Benbrook Public Library

"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...

Originally published ten years earlier, the plot revolves around star-crossed lovers.

Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, Mabel Dagmar is befriended by her roommate, the blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Invited to spend the summer at Bittersweet, a cottage...

"Caring family and friends, tranquil streets--ex-prosecutor Willow Lamont wishes these could make her feel truly at home. She's back to help her grandfather manage Chocolate Haven, a long held dream come true. But she's struggling to make their unique fudge--and to cope with a secret trauma that haunts her. Yet when she finds an abandoned baby who breaks her heart wide open, she wonders how long she can hide her emotions--especially from warm, handsome,...

Bittersweet is the story of a naïve young woman named Eloise who simply wanted to lose her virginity because she was almost 21years old. Eloise thought she could check off lose virginity on her things to do list without any interruption of her life. Eloise chance encounter with Wes at a party leads to what should have been a one-night stand, but instead develop into a love that impacts her life for almost thirty years. Eloise wakes up one morning...

Everything changed for Laura Taylor when the South lost the Civil War. The Yankees' arrival in South Carolina drove Laura and her soldier husband, Jesse, westward to seek a new beginning. But Laura's hopes crumble when Jesse dies, and she finds herself pregnant and alone in a wild railroad camp with winter coming in fast. The only one she can turn to is Dr. Spencer Hardin. Spencer returned from the war to discover his wife had run off with another...

Antakya, 1980. Djinns and humans live together in the sprawling city once called Antioch. Seventeen-year-old Selma is struggling with feelings of emptiness and depression and secretly visits the djinns to buy one of their magic potions called Mirages. Mirages can show you your wildest dreams, but come at a price. When Selma visits the king of the djinns together with her friend Aisha, she is starting to suspect he knows more about her than he is letting...

In her very first novel, award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.

5:04 PM on March 8th, 2018 It was on this day that I nearly took my last breath it was on this day that my view on life was forever altered it was on this day that a moment in time was forever marked with the scars it would bring and the memories it would hold it was on this day that I almost never laughed never smiled never saw the faces of the ones I love most and never felt the promise of another morning again but it was on this day that I fought...

Will A Twist Of Fate Lead To A New Beginning. . .

Desiree Prescott doesn't believe in fairy-tale love anymore, not since her dreamboat ran off to Vegas years ago with another woman. She's content with her new fiancé, and she's going to make it work. But a shocking phone call in the middle of the night suddenly sends her to take care of three children in Atlanta. . .who live right next door to pro baseball player Gerard Kingsley....