Long-time fan favorites have new offerings this spring. Which will you choose?
Alternate Side, by Anna Quindlen. Quindlen (Object Lessons, Blessings, etc.) will never be able to write fast enough to satisfy her fans. In her latest, Nora Nolan seems to lead a charmed life with her husband, Charlie. Living in New York was her dream, and their coveted dead-end block is a tight-knit community. When Nora returns from a run one morning, she finds her neighbors shaken by a terrible incident. What was once enviable has turned sour, emblematic of the issues Nora has chosen to ignore: in her neighborhood, her city, her job, her marriage. Quindlen's eye is keen, and her pen even keener.
As You Wish, by Jude Deveraux. Third in Deveraux's Summerhouse series (following The Summerhouse, 2001, and Return to Summerhouse, 2008), As You Wish finds three very different women together in Summer Hill, Virginia, where they learn that they're more alike than they ever would have dreamed. Sixty-year-old Olivia is a newlywed, finally married to the man she's always loved, after years spent in a loveless marriage. Kathy's in her mid-forties, married to a handsome, successful man...who happens to be in love with someone else. Elise, twenty-something, is unhappily married to a man her parents chose for her, a man ready to leave Elise behind now that his mistress is pregnant. Each of them has wound up at the Summerhouse for different reasons, but they slowly begin to share, only to have a chance at the magic of Summerhouse--the opportunity to go back and right the wrongs from their past. If you really want to escape, this is the way to do it.
Accidental Heroes, by Danielle Steel. A TSA agent finds an anonymous postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge with an ambiguous, potentially ominous, message. By the time a supervisor will take her concern seriously, the flights in the terminal have left, and the investigators on the ground must identify not only which plane is the potential target, but also who might have written the message. Is it to do with a famous film star? A distraught father traveling with his child, abducted from his mother? Or an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career? The possibilities seem endless even as the clock counts down. Steel appears to be reinventing herself after all these years--fans are eating it up.
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