Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in.
But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body, most of the time.
She’s is on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her alwaysdietingmotherforcedher to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted.
Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that something isn’t right. Norcansheescapethememories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously.
WhenAbbygetsalast-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip fromNYCtoNiagaraFalls,she’s happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.
But things get complicated fast when Abby spots the familiar face of Sebastian in the group, the one-night stand she thought she’d never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away.
In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then there’s a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she’s still trying to undo.
Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.
The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner is a novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fundherschoolforimpoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while warcriesareheardfromFrance, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world.
Asinstitutionsarechallenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters' lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war.
An epic continuation of the series that began with The Pillars of the Earth , The Armor of Ligh t by Ken Follett, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.
The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.
In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her.
TheRunningGrave byRobert Galbraith is the seventh installment in the Strike series, with PrivatedetectiveduoCormoran.