Sarah Price has never regretted trading her MFA for a steady job so that her husband, Nathan, could write fiction. But at age thirty-five, her world is turned upside-down by a shocking revelation: Nathan’s upcoming novel, Infidelity, is based on fact. Reeling from his betrayal, Sarah is plagued by dark questions. How well does she really know her husband? More important, how well does she know herself?
For answers, Sarah looks back to her artistic twentysomething self to try to understand what exactly has happened to her dreams. And so begins her quest to discover which version of herself is the essential one—the artist,
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A mother’s faith, a child’s courage, a doctor’s dedication—a moving and thought-provoking tale of hope, love, and family…
He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he’s sick and not getting better. His mother, Cathleen, fiercely believes her faith will protect her ailing son, but Colm is not so sure. With a wisdom far beyond his years, Colm has come to terms with his probable fate, but he does have one special wish. He wants to meet his father who abandoned his beloved mother before Colm was born.
But the quest to find the dying boy’s missing parent soon becomes a powerful journey of emotional discovery—a test of belief and an anxious search for proof of heaven.
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After breaking off her engagement, thirty-something writing professor
Andi Cutrone abandons New England for her native Long Island to focus on
her career and start over. When she meets Devin at a cocktail party,
the sight of an honest-to-goodness male escort shocks her—and fascinates
her more than a little. Months later, Andi impulsively calls Devin.
Over cheesecake in Brooklyn, she offers him a proposition: he will teach
her how to be a better lover, and in return, she will give him writing
lessons. He agrees, and together they embark upon an intense partnership
that proves to be as instructive as it is arousing.
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The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone
returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed
edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable
results…
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at
the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new
novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known
in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time
for a liaison with an underage girl,
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Pamela King Cable has woven together the music, the language, the religions, and the traditions of the South. The result is Southern Fried Women, a collection of nine short stories about Southern women, and a few men, struggling to find answers to unanswerable questions, hoping for forgiveness, seeking righteousness, and questioning the existence of God in their lives. Cable writes Southern fiction in the true spirit of the rural South. She can ruffle the feathers of the most stoic, mess with the beliefs of the strictest fundamentalists, and reel you into her stories like a stubborn catfish meant for the fryer.
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Hannah Payne’s life has been devoted to church and family. But after she’s convicted of murder, she awakens in a new body to a nightmarish new life. She finds herself lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes–criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime–is a sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red for the crime of murder. The victim, says the State of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father,
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