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Come Hell or Highball: A Mystery (Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries)

by Maia Chance

Published: 2016-09-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune...or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pi...

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Before Everything: A Novel

by Victoria Redel

Published: 2018-07-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality“Everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be—smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching...

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Crewe Train (Virago Modern Classics)

by Rose Macaulay

Published: 2018-04-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behav...

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The Mother-in-Law Cure (Originally published as Only in Naples): Learning to Live and Eat in an Italian Family

by Katherine Wilson

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad. Thanks to a surprising romance—and a spirited wo...

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If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

by Sharon Blackie

Published: 2017-04-18

Paperback: 400 pages

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2016 Nautilus Award Silver Winner in the Women category"I love this book. Truly, it's mind-blowing in the most profound and exhilarating sense." —Manda Scott, author of Boudica and Into the FireThis is the second edition of a uniquely empowering, international word-of-mouth bestseller ab...

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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)

by Nan Shepherd

Published: 2011-08-18

Paperback: 160 pages

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In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, ...

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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes

by Colette Rossant

Published: 2004-04-20

Paperback: 160 pages

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Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents' belle époque mansion by the Nile, the five-year-old Colette finds companionship and comfort among the other "outsiders" in he...

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The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man: A Novel (Ruddy McCann)

by W. Bruce Cameron

Published: 2016-05-31

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture!"The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man introduces my favorite kind of flawed cynical protagonist in Ruddy McCann, former football star, now Repo Man in a...

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Prodigal Son: A Novel (Mike Garrity Mystery)

by Thomas B. Cavanagh

Published: 2008-07-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Three months after he’s undergone surgery to remove a brain tumor, retired police detective Mike Garrity’s cancer is in remission. It’s great news, but when you’ve been planning to only live for a few months, you don’t normally worry about savings. A return to health also means a...

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365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy

by Charla Muller, Betsy Thorpe

Published: 2008-06-24

Paperback: 270 pages

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When Charla Muller?s husband turned 40, she gave him something memorable. Sex. Every day. For an entire year. The Mullers had a solid marriage and two wonderful children, but over the years sex had fallen low on their to-do list. The lack of intimacy wasn?t causing them to drift apart, exa...