Pippa Bennett-Warner
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 8
Language
English
Description
As the general election looms, Kathryn considers an offer that could change everything. And where will the nation find itself after the most divisive of election campaigns?
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 6
Language
English
Description
Kathryn and Caden plan to take on Max - who is working on a strategy of his own.
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 5
Language
English
Description
Kathryn, Max and Caden gather at a remote rural house for a family reckoning.
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 7
Language
English
Description
While Max is thrust into the public eye, Caden prepares to sacrifice himself.
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 2
Language
English
Description
With their son fighting for life, the story of Max and Kathryn's relationship is revealed.
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 4
Language
English
Description
As Caden spirals, Kathryn learns the dark secrets of Max's media empire.
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tragedy strikes a fractured family at the heart of politics and power.
Author
Series
MotherFatherSon volume 3
Language
English
Description
Kathryn dedicates herself to Caden's recovery as Max looks to the future.
9) Wakefield
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner star in a film about a successful but overwrought businessman who seemingly vanishes, but all is not quite as it seems.
10) Wakefield
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
Author
Language
English
Description
Motherless, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip, and is told that the word means "slave girl." Learning that words relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded, Esme begins...
12) Swing time
Author
Language
English
Description
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
Author
Language
English
Description
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of Englands irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesnt quite...
14) A spy like me
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elite team of MI6 agents trained by James Bond must go undercover to unravel a band of violent terrorists. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he was when he left a clue at the black site where the insidious private military company Rattenfänger held him captive. MI6 cannot spare any more lives attempting to track down one missing agent--no exceptions, even for Bond. But Johanna Harwood, 003, has her own agenda. Sidelined by her superiors while...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Bond is missing... 007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts unknown. Meet the new generation of spies... Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph Dryden, 004. Sid Bashir, 009. They represent the very best and brightest of MI6. Supremely skilled, ruthless, with a license to kill, they will do anything to protect their country. The fate of the world rests in their hands... Tech billionaire Sir Bertram...
16) The demon world
Author
Series
Smoke thieves volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
King Aloysius discovers that demons' smoke will enable him to build an army of children to help expand his realm and power. Princess Catherine calls upon her allies who can use their unique talents to stop him as he breaches the barriers between worlds and unleashes demons upon the kingdom.
17) A Bit of Light
Author
Language
English
Description
Ella, at almost forty, is forced to move back in with her father Alan. She's trying to stay sober having temporarily given up custody of her young daughters to her ex-husband Joseph and his new partner Bethan.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, a wry, moving debut novel about a pair of unforgettable siblings and a love triangle of sorts—one with math as its beating heart.
One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2023
Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they're bound together by the tragic
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