Showing results by publisher "Recorded Books" in Contemporary Fiction

In his “finely crafted first novel” ( Booklist), Peter Geye evokes the savage beauty of Lake Superior’s north shore and the bittersweet reunion of a dying father and his hurting son after decades of estrangement. When Noah Torr returns to his family’s Minnesota cabin to reconnect with his father, he learns for the first time what really happened 35 years ago—and how it changed his father forever.

Reflecting the pace, the memories and the friendships of small-town America, Dorothy's faith-filled adventures will touch your heart and tickle your funny bone at the same time.

Winner of multiple literary prizes, Laura Castoro pens novels in genres as diverse as contemporary fiction, Westerns, and period romance. Love on the Line stars unforgettable mother and daughter Thea and Jesse Morgan. Recently widowed, Thea has become a successful business woman and is now rekindling a love affair with a former star athlete-turned pastor. Meanwhile, Jesse struggles with her mixed race heritage as she tries to fit in at college.

Pablo Uribe escribio estas memorias obscenas para vengarse de una familia, de un pais y de un mundo que, aparte de existir, no le habian hecho nada malo. La tristeza de la navidad y una terrible equivocacion lo llevaron al edificio La Gan Via, al apartamento de los Silva Romero Mientras estos hacian un misterioso viaje de vacciones, Pablo escribio los peores secretos de su vida y comprendio, de paso, que todo en el mundo seria mejor si no salieramos tanto de nuestra habitacion.

Con este libro el autor hace un estudio profundo sobre el secreto de la sabiduría del rey Salomón, relatandonos su amistad con una abeja Karnit Or. La abeja habla con el rey y le transmite a través de símbolos y diálogos las similitudes curiosas entre la vida en la colmena y la monarquía, sus conquistas, trabajos y amores, casi un libro para aprender y entender la vida desde el punto de vista de la naturaleza representada por una abeja.

Lila Shaara is the daughter of acclaimed author Michael Shaara. Every Secret Thing is a provocative novel that will appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult. Formerly a wild supermodel, Gina Paletta has changed her ways for the better, becoming a college professor and spending time with her two young sons. And then something happens that shocks Gina to her core. Somehow, two of her students have found racy pictures of her and posted them on an adult website!

The fourth installment of the continuing saga of Cheney Duvall finds the doctor and her dedicated nurse Shiloh Irons on the way to New Orleans. When they make a stop in Charleston, South Carolina, they are unprepared for the turmoil they find around them. Intending to stay for only a short visit, the intrepid pair find the grand old city in the throes of Reconstruction.

For some, love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends in tears. For four friends from Queens, it's about to get complicated....   

With the skills of Michael Vick and the looks of Tyreese, Andrew "Amir" Davis, a.k.a. Amir, is destined to be a star. But in the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, NFL dreams can quickly vanish, and a Black man can either go with the flow or become another name added to the local obituaries. Amir has the whole hood behind him. He's a beacon of hope for young men who feel they've been discarded by society. North Carolina is breeding him to be their star, but he has other plans in mind. 

As a late spring blizzard brews, Father Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal storm. When snow brings a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, to the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world and their lives intersect in surprising and illuminating ways. North traces the epic journey of Sahro from her home in Somalia throughout the Americas until her last attempt to cross into safety in Canada.