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This profound portrait of family life takes listeners inside the hearts and minds of members of the Quick family, whose raw-edged emotions are stirred up by a visit home. An inexplicably violent death and painful confrontations leave every family member forever changed. Rich in insight and psychological entanglements, A Southern Family is a masterful tale of anger and pain, of love and hatred, and ultimately of healing, understanding, and wisdom.

Zee Finch, a therapist, decides to walk away from her practice after one of her patients commits suicide and returns home to care for her father, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but finds herself confronted with locked away feelings of grief she has kept hidden about her mother's own suicide.

Follows a woman's chaotic and often tragicomic journey through the weeks that follow her husband's suicide on Valentine's Day.

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult, is dictating his memoirs into the record of Flight 2039. The plane is on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Branson is alone on the flight; the plane is programmed to crash into the Australian Outback. Before the plane crashes, however, Branson will have recorded his transformation from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed...

"Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"-- Provided by publisher.

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...

Lady Asano vows to avenge the forced suicide execution of her father and restore his name to honor. To do so she will have to travel the Tokaido Road.

Cloe Windsor discovered that the truth could kill when her famous, rich and charming husband committed suicide.... Fleur FitzPatrick found out that the truth could kill during the long and painful journey to avenge her father's death. Caroline Hunterton had always known of its destructive power, but her long buried past was a secret which could not be kept forever. From the Suffolk countryside in World War II to the decadence of post war Hollywood,...

"In her rich and absorbing new novel, Anne Tyler gives us the story of a young man haunted by guilt over his brother's fate - and of his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. It is an "ideal, apple-pie household," and seventeen-year-old Ian has all the usual expectations and dreams for the future. That is, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life - and...

"A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past"-- Provided by publisher.