It all begins with a fantasy . . . caseworker in her “paperwork-signing” suit alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn: this is the blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of Portland’s Chosen Child domestic adoption program, happy as she juggles the demands of her boss and the incessant needs of adoptive and biological parents.
But the dream job that offers Chloe refuge from her turbulent personal life soon becomes a nightmare involving three very different couples: the college sweethearts who, after suffering fertility problems, are now expecting their own baby; the wealthy husband and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance;
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From
an award-winning “savvy storyteller” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a page-turning,
zeitgeist-capturing novel of a young couple who turn to drug trafficking
to make it through the recession.
James
and Kate are golden children of the late twentieth century, flush with
opportunity. But an economic downturn and an unexpected pregnancy send
them searching for a way to make do.
A
winter in the mountains of California’s Siskiyou County introduces a
tempting opportunity. A friend grows prime-grade marijuana; if James
transports just one load from Cali to Florida,
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It’s never wise
to blackmail a highwayman…
Lady Corinne, rebellious daughter of the duke
of Banfield, refuses to marry Lord Freddie Sherwin.
Yes, he’s the catch of the Season and the man her father
chose for her. He’s also the most despicable male of her acquaintance.
With her wedding only weeks away, she flees and finds herself a prisoner
of the notorious Thorn!
Who says the devil isn’t a woman?
The rich and powerful tremble at the highwayman’s
name, while England’s villagers rejoice in his bold exploits.
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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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Julienne Ashby, 24, must change her pampered ways after her father, a prominent businessman in Natchez, Mississippi, loses their fortune and family home to a bad gambling habit in 1850. Like a fish out of water, she aims to refit their one remaining possession, an old riverboat, in hopes of making a profit and restoring the Cuvier name along the mighty Mississippi.
Desperate for help in doing the restoration work, prideful Julienne hires Dallas Bronte, a humiliated captain whose drinking problem stopped his water ways many years ago. Despite initial success, the struggles they will face with other ship owners are almost as challenging as the fiery feelings –
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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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