After growing up with her dysfunctional parents, Ophelia vowed she would never get married and end up miserable like them, but when her mother develops dementia, she starts to feel like dying alone isn't such a good option. Then she meets Luke, a handsome man her mother would approve of, so she quickly agrees to …
When Guinevere is promoting her new memoir about her mother, Edith Sharpe, who wrote a huge bestseller book series called the Ninth City, she finds out her estranged brother Ennis, a controversial artist, has a new exhibition coming up called Mother. Their mother's books were about two children that were based on them, making them …
The story of a boy whose mother is an actress trying to make a comeback, after a series of crappy relationships and her most famous films are starting to fade into history. In the past, she's shunted her son off to his Grandparents in Ohio to be raised when things get difficult, so he really …
Continue reading There Must Be A Pony (1971) by James Kirkwood
When orphaned Claire's fiance dies of a strange neurological disease, she thinks the happiness and belonging in she finally had in her life is over forever, but then Elias wealthy family invites her for three days to Harrow Point, their private island, for his funeral. Hoping to find the family she so desperately craves, Claire …
"A memoir of family and crime" At 12, Leslie's childhood home in Ontario was raided by police, and her mother and grandmother took her and fled to Florida. No questions allowed, no explanations given. Her life changed from an idyllic suburban childhood to a confusion of grifts and crime. Decades later, when she thought she'd …
Continue reading The Liar’s Playbook by Leslie Bradford Scott
Ellie and Drake, a recently engaged couple, come across magical cinema one night down a fog covered alleyway. When they enter, they're given ten tickets to see midnight movies that play them significant memories of their lives. Ellie wants to come back, hoping to find out more about a night she can't remember clearly, while …
It's Winter in the 90's in Dalton, Maine. Rose has made a steady life for herself and her two sons, and is even contemplating a romance with Nate, the local policeman, when her abusive ex Tommy returns to town, with a lot of promises to stop drinking and also secretly toting a gun... Meanwhile, college-aged …
Continue reading In A Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring (Dalton, Maine #3)
On Halloween, a group of teens go to an area called Sally In The Wood, a local road that's said to be haunted by a murdered girl. The next morning, one of them is found dead, and laid out strangely. Rachel, the school guidance counselor at the expensive school the girl attended, struggles to deal …
A stay-at-home dad, who feel emasculated by his workaholic wife and lack of career, is drawn into the case of a drowned man when the death is ruled an accident. He suspects foul play because the man was someone he knew before being laid off from his job in finance, a Wall Street investor, and …
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist who has drawn covers and images for the New Yorker, has illustrated over 25 childrens books and created a book with Steve Martin. In this book, he shares essays, journal entries, cartoons and artworks from his life, talking about a range of subjects from losing his beloved dog Penny after …
