false 24409 43409 0345483170 9780345483171 238 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170106818m/43409.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170106818s/43409.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43409.How_to_Be_Lost_A_Novel 3.44 1632
Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in a magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. Armed with copies of the photo, an amateur detective guide, and a cooler of Dixie beer, Caroline travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, and the smoky underworld of Montana, determined to salvage her broken family.]]> 24409 3.51 2706 515 2004 60488 0060582294 9780060582296 91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170542593m/60488.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170542593s/60488.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60488.Sleep_Toward_Heaven_A_Novel 3.82 458 Amanda Eyre Ward’s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer.
In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowen's awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists the urge to run from her fiancé and her carefully crafted life. In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrant librarian, mourns her murdered husband.
Over the course of the summer, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelation of the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, and the value of life. Sleep Toward Heaven is a luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace-- a rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetually within arm’s reach.]]> 24409 3.51 2706 515 2003 60489 0345494466 9780345494467 114 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170542593m/60489.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170542593s/60489.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60489.Forgive_Me_A_Novel 3.44 401 Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness.
As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left her with a broken heart. Haunted by guilt and a sense of remorse, and hoping to lose herself in her coverage of the murder trial, Nadine grows closer to Jason’s mother as well as to the mother of one of Jason’s killers- with profound consequences. In a country both foreign and familiar, Nadine is forced to face long-buried demons, come to terms with the missing pieces of her own family past, and learn what it means to truly love and to forgive.
]]> 24409 3.51 2706 515 2007 6144544 0812980115 9780812980110 45 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/61/544/6144544-m-1255717255.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/61/544/6144544-s-1255717255.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6144544.Love_Stories_in_This_Town 3.47 132 How to Be Lost and Forgive Me— twelve illuminating stories about love, identity, and motherhood in a changing world.
Acclaimed author Amanda Eyre Ward has written a stunning collection of twelve stories about love in all its complexity, absurdity, and glory. From San Francisco to Savannah, Texas to Montana, Amanda Eyre Ward’s characters are united in their fervent search for a place where they truly belong. In a Maine cabin, a family tragedy forces Bill and Lizzy to take a hard look at their own lives. Casey, a suburban New Yorker with a wry sense of humor, braves the dating scene after losing her husband. Annie, a librarian in a small mining town, must choose between the only home she’s ever known and the possibility of a new life. And in six linked stories spanning a decade of her life, Lola Wilkerson navigates elopement, motherhood, and lingering questions about who she wants to be when she grows up.
With writing as evocative as it is striking, Amanda Eyre Ward once again proves herself an astute interpreter of emotions both familiar and strange. Whether exploring the fierceness of a mother’s love or the consolations of marriage, these stories are imbued with humor, clear-eyed insight, and emotional richness.]]> 24409 3.51 2706 515 2009 6570788 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6570788-forgive-me 3.00 1 How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood.

Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart–until she hears the story of Jason Irving.

Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness.

As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left her with a broken heart. Haunted by guilt and a sense of remorse, and hoping to lose herself in her coverage of the murder trial, Nadine grows closer to Jason’s mother as well as to the mother of one of Jason’s killers–with profound consequences. In a country both foreign and familiar, Nadine is forced to face long-buried demons, come to terms with the missing pieces of her own family past, and learn what it means to truly love and to forgive.

With her dazzling prose and resonant themes, Amanda Eyre Ward has joined the ranks of such beloved American novelists as Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett. Gripping, darkly humorous, and luminous, Forgive Me is an unforgettable story of dreams and longing, betrayal and redemption.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 24409 3.51 2706 515 2008 6570787 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6570787-love-stories-in-this-town 0.0 0

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 24409 3.51 2706 515 2009 6745953 1846484448 9781846484445 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745953-forgive-me 0.0 0 24409 3.51 2706 515 2008 6745990 3442751551 9783442751556 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745990-winterschwestern 0.0 0 24409 3.51 2706 515 2006 7010642 0345504917 9780345504913 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/70/642/7010642-m-1255968870.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/70/642/7010642-s-1255968870.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7010642-forgive-me 0.0 0 24409 3.51 2706 515 2008