A U.S. Air Force test pilot passes up the chance to become an astronaut after his wife gets pregnant against all odds, and as fatherhood consumes him, a sudden tragedy puts his instincts as a father and as a pilot to the test.

"Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes her personal and professional success. Meanwhile, talented artist Gabriel Connois wearies of remaining at the margins of the capricious Parisian art scene, and, desperate for recognition, embarks on a scheme that threatens his burgeoning...

Unable to forget a first love she lost twenty years earlier after an unforgiveable mistake, Erin considers a marriage proposal by her current boyfriend and wonders what may have happened if the earlier relationship had not ended.

In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey

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"Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs."--Dust jacket flap. "With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented"...

"A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame--as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash" --

Twenty years after a shooting death deemed accidental, Weber is charged with murdering a man who had been his friend-- and whose widow he married. An exploration of divided loyalties, and precarious family relationships; of children's need to believe, in conflict with their desire for truth.

After losing everything, Eli Schwartz befriends Seymour J. Kahn, a paraplegic sex addict who buys his home, and during the course of their unlikely friendship they deal with fall out from a YouTube video, as Eli tries to regain his self respect.