<div>College friends Lucy and Katherine reunite as adults&mdash;and build a new friendship as changed women Katherine shows up at Lucy&rsquo;s Manhattan doorstep having run away from the marriage altar. Lucy isn&rsquo;t thrilled to see her former sorority sister&mdash;her own life as a children&rsquo;s book illustrator is complicated enough, especially as she may be falling out of love with her boyfriend. Along with Lucy&rsquo;s oddball best friend, Julia, the women tackle the complicated challenge of being young, lost, and in search of life in New York City. Something Blue is a heartfelt but never sentimental modern classic, capturing three women on the verge of the future, still figuring out the past, and trying to solve the present all at once. A novel that addresses friendship, ambition, and love head on, Something Blue and its three heroines head in surprising directions in their search for meaning.</div>

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Something Blue

<div>A &ldquo;sparkling&rdquo; novel of love and loss from the bestselling author of Kitchen Yarns, &ldquo;one of the best young writers in the world of contemporary fiction&rdquo; (Booklist). Libby Harper, unsatisfied with her suburban life, abandons Massachusetts, her two teenage children, and Tom, her husband of eighteen years. Depressed and feeling trapped, she is determined to realize her fantasies of Hollywood fame before it is too late. Dana has been expecting her mother to walk out for years. Her older brother, Troy, who is always in trouble, has been struggling to get his mother&rsquo;s attention for most of his life. But it is Tom, their father, who is hit the hardest. Once, he and Libby were the most beautiful couple in town. Rudderless without the woman he has loved since ninth grade, he is a man drowning when Renata Handy enters their lives. Renata has left Manhattan behind to return home with her terminally ill eight-year-old daughter. She finds an unexpected haven with Tom Harper, her high-school crush&mdash;and his shattered family. A Literary Guild selection, Places to Stay the Night is a story of the dreams we leave behind . . . and the ways we can find ourselves again. </div>

Places to Stay the Night

<div>A family heals in unexpected ways in the wake of senseless tragedy Alexander Porter is on the phone with his six-year-old son when he is struck by lightning and killed. It is a freak accident, without meaning or justice. Alex&rsquo;s sudden death disintegrates his family. His mother takes off for a new life in California. His father descends into kleptomania. His ex-wife begins selling makeup door to door. His sister mourns by taking Sam, Alex&rsquo;s son, on a journey into the family&rsquo;s past, putting her own life on hold. Young Sam, who heard his own father die, has gone silent. Narrated from a symphony of perspectives, Waiting to Vanish is the story of a family coping with devastating loss as they begin the brave, bruising business of getting on with it. In the process, they discover their own paths through life.</div>

Waiting to Vanish

<div>A grieving young widow and a pregnant teenager find an uncommon friendship in a luminous, deeply moving novel After a college student speeding in a blue Honda Civic kills her husband of less than a year, Olivia is completely lost. One hot summer day, she walks into the beachfront Rhode Island cottage she and David bought the previous August&mdash;the place where they had planned to someday start a family&mdash;and finds a stranger sitting at her kitchen table. Pregnant fifteen-year-old Ruby is looking for a safe haven for herself and her baby-to-be. Olivia takes her in, desperate to assuage her grief through human connection, even with a troubled teenager. But Ruby has something else that Olivia wants. When she agrees to let Olivia adopt her unborn child, Olivia&rsquo;s life begins to change in ways she never imagined. A story of love, loss, and unexpected friendship, Ruby introduces two women who help each other move on with their lives in a world where there are no easy answers.</div>

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<div>A &ldquo;breathtaking&rdquo; memoir of a daughter&rsquo;s quest to find a miracle for her dying father, by the bestselling author of The Book That Matters Most (Publishers Weekly). When her beloved father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, Ann Hood&mdash;the author Comfort: A Journey Through Grief&mdash;refused to give up. If conventional medicine could no longer help, then she would go to any length to find something that could&mdash;even if it took a miracle. In this heartfelt and heartbreaking narrative, Ann&rsquo;s quest to save her father&rsquo;s life becomes a reawakening of her self. Through trial and desperation she recollects the story of her family&rsquo;s own past and their quest to find a better life in America, and renews her connection to her Italian Catholic heritage, all of which reminds her of where she came from and who she truly is: her father&rsquo;s daughter. With a sensitive yet strong voice, Ann Hood&rsquo;s &ldquo;spiritual quest to make sense of her father&rsquo;s fatal illness is rendered with exceptional grace&rdquo; in a story that &ldquo;affectingly explores the link between faith and family ties&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). &ldquo;[Ann Hood] creates an entire world of belief and tradition that sustains her. . . . The miracle that truly nurtures her is her art.&rdquo; &mdash;The Providence Journal &ldquo;This memoir is every bit as breathtaking as the poem after which it is named.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly </div>

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Something Blue

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Waiting to Vanish

Ruby

Do Not Go Gentle

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Do Not Go Gentle

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