Description Following the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club is this charming story of sisterhood.Īt the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club-including Georgia's college-age daughter, Dakota-rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce for Darwin, the hope for a family for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother and for seventy-something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.Īs the club's projects-an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat-are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend.
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He closed his eyes against the strangely dancing flames and wished things were different. He breathed smoke, felt his entire body choke on it. It tasted how the world smelled along contested borders nowadays, countries lost to the ravages of climate change, war, and bitter politics. He sucked in air and coughed out what felt like embers, the metallic tang of blood coating his scorched dry mouth. He blinked slowly, almost lazily, up at the once white ceiling of a high-security biolab, trying to find the gut-deep determination he knew he needed to survive this mess, but failed. The fire licking at his feet didn’t hurt nearly as much as the inferno burning through his body. To get your free copy of the Metahuman Files short story A Distant Devotion featuring Jamie and Kyle, sign-up for Hailey Turner's newsletter over here! No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. It is one of those quintessential Southern gothic books where the creepiness is hidden among polite words and you don’t even notice it’s going in a scary direction until THERE IT IS. While this book takes place during summer, there’s this feel of fall in the air and again, I can’t help but think autumn thoughts while reading. I obtained Compulsion at a luncheon hosted by Simon & Schuster at BEA and honestly, it probably would have languished in my TBR pile for some time, had I not been invited to join the Mundie Moms tour - and what a tragedy that would have been! Seriously, I am all for books that put me in a seasonal sort of mood. 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She never ceased writing, and from 1973 onwards published many titles, which have been released worldwide in 30 languages. She and her two sisters were deprived of books but, armed with a vivid imagination and an insatiable appetite for stories, Jones wrote them herself to read to her sisters. Her family moved frequently, finally settling in rural Essex. Diana Wynne Jones had an unsettled childhood against the background of the Second World War. Mickey earned the nickname of “Lincoln Lawyer” because he likes to conduct deals and work from the back of his Lincoln town car, something you’ll find is par for the course in the television series, too. Michael “Mickey” Haller is an accomplished criminal defense attorney-and he also happens to be Bosch’s half-brother. But with The Lincoln Lawyer, he got to create a character that represents a different part of the criminal justice system. 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Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.īut as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknownĪt first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Įrnt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. And she became so disillusioned with her own that she “could not look it in the eyes.” She found herself drawn to “someone else’s rose.” She began to see beauty and truth in other people’s religions. Strangers approached her in grocery stores with reverence and awe.īut something happened to her as her reputation spread. She appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s “SuperSoul Sunday” show. She was a widely sought-after speaker whose sermons were compared to “literary gems.” Her books made the New York Times’ best-sellers list. On the surface, Taylor led a life that most people would envy. Taylor gave one answer that day but today she has another: The story she can’t quite figure out is her own. “What is the story you are working on that doesn’t have an ending yet?” Barbara Brown Taylor was attending a seminar one day when someone asked her a question that she hasn’t been able to forget. |