The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine. When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as well as a gift of saffron--to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out...
¿Alguien a quien amas te ha dejado de amar? ¿Sientes que ese dolor en el pecho nunca desaparecerá? ¿Te preguntas cómo dejar a tu pareja cuando aún sientes amor en la relación? ¿Crees que nunca volverás a ser la misma persona después de haber amado y no ser correspondido? ¿Cómo puedes alejarte de la vida de esa persona sin causarle daño? En la más reciente novela de Mónica Salmón, Ofelia vive el desafío del desamor, enfrentando aquello que muchas personas temen: Despedirse cuando ya no...
After Dinner Conversation Magazine (After Dinner Conversation, #48)
by Dustin Grinnell, Christina Tang-Bernas, and Laurel Doud
"This original haunted house tale, with a unique plot and compellingly vivid characters, moves from uneasy to creepy to all-out 'keep the lights on' terror." —Library Journal, starred review. In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man’s closest relative―the primate. They set out to teach their subject, who would e...
Su único crimen fue ser una mujer independienteEn su nueva novela, Paulo Coelho da vida a una de las mujeres más enigmáticas de la historia: Mata Hari, quien fuera acusada de espionaje durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Aunque hubo poca evidencia para incriminarla, ella no pudo escapar de la persecución y el enjuiciamiento por la inteligencia militar francesa. Esta cautivadora e íntima narración nos presenta a una mujer que se atrevió, en su tiempo, a hacer lo impensable: desnudarse en público,...
Winner of the 2022 Lammy Award for Transgender Fiction From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity. Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B----. Gala needs to know: Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? And so...
From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people's letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for two West Yorkshire policemen - contemplating a cache of 26 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley behind the hairdresser's in Skipton - it's also a job of work. The quaint moorside village of Burley Cross has been plunged into turmoil by the theft of the contents of its postbox, and when PC Roger Topping takes o...
Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely bothers with punctuation. Mother Maria, a professional translator, writes detailed and observant letters yet doesn’t see what is happening right in front of her. And grandmother Gesuina, a former stage act...
'Oddny Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer!' (Bjork). An enchanting blend of autobiography, diary, philosophical inquiry, and fantasy, Land of Love and Ruins - winner of the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize in 2012 - is a richly imagined and utterly unique book about being human in the mo...
I've probably lied to you. That's habit. I lie to everyone about my family - Daniel Laird has returned to his remote family home in Norfolk to care for his ailing artist father. Living an isolated existence - - with his father unable to speak and only their brusque housekeeper, Maggie, for company - Daniel describes the strangeness of coming home after an eight-year absence in a series of vivid and passionate letters to his sister, his boss and to Alice, his one true love. But it is not unti...
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It's a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancée. After a nervous beginning looking for a job while her savings rapidly diminish, she finds work as a typist in the London department store of Everyman's (a very thin disguise for Selfridges...
Unlocking secrets from the past… After inheriting half a veterinary practice, Jodie’s dismayed to discover Cole Crawford’s her new partner. The renowned vet ended their intense love affair twelve years ago. Cole’s determined to prove he’s changed… but will Jodie give him the chance?
The Top 100 bestseller, an unforgettable story about being brave enough to be yourself, from author Clare SwatmanStarting over can be hard to do… So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and into an unloved and unkempt cottage, she can’t help but feel demoralised. Faced with months of DIY and dust, her children Jacob and Olivia aren’t impressed either. But when Beth finds a box of letters while she’s clearing out the children’s room, things start to look up. The correspond...
Bringing the New Orleans of the late 1800s and early 1900s vividly to life, Nicole Seitz’s latest novel unfolds as a series of letters, journal entries, and newspaper articles discovered in the secret compartment of an enormous and exquisitely detailed birdcage that Trish, a twenty-first-century blogger, has inherited from a heretofore unknown relative. As she peruses the documents, Trish finds herself irresistibly drawn into the history of her family—a tale that is, as one letter puts it, “part...
Love and Freindship and other Early Works (Cactus Classics Large Print)
by Jane Austen and Marc Cactus
It is 1849. James Cobham, young man about London, has tragically drowned in a boating accident. Or has he? Two months after his disappearance, his cousin receives a letter. James is in hiding, with no memory of the last two months. His cousin responds that he probably ought to continue in hiding, and the adventures begin. Told through letters, diaries, and real contemporary documents, this unique novel by two of today's freshest and most popular fantasists leads the reader through every corner o...
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson) (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Samuel Richardson
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts...
Pushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough to allow the traffic between novel, notebook, reportage, and myth. While collecting the scattered stories of his parents’ entangled passages to the United States, the narrator begins to record the material onto videocassettes through a series of cutting and grafting, splicing footage of his presen...
_________________If your life was going to end tomorrow, what would you do today?''Quirky, funny and hugely readable, this is a story about the power of friendship and sisterhood, as well as love and loss.' FabulousJennifer Cole has just been told that she has three months to live -- ninety days to say goodbye and put her affairs in order. Trying to focus on the positives she realises she has one overriding regret: the words she’s left unsaid. So Jennifer writes letters to three significant peo...