The Scent of Salt is a romantic and dramatic novel, sensual and cinematic, that weaves passion, suspense and mystery into an adult love story — forbidden and impossible to forget.Two lives that are perfect only in appearance. Two families. A forbidden encounter destined to change everything.In Porto Sanvelio, a seaside city where the wind brings even the deepest secrets to the surface, Lorenzo Valenti and Elena Roversi meet by chance in front of their children's school gate....

The deepest bonds are made neither of ropes nor of knots, yet no one can undo them. (Lao Tzu)New Year's Eve 1999. On the eve of the new millennium, Guglielmo's life changes forever. A truth kept silent for twenty years suddenly resurfaces, drawing him into a story rooted long before his birth. A mysterious pendant. An ancient book. An unbroken promise. Between past and present, light and shadow, Guglielmo must navigate the invisible bonds that unite him to what he thought he didn't...

The Scent of Salt is a romantic and dramatic novel, sensual and cinematic, that weaves passion, suspense and mystery into an adult love story — forbidden and impossible to forget.Two lives that are perfect only in appearance. Two families. A forbidden encounter destined to change everything. In Porto Sanvelio, a seaside city where the wind brings even the deepest secrets to the surface, Lorenzo Valenti and Elena Roversi meet by chance in front of their children's school gate. He is...

The deepest bonds are made neither of ropes nor of knots, yet no one can undo them. (Lao Tzu)New Year's Eve 1999. On the eve of the new millennium, Guglielmo's life changes forever. A truth kept silent for twenty years suddenly resurfaces, drawing him into a story rooted long before his birth. A mysterious pendant. An ancient book. An unbroken promise. Between past and present, light and shadow, Guglielmo must navigate the invisible bonds that unite him to what he thought he didn't...

In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the motivations of family and friends. Backbreaking work keeps most of the townspeople busy from dawn to dusk, and racial tensions abound. For parents, it...

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • San Francisco Chronicle • New York Public Library • Refinery29 • Real SimpleLorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 193...

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize*:* a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Clair...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World.""Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgr...

From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, a “poignant, powerful” (Boston Globe) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world ...

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father ...

Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavini...

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown chil...