The Marriage Lie – Kimberly Belle
Iris and Will’s marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house in a nice Atlanta neighbourhood, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris’s happy world comes to an abrupt halt. Another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board, and according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers on this plane.
Grief-stricken and confused, Iris is convinced it all must be a huge misunderstanding. But as time passes and there is still no sign of Will, she reluctantly accepts that he is gone. Still, Iris needs answers. Why did Will lie about where he was going? What is in Seattle? And what else has he lied about? As Iris sets off on a desperate quest to find out what her husband was keeping from her, the answers she receives will shock her to her very core.
Lana Porter had it all-a happy marriage and two wonderful daughters-until her husband’s tragic accident left her near-perfect life in ruins… Now, nearly a year later, Lana is still picking up the pieces when she is blindsided by the appearance of her adopted daughter Micki’s birth father.
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a travelling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honourable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return.
Memories and Such 