Thérèse Plummer
Charlene Dugan started her day as usual--single. Then, all in the space of a few hours:
Her daughter announced she doesn't want to "end up like her"
Her absentminded mother got lost in a parking lot
Her ex-husband accused her of being afraid of commitment
Now her decision to utter those three little words--let's get married--has everyone around her in a tailspin. The maid of honor is in a tempest over a man fifteen
...Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed "good girl" of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children both adopted and biological, and a menagerie of pets, all living and learning together in a sprawling house called Camelottery. Then one day, the news breaks that one of their grandfathers is suffering from dementia and will be coming to live with them. And not just any
...23) Wild Penance
New York Times Bestseller
"Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in." —The Guardian
"A splendid, weird, moving novel."— NPR.org
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery
..."A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis."— Miami Herald
A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.
After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen
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