Together, Ava, Kristen, and Ellen embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen. Desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, Kristen sets off on a quest she’s avoided her whole life-to find her never-been-there father in the hopes of winning her freedom from the grandmother she barely knows. Grieving deeply, Ellen is determined to fix up her daughter’s ramshackle house, sell it, and then sweep her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, off to a saner, calmer life in Raleigh. Meanwhile, successful architect Ellen Foster has arrived in Dove Pond to attend the funeral of her estranged daughter, Julie. Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she’s been hiding for over a decade. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Just as her fabulous new tearoom is about to open, her herbal teas have gone wonky. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins returns to her beloved Dove Pond series with another “mesmerizing fusion of the mystical and the everyday” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author)-but this time, the magic is in the tea leaves.Īva Dove-the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialty Teas-is frantic.

, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of 'A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits.' Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick |

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