Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction.
One night Catherine gets a call from Zoe’s terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable to have children, is delighted to raise Willow as her own.
Now, five years later, Eve is grieving her husband’s death and making reluctant plans to sell the family’s beloved summer home on Prince Edward Island.
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Self-deception and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s
great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she
turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and
sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been
left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced,
depends more and more on the company of her
neighbors Robert, a doctor, and Beth, a busy author
of melodramatic novels. Prudence, Robert and
Beth’s daughter, disapproves of the intimacy that has grown between her
parents and Tory and the gossip it has awakened in their little community.
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A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
A simmering literary thriller of the unbreakable
bonds between mothers and their children, The
Winter People showcases the spellbinding talent
that has made Jennifer McMahon a bestselling
storyteller. This tale of ghostly secrets and dark
choices takes us to rural West Hall, Vermont, a
town known for strange disappearances. The most
legendary victim is Sara Harrison Shea. In 1908, she was found dead in the
field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter,
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini’s Italy.
Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country’s Fascist leaders. She is not a deeply political sort, but designing these buildings of grandiose beauty helps her forget about the pain she’s felt since her husband was murdered years ago. One of her greatest accomplishments is the clock tower in the town of Bellina, outside Rome.
But as she is admiring it one day,
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When India Hartley is accused of murder, she must uncover the deceptions of others to save
herself.
India Hartley, a famous and beautiful actress, is now alone after her father’s death and embarks
upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah’s Southern Palace. On the eve
of the second night’s performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is
shot dead on stage in front of a packed house, and India is arrested and accused of the crime.
A benefactor hires Philip Sinclair,
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Claire Takata has never known much about her
father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the
anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from
her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now,
Claire never had a reason to believe they even
knew each other.
Struggling to understand why her parents kept this
surprising history hidden, Claire combs through
anything that might give her information about her father . . . until she
discovers that he was a member of the yakuza,
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