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I promise: you will never forget this extraordinary story. Love, connection, loyalty, raw humanity and much more are the ingredients of this most unusual novel. Lori Lansens' blend of tragedy and comedy will touch you deeply' Isabel Allende

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We've been called many things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches, retards, wonders, marvels. To most, we're a curiosity. In small-town Leaford, where we live and work, we're just 'The Girls.'”Rose and Ruby Darlen are closer than most twin sisters. Indeed, they have spent their twenty-nine years on earth joined at the head. Given that they share a web of essential veins, there is no possibility that they can be separated in their lifet...

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Mary Gooch was once young and slender and carefree. But with each passing year shes accumulated an excess of pounds and worries. On the eve of her 25th wedding anniversary, her handsome husband does not come home. Shocked out of her inertia, Mary boards a plane for the first time and begins a desperate search. With a surge of energy that she hasnt felt in years, Mary fights for her husband while she reflects upon a life half lived. Accustomed ...

Now in paperback, this is a highly emotional novel which examines family dynamic, from the author of "The Girls" and "The Wife's Tale". With appeal to fans of Chris Cleave, Barbara Kingsolver and Ann Patchett.

On the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch's handsome husband Jimmy fails to come home. Mary wonders whether her size or her aversion to adventure chased him off. With few clues, she ventures to California in search of her husband. What she discovers is as shocking as it is delightful: a new vibrant energy--and an entirely different kind of hunger.

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Op een herfstdag gaat de achttienjarige Wolf met de kabelbaan naar Angel's Peak, de top van de berg die uitkijkt over Palm Springs, Californië. Daar ontmoet hij drie vrouwen. Door een reeks van tegenslagen raken de vier wandelaars verdwaald en komen vast te zitten op de berg. Vijf dagen en nachten lang, zonder eten, water of een schuilplaats tegen de kou en de wilde dieren. Te midden van de ruwe pracht en complete verschrikking van de ongerep...

Lori Lansens has created a heart-pounder of a book that is every bit as much of an emotional roller-coaster as an adventurous one” (New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult).In New York Times bestselling author Lori Lansens' "moving portrait of the human spirit—as fierce, lovely, and indomitable as nature itself” (People, "Book of the Week”), Nola has decided to hike up a mountain to commemorate her wedding anniversary, the first since h...

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This beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of "The Girls" tells the story of two unlikely people--five-year-old Sharla and 70-year-old Addy--who are thrown together and end up transforming each other's lives forever.

Mary Gooch was once young and slender and carefree. But with each passing year shea (TM)s accumulated an excess of pounds and worries. On the eve of her 25th wedding anniversary, her handsome husband does not come home. Shocked out of her inertia, Mary boards a plane for the first time and begins a desperate search. With a surge of energy that she hasna (TM)t felt in years, Mary fights for her husband while she reflects upon a life half lived....

On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature of their marriage: the secrets, the silences, and the unmentionable yet inescapable fact that for each loss and disappointment, there has been a corresponding physical gain: the woman she once was is now imprisoned in mountaino...