Catalog Search Results

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather and once the finest home in Walls of Water, North Carolina—has stood for years as a monument to misfortune and scandal. Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite...

"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved...

"Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn't exist in her life -- and never will. As a university researcher, Isadora keeps to herself as much as possible. She avoids the students she's supposed to befriend and mentor. She lives her own quiet, organized life in her own quiet, organized apartment. And she will never get involved in a romantic relationship again -- especially with another academic. It will be just Isadora...

"From the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim comes a lyrical, deeply moving modern love story about belonging, migration, tragedy, survival, and the mysteries of origins. On the eve of her departure to find the bones of the walking whale--the fossil that provides a missing link in our evolution--Zubaida Haque falls in love with Elijah Strong, a man she meets in a darkened concert hall in Boston. Their...

"Johnson directs her attention to teaching us a three-step model for personal advancement and happiness. She first encourages us to DARE to boldly step out, to consider disrupting life as we know it. She then teaches us how to DREAM, to give life to the possibilities, whether to start a business or run a marathon. Finally, Johnson's model brings out the businesswomen in her; she teaches us to DO, to execute our dreams, partly by showcasing the importance...

"Anequs has not only survived her first year at Kuiper's Academy but exceeded her professors' admittedly low expectations--and passedall her courses with honors. Now she and her dragon, Kasaqua, are headed home for the summer, along with Theod, the only other native student at the Academy. But what should have been a relaxing break takes a darker turn. Thanks to Anequs's notoriety, there is an Anglishpresence on Masquapaug for the first time ever:...

"Diana Wood threw her life in the garbage disposal and flipped the switch. Everything is a mess. After years of watching her safe, steady marriage grow stale, she and her husband Oliver decided to separate. Now, he's embarked on a new career and what seems to be a satisfying dating life, and she's left eating cereal for dinner in an empty kitchen after her daughter has gone to bed. When an important client asks Diana to come to Paris, she jumps at...

"In Power, leadership coach Kemi Nekvapil reveals how power built internally is stronger and more enduring than that bestowed externally--and introduces a new framework for cultivating it from the inside out. Through the principles of Presence, Ownership, Wisdom, Equality, and Responsibility, this book invites readers to choose power for themselves and on their own terms. Drawing on stories from her own life and from the lives of leaders, gamechangers,...

"From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat--she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it. Maggie Sheets is just trying to get by. A single mother, she works as a house cleaner and dreams of the days when her financial woes will be over. When her former employer, Liza, a renowned author Maggie once considered...

"A daring young woman risks everything to pursue a career as a doctor on the front lines in France during World War I, and learns the true meaning of hope, love, and resilience in the darkest of times. When Eleanor Atherton graduates from medical school near the top of her class in 1917, she dreams of going overseas to help the wounded, but her ambition is thwarted at every turn. Eleanor's parents insist she must give up medicine, marry a respectable...