"Uphill' is the final book in the Don Walker series. This story looks in on the lives of the principal characters some thirty years after the second book (Grab an Egg and Shave It). Don struggles with depression and significant health issues. His daughter Lisa, now married and raising a seven-year-old of her own, runs her own business as an interior decorator and designer.Because of good faith efforts to assist one of Lisa's clients, both she and...

Muchos años después, en el barrio de mi infancia encontré algunas respuestas a preguntas que todavía me seguían asaltando: ¿Por qué no fui más liberal, más crítico, independiente, creativo o emprendedor? ¿Por qué aprendí adesvelarme, a mentir, engañar yhacer trampa? ¿Por quénologrésermáspuntual, ordenadoydisciplinado? En ese viaje quise saber si en mi educación saqué tache opalomita, si pasé de año o viví medio siglo repitiendo...

Muscle sinew bone. Luke Tremblett is one of five fishermen lost at sea off the coast of Newfoundland. Rose is left to pick up the pieces and learn to live with his sudden absence. And then there are three children, including two-month-old Emily, struggling to face an unbearable loss that has engulfed them. This sharp, hard-edged novel begins two years after Luke's disappearance, at the moment that Rose takes her first step through the wall of the...

Maynard's captivating novel of four teenage girls, bound together by early motherhood and forever changed by the arrival of two women in their small New England town. In their New Hampshire community, Sandy, Jill, Tara, and Wanda are different from other teenage girls. Jill is pregnant, while the other three are already mothers. Sandy, at eighteen, is married. Tara, the product of a broken family, is raising her baby alone. Wanda, with her three-month-old,...

El desengaño y la frustración provocan que Aitor se convierta en un hombre escéptico. La política, la abogacía y la cultura son sus principales inquietudes, pero su personalidad egocéntrica y su ensimismamiento le han condenado a una soledad casi permanente, incapaz de establecer relaciones duraderas. Sin embargo, después de conseguir un nuevo empleo como abogado en un prestigioso despacho de Pamplona, se integrará en una cuadrilla de personas...

There's a new Love in the Old World Love Bukowski is finally in London! Her term abroad at the London Academy of Drama and Music promises to be anything but average. After leaving Hadley Hall-as well as her dad, who's got a new girlfriend, and her beloved aunt Mable, who is fighting serious health issues-Love faces a new set of challenges across the pond: voice lessons, keeping up with Arabella and her new friends, and falling for a Brit who is completely...

Sheila Bosworth's enthralling debut novel is a vibrant, heartrending story of love and loss set in "the City That Care Forgot"   Constance Alexander and Rand Calvert fall in love on Mardi Gras night. She is eighteen years old, the beautiful, privileged daughter of a Louisiana Supreme Court justice. He is a dashing young artist, the son of a family "long on name but short on money." Their desire for each other is intense and irresistible, and when...

All Eli Troyer has ever wanted is to leave home-to escape the tedium and boredom of life among his Amish family and friends. He doesn't want religion. Doesn't want tradition. Eli wants adventure and fun. When his twin brother, Jacob, discovers Eli's secret stash of getaway cash, Eli knows he can’t wait any longer. What he doesn't know, what he could not have imagined in a lifetime of dreaming about life outside the plains, is what the city holds...

A woman envies her sister's glamorous world-until she becomes part of it-in a novel of loss and self-discovery by the author of Local Knowledge. After a lifetime in the shadow of the incomparable Miranda, Cassie believes she can never measure up to her sister. Rather than compete, she withdraws, and the two remain estranged-until a phone call from Miranda changes everything. At Miranda's insistence, Cassie flies to New York City for a visit, where...

From the author of 365 Days comes a poignant, personally inspired tale of a rookie doctor fighting for the life of a desperately ill young girl-a story that grows ever more relevant in this world of increasingly sophisticated and technical medical care In this riveting and passionately rendered novel, an intern faces the harsh realities of his profession, and the overwhelming highs and lows for which medical school was unable to prepare him.   The...