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Ali Azeem is a successful Mumbai wedding photographer, but, to his worried Ma, his life will only begin when he marries the right Ismaili …
Readers will find all the timeless themes of Louise May Alcott’s Little Women—family, independence, selflessness, love, ambition and sisterhood—in Katie Bernet’s debut YA novel, …
A recent widower, Harry Lancaster spends most of his time at home, nursing a fractured hip. Entertainment comes in the form of some Rear …
The search for a missing young woman forces Evan Smoak, also known as the Nowhere Man or Orphan X, into a rabbit hole of …
Through the alternating viewpoints of the newlyweds and someone who’s watching them, we follow the unhappy Paris honeymoon of Olivier and Cassie and the …
George, beloved sheepdog trainer, was shot and killed while standing in an open field, not an accident, but murder. Maddie McGowan, his friend and …