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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novel

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novel

by Kathleen Cambor

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood -- a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the site of a gentlemen's club that attracted some of the wealthiest industrialists of the day -- Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie -- and served as... (more)

You're Not You: A Novel

by Michelle Wildgen

College student Bec is dangerously adrift. Self-conscious and increasingly uncertain about her long-term plans, she’s studying a major that no longer interests her and is caught up in a bewildering affair with a married professor. In an impulsive attempt to redeem herself, she answers a want ad seeking a caregiver. What she finds is a wealthy, cultivated woman in her midthirties. Once an advertising executive,... (more)

50 Plus One Fun Things to Do With Kids During the Summer (50 Plus One)

50 Plus One Fun Things to Do With Kids During the Summer (50 Plus One)

by Ann Kepler

Spending quality time with your children, at any age, is one of the great pleasures of parents and grandparents everywhere. Weekends, holidays and family nights out are those special times that everyone reminisces about for a lifetime. And then there is summer--long days at the beach or pool, family vacations, lazy days with family and friends. This all sounds great until you realize there is just too much... (more)

Fast and Fresh Mediterranean: Delicious Recipes to Make in Under 30 Minutes

Fast and Fresh Mediterranean: Delicious Recipes to Make in Under 30 Minutes

by Oded Schwartz

A collection of 60 recipes which reflect the varied and healthy aspects of the Mediterranean diet, and use fresh country produce. The recipes include spicy aubergine and tomato soup, red mullet in savoury sauce, breast of Barbary duck served with tamarind sauce, and Roman honeyed omelette.

Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers

Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers

Just in time for Mother's Day, a group of America's celebrated literary women have come together to tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. These highly personal yet often universal stories offer windows into those influential mother-daughter moments that have forever shaped the lives And perspectives of the writers, powerful women–authors, spokespeople, scholars, teachers, and some mothers themselves. ... (more)

Comfort Food

by Kate Jacobs

In this smart, delicious novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club , a celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment— and manages to spice up her own life at the same time. Shortly before turning the big 5-0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta “Gus” Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she’d rather not—her own. She’s... (more)

The Space Between Before and After

by Jean Reynolds Page

Forty-two and divorced, Holli Templeton has just begun to realize the pleasures of owning her life for the first time. But the experience is short-lived. Her son Conner has unexpectedly fled college in Rhode Island and moved to Texas with his troubled girlfriend, Kilian. This alone is difficult to handle, but as Holli begins to understand the depth of the girl's problems, concern turns to crisis. Conner's... (more)

The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir

The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir

by Jill Price

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took place, as long as she heard... (more)

Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom

Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom

by D. G. Fulford

Funny, poignant, and wise, Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom is D .G. Fulford's uplifting story of how, after her father's death, she returned home to become her mother's closest companion--a move that brought her more in return than she could ever have expected. D.G. recalls how she and her mother--a pair who are opposites in almost every way, including how they unload the... (more)

Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life

Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life

by Joseph E. Persico

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably the greatest figure of the twentieth century. While FDR’s official circle was predominantly male, it was his relationships with women–particularly with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd–that most vividly bring to light the human being beneath this towering statesman. It is no coincidence that Rutherfurd was with Roosevelt the day he died in Warm Springs, Georgia, along with two other... (more)

Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust

Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust

by Michael Benanav

This is the story of Benanav’s grandparents. Isadora was deported from Romania and imprisoned in the Ukrainian region of Transnistria, where, during the winter of 1941–42, 50,000 Jews perished from typhus, exposure, and starvation. She later returned to Bucharest and immigrated to Palestine on the Toros, a ship on which she met Joshua, a Hungarian Jew, in 1946. They were married on a train while traveling across... (more)

Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings

Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings

by Joyce Esersky Goldstein

A treasure trove of salad meals and mix-and-match dressings within reach of everyday cooking. In the Mediterranean, salad means anything from tabbouleh to white beans and prawns in a lemony dressing to small plates of mezze, antipasti, and tapas. Joyce Goldstein shows you how to make 140 of these delicious, healthful, easy-to-prepare dishes for a sensuous and satisfying meal. With thirty versatile dressings,... (more)

The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

by Andrew Sean Greer

From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli , a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco “We think we know the ones we love.” So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the... (more)

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