"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...

A spellbinding tale of two spirited men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to find home within their own skin. An enthralling nautical epic, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s. A natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed "alley mutt" without a birth certificate who searches...

"Iris Flynn is an acerbic, self-sufficient seventy-three-year-old widow...Her composed and simplified existence is disrupted when her son Frank lands on her doorstep after his rental home is destroyed in a wildfire...Soon, news from her estranged family in Maine forces everyone out of their comfort zone. Iris convinces Frank...to travel with her to the potato farm from where she made a quick getaway fifty years earlier, unleashing a funny and poignant...

"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--

Called Firefox by her grandfather, thirteen-year-old Maggie Lou, an irrepressible heroine who always finds ways to make life more interesting, learns how to box, joins her father's construction crew and goes on her first deer hunt, where she joins a long family tradition.

"In parallel timelines, mother Kate Baker lives a life where her 9-year-old daughter drowns and another life in which she survives. Can the entire course of our lives be traced back to a single moment?"--

"A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bookshop involved in an espionage network, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff"--

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state-separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of Franois and...

Raised as an orphan in a traveling circus, Cecily Larson is now 94 and living a quiet life in Minnesota, with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandson. But when her family decides to surprise her with an at-home DNA test, the unexpected results not only bring to light the tragic love story that Cecily has kept hidden, but also throw into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own for nearly seventy years.

1943. Situé sur la côte gaspésienne, le village de Grande-Vallée ne cesse d'étonner par sa beauté, mais là comme ailleurs, la pauvreté règne en souveraine. La famille de Jonas et d'Adélina Minville compte déjà six enfants, un septième serait de trop et ferait basculer le fragile équilibre monétaire, de même que la santé précaire de la mère qui se retrouve prise en étau entre les enseignements de l'Église et l'obéissance à son...