Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles by Sabine Durrant

Tripped Up Love (The New Ever After Series, Book 1)

Heather Meadows misplaced the single love she’s ever recognized. Her ideal, but usual lifestyles used to be grew to become the wrong way up the day her 38-year-old husband died. Her fortunately ever after was once long gone within the blink of a watch. Heather’s lifestyles turns into the topic of scrutiny and pity as she attempts to select up the items of her shattered international and lift her 3 kids on her personal.

One Year in Coal Harbor

Readers rejoice—Primrose Squarp is again! The clever and curious heroine of the Newbery Honor booklet every little thing on a Waffle is dealing with one other adventure-filled 12 months in Coal Harbor.

Even notwithstanding her mom and dad, as soon as misplaced at sea, are domestic, there’s a complete slew of difficulties and mysteries to maintain Primrose—and keen fans—busy. There’s Uncle Jack and Kate Bowzer, who may possibly (or won't) be in love. There’s Ked, a foster baby who turns into Primrose’s pal. And there’s the hot improvement at the outskirts of city that threatens the Coal Harbor Primrose understands and treasures.

From nationwide ebook Award–winning writer Polly Horvath comes a masterful sequel to a loved novel, guaranteed to please outdated enthusiasts and achieve new ones.

A excellent charmer…. Hilarious and touching. ” —The Boston Globe

“Nobody does heart grade like Horvath. ” —The Horn booklet journal

The Tracey Fragments

Bare lower than a tattered bathe curtain, 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz has been sitting on a bus for 2 days, telling her tale and seeking out her brother, Sonny, who thinks he’s a puppy. She confesses her hopes and fantasies, in addition to the grief and horror of a hardscrabble existence. As time passes, Tracey’s tales start to twist the reality and entwine it with lies, instantaneously desirable and unsettling the reader.

We Were the Mulvaneys

Unique ebook: 1996

The first Oprah ebook Club® collection of 2001!

A big apple occasions impressive Book

"It's the radical closest to my heart…. I'm deeply moved that Oprah Winfrey has chosen this novel for Oprah's e-book membership, a relatives novel awarded to Oprah's enormous American kinfolk. "
--Joyce Carol Oates

Moving clear of the darkish tone of her newer masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the story of a relatives suffering to deal with its fall from grace right into a deeply relocating and unforgettable account of the power of desire and the facility of affection to be triumphant over pain. The Mulvaneys of excessive element Farm in Mt. Ephraim, manhattan, are a wide and lucky extended family, blessed with beauty, considerable air of secrecy, and boundless promise. yet over the twenty-five 12 months span of this formidable novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, nearly imperceptibly before everything, from the head of happiness, reworked by way of the vagaries of destiny right into a scattered selection of misplaced and lonely souls. it's the youngest son, Judd, now an grownup, who makes an attempt to piece jointly the fragments of the Mulvaneys' former glory, looking to discover and comprehend the key violation that occasioned the family's tragic downfall. all the Mulvaneys endures a few kind of exile- actual or non secular - yet finally they give you the chance to bridge the chasms that experience spread out between them, reuniting within the spirit of affection and therapeutic. Profoundly cathartic, Oates' acclaimed novel unfolds as though, within the darkness of the human spirit, she has encounter a resource of sunshine at its middle. hardly has a author made this sort of startling and encouraging assertion concerning the worth of desire and compassion.