Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple. Except, now they aren't. They broke up six months ago. And they still haven’t told anyone. But for their friends' annual getaway, they’ll fake it for one more week. But how can you pretend to be in love with someone – and get away with it – in front of the people who know you best?
Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy.
Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, @lt;i@gt;Persuasion @lt;/i@gt;is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings.
In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970.
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many
A dark novel of suspense about angels and assassins, set in worlds past, that opens out into a journey of redemption. The first book of her new series, 'The Songs of the Seraphim.' ANGEL TIME hit the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and Indiebound bestseller lists.
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, "The Stand" is a true modern classic that was first published in 1978, and then republished in 1990, complete and unabridged. Now available in a tall Premium Edition.
When ten-year-old Rainey Teague disappears on his way home from school in idyllic Niceville, Detective Nick Kavanaugh traces the boy to his last sighting - staring into the window of old pawn shop in town. CCTV shows Rainey there one minute and then gone the next. One year on, Kavanagh is still haunted by the case.