I Have Two Titles Dad & Butcher And I Rock Them Both
by Family Life Journals
The story of a New York family whose patriarch, H.O.Ho Rothman, founded a publishing dynasty that continues to exert an inescapable power over his heirs - particularly beautiful Alexandra Rothman, editor-in-chief of Mode, the flagship magazine of the empire.
Winner of the South African Literary Award First Time Author PrizeShortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for LiteratureFeatured in the New York Times' "Globetrotting" sneak preview of books coming out in 2019 from around the worldOne of "Seven new and noteworthy fiction titles about South Africa" The Globe and Mail Wandering in Cape Town, Leke stalks people, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of a cure. But he isn't sure what ails him--loneliness, or the family curse. Aba...
Broken Rainbows (The Nuance of Generations, #2)
by Isabella Cornelia Olwage
Lesley Pearse, No. 1 UK bestselling author of The Promise and Belle, is back with Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past. Cheltenham, 1991 When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'. Until then, Eva always believed her family's life would be comfortable and secure - but Flora's suicide changes everything. And when Eva discov...
A page-turning, beautifully written novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Forgive Me, How to be Lost and Sleep Toward Heaven. My father smelled like cigarettes and cardamom. When I was small, and wanted comfort, he would put down the wooden spoon when he was cooking, or the pen when he was writing. Always, he would halt what he was doing and crouch down. I pressed my cheek to his warm chest. In his arms, I was safe. The savage murder of eight-year-old Lauren's mother,...
Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.
Warren Bascomb has lost his wife; his son, Ben Bascomb, has lost his mother. One believes her death was a murder; the other believes it was a suicide. Warren's medical license was suspended five years ago when his Dilaudid addiction was discovered. Soon after, he entered into a pact with his son that has since kept Ben financially afloat and Warren supplied with narcotics. Their embittered agreement collapses, and in the process destroys one life, changes another forever, and drives both from th...