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The Weekend Effect

The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork

by Katrina Onstad ...

A well-lived weekend is the gateway to a well-lived life. The Weekend Effect shows us how by saving the weekend we can save ourselves.The weekend—the once-sacred forty-eight hours of leisure—has been lost to overbooked schedules, pinging devices and encroaching work demands. Many of us are working more hours than we did a decade ago, and worse, we allow those hours to slide over seven days a week, ... Read more

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A well-lived weekend is the gateway to a well-lived life. The Weekend Effect shows us how by saving the weekend we can save ourselves.The weekend—the once-sacred forty-eight hours of leisure—has been lost to overbooked schedules, pinging devices and encroaching work demands. Many of us are working more hours than we did a decade ago, and worse, we allow those hours to slide over seven days a week,
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Everybody Has Everything

by Katrina Onstad ...

What happens when the tidy, prosperous life of an urban couple is turned inside out by a tragedy with unexpected consequences? After a car crash leaves their friend Marcus dead and his wife Sarah in a coma, Ana and James are shocked to discover that they have become the legal guardians of a 2½-year-old, Finn. Finn's crash-landing in their lives throws into high relief deeply rooted, and sometimes ... Read more

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What happens when the tidy, prosperous life of an urban couple is turned inside out by a tragedy with unexpected consequences? After a car crash leaves their friend Marcus dead and his wife Sarah in a coma, Ana and James are shocked to discover that they have become the legal guardians of a 2½-year-old, Finn. Finn's crash-landing in their lives throws into high relief deeply rooted, and sometimes
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Stay Where I Can See You

A Novel

by Katrina Onstad ...

Does good fortune always change things for the better?The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the ... Read more

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Does good fortune always change things for the better?The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the
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How Happy to Be

by Katrina Onstad ...

Sharp, urban, witty, wise — this sparkling debut is the thinking woman’s answer to chick lit Maxime is an entertainment writer at a flailing neo-con newspaper. She’s been dining out too long, literally and figuratively, on a culture of celebrity worship and empty punditry. She seeks refuge from her better judgment in endless parties, ritual substance abuse, and half-hearted attempts to get herself ... Read more

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Sharp, urban, witty, wise — this sparkling debut is the thinking woman’s answer to chick lit Maxime is an entertainment writer at a flailing neo-con newspaper. She’s been dining out too long, literally and figuratively, on a culture of celebrity worship and empty punditry. She seeks refuge from her better judgment in endless parties, ritual substance abuse, and half-hearted attempts to get herself
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Ground Control

Losing My Child to Suicide

by Marlo Miazga ...

A raw and unflinching memoir about a mother’s search for answers after her child’s suicide and what grief looks like when love has nowhere to go.Suicide is a trajectory, one that cofounds those left behind.When Marlo Miazga’s fourteen-year-old child Mars dies by suicide after less than a year of visible mental health struggle, her world fractures overnight. What follows is not only grief but ... Read more

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A raw and unflinching memoir about a mother’s search for answers after her child’s suicide and what grief looks like when love has nowhere to go.Suicide is a trajectory, one that cofounds those left behind.When Marlo Miazga’s fourteen-year-old child Mars dies by suicide after less than a year of visible mental health struggle, her world fractures overnight. What follows is not only grief but
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Stay Where I Can See You

A Novel

by Katrina Onstad ...

Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

Does good fortune always change things for the better?The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the ... Read more

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Does good fortune always change things for the better?The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the
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Ground Control

Losing My Child to Suicide

by Marlo Miazga ...

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A raw and unflinching memoir about a mother’s search for answers after her child’s suicide and what grief looks like when love has nowhere to go.Suicide is a trajectory, one that cofounds those left behind.When Marlo Miazga’s fourteen-year-old child Mars dies by suicide after less than a year of visible mental health struggle, her world fractures overnight. What follows is not only grief but ... Read more

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A raw and unflinching memoir about a mother’s search for answers after her child’s suicide and what grief looks like when love has nowhere to go.Suicide is a trajectory, one that cofounds those left behind.When Marlo Miazga’s fourteen-year-old child Mars dies by suicide after less than a year of visible mental health struggle, her world fractures overnight. What follows is not only grief but
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If Only

A Novel

by Kate Eberlen ...

Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

Unabridged

13 hours 6 min

Kate Eberlen, the bestselling author of Miss You, returns with a serendipitous and modern romance. For fans of David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes, If Only is the story of two people who fall in love and the secrets that tear them apart.How can you know someone until you learn to talk about the past?Letty and Alf are the only English speakers in an Italian class in Rome, where they discover that the ... Read more

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Kate Eberlen, the bestselling author of Miss You, returns with a serendipitous and modern romance. For fans of David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes, If Only is the story of two people who fall in love and the secrets that tear them apart.How can you know someone until you learn to talk about the past?Letty and Alf are the only English speakers in an Italian class in Rome, where they discover that the
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The Gone Dead

A Novel

by Chanelle Benz ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since.Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is ... Read more

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Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since.Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is
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Mother Knows Best

A Novel of Suspense

by Kira Peikoff ...

Narrated by Sophie Amoss, Marni Penning, Jennifer Jill Araya ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

A mother’s worst nightmare, a chance at redemption, and a deadly secret that haunts a family across the generationsThere’s only room for one mother in this family.Claire Abrams’s dreams became a nightmare when she passed on a genetic mutation that killed her little boy. Now she wants a second chance to be a mother, and finds it in Robert Nash, a maverick fertility doctor who works under the radar ... Read more

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A mother’s worst nightmare, a chance at redemption, and a deadly secret that haunts a family across the generationsThere’s only room for one mother in this family.Claire Abrams’s dreams became a nightmare when she passed on a genetic mutation that killed her little boy. Now she wants a second chance to be a mother, and finds it in Robert Nash, a maverick fertility doctor who works under the radar
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No Going Back

A Novel

by Sheena Kamal ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

9 hours 27 min

From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back.Find your enemy. Before he finds you.Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers’ surfaces, and for knowing what they’re working hard to keep hidden. ... Read more

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From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back.Find your enemy. Before he finds you.Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers’ surfaces, and for knowing what they’re working hard to keep hidden.
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The Virgin Cure

by Ami McKay ...

The much-anticipated follow-up to The Birth House, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most powerful storytellers."I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart."The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the ... Read more

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The much-anticipated follow-up to The Birth House, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most powerful storytellers."I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart."The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the
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