The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on.

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Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, book one in this series follows Lila and Elena from their first fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists

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came to see that her family was not an ordinary one. Her father, Max, was an artist and an alcoholic. Her mother was Fredelle Maynard, a brilliant academic who could not get a teaching job because she was a woman. Instead she became a writer and, above all, a driving, loving, ambitious, overpowering mother. In her shadow (and that of younger sister Joyce) Rona took time to blossom as a writer and editor in Toronto. This book takes us through her career, including the miseries of being accused by her son's teachers -- and her own mother -- of being a bad mother, overly concerned with her own career.

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As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have re-entered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society.

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In this sequel to 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven', Mitch Albom tells the story of Annie -- the little girl Eddie saved on Ruby Pier -- and the five people she meets in heaven, where she is reunited with Eddie in a surprising and unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.

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In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France.

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A heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage's collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love.

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A memoir by Canada's top defence lawyer, this book is the author’s personal story with her strongly held views on society's most pressing issues, legal and otherwise. She shares her unvarnished view on the ethical and practical implications of being a criminal lawyer, and how the job is misunderstood and even demonized. This book is refreshingly honest, intimate, and surprising, of a woman at the top of her game in a male-dominated profession who demands to be heard.

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A blazing talent debuts with the tale of Olga, a status-driven wedding planner, grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, this is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream - all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.

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The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a 19th century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

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