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![]() ![]() So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity-and all contact with the outside world-the guests settle in and try to make the best of it. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing-maybe even romantic-weekend away. but when the storm hits, no one is getting away The twisty new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and A Stranger in the HouseĪ weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. ![]() Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR “A classic that we will read for years to come.” - Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club permeated with light, wit, youth.” - The New York Times Book Review A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.Ī TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickĪ New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Quarterly and The Washington Post as a Best Book of the Year The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it-the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.īy 1934, the world has changed millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. ![]() The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. ![]()
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