HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE.
As
a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a
shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent
herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome
blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s
worked so hard to achieve.
But Ani has a secret.
There’s
something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something
private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy
everything.
With a singular voice and twists you won’t
see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so
many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp
edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth,
and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.
The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?
“It
was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how
Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red
that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that
radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But
they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell
themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four
grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and
celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully
guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in
Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the
family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four
generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the
sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their
anchor.
Brimming with all the insight, humor, and
generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A
Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise
of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.
The
Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or
at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear.
His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear
and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered
world.
Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable
marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings
of the American Dream: a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect
life.
Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a
devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the
mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam
finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne’s
deception, and realizes that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves,
the conspiracy he’s stumbled into will not only ruin lives—it will end
them.
Detective
Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense
attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally
murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former
gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad,
Mickey is sure it's a setup.
Bosch doesn't want
anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels
it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide
cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry
proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are
obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution.
Though
it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case.
The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out
for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the
secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging.
Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he
realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.
Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …
The
man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb
left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when
Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man
she loved wasn’t just dead. He never really existed.
Shelby
takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in
her hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful
contractor. But her husband had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in
this small town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she
knows—and threatens Griff, as well. And an attempted murder is only the
beginning
