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Beach Music by Pat Conroy Paperback Book

PAT CONROY, America's preeminent storyteller, delivers a sweeping novel of lyric intensity and searing truth–the story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his...

Publication Date: Mar 2002

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After You'd Gone

by Maggie Ofarrellm

Told in a series of vignettes, this story of young Alice Raikes describes her breakdown and suicide attempt after a mysterious incident in an Edinburgh train station rest room. As Alice lies in a coma, her life is picked apart until the trauma that...

Publication Date: Feb 2002

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The Covenant

by James A. Michener

A fast-paced saga weaves fact and fiction in a journey through fifteen thousand years of South African history, focusing on Willem van Doorn and ten generations of his descendants as they live through the region's endless racial conflicts

Publication Date: Mar 1987

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The Wrong Child

by Patricia Kay

When she discovers that her own child had been switched at birth with another, Kendall Bernard and her outgoing young daughter, Abbie, set out to find her biological child, a quest that leads to Longan O'Connell, a widower and single father, who...

Publication Date: Dec 2000

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Kane and Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men, born on the same day, on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in their ruthless struggle to build a...

Publication Date: Nov 2009

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Promises

by Belva Plain

With her three children, beautiful home, and loving husband, Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy. Adam's job has cushioned them nicely over the years, and it should be a time of contentment, rewards, of new challenges together. But...

Publication Date: Apr 1997

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Sandcastles

by Luanne Rice

Luanne Rice is that rarest of all novelists who indelibly captures the defining moments in our lives. In this acclaimed bestseller, she takes readers on an unforgettable exploration of the most elusive miracle of all: how a broken family might be...

Publication Date: Jun 2007

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September Song: A Cronicle of the O'Malley's in the Twentieth Century (Family Saga)

by Andrew M. Greeley

The saga of the Chicago O'Malleys continues. In this installment, set against the backdrop of the civil rights era, photographer Chuck and wife Rosemarie travel to Selma and become radicalized. Then Chuck goes to Vietnam to document the

Publication Date: Sep 2002

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While My Sister Sleeps

by Barbara Delinsky

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the...

Publication Date: Oct 2009

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Inner Harbor (Chesapeake Bay Saga #3)

by Nora Roberts

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the final novel in the captivating trilogy of three brothers who have come together in a time of need. They honored their father's wish to raise young Seth as their own. And with all of the...

Publication Date: Jan 1999

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Sullivan's Island

by Dorothea Benton Frank

In this debut novel set on the stormy, sultry coastal region of South Carolina, a woman with an unfaithful husband, resentful teenage daughter, and dark memories of the past embarks on a courageous search for the truth about her life. Reprint.

Publication Date: Feb 2000

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Veil of Roses

by Laura Fitzgerald

Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens of her camera,...

Publication Date: Dec 2006

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The Hindi-Bindi Club

by Monica Pradhan

For decades they have remained close, sharing treasured recipes, honored customs, and the challenges of women shaped by ancient ways yet living modern lives. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their American daughters to the mothers...

Publication Date: May 2007

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A Quiet Strength (Oke, Janette, Prairie Legacy, 3)

by Janette Oke

A Tender Story of Faith and Love From Janette Oke Countless fans of Christian fiction like you were thrilled when Janette Oke released her new series, A PRAIRIE LEGACY. Readers have been rewarded with a touching exploration of the feelings and...

Publication Date: Jun 1999

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The Heir

by Barbara Taylor Bradford

The Deravenels: Their business empire is worth billions, their influence stretches across the globe. And Edward, the dashing and charismatic chosen son, is the king of his company at last. He has survived harrowing years of betrayal, threats from...

Publication Date: Jul 2008

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The Peach Keeper

by Sarah Addison Allen

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa's...

Publication Date: Jan 2012

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Into Temptation

by Penny Vincenzi

The Lytton family past is full of secrets. Only one person knows them all and that is Lady Celia Lytton, the family matriarch. Some are more dangerous than others, some entirely her own, others shared with her family, all absolutely safe in her...

Publication Date: Sep 2006

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The Godfather

by Mario Puzo

More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones-and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture...

Publication Date: Sep 1983

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A Gathering Place : A Cape Light Novel (Cape Light Novels) (Cape Light Novels)

by Thomas Kinkade

With the Cape Light election finally over, Mayor Emily Warwick struggles to build a new relationship with Sara, the daughter she had given up for adoption two decades earlier, while dealing with her regret over their years apart and falling for...

Publication Date: May 2004

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Omerta

by Mario Puzo

In a darkly comic novel by the author of The Godfather, Don Raymonde Aprile, now retired, and FBI agent Kurt Cilke, engage in one last war with the distinctions between "good guys" and "bad guys" getting lost in the shuffle....

Publication Date: May 2001

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The Moor's Last Sigh

by Salman Rushdie

Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery...

Publication Date: Jan 1997

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Betrayal: A Novel

by Danielle Steel

In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel reveals the dark side of fame and fortune, when a renowned film director confronts an act of unimaginable treachery. BETRAYAL At thirty-nine, director Tallie Jones is a Hollywood...

Publication Date: Jan 2013

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Consequences

by Penelope Lively

The Booker Prize-winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women "One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women-Lorna, Molly, and Ruth-from...

Publication Date: Jun 2008

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Dreaming in Cuban

by Cristina Garcia

Remarkable...An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic...Evocative and lush...A rich and haunting narrative, an excellent new voice in contemporary fiction.'SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLENow available in a Spanish...

Publication Date: Feb 1993

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The Danish Girl

by David Ebershoff

In the 1920s, Greta, an artist, marries Einar, who models for her--sometimes in women's clothes, which awakens his desire to actually become a woman. Greta supports him, and they find a surgeon who is willing to perform the operation--an event that,...

Publication Date: Feb 2001

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The Locket

by Richard Paul Evans

After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love. Michael faces his own...

Publication Date: Jan 2000

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This Bitter Earth

by Bernice L. McFadden

This Bitter Earth picks up where Sugar left off-on the dirt road leading to Sugar's childhood home in Short Junction, Arkansas. Here, Sugar hears a shocking revelation about unrequited love, and about one man's hatred-and the black magic that has...

Publication Date: Jan 2003

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Trinity

by Leon Uris

Recounts the interrelationships, clashes, and common concerns of the Catholic, hill-farming Larkins of Donegal, the aristocratic and British Hubbles, and the Scottish-Presbyterian MacLeods of Belfast during the years from the 1840s famine to the 1916...

Publication Date: Aug 2006

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The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches)

by Anne Rice

The Mayfair family is heir to the awesome gift--or curse--of witchery. Knowledge of the legacy was withheld from neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair until the power passed to her on the death of a relative. With this power comes the attention of the demon...

Publication Date: Sep 1991

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Summer's Child