Lauren Weisberger

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a highly entertaining, sharply observed novel about sisters, their perfect lives . . . and their perfect lies. “Goes down like an ice-cold guilty pleasure on a hot beach-reading day.”—USA Today A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all. Until . . . Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York. She has degrees from all the right schools and can helicopter-parent with the best of them. But Skye is different from the rest. She’s looking for something real and dreams of a life beyond the PTA and pickup. Until . . . Max, Peyton’s bright and quirky seventeen-year-old daughter, is poised to kiss her fancy private school goodbye and head off to pursue her dreams in film. She’s waited her entire life for this opportunity. Until . . . One little lie. That’s all it takes. For the illusions to crack. For resentments to surface. Suddenly the grass doesn’t look so green. And they’re left wondering: will they have what it takes to survive the truth?

Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty

43e337df-74bd-43dc-a6d8-0fdd0c78c09a-1

Martha Whitmore Hickman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

"The Randalls are "the nice family down the street": close-knit, resilient, facing day-to-day conflicts and gradual change with the shared love and deep understanding that has seen them through the years. Laura Randall and her professor husband, Trace, are proud of their accomplishments, even as they try to balance their own identities with caring for their increasingly independent children and aging parents. Their college-age sons, Bart and Philip, see the family as a reassuring touchstone as they begin building their adult lives. And for sixteen-year-old Annie, the Randalls' independent, vivacious only daughter, the family is both a much-loved support and obstacle as she struggles to discover her own awakening dreams and needs." "Then Annie dies in a unforeseeable accident - and their world is turned upside down."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Such Good People

4b32aa74-fd09-4cb6-afcc-317f3166c074-1

Luanne Rice

Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it's set.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland.

Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together?

The novel is a season on Martha's Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they'd never been quite sure they could trust. The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity.

The Silver Boat

cdfecdf4-f8aa-48ec-a7d0-92349acdab7a-1

Just Not at the Same Damn Time!

Romi Neustadt is a mom of two, a wife, a daughter, bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and coach. What's more, she's achieved these things without a staff of 10, the ability to sleep two hours a night or driving herself batsh*t crazy. She's figured out the key to having it all: Priorities, babe. In her second book, Romi provides a no-BS blueprint for women to figure out what to focus on and what not to. She explains why saying YES to everything and everyone really means saying NO to the things that matter - to your goals, your dreams, and your true self.

You Can Have It All

858e9964-7abe-4cb8-8278-e2b0cb99bcf2-1

Justin Halpern

Texas

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, the 29-year-old author moves in with his 73-year-old dad, whose straightforward, expletive-laden advice and opinions became a hit on Twitter and are now offered in a hilarious collection. 50,000 first printing.

Sh*t My Dad Says

e7dcc1a1-bcb6-4a77-8d4f-72ff3164cafd-1

A Memoir 

The Man I Never Met

f9098622-77e7-4557-bc2d-d1802b5d3b75-1

Share, Remember, Cherish

A beautifully illustrated gift book for mothers, with text drawn from inspiring stories shared by real people on the author's Celebrations.com Web site, enhanced by thoughtful quotes and fun facts about motherhood.

Celebrating Mom

46f32ea9-c7fc-4588-ab80-1f40e4a8e09e-1

Ann Packer

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

When her fiancT Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships with her mother, friends, and fiancT, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity and the meaning of home. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

The Dive from Clausen's Pier

5c14f1b2-1ebf-4548-a1e7-42165ceecfca-1

Virginia

On the shores of Lake Geneva in 1915, the Jewish beauty Beata Wittgenstein falls in love with a Catholic French officer and marries him despite the wishes of her family, but when Hitler's terror arrives, Beata has to undertake a harrowing journey of survival and reconsiders her roots. 900,000 first printing.

Echoes

e8594a4f-7784-4541-b7b6-f0572c847d91-1

Lucy Mead

Oregon

A perfect gift book with humorous, inspiring, heartwarming and always loving words about that most special of women -- mothers! Includes anecdotes, proverbs, quotes -- all both funny and profound.

Mothers Are Special

354db140-c1ce-4119-bddc-35684a85ee7c-0

Jennifer Liu Bryan

Hazel Cole Kendle

Missouri

The wish book has been pored over. The letters to Santa have been sent. The nine children of a coal miner's family in Benham, Kentucky, eagerly await Christmas morning. But when the holiday dawns, they will find that the most precious gifts are sometimes the most unexpected--and that the best gifts are those that come from the heart.

Cole Family Christmas

0f825160-8439-48fd-881d-eb335d16adce-1

Home To Heather Creek

The Promise of Spring 

Patricia C. McKissack

Onawumi Jean Moss

Old school library stickers and stamps on inner cover. Otherwise, mint.

From the author of the Newbery Honor-winning "The Dark-Thirty" comes a deliciously funny, not-too-scary picture book featuring a spunky heroine and the Boo Hag, a crafty spirit that will stop at nothing to get inside the house. Full color.

Precious and the Boo Hag

152e820f-c4c1-4f5e-99e9-abca6a9acb0a-1

Maryland

A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps


"What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it brings you, but every bit of life you've lived before that moment equips you to live through it. That's what I would give to you." -Fanni Victoria Green-Lemons, in conversation with her daughter, Danyealah Green-Lemons

In Mom, Dave Isay-StoryCorps's founder and the editor of the project's bestselling collection, Listening Is an Act of Love-presents a celebration of American mothers. Featuring StoryCorps's most revelatory stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood.

Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In stories that take us from the woods of New Hampshire to urban Detroit and beyond, we meet mothers and children from all walks of life-an immigrant mother instilling in her children the importance of education, adult children caring for an elderly parent, a woman remembering the sound of her mother's laugh, and mothers and children of all ages learning to grow into new roles over time. Visiting families in moments of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumph, we learn new truths about that most primal and sacred of bonds-the relationship between mother and child.

With this vital contribution to the American storybook, StoryCorps has created a tribute to mothers that honors the wealth of our national experience. An appreciation of the wisdom and generosity passed between mothers and children, this generation to the next, Mom offers powerful lessons in the meaning of family and the expansiveness of the human heart.




Watch a Video

c96b47e2-bc49-4972-b520-1649efedc815-1

#hardcover #fiction #family #familydrama #romance 

A standalone novel by the best-selling author of the Blossom Street series traces the reunion of three disparate sisters, one responsible, one rebellious and one free-spirited, who reveal imperfections in their respective lives while mourning their mother's death.

Last One Home

c282b93f-5683-403c-8349-ea622cec84cc-1

Richard Russo

Pulitzer-prize winning author.
A book-of-the-month club main selection ￼

The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.

That Old Cape Magic

f76ededc-b700-4cb8-bffa-71aea8b04cbd-1

An immigrant saga reminiscent of Roots begins in a small Italian village and spans three generations and two world wars to capture the essence of the Italian-American experience. 300,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Unto the Sons

c02b5686-d9e1-4bb6-ac8a-d23c743ca4cd-1

A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers

In this lyrical and deeply moving memoir, one of America's most revered actresses weaves stories of her adventures and travels with her mother, while reflecting on the beautiful spirit that persists even in the face of her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Marcia Gay Harden knew at a young age that her life would be anything but ordinary. One of five lively children born to two Texas natives--Beverly, a proper Dallas lady, and Thad, a young naval officer--she always had a knack for storytelling, role-playing, and adventure. As a military family, the Hardens moved often, and their travels eventually took them to Yokohama, off the coast of Japan, during the Vietnam War era. It was here that Beverly, amid the many challenges of raising her family abroad, found her own self-expression in ikebana, the ancient Japanese art of flower arranging.

Using the philosophy of ikebana as her starting point, Marcia Gay Harden intertwines the seasons of her mother's life with her own journey from precocious young girl to budding artist in New York City to Academy Award-winning actress. With a razor-sharp wit, as well as the kind of emotional honesty that has made her performances resonate with audiences worldwide, Marcia captures the joys and losses of life even as her precious mother gracefully strives to maintain her identity while coming to grips with Alzheimer's disease.

Powerful and incredibly stirring, The Seasons of My Mother illustrates the unforgettable vulnerability and beauty of motherhood, as Marcia does what Beverly can no longer do: she remembers.

The Seasons of My Mother

06908a52-47b8-411a-8c3e-b303e1588baf-1

How I Was Born 

78d9a6cd-d5c4-4d68-8e55-527b5bd880d0-0

#hardcover #belvaplain #family #relationships

Indiana

His mother was an Irish immigrant, his father a Jewish peddler. But, like so many other turn-of-the-century Americans, Adam Arnring grows up determined to shape his own destiny. Handsome and skilled, he heads West and lays the foundation of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war will intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers, and to his trusting wife.In an intimate voice that has won her scores of devoted fans, Belva Plain explores the crossroads everyone must face. For the unforgettable characters in THE SIGHT OF THE STARS, the choices that seem to divide are actually the ones that unite.

The Sight of the Stars

be1d57e7-daa1-4cbb-b1c8-0175bc2e840d-1

Possibly a few notes and underlined passages; Barnes & Noble sticker on front cover.

"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--

Varina

bc517431-f76d-43d8-ae99-a8c23fde3e30-1

A powerful suspense story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, three hundred pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite -- and pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna's heartbreaking love for her family, and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore. This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart. Cameron gracefully plumbs Anna's young perspective on family, responsibility, and hope, charting both a tragically premature loss of innocence and a startling evolution as Anna reasons through the impossible situations that confront her. Lean and confident, and told in the innocent and honest voice of a five-year-old, THE BEAR is a transporting tale of loss -- but also a poignant and surprisingly funny adventure about love and the raw instincts that enable us to survive.

The Bear

4c945dfd-3d2d-47cb-bd6a-23e58bf67171-1

Danielle Steel

Struggling with a terrible accident that devastated her family, young Pip meets artist Matt Bowles, whose friendship helps Pip and her mother heal, until an unresolved issue from Matt's past compromises their progress.

Safe Harbour

44b8b520-5c1d-4292-892a-4800f686868f

Louisiana

A comic romp celebrating late-flowering love in a Hungarian village that will appeal to readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.

Valeria is a whale in a puddle. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the foreign, and the familiar. Her decades of universal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little community--whatever she scorns the least must be the best, after all. But, on a day like any other, her spinster's heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: The village potter, long known and little noticed, captures her fancy, and Valeria finds herself suddenly cast in a role she never expected to play. This one deviation from character, this one loose thread, is all it takes for the delicately woven fabric of village life to unravel. And, for the first time in a long time, Valeria couldn't care less. With humor and sensitivity, author Marc Fitten delivers an unexpected and entirely inspiring first novel that will leave you begging for more.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Lauren Weisberger

Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty

Martha Whitmore Hickman

Such Good People

Luanne Rice

The Silver Boat

Romi Neustadt

You Can Have It All

Justin Halpern

Sh*t My Dad Says

Adam Schefter, Michael Rosenberg

The Man I Never Met

Jim McCann

Celebrating Mom

Ann Packer

The Dive from Clausen's Pier

Danielle Steel

Echoes

Lucy Mead

Mothers Are Special

Jennifer Liu Bryan; Hazel Cole Kendle

Cole Family Christmas

Leslie Gould

The Promise of Spring

Patricia C. McKissack; Onawumi Jean Moss

Precious and the Boo Hag

David Isay

Mom

Debbie Macomber

Last One Home

Richard Russo

That Old Cape Magic

Gay Talese

Unto the Sons

Marcia Gay Harden

The Seasons of My Mother

Marie Wabbes

How I Was Born

Belva Plain

The Sight of the Stars

Charles Frazier

Varina

Claire Cameron

The Bear

Danielle Steel

Safe Harbour

Marc Fitten

Valeria's Last Stand