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"The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned. If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry-and relate.) Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts...

"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...

"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"-- Provided by publisher.

"The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything, despite growing up in a devout Catholic family. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened. When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting--though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits. Still, the more...

Scope and content: In a single large 165-page volume (11" x 16"x 1.75"), the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. recorded all accidents (most very minor injuries to employees) which took place from January, 1954 through May, 1958. Ledger book entries tell the who, when, and where of these injuries, plus additional remarks from the company's standpoint. All entries are handwritten on pages 1-62; the remainder of the volume is blank.

"The Linde siblings--Kellen, Davina, and Morel--are anxious to return to the kingdom of Halgyr before their father dies, leaving Kellen to assume the throne as king ... but disaster strikes when the train engine explodes, stranding the siblings atop a caldera bubbling with volcanic magic. The crash triggers Davina's latent witch powers ... While a witch would be the prime suspect for the catastrophe, the only ones who knew Davina might become one...