By Lemony Snicket

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX unique SERIES

Dear Reader,

If you haven't learn something concerning the Baudelaire orphans, then earlier than you learn even another sentence, you have to recognize this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, yet their lives, i'm sorry to assert, are packed with undesirable success and distress. all the tales approximately those 3 young children are unsatisfied and wretched, and this one could be the worst of all of them. should you do not have the tummy for a narrative that features a typhoon, a signalling equipment, hungry leeches, chilly cucumber soup, a terrible villain, and a doll named lovely Penny, then this e-book will most likely fill you with melancholy. i'll proceed to checklist those tragic stories, for that's what I do. You, besides the fact that, may still make a decision for your self no matter if you could almost certainly undergo this depressing story.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

By Tony Parsons

"Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns."—Express

"A touching novel! filled with tenderness and written from the heart."—Independent

"A sharp, witty, and clever book."—Daily Mail

Some occasions to prevent while getting ready on your all-important, finally-I-am-fully-grown 30th birthday.

•Having a one-night stand with a colleague from work.
•The rash buy of luxurious goods you cannot afford.
•Being left by means of your wife.
•Losing your job.
•Suddenly turning into a unmarried parent.

If you're bobbing up on thirty, no matter what you do, do not do any of that. it is going to f*** up all your day.

By Barbara Delinsky

A vintage novel from New York Times bestselling writer Barbara Delinsky, The Carpenter’s woman is the poignant and romantic tale of 2 humans trying to rebuild their lives. After a painful divorce, a profitable author leaves New York for New Hampshire, the place she hopes to fix her damaged middle. but if she meets a compellingly enigmatic wood worker, a brand new love starts off . . .

By T. Greenwood

T. Greenwood's new novel is a strong, haunting story of putting up with love, harmful secrets and techniques, and possibilities that arrive in cover . . .

In Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery resides a lifestyles overshadowed via grief and guilt. because the demise of his spouse, Betsy, twelve years past, Harper has narrowed his international to operating on the neighborhood railroad and elevating his daughter, Shelly, the way he is aware how. nonetheless wracked with sorrow over the lack of his life-long love and laid low with his position in a brutal, long-ago crime, he wishes simply to atone for his previous errors.

Then one fall day, a teach derails in Rivers, and amid the wreckage Harper reveals an unforeseen likelihood at atonement. one of many survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old lady with mismatched eyes and dermis the colour of blackberries, wishes a spot to stick. although choked with misgivings, Harper deals to take Maggie in. however it isn't really lengthy ahead of he starts off to suspect that Maggie's visual appeal in Rivers isn't the basic case of happenstance it first looked to be.

"TWO RIVERS is a dismal and beautiful elegy, full of heartbreak that turns itself into wish and forgiveness. I felt so moved by way of this luminous novel." --Luanne Rice, New York occasions bestselling writer

"Two Rivers is a convergence of stories, a reminder that the prior by no means washes away, and but, in T. Greenwood's tender dealing with of time long gone and time to come back, love and forgiveness wait at the different aspect of what lifestyles does to us and what we do to it. This novel is a delicate and suspenseful portrayal of family members and the binds that bind." --Lee Martin, writer of The shiny endlessly and River of Heaven

"The premise of TWO RIVERS is appealing: the very morning a perilous teach derailment upsets the stability of a sleepy Vermont city, a mysterious woman appear on Harper Montgomery's doorstep, forcing him to dredge up a life of memories--from his happy, indelible youth to his lonely, modern life. so much of all, he needs to glance hard and long at that bad evening twelve years in the past, whilst every thing he held expensive was once taken from him, and he, in flip, took again. T. Greenwood's novel is filled with love, betrayal, misplaced hopes, and a burning query: is it ever too overdue to discover redemption?" - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, writer of The results of Light and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize-winning Set Me Free

"From the instant the educate derails within the city of 2 Rivers, i used to be hooked. who's this mysterious younger stranger named Maggie, and what's she working from? In Two Rivers, T. Greenwood weaves a haunting tale during which the sins of the previous threaten to wreck the delicate equilibrium of the current. Ripe with stunning twists and heart-breakingly genuine characters, Two Rivers is a awesome and complicated examine race and forgiveness in small-town America." --Michelle Richmond, New York instances Bestselling writer of The yr of Fog and No One you recognize

"Two Rivers is a stark, haunting tale of redemption and salvation. T. Greenwood portrays an international of good looks and peace that, as soon as disturbed, reverberates with searing discomfort and inescapable outcomes; this can be a tale of a guy who struggles with the private, darkest elements of his soul, and is ready to struggle his strategy to the skin to respire back. yet also--maybe extra so--it is the tale of a guy who learns the real which means of relatives: while i'm with you, i'm domestic. A memorable, robust work." --Garth Stein, New York occasions bestselling writer of The artwork of Racing within the Rain

Praise for T. Greenwood's Novels

Undressing The Moon

"This appealing tale, eloquently informed, calls for consciousness. hugely recommended." –Library Journal (starred overview)

"Greenwood has skillfully controlled to create a singular with unforgettable characters, finely honed descriptions, and gorgeous imagery." –Book highway USA

"A lyrical, delicately affecting tale." –Publishers Weekly

closer Than The Sky

"Greenwood is an guaranteed consultant via this unusual territory; she has a lush, evocative style." –The ny instances ebook Review

"Greenwood writes with grace and compassion approximately loyalty and betrayal, love and redemption during this completely soaking up novel approximately daughters and mothers." –Ursula Hegi, writer of Stones from the River

"A complex tale of affection and abuse informed with a directness and depth that packs a lightning charge." –Booklist

respiring Water

"A brilliant, somberly attractive first book." –Larry McMurtry, writer of Lonesome Dove

"A poignant, clear-eyed first novel. . .filled with cautious poetic description. . .the tale woven skillfully." –The ny instances e-book Review

By Johanna Moran

While Henry Oades accepts an accountancy submit in New Zealand, his spouse, Margaret, and their kids persist with him to unique Wellington. yet whereas Henry is an adventurer, Margaret isn't really. Their new house is rougher and extra rustic than they expected—and a unmarried evening of tragedy shatters the relations whilst the local Maori degree an rebellion, kidnapping Margaret and her children.

    For months, Henry scours the encompassing desolate tract, till all desire is misplaced and his spouse and youngsters are presumed lifeless. Grief-stricken, he books passage to California. There he marries Nancy Foreland, a tender widow with a brand new child, and it kind of feels they’ve either came across happiness in the middle of their mourning—until Henry’s first spouse and kids appear, alive and having ultimately escaped captivity.

    Narrated essentially through the 2 better halves, and in response to a real-life felony case, The other halves of Henry Oades is the riveting tale of what occurs while Henry, Margaret, and Nancy face persecution for bigamy. Exploring the intricacies of marriage, the development of family members, the altering global of the past due 1800s, and the power of 2 striking girls, Johanna Moran turns this strange family’s tale into an unforgettable page-turning drama.

By Laurie B Friedman, Tamara Schmitz

Eight-year-old Mallory feels skipped over whilst her older brother, Max, will get a puppy that turns into the heart of recognition.

By Maeve Binchy

As a baby, Elizabeth White was once despatched from her war-torn London domestic to a more secure lifestyles within the small Irish city of Kilgarret. It used to be there, within the crowded, chaotic O'Connor family, that she met Aisling-who could develop into her absolute best buddy, sharing her puppy kitten and secretly instructing her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness introduced Elizabeth out of her right shell; later, her aid carried Elizabeth throughout the painful finish of her mom and dad' cold marriage. In go back, Elizabeth's friendship helped Aisling undergo her personal unsatisfying marriage to a raging alcoholic. over the years, they continuously believed they can triumph over any clash, triumph over any hassle. They believed they can live to tell the tale something, so long as that they had one another. Now they are approximately to determine in the event that they have been correct.

By Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

Left with a babysitter for the 1st time, Brother and Sister undergo are yes they might not like her. yet together with her bag of methods and comforting means of tucking them in, Mrs. Grizzle wins them over.

The Aldens stopover at eire and remain in a gorgeous fortress that’s now a lodge! however the caretaker turns out very superstitious, and at evening they see a mysterious determine who walks the halls sporting a lantern. might or not it's one of many banshees of old legend? The Boxcar childrens needs to notice the key that Duncarraig citadel is hiding!

By Michael Buckley

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