Knit one . . . It’s been a busy few years since
Jo Mackenzie lost her husband. Life has brought adventure, surprises,
unexpected pleasures, and, of course, lots of knitting. Jo’s seaside
yarn shop, with a brand new café, has taken off, keeping her busier than
ever. And being a single mum to two boys and headstrong toddler Pearl
is just as exhausting and enchanting as she thought it would be. On top
of all that, celebrity diva Grace has a secret; Jo’s firecracker best
friend Ellen is launching a new television series;
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Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s “Scout.”
It
is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence – gangly,
awkward, full of questions, but keenly observant and wiser than many of
the adults in her life. The person she most admires is her father,
Benjamin, a man of great integrity. His family’s century old hardware
store is failing and Nellie’s mother has had to go back to work.
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Do I have a child? Julia DeSmit knew she would face the question
eventually, but she didn’t expect it now. At twenty-four, she is finally
content with the way her life has unfolded. A single mother to her son
and young brother, she works at the local grocery store while chipping
away at a two-year degree. All her free time is spent with her
unorthodox family—her boys, her grandmother, and her boyfriend of five
years. It’s not perfect, but Julia is happier than ever.
So when she
receives the cryptic e-mail from her son’s father,
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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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