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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

A Field Guide To Burying Your Parents by Liza Palmer

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Also by Liza Palmer:

Young Fools, September 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Family Reservations, April 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Nobodies, October 2020
Trade Size
The Nobodies, September 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Conversations with the Fat Girl, August 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Girl Before A Mirror, February 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Nowhere But Home, April 2013
Paperback / e-Book
More Like Her, January 2012
Paperback / e-Book
A Field Guide To Burying Your Parents, November 2009
Paperback
Seeing Me Naked, January 2008
Paperback
Conversations with the Fat Girl, September 2005
Trade Size

A FIELD GUIDE TO BURYING YOUR PARENTS
By: Liza Palmer

Grand Central Publishing
November 2009
On Sale: October 29, 2009
Featuring: Grace Hawkes
320 pages
ISBN: 0446698385
EAN: 9780446698382
Paperback
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Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit--her father walked out on them when she was 13 and she and her two brothers and sister bonded together even closer with their mother as a result.

She's been doing her best to live her new life apart from them, but when their estranged father has a stroke and summons them, Grace suddenly realizes she's done the same thing he had done...abandoned those who need her most.

And need her they do, for inside the hospital walls, a strange war is unfolding between the pseudo-kindly woman who is their father's second wife and the rest of the original Hawkes clan. Upon reconnecting with her brother and sisters, Grace will find a part of herself she thought was lost forever. As they unravel the manipulative deception of the second Mrs. Hawkes, Grace will finally be able to stand up for her family-- and to remember what a family is, even after all these years.