The acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)—from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. • "Virtually flawless.... A tour de force." —Los Angeles Times
Billy and Francis couldn’t be more different, at least when it comes to age and disposition, but that doesn’t...

"To the rest of the world, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives a charmed life. She has a beautiful home, a dashing lawyer husband, and two delightful children. But beneath this idyllic surface, the pressure of being the "perfect flower"of an illustrious family--and a stable, always-available wife, mother, and daughter--are getting to her. The spark has gone out of her marriage, and to her own surprise, she's having an affair. What follows is at once...

When Passion and Affect was first published in 1974, Laurie Colwin was anointed as a young writer to watch. Now, a new generation has the opportunity to encounter some of the most charmingly complicated and beautifully drawn characters in modern fiction, including: a music critic whose orderly life is threatened by her flirtation with a married cartographer an ornithologist perplexed by human mating rituals despite his expertise in the natural world two...

The enchanting and insightful story of a woman trying to reconcile her rock-and-roll past with her respectable present
When Geraldine Colshares drops out of graduate school to become the only white backup singer in an R&B band, nobody thinks it is a good idea. Not her parents, who are sure she is on drugs. Not her best friend, who sees going on tour as a way of staving off real life. Not even Doo-Wah Banks, her Juilliard-trained

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"At the door is an old lover, someone who broke your heart, who is in England on business and has tracked you down..." - From The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin

Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones!

Rick Bass's Fires

read by Ted Marcoux

In the Rockies a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of

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