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 wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart.
Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life’s pain and glory.
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Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble.
Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben’s got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn’t give in—not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son.
Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy’s most explosive character— a man you should hate,
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It’s not the shoes, the scarves, or the lipstick that gives French women their allure. It’s this: French women don’t give a damn. They don’t expect men to understand them. They don’t care about being liked or being like everyone else. They accept the passage of time; celebrate the immediacy of pleasure; embrace ambiguity and imperfection; and prefer having a life to making a living. In What French Women Know, Debra Ollivier goes beyond stale ooh-la-la stereotypes, challenging ingrained notions about sex, love, marriage, motherhood, and everything in between. With savvy, provocative thinking from French mistresses and maidens alike,
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Mia Wells’s eco-friendly career goals are about to become a reality, but her life-altering moment is interrupted when an unexpected call ushers in a tremulous past. The man who’s never left Mia’s memory, the one whose disappearance broke her heart, has mysteriously resurfaced.
As a college student in Athens, Georgia, Mia lived a predictable life. It all changed when Flynn arrived—a man with a doubtful past, half a name, and no ties to anything earthbound, except Mia. His edgy appearance has a story to match, pushing every boundary Mia knows. Fiercely passionate, deeply sensitive, Flynn’s dark past isn’t enough to stop Mia from trusting him with her dreams and her life.
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From one of today’s hottest novelists—a provocative story about friendship and self-discovery.
Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She’s also left behind her most shameful secrets—of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she’s trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn’t as easy as she’d hoped. Her journey leads her to Las Vegas, where she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she’d sworn she’d keep hidden,
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Joanie’s ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won’t be having more babies, since she’s decided never to have sex again.
But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to care for. And thanks to the recession, her elderly mother Ivy as well. Her daughter can’t seem to exist without texting, and her mother brags about “goggling,”-while Joanie, back in the workforce, is still trying to figure out her office computer. And how to fend off the advances of her coworker Bruce.
Joanie, Caroline, and Ivy are stuck under the same roof,
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