An intense, psychological novel about one doctor’s suspense-filled
quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his
twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at
Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen’s specialty is diagnosing patients
with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He
lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin
sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that
produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this
provocative and affecting novel,
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One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable
and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private
desires in two tender and surprising stories.
In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a
recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income
by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her
spare room. Quiet, middle-class, and middle-aged, Mrs. Donaldson will
soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital, and the
irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.
In The Shielding of Mrs.
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Mary Saint, the rule-breaking, troubled former lead singer of the
almost-famous band Sliced Ham, has pretty much given up on music after
the trauma of her band member and lover Garbagio’s death seven years
earlier. Instead, with the help of her best friend, Thaddeus, she is
trying to piece her life together while making mochaccinos in San
Francisco. Meanwhile, back in her hometown of Swallow, New York, her
mother, Jean Saint, struggles with her own ghosts.
When Mary is invited to give a concert at her old high school,
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The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a close . . . and that he knew he had been poisoned.
In Vienna to pay her final respects, Nannerl soon finds herself ensnared in a web of suspicion and intrigue—as the actions of jealous lovers, sinister creditors, rival composers, and Mozart’s Masonic brothers suggest that dark secrets hastened the genius to his grave. As Nannerl digs deeper into the mystery surrounding her brother’s passing,
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Lou Suffern’s successful career demands that he be in two places at one
time—and neither of those is with his devoted wife and children. One
frigid morning Lou meets a homeless man named Gabe and buys him a cup of
coffee . . . then gives him a job—a random act of kindness that
surprises Lou most of all. But soon Gabe is meddling uncomfortably in
Lou’s life, popping up at the most inopportune times—as if Gabe actually
can be in two places at once. With Lou’s personal and professional
fates at important crossroads and Christmas looming,
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The highly anticipated new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
With revelations that prove as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her bestselling phenomenon The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards now gives us the story of a woman’s homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family.
At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father’s unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall,
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