Cosmo Topper is a mild mannered and respectable bank manager whose whole life has been ordered down to the last detail, until one day he feels drawn by a strange impulse, to break free and buy a sportscar that was owned by a local couple. The only problem is that the previous owners of the …
(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …
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 …
After a poorly researched article lands her in the public eye for the wrong reasons, Sal is without a job and left facing her unhappy marriage and dying career. When she reads an article about a writer she met briefly years before, she recognizes their interaction in his posthumously printed manuscript excerpt. She decides to …
When Natasha and Rob take a holiday to rekindle their failing marriage, they accidentally leave their infant daughters beloved toy cow behind. Back in the Cotsolds, Natasha goes online to try and track it down, and a man called Duffy just happens to have it. But he's on his way to the Himalayas. Duffy promises …
Elin Hilderbrand, the queen of beach reads set on Nantucket, is back with a book of short stories and novelas. This collection is a series of stories that are prequels, sequel stories, lost chapters and longer stories that tie into her previous books and characters. We revisit characters from books like Summer of 69, Beautiful …
Sasha and her husband Harry, have always dreamed of buying a property away from the big city life, and think they've found the perfect country home, quickly moving in with their dog Dash. But not long after they move in, their closest neighbour drops by with the welcome wagon and a printed document marked Springtime. …
Continue reading Old Country by Matt Query and Harrison Query
If you are in Manhattan traveling Downtown in a car on Fifth Avenue or Seventh Avenue and you want to turn onto Tenth Street, you have to turn left. It's a one-way street, west to east. Left on Tenth is my way home. I was left on Tenth when my husband died, and after that, …
Continue reading Left On Tenth- A Second Chance At Life by Delia Ephron
Hannah thinks her marriage is perfect, until one day her husband disappears, leaving only a note saying "protect her". The "her" in the note is his teenage daughter, who hasn't quite accepted Hannah as her new parent. To find out why he left, the two have to work together to find out what Owen was …
Flora and Julian have a relationship that all their friends aspire to, and sometimes Flora even feels a little smug about how their relationship has fared over the years, where others have faltered and fallen apart. They often team up with another couple, Margot and her husband, and make up a close knit foursome. But …
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