The Lake House

Author	Blair Richmond
ISBN	0979647576

Nineteen-year-old Kat Jones has been a competitive runner since she was a young girl, but after her mother's death, the path her life was supposed to take begins to crumble around her -- until one day, she finds herself on the run in a literal sense, this time in a race for her very life.

Kat's journey...

Author	Joanne DeMaio
ISBN	1479262773

New York Times Bestseller

Escape to Stony Point, cuff your jeans and walk along the water's edge in this nostalgic story bringing old friends, and their lives, back to the sea.

After years of pursuing a denim design career, Maris Carrington never imagined trading her Chicago studio...

Author	Jennifer Gilmore
ISBN	1416571701

When Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country, was published, The New York Times Book Review called it "an ingeniously plotted family yarn" and praised her as an author who "enlivens the myth of the American Dream." Gilmore’s particular gift for distilling history into a hugely satisfying,...

Author

Nan Rossiter

"A gripping story of three sisters, of love lost and found, and of a family's journey from grief to triumph. A sure winner." - Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Loosely connected to Rossiter's previous novels, this tale is peopled with wonderfully intriguing characters,...

Author	Patti Callahan Henry
ISBN	0312610769

Kate Vaughan is no stranger to tough choices.

She's made them before. Now it's time to do it again.

Kate has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she's getting on with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong relationship with her family, and a devoted boyfriend...

Author	Jane Rowan
ISBN	0981583024

In this brave and touching memoir, Jane Rowan shares her journey through the healing process of recovering from childhood sexual abuse; a past she knew nothing about until vague, foggy memories began invading her mind.

The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse opens with...

Author	Meg Waite Clayton
ISBN	0345530284

Meg Waite Clayton, nationally bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with a compassionate, wise, and enthralling new novel of mothers and daughters, best friends who become family, and secrets and dreams passed down through the generations.

It is early evening when Hope...

Author	Phyllis Schieber
ISBN	1611940451

""Schieber has painted a fine portrait of the struggles and challenges of being different in an unforgiving world. Her characters are authentic and touching. Using language that is at once both straightforward and evocative, Schieber writes a story that you will recognize and remember long after...

Author	Debra Brenegan
ISBN	1438435878

"There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not ... It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall...

Author	Richard Biggs
ISBN	1466488298

Apparently writing "see comments" can get a review banned (an author just nixed one but who cares, it's on the same shelf as this one and the shelf name speaks for itself) so this will be a proper review of the various excerpts I read and downloaded on the net.

This author, who calls himself Dick,...

Author	Sharon Bially
ISBN	0615475604

Veronica Berg has everything she needs to achieve her dream of becoming a painter--a charming home studio in Provence, a hardworking husband, and a nanny who watches her two-year-old twins. Yet instead of painting, she spends her days lingering over meaningless chores and secretly indulging in lengthy...

Author	Angela Elwell Hunt
ISBN	1439182051

One innocent mistake… a lifetime of consequences.

One innocent mistake . . . a lifetime of consequences.

After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn...

Author	Kathryn Casey
ISBN	0312379528

On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey plays in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his puppy. While Joey’s mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone, the stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time Crystal turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her reaction...

Author	Patricia Beard
ISBN	1476710260

A richly evocative debut novel set in an exclusive summer colony along the east coast during the aftermath of World War II—for fans of Kate Morton and Jamie Ford.

"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan.” That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island,...

Author	Anita Hughes
ISBN	0312643330

From the author of Monarch Beach comes a delicious story of a department store heiress, her messy marriage, and her passion for food.

Cassie Blake, heiress to Fenton's, San Francisco's most exclusive department store, has been married to Aidan, a handsome UC Berkeley professor, for ten years....

Author	Erika Marks
ISBN	0451418859

For generations, the natives of Harrisport have watched wealthy summer families descend on their Cape Cod town and inhabit the massive cottages along the town's best stretches of beachfront. But when rich southerner Tucker Moss breaks the heart of local girl Edie Wright in the summer of 1962, an enduring...

Author	L. Alison Heller
ISBN	0451416236

Breaking up is hard to do. At least the first few times.

Even though Molly Grant has only a handful of relationships behind her, she’s already been through more divorces than she can count.

At the premier Manhattan law firm where she’s a matrimonial attorney, the hours are long,...

Author	Amy Sue Nathan
ISBN	1250040167

Evie and Nicole Glass share a last name. They also shared a husband.

When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There's no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache—the...

Author	L.P. Hoffman
ISBN	1935375040

In 1777, General George Washington experienced a divine visitation at Valley Forge.

“Three great perils will come upon this nation.”

An angelic being describes the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, but warns, “The Third Peril will be the worst.” Today, this message...

Author	Samantha Wilde
ISBN	0385342675

Nora and Annie have been best friends since kindergarten. Nora, a shy English teacher at a quaint New England boarding school, longs to have a baby. Annie, an outspoken stay-at-home mother of two, longs for one day of peace and quiet (not to mention more money and some free time). Despite their very different...

Author

Sara V. Zook

Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ASIN: B008ONH78S

From the moment Anna James meets the strange prisoner Emry Logan, she becomes instantly obsessed and will stop at nothing to try to get another interaction with him. But going against her family and church aren’t without...

Author	Jane Porter
ISBN	0425253422

Love was given to all, except herself . . . Kit Brennan has always been the most grounded of her sisters. A Catholic school English teacher for seventeen years and a constant giver, her decisions have been sound—just not very satisfying. Her fortieth birthday is right around the corner, causing...

Author	M.K. McClintock
ISBN	0615742505

How far would you go to avenge your family and save the one you love?

In nineteenth-century England, Alaina Claiborne had a loving family, a cherished friend, and devoted servants. She spent her days riding across the grassy hills of the English countryside, joyful and at peace.

Then...

Author	Sherri Rifkin
ISBN	0312380216

After a recent break-up sent her into a self-imposed "personal hiatus," thirty-something New York TV-promo producer Tori Miller is determined to get a life. The fastest way? A Hamptons summer share house. She ditches her old look--thanks to a last-minute makeover on a reality show pilot--and over...