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The Elin Hilderbrand Literati Book Club Pick! Recommended by Entertainment Weekly * CNN * Harper's BAZAAR * E! Online * Refinery 29 * Bustle * Shondaland * Vulture * The Millions * Lit Hub * Electric Literature * Parade * MSN * and more! “For when you want a coming-of-age novel with a dark...

Mary Madison was a child of unspeakable horrors, a young woman society wanted to forget. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing hope and love to battered and abused women living in the shadow of the nation's capital....An inspirational story of tragedy and redemption. Three women find the power of love through God.

Rosewood, Pennsylvania. Spencer; Aria, Emily e Hanna nascondono ciascuna un piccolo segreto: Spencer ha soffiato il ragazzo alla sorella, ma adesso lui l'ha lasciata senza darle alcuna spiegazione. Aria ha scoperto che il padre ha un'amante e non trova il coraggio di confessarlo alla madre. Emily ama una sua compagna di scuola, ma fa di tutto per allontanarla e Hanna continua a dimagrire e rubare nei centri commerciali. Ma le quattro ragazze, tanto carine ma tanto bugiarde, hanno un segreto ben più inquietante, che riguarda il passato e che loro chiamano "l'affare Jenna".

“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy...

Aclamada por el jurado del Fondo Nacional de las Artes y ganadora del primer premio en la categoría novela, La fauna divina juega con las fronteras de lo políticamente incorrecto y derrumba todos los prejuicios sobre la deformidad, la enfermedad y la salud. En boca de un antihéroe faunesco y...

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps.

“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy...

Shaken by her parents’ divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle’s farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She’ll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is the past—one she barely knows.

This is a book about divine dicks, mortal pricks, and some epically long-suffering women. The Ancient Greek myths and epics have spent the last few thousand years focusing on all the testosterone and willy-waving that their so-called heroes got up to. Now, at long last, it’s time to shine a...