Companions since childhood but refraining from deeper commitment, Rachel and Jake come to understand the meaning of their bond after Jake, refusing to fight in Vietnam, moves to Canada, leaving Rachel behind

Painting on Glass: A Novel

Auerbach, Jessica

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Sleep, Baby, Sleep

When her six-week-old baby is stolen from her apartment, young single mother Sylvie faces the condemnation of her mother, the police, the FBI, and the baby's father, and strikes out on her own to find her missing child, before it is too late.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Putnam Adult

"Gripping . . . Fast-paced action and finely tuned tension . . . A meaty domestic thriller." --Kirkus Reviews Rosie Sloan is scared to death. Her husband moved out, her two-year-old son has developed terrifying asthma, and now she is charged with child abuse--an accusation she believes no one can take seriously. The more frantically Rosie attempts to prove she's a good mother, the more tightly she's trapped by a system that doesn't believe her. Either she's going crazy or someone intends to destroy her. Completely. "[A] gripping thriller . . . ripped straight from today's headlines . . . Auerbach masterfully captures the many legal and medical nuances and proves adept at sustaining the suspense." --Library Journal "Auerbach brings her adult characters to vivid life in this tense tale." --Booklist

Catch Your Breath

G.P.Putnam's Sons

"Gripping . . . Fast-paced action and finely tuned tension . . . A meaty domestic thriller."           --Kirkus Reviews  Rosie Sloan is scared to death. Her husband moved out, her two-year-old son has developed terrifying asthma, and now she is charged with child abuse--an accusation she believes no one can take seriously.  The more frantically Rosie attempts to prove she's a good mother, the more tightly she's trapped by a system that doesn't believe her. Either she's going crazy or someone intends to destroy her. Completely."[A] gripping thriller . . . ripped straight from today's headlines .  . . Auerbach masterfully captures the many legal and medical nuances and proves adept at sustaining the suspense." --Library Journal       "Auerbach brings her adult characters to vivid life in this tense tale."   --Booklist

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Fawcett

"This gripping story of a young mother searching for her kidnapped baby could have been lifted from recent headlines....Told with edgy intensity." --Publishers Weekly NO ONE BELIEVED HER.... Blond, twenty-one-year-old Sylvie swears to the police, the FBI, and her family that she left Cally, her six-week-old baby girl, alone for only five minutes. But in those five minutes Sylvie's life is shattered. For Cally has vanished. Suddenly the desperate young mother finds herself in a terrifying trap. No one will help her get her baby back, because no one believes Cally was kidnapped. The police and FBI are sure she's hiding something. Sylvie's own mother thinks it is tragic proof that Sylvie, afflicted with attention deficit disorder and endlessly inept, should never have had a baby in the first place. Even the baby's father begins to suspect the worst. Emotionally abandoned and accused on all sides, Sylvie realizes she alone must solve this crime, with virtually no clues, or lose her baby forever.... "Her best work yet, well written and engrossing." --Library Journal

In search of a setting for her new novel, writer Jessica Auerbach goes to work at a small-town chocolate shop. She quickly becomes engrossed in learning the secrets behind the shop's delectable hand-rolled truffles, fresh fudge, raspberry jellies, and peanut butter cups. Those aren't the only secrets she uncovers. As the shop's employees mold, roll, and enrobe their creations, they spin aloud the stories of their lives-and reveal the dark secrets at the centers of their own hearts. As Auerbach hears their stories, her imagination begins to race. She weaves together the tales she hears into a murder mystery, crossing back and forth over the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction, unveiling in the process the secrets of her craft. Just as it is with the best chocolate assortments, every bite of this unusual memoir/mystery creation reveals something unexpected at the core.

WRITING IN CHOCOLATE: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

iUniverse

Contemporary

Headline Book Publishing

Single mother Rosie Sloan must fight to retain custody of her two-year-old son, a chronic asthmatic, when a neighbor files a complaint claiming that she is an unfit mother, setting off a chain of false assumptions and accusations against her

Thorndike Pr

A young mother, isolated by loneliness and frustration, relies on a sympathetic postman for support, advice, and love when she and her husband move to a new city

Winter Wife

Ticknor & Fields

Everyone knows not to leave a baby alone, even for a few minutes. But Sylvie thought, since her six-week-old baby was sleeping, that she could run to the store for five minutes. In those few moments a kidnapper enters her apartment and takes the baby! As hours turn into days, the chances of recovering the baby grow more remote. Sylvie comes to blame herself for her baby's disappearance and so do those around her - her overbearing mother, the police and the FBI, and eventually even the baby's father. As damning circumstantial evidence mounts against her, Sylvie realizes she can no longer rely on others to help her get her baby back. Sylvie strikes out on her own, piecing together clues of a crime she must solve herself or lose her child forever.

Unabridged Library Edition

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Painting on Glass: A Novel

Sleep, Baby, Sleep

Catch Your Breath

Catch Your Breath

Sleep, Baby, Sleep

WRITING IN CHOCOLATE: A Memoir

Catch Your Breath

Catch Your Breath

Winter Wife

Sleep, Baby, Sleep