Entertaining Stories with Witty Dialogue

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The Peach Keeper

By Sarah Addison Allen

F ALLEN

Returning to the hometown of her youth after a failed marriage, Willa struggles to find her place in a community where she no longer feels like she belongs, uncovers a 60-year family feud and falls for a strangely secretive man.

The Forgotten Garden

By Kate Morton

F MORTON

Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

Peace Like a River

By Leif Enger

F ENGER

The quiet 1960s Midwestern life of the Land family--father Jeremiah, and children, Reuben, Davy and Swede--is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. On the morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.

Stardust

By Neil Gaiman

SCI-FI GAIMAN

Living in a Victorian countryside town overshadowed by an imposing stone barrier, Tristran is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses to the wondrous other side of the barrier, where he encounters dangerous rivals for the star.

A Grown-up Kind of Pretty

By Joshilyn Jackson

F JACKSON

Three generations of women live under one roof. The first two were unwed mothers while still in their teens and the third is desperate to create a different kind of future for herself. But she will her family’s past is hard to escape and the installation of a pool in the back yard of their home uncovers a mystery that will unsettle them all.