave the crippling memories of sexual abuse; shatter the illusions of denial; reveal her family s bitter legacy of violence; reach for healing and wholeness, and take her place on a path to forgiveness...
| Author | Shane Kaelle |
| ISBN | 0984290494 |
..might have been entitled 'Kevin Military Man'. What then? The 1970's. The 21st Century. Military Romance. But much more. Intriguing. Complicated. They say that for each one of us on this planet that there are potentially 30,000 people with whom we might find a partner in life. But what about the concept...
Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things
| Author | Lee Kravitz |
| ISBN | 1596916753 |
It seems that Lee Kravitz is getting a lot of criticism here on GoodReads; readers are complaining that they didn't feel connected to the author or the story, and that it's difficult to relate to someone who can lose his job and still not have to work for a year. Here's what I know:
1) I know that my...
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier
The story of the dark side of the Afghan war - and how Pakistan degenerated into a nuclear-armed powder keg
Eight years ago we chased the Taliban from Kabul and forced Al Qaeda to find a new home. One by one the militants crossed the border into Pakistan and settled in its tribal areas, building...
| Author | Kylie Ladd |
| ISBN | 0385532814 |
“That’s the thing about falling. It doesn’t go on indefinitely, and it rarely ends well . . . ”
In her page-turning fiction debut, neuropsychologist Kylie Ladd delivers a searing portrait of two marriages united and betrayed by friendship.
“I had...
| Author | Dana Haynes |
| ISBN | 0312599889 |
Whenever a plane goes down in the U.S., a "Go Team" made up of experts is assembled by the NTSB to investigate. Those people - each of them a leading expert in a specific area - are known as informally as "Crashers."
When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside...
| Author | Marion McGilvary |
| ISBN | 0141036230 |
Pull up a chair, this may take awhile (and there will be spoilers)...
If you are not currently on nerve medication, it may be a good idea to call for a prescription before reading this book.
While browsing through a bargain bin of books, I was immediately intrigued by both the cover and...
| Author | Giles Blunt |
| ISBN | 0679314318 |
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can...
