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Una doctora en busca de la felicidad, un médico destrozado por un trágico suceso. Ambos buscarán reescribir su vida. Volverán a renacer gracias al amor en un pequeño poblado africano. Cada día es un nuevo comienzo. Sarah Collins es una cirujana enamorada de su profesión, pero nunca ha contado con el apoyo de su familia, que pertenece a la alta sociedad americana.

New York ! En ces tumultueuses années 1920, pour des milliers d'Européens, la ville est synonyme de "rêve américain". C'est le cas pour Cetta Luminata, une Italienne qui, du haut de son jeune âge, compte bien se tailler une place au soleil avec Christmas, son fils. Dans une cité en plein essor où la radio débute à peine et le cinéma se met à parler, Christmas grandit entre gangs adverses, violence et pauvreté, avec ses rêves et sa gouaille comme planche de salut.

Quando si incontrano casualmente una sera d'agosto in un ristorante di Lisbona, Alfonso e Carol non possono neppure immaginare che quello sarà l'inizio di una breve ma intensa storia d'amore, di sesso e di passione. Lui, un anziano giornalista italiano in pensione; lei, una giovane studentessa americana che studia a Lecce. Potrebbero essere padre e figlia. Ma un imprevedibile destino li accomuna in questo thriller sentimentale, fitto di misteri, ombre e colpi di scena.

Bree's wedding to Tony, the man she truly loves, has almost arrived. But first it's time for a bachelorette weekend with the best friends from her youth, Graci, Tara, Corinne, and Adya. Considered the wild one of the group back in the day, Bree hardly seems a candidate to be first down the aisle. As the weekend progresses, she begins to panic about making her wedding vows. It takes the support of her friends to set Bree back on the course to love.

Chrissie will einfach nur weg. Weg aus Deutschland, weg von ihren Problemen und weg von dem Wahnsinn, der ihr Leben sein soll. Daher kommt ihr ein Praktikum in Namibia gerade recht. Sonne, Palmen und Strand, so hat Chrissie sich ihren Aufenthalt dort vorgestellt. Stattdessen landet sie mitten in den Slums von Namibia, wo Chrissies komplettes Weltbild auf den Kopf gestellt wird. Am liebsten würde sie sofort wieder zurückfliegen. Doch dann trifft sie auf Adam.

L'autrice dell'anno. Vincitrice del Premio Bancarella. Autrice del bestseller "Ti prego lasciati odiare". Se è il caso editoriale dell'anno ci sarà un perché. Quale ragazza non sogna di sfondare nel proprio lavoro sfruttando la possibilità di trascorrere un anno all'estero? È proprio questa la grande opportunità che un giorno si presenta a Maddison: ma l'inaspettata promozione arriva sotto forma di un trasferimento dall'altra parte del mondo, in Corea del Sud!

While struggling with infertility, Candy and Frankie, a mixed-race couple living in Chicago, decide to adopt a black child. Despite objections from their wildly different families, who beg the couple to go the more "traditional route", Candy and Frankie schedule an appointment with the Department of Child Family Services in the hopes of finding not an infant, but a toddler - a child "no one else wants".

This sweeping historical novel tells the story of the Trail of Tears as it has never been told before. Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy streets of East London in search of a better life. But Abe's visions of a privileged apprenticeship in the Sassaporta Brothers' empire are soon replaced with the grim reality of indentured servitude in Greensborough, North Carolina. Some 50 miles west, Dark Water of the Mountains leads a life of irreverent solitude.

Lee Grafton is a divorced cop and the father of a teenage girl. Carol Taggart is a newly single professor. Their lives collide one night when Carol is caught in the crossfire of an undercover drug sting gone south. Shot and seriously wounded, she finds an unexpected friend in Lee... unaware that the man she's falling for could be the shooter. Twenty years on the street do nothing to prepare Lee for the night that changes his life.

Jewelry designer Rachel Givens loses the mother figure in her life when Julia Winters dies. As it turns out, Julia harbored secrets - including the existence of a handsome son, Lucas Monroe Scott. Now Rachel learns that she and Lucas have both inherited his mother's lovely summer cottage in Highland Beach, Maryland. But can she bear to share cramped quarters with the gorgeous yet openly hostile sax player? Lucas can’t believe his mother left half his inheritance to a perfect stranger.

With her youthful appearance and light skin, African-American high school counselor Patricia knows how it feels to be an outsider in her own world. And when a biracial 15-year-old boy becomes the target of neighborhood bullies, she's determined to help him. One of New York's most successful men, Morgan Baxter feels totally at home in a corporate boardroom. But being a single father to a troubled teenager is a far more daunting challenge. Patricia Gilbert seems to understand his son - and him.

Born to a white mother and an African-American father, Dallas Oliver has always felt like an outsider. Life gets more complicated when her mother dies and she moves in with her father and stepmother. The one saving grace is Dallas' unexpected friendship with a white girl named Valerie Holland. Decades later, they're still best friends. Dallas is a journalist for a controversial magazine and Valerie is a single mother.

To the world, New York gallery owner Gayla Patton has it all: a fabulous career, a beautiful adolescent daughter, a devoted lover. But beneath the surface is a past she’d rather forget. Things start unraveling when David Kinney suddenly reappears in her life. Witness to a terrible crime, David was ten when he was brought into Gayla’s childhood home. Now, after serving time in prison for a crime he insists he didn’t commit, the controversial artist is stirring up dark memories... and awakening reluctant desires.

An artist trapped in an unfulfilling relationship, Leah Downey wants more out of life. But she plays it safe, never venturing too far from her comfort zone... not since the night she was mugged at knifepoint. Beginning a relationship with a perfect stranger is completely out of character for Leah. But something about Jason Horn strikes a chord deep within her. They couldn’t be more different. Jason is white, a streetwise New York cop haunted by his own demons.

One betta fish, two dead biologists, three trysts, four suspects, and 35 pairs of shoes add up to complicated days in paradise for Special Agent Marcella Scott. Marcella gets into sand way over her Manolos investigating the death of a prominent scientist who washed up on a Waikiki beach with a bullet hole between the eyes. BioGreen, a genetically-engineered algae that could solve the world fuel crisis, has been stolen from the development lab - a hotbed of intrigue where everyone on the project has something to hide.

Sometimes only an accidental matchmaker can make lighting strike the people who need it most. Zoe moves to Maui to live her dream of being an independent journalist walking the beaches of paradise every day - but she never expected to be doing it with just her dog Sylvester. Divorced and heartbroken, and she ends up in therapy. Adam’s born and bred on Maui, a true "local" who surfs to stay in shape and deal with his many sources of stress: care of his mother, a busy contracting business, and a custody fight for his beloved stepkids.

It is incredibly stupid to write this text while I’m drunk. But what’s the saying? No gain, no pain. Or, no pain, no shame.... Whatever. You know what I mean. And let’s face it. There’s no way I would be doing this if I was stone-cold sober. But since I’m plastered? To hell with it. I want you. I know. Crazy, right? Not only am I your temporary roommate, but I’m a chatty nurse from Providence with an impeccable bedside manner and secrets. You’re a broody, commitment-phobe sculptor from England who communicates in grunts and single syllables.

A carreira do campeão de rodeios Luís Fernando, conhecido como Picolé da Onça, está cada vez melhor, acumulando um título atrás do outro. Só que, junto a isso, o jeito desbocado e espontâneo do rapaz vem lhe metendo em grandes confusões. Quanto mais tenta fazer o certo, mais enfia os pés pelas mãos. Ele é como um trem desgovernado, passando por cima de tudo, sem ver o que tem pela frente.

Sean Moore von Salis, um implacável banqueiro suíço, tem uma única obsessão no momento: adquirir uma empresa turca. O problema é que ele não fala uma palavra do idioma! Kara Çelik nasceu na Turquia, mas se mudou ainda criança para os Estados Unidos e, para ajudar a família, trabalha nos serviços gerais do Grupo GAEA. Quando é chamada para limpar um café derramado, ela acaba entrando em uma reunião desastrosa entre o CEO do grupo e um turco que parece bem irritado.

Sheik Khalil Bin Khalifa Ahmad Al-Sabbah sempre soube que precisava se casar, e era pressionado pela família a realizar o tal matrimônio com qualquer mulher da sua cultura que fosse respeitável. Um homem disposto a ter um casamento sem amor, apenas para acalentar os ânimos exaltados dos seus familiares. Elahe Amal Al-Bughdadi, é a personificação da mulher ideal. Da mesma cultura que a dele, vindo de uma longa linhagem de Sheiks, é a esposa perfeita.