Best Novels

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The road to god knows… is the story of Marie, a teenage girl coming to grips with her Mom’s schizophrenia. As a result, she’s struggling to grow up fast; wrestling with poverty, loneliness, and her Mom’s illness every step of the way. Betty, Marie’s Mom, can’t help; she’s living with an illness that’s slowly getting worse and increasingly frightening, and she just doesn’t have the resources left over at the end of the day to help Marie. With her Mom absorbed in her own problems, Marie is essentially alone while she learns to deal with the chaos in her young life.
Marie’s youth makes it that much harder for her to cope – as a teenager, she just doesn’t have the life experience to feel confident about her decisions. At the start of the story, we see a scared young girl, uncertain and overwhelmed, but as Betty collapses into a full nervous breakdown, Marie is forced to examine herself and her life and come to a decision: does she continue to be a ch… More >>

The road to god knows… an original graphic novel about hope, friendship, mental illness, schizophrenia, and a young teenage girl coping with her life and coming of age in a broken but loving family

• ISBN13: 9780061579523
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“I want you to know something if you don’t already. Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows . . .” Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret, droll and whip smart, has a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does, while Bernice, an avid country-music fan, is rarely lucid. Irreverent and brazen at every turn, they make a formidable pair at the home where they live, breaking all the rules and ultimately changing the lives of those around them. Lorraine, their churchgoing, God-questioning nurse, both protects and provokes them while they are under her watchful eye, as her daughter, April, bright and ambitious, determinedly makes her way through medical school. Rounding out the group of unlikely … More >>

The Sweet By and By: A Novel

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Val and Marian, two teenage school girls growing up in New York City, are misfits. Val, virtually ignored by her wealthy parents, lives at a boarding house where she is watched over by an arty but childless couple. Marian lives with her divorced mother and her mother’s friend and rarely sees her father. Marian spends her afternoons eating sundaes at a local drugstore; Val disappears mysteriously each afternoon before school is let out. They don’t seem to have much in common with the other girls at their school nor even with each other. Yet together they find friendship and adventure in this poignant and witty novel, as they follow the life of one mediocre pianist, and learn what it means to grow up…. More >>

The World of Henry Orient: A Novel

• ISBN13: 9780393330441
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“An intelligent, moving read” (Pages) and “a testament to women’s friendship and to Ann Hood’s talent” (Hilma Wolitzer). After the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days. The women welcome her, each teaching Mary a new knitting technique and, as they do, revealing their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Eventually Mary is able to tell her own story of grief and in so doing reclaims her love for her husband, faces the hard truths about her relationship with her mother, and finds the spark of life again. …. More >>

The Knitting Circle: A Novel

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The story takes place in Northern California, in the spring of 2000, when the dot-com boom was at its peak. Elizabeth Reilly-Hayden is a successful executive in her late fifties and a divorced mother of two. Emotionally armored and living alone, she wants only to maintain the status quo: her long-term significant other, her job, and her trusted friends—five feisty women whose high school friendship has carried them through multiple marriages, dramatic divorces, and maddening menopause. Yet in a matter of days, the three anchors that have kept her moored are ripped away. The group of lifelong pals gathers at Lake Tahoe to attend to the funeral arrangements of their beloved friend and tries to unravel the mystery of her death. Through their shared tragedy, Elizabeth learns how disappointment and grief can bloom into healing and hope…. More >>

Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever: A Novel

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“Shows [women’s friendships] to be the saving grace of civilization.”—Gloria Steinem “Set in Steventon, an affluent town in the Berkshires, this finely detailed group portrait [of four disparate women] . . . celebrates women’s cherishing friendships and creativity . . . the intelligent and openhearted women and men [French] warmly portrays are compelling.”—Booklist Now available in paperback, the update by the author of the classic novel The Women’s Room (21 million sold worldwide) explores the truth and realities behind women’s lives during the landmark year 2000. Marilyn French is the best-selling author of six novels. Stéphanie Genty is an associate professor at the Université d’Evry-Val d’Essonne…. More >>

In the Name of Friendship: A Novel

• ISBN13: 9780739343890
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A knock on Spenser’s office door can mean only one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she’s developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. These rich wives have a shared secret: they’ve all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower—and now he’s blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower “cease and desist,” so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser’s case goes from blackmail to murder.
           
As matters become more complicated, Spenser’s longtime love, Susan, begins offering input on the case, analyzing Gary’s behavior patterns in hopes of opening a new avenue of investigation. It turns out that not all of Gary’s women are rich. So if he’s not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics t… More >>

The Professional: A Spenser Novel

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A novel for young people about friendship and eating disorders. Follows the story of three girls (Katee, Mel and Gemma) and how they cope with the different traumas in their lives. As they struggle with problems such as bullying, loneliness and clashes with their parents, they each turn to a different eating disorder as a “solution” to all their problems. However, obsessions about food and weight soon begin to dominate every waking moment and their health starts to suffer in different ways. They realise that they need to help one another if they are to recover and regain their lives. Winner of a Times Educational Supplement NASEN Award 2002. From the author of “Diet Of Despair” & “Anorexic”…. More >>

Running on Empty: A Novel about Eating Disorders for Teenage Girls

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FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ“This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist….What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye.”Michael Sibley and John Prosset shared a history that dated back to their first years at boarding school, and so the news of Prosset’s murder came as a great shock to his old friend — especially because Sibley had been staying only the day before at Prosset’s country house, where the body was found.When the police arrive to question him in connection with the murder, Sibley finds himself lying about his recent visit, and thus begins to reveal the true nature of a longstanding but volatile friendship, fraught with mutual deception and distrust. As he tells his version of the tr… More >>

My Name is Michael Sibley: A Novel

• ISBN13: 9780767926560
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Dolly Parton once said,” If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” In the bustling city of Atlanta, four very different ladies take her advice to heart and open a catering business that will cater to them—successful, independent women who put their families first.

But flouting the traditions and expectations of Southern society turns out to be more complicated than they ever anticipated. Even as the pressure of running a business bonds them together, the realities of managing real life threaten to tear the whole thing apart. As financial woes, personal hurts, and family troubles test the strength of their business and their friendship, they discover that sisterly support and lots of heartfelt prayer just might be the only way to survive.

Full of sass, grit, and good old-fashioned faith, How Dolly Parton Saved My Life is a hilarious and poignant look at friendship with a distinctly Southern flair…. More >>

How Dolly Parton Saved My Life: A Novel of the Jelly Jar Sisterhood