Some mistakes can change your life forever. Like the one Matt Hunter made when he attempted to help a friend stop a fight that resulted in an accidental death. Matt was convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned. Now, nine years after his release, he's an ex-con taking nothing for granted. Married, and with a baby on the way, he feels like a lucky man. Then the phone call comes and in an instant the unraveling begins.

Eighty-two-year-old Marina Buriakov, preparing for her granddaughter's wedding in Seattle, finds it more and more difficult to hold onto memories in the present, retreating often to the 1940s when, living in the basement of the Hermitage Museum with other employees during the German siege of Leningrad, she created a memory room in her mind furnished with the museum's priceless masterpieces.

"Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it -- and threatens to...

Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur–offstage.

From the Publisher: With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors...

Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.

Joe Stratford thinks he is living out the American dream, but when he makes one wrong decision, his whole world comes crashing down around him and he must find a way to rebuild.

"Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes--until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil...

Functioning alcoholic and history professor Patsy MacLemoore, having been charged with the deaths of two Jehovah's Witnesses she hit while driving under the influence, thinks about her past actions while in prison and emerges with a mission to do good, help those in need, and stay sober, but, after years of living the straight and narrow, an unimaginable piece of information comes to light which makes her reassess who she has become and reapportioned...

Vianne Rocher, who has moved to Paris under a new name, Yanne Charbonneau, opens a chocolaterie and hopes to protect her daughters Anouk and Rosette, but her life is blown off course when a businessman named Thierry and a vibrant woman named Zozie enter her life.