Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son. For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...

In Leaving Yesterday, CBA best-selling author Kathryn Cushman delivers a cutting-edge tale of a mother's unfailing love. Hope flickers in Alicia Stewart's heart as her wayward son struggles to leave his drug-ridden past. But when past deeds come back to haunt him and the family, Alicia faces a wrenching dilemma. Stay silent, and keep her son-or risk everything in a quest for the truth. "[Leaving Yesterday] is a profoundly moving portrait of a mother's...

Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.

Hush has worked hard to restore her family's farming fortunes. She has also tried to hide the truth about her late husband and their tormented marriage from her son. Now, the eyes of the entire world turn to her private life when he returns home from college to tell his mother he has eloped with a fellow student-the rebellious daughter of the president!