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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto 'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The D...

A dazzling new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the Orange Prize-winning author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto?The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' - John BoyneDanny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved si...

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious children's story about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's t...

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Patchett, the New York Times-bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with a moving story exploring the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.

New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and BuzzfeedAnn Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving s...

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Patchett, the New York Times-bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with a moving story exploring the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.

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Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder and Commonwealth.

On the farm there was a flock of lambs who believed that everything was done especially for them. The grass grew to please them and the rain fell to annoy them.So when the lambs overhear the Farmer family say something about winning a school election by a landslide, of course they hear the word LAMBSLIDE.Wait . . . there’s a slide made just for lambs?!“How do we get a lambslide?” they all wonder.There’s only one thing to do: Take a vote!

Nashville: Scenes from the New American South beautifully captures my home city of Nashville in this exciting moment of change and growth.— AL GOREThis book is excruciatingly gorgeous. Every page makes me homesick. —CONNIE BRITTON A great book about a great city.— JOHN PRINEThis has been a time of such great change for Nashville that I think we are all very curious to see who we are now.— GILLIAN WELCHThis book reminds me, in the sweetest way ...

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Wäre Bert Cousins nicht uneingeladen auf der Taufe von Franny Keating erschienen, all das wäre nicht passiert. Aber noch bevor der Abend hereinbricht,  haben er und Frannys Mutter sich geküsst und damit das Ende ihrer jeweiligen Ehen eingeläutet - und beide Familien für immer miteinander verbunden. Ihre Kinder schmieden über die Jahre ein dauerhaftes Bündnis, sowohl aus Enttäuschung über die eigenen Eltern, als auch aus echter, stetig wachsend...

Una domenica pomeriggio, nella California del Sud, Bert Cousins si presenta senza invito alla festa per il battesimo della piccola Franny Keating. La festa si protrae a lungo ed entro sera Bert, seguendo un impulso improvviso, bacia la madre di Franny, Beverly, innescando così la dissoluzione dei rispettivi matrimoni e l'unificazione delle due famiglie. L'incontro romantico inaspettato di Beverly e Bert si riverbera nella vita dei quattro geni...

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One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. The Keating and Cousins childre...

The author of "Bel Canto" -- winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running "New York Times" bestseller -- turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when that person is not your lover, but your best friend? In her frank ...