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"With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? It's autumn in Maine, and...

With her best friend Harold off to the National Merit Scholar summer program at Stanford, Ivy discovers a new photo-sharing site called VEIL. There people can anonymously post secrets and art, and the site only shows posts within a five mile radius of the user's location. With such a narrow focus, Ivy realizes that she can identify many of the posters as fellow students at Sudden Cove High School. She starts leaving small, anonymous gifts for them,...

"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes...

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Years Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world quite literally upside down. By New Years Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling...

Women of Faith speaker, Marilyn Meberg, offers bold and straightforward insight and biblical teaching for the secret issues of women.A food addiction. That mistake in college. The petty bad habit. A relative we'd rather forget . . .Secrets come in all shapes and sizes, but we all have them. And nine times out of ten, we wish we didn't. Wrapped in layers-often years-of fear, secrets are not so easily discarded.In Tell Me Everything, Marilyn Meberg...

Seleccionada para el premio de ficción de mujeres. Selección del Club de Lectura de Oprah. La nueva novela de Elizabeth Strout, ganadora de los premios Pulitzer y Llibreter, entre otros, con tres millones y medio de lectores. Es otoño en Maine y Bob Burgess, el abogado del pueblo, está inmerso en la investigación de un asesinato, mientras entabla una profunda amistad con la aclamada escritora Lucy Barton, que vive calle abajo con su exmarido...

"There's a lifetime of craft and experience all focused into this one record. Sonically, lyrically, emotionally, I don't think it's an album I could have made at any other point in my career -- Ben Folds"--Container packaging.

My mountain man just had a delivery mailed to his door. Me. Willow: I was out of options when I signed up for the website. Now I'm a modern day mail-order bride and I've been delivered to the doorstep of my mountain man groom. Bennett is a gentle giant who tells me that he knew I was his from the moment he saw me. I'm on the run from my past, and the mountain man's bed is the best place to stay hidden. I just need my secrets to stay hidden too. Bennett:...

He's a hard-as-nails Navy SEAL,She's a twenty-one-year-old virgin.It's his job to kidnap her.But things are going to get complicated!Him:I'm on a missionKidnap the daughter of a notorious criminal and bring her in for questioning.But this one's full of surprises.She wants to be kidnapped,And on top of that, she's hot-as-hell virgin too.I'm supposed to take her away from her father,But I might just take her cherry too…Her:I needed to get outKept...

When I woke up, I found myself utterly alone in a new and unknown world full of danger and magic. Then I met him: the most dangerous man I had ever laid eyes on. The mer king He called me his people's savior. Heart of the realm, the long awaited queen of all merfolk and the only person who could return the magic. All I'd have to do was to participate in a simple rite to reverse the overlay of the worlds. Only, he didn't tell me everything. Because...