Sarah Jio
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Torn between two men, Kailey Crane is faced with an impossible choice: embrace the bright future she has with her new fiancé, or dedicate herself to reclaiming a past love that may be gone forever. When Kailey met Cade ten years ago, their attraction was immediate and intense, but it all ended suddenly, leaving Kailey devastated. Now Cade is another homeless soul; his mind has suffered in the intervening years. When they meet, Kailey helps Cade begin...
Author
Publisher
A Plume Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 284, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Bainbridge Island is a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched. Heartbroken Emily, recovering from a broken marriage, stumbles upon a diary dated to 1943 and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
Author
Publisher
Plume, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 291 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Fleeing a personal tragedy to take up residence on Boat Street, Ada discovers a trunk left behind by the boathouse's previous resident, a young newlywed from half a century earlier whose mysterious fate converges with Ada's own.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past, she's confused to learn that for years she's lived a sad, reclusive life in a sprawling apartment on the rue Cler. Slowly regaining vague memories of a man and a young child, she vows to piece her life back together-though she can't help but feel she may be in danger. A budding friendship with the chef of a charming nearby restaurant takes her mind off her foggy past, as does...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
304 p.
Description
On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by new love and threatened by her discovery of a series of ghastly crimes. More than half a century later,...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Jio has become one of the most-read women in America." -Woman's World. Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives from the midwife who delivered her, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth...
8) The Bungalow
Author
Description
In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Description
When a woman inherits her estranged mother’s bookstore in London’s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story—hers—filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of her life.
When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their...
When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their...
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Presents short stories that all take place in and around New York City's Grand Central Station on the day after World War II ends, including contributions from such authors as Melanie Benjamin, Sarah Jio, and Amanda Hodgkinson.