Julia is in California at her aunt and uncle’s lemon orchard house sitting for them while they are in Ireland. The author pays superb attention to detail, with the vivid descriptions, and characters who are dealing with love, loss,...
The island of Oahu is warm breezes, skyscrapers and green mountains-but a daring young thief is out to make a statement, and Special Agent Lei Texeira’s new career is already on the line. Lei Texeira has made a difficult...
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his children. One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the...
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini’s deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s,...
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner: to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace: to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and,...
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