Title: The Summer SailAuthor: Wendy FrancisCategories: Books, FictionGenre: FictionPublished: 2018-05-01ISBN13: 9781501188923Page Count: 320“A great summer read for fans of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.” (Library Journal) A trio of college friends who reunite aboard a cruise ship experience an unforgettable vacation in this compelling novel …
“Here’s the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my mama never let me forget it.”
Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose. She already had a carer assigned to her at the time, and I remember it taking a bit of nerve on my part. But in the end I managed it, and the instant I saw her again, at that recovery centre in Dover, all our differences—while they didn’t exactly vanish—seemed not nearly as important as all the other things: like the fact that we’d grown up together at Hailsham, the fact that we knew and remembered things no one else did. It’s ever since then, I suppose, I started seeking out for my donors people from the past, and whenever I could, people from Hailsham.
Title: The Girl in the Red Coat Categories: Books, Fiction Genre: Fiction Published: 2016 ISBN13: 9781612195001 Page Count: 336 The New York Times “Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip… What’s most powerful here is not whodunnit, or even why, but how this …
Pino walked up behind the Nazi, wide-eyed in disbelief.
Not five meters from him stood Benito Mussolini.
“General Leyers,” Mussolini said, nodding, and then turning his rheumy eyes on Pino. “Who the hell are you?”
“In love, we find out who we want to be: in war, we find out who we are.”