For readers of Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman's search for her Indigenous identity. Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can't afford to complain too loudly about Ruby's Indigenous roots. But when her new parents' marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising sit...
Stories Through The Ages Baby Boomers Plus 2023
by Henry E Peavler and Dan Peavler
Por la autora de Mujeres que compran flores «¿Una historia es como fue o como se la recuerda? El tiempo se construye a partir de combinaciones de vidas puestas a fuego lento. En un mismo crisol de años mezclar los sabores, las tinturas, la luna y el sol, los metales, las estaciones, los vivos y los muertos. El tiempo pone la mezcla a cocer y los elementos se transforman en un solo compuesto: el pasado». Vanessa Montfort, con una voz única, nos deleita con una historia que entrelaza con gra...
Reese Witherspoon’s March Book Club Pick! ‘Big-hearted, earthy and funny… A rattlingly good story’ Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Every woman has a secret life… When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating the women of the community she left behind as a self-important teenager, she’s shocked to discover a group of barely literate women who have no...
“Best new book to read.”—New York Post “... a wonderfully witty chronicle of awkward first dates, with Avalie slowly coming to understand what makes a relationship work, guided along the way by a supportive network of friends.... Abedi’s emotionally charged portrait of what it takes to heal from heartache resonates. It’s an uplifting ode to self-love.” —Publisher’s Weekly Newly heartbroken, a woman embarks on a glamorized summer of couch surfing to rediscover herself and learns that though...
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FUTURES PRIZEAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A captivating story about a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the West African father she never knew' REESE WITHERSPOONAnna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother - the only parent who raised her - is de...