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Ivy Ross left Rivers End ten years ago, vowing never to return. Her heart broken, her trust gone, the father she adored behind bars. But when her sister Jody begs Ivy to return to finalise their inheritance, the majestic Fairview House, she is drawn home. And when she finds a collection of heartfelt letters hidden in her father’s library, everything she thought she knew is called into question. The anonymous letters reveal a heartbreaking love story that force Ivy to rethink the terrible night that tore her family apart.

What makes a woman an unconventional superwoman? Trends like freezing eggs, surrogacy and non-romantic, co-parenting relationships. The topics that make people cringe and yet empower the modern-day woman. Pretty Girl Complex: The Story of a Superheroine, a coming of age fiction, is the chronological story of a Miami-based dancer, who mothers a daughter before engaging in the super-heroic act of becoming a surrogate for another couple.

The Foster and Seigal kids are all grown up, and their parents couldn’t be more pleased to see them living their dreams. But are they really doing that? Or are they hiding within lives that help them avoid their personal truths?

Presentarsi alla festa sbagliata non sempre è una sventura. In una piovosa giornata primaverile, Jean-Pierre Morel – proprietario di un café littéraire nel Marais, a Parigi – riceve un invito che gli cambierà la vita. Con grande sorpresa, Paul, il suo ex migliore amico, lo aspetta al proprio matrimonio nel Sud della Francia. Inseparabili a scuola, i due non si rivolgono la parola da anni, e per una buona ragione. Avere gli stessi gusti del proprio migliore amico in fatto di donne è sempre complicato. E se per giunta lui assomiglia ad Alain Delon e ha un sorriso disarmante, è un autentico incubo.

Oliva ha trent’anni, una passione segreta per gli snack orientali e l’abitudine di imitare Rossella O’Hara quando è certa di non essere vista. Di lei gli altri sanno solo che ha un lavoro precario, abita con i genitori e sta per sposare Bernardo, il sogno di ogni madre. Nessuno immagina che soffra di insonnia e di tachicardia, e che a volte senta dentro un vuoto incolmabile. Fa parte della vita, le assicura la psicologa, e d’altronde la vita è come il mare: basta imparare a tenersi in equilibrio sulla tavola da surf. Ma ecco arrivare l’onda anomala che rischia di travolgerla.

Quando, in una grigia giornata autunnale, Joséphine Beauregard esce dal suo monolocale sul canal Saint-Martin, a Parigi, trova due lettere nella casella della posta. Una è dell’editore con cui collabora come traduttrice e l’altra di un notaio sconosciuto. E così, in pochi minuti, Joséphine scopre di aver perso il lavoro, ma anche di aver ereditato una casa, per quanto atipica e un po’ fatiscente: l’amato zio Albert le ha lasciato la sua vecchia houseboat, ormeggiata lungo il quai accanto al pont de la Concorde.

Gea abita in un condominio sui Navigli di Milano e non oltrepassa mai i confini del suo quartiere. Ha ventisette anni e si arrangia come tuttofare. Crede nel riciclo e nel dare nuova vita alle cose che aggiusta e che distribuisce, insieme a pillole per lo spirito – poesie, origami –, nell’ambito della sua “economia circolare di quartiere”. Vive sola, ma ha dei buoni amici, come l’ottantenne pseudo-portinaia o il tredicenne che sogna di diventare autista di corriera. Nessuno però, della sua età. Perché Gea nella sua età non ci si ritrova. Così come non si ritrova nel mondo.

Brooklyn is fresh out of high school and looking to get away from her past. What better way to do that than going to college out of state? The only things she planned on taking with her to the dirty south were her New York state of mind and her best friend, Anika. While in North Carolina, Anika’s neck of the woods, life changes for both Brooklyn and Anika.

It’s the year is 2067, and the world has been ravaged by pandemics. The population has dwindled, and fertile women are a rare and valuable commodity. In hopes of preserving our species, the United States has passed the Fertility Act, forcing all women to be screened. Participation in the program is supposed to be straight forward. Three years, one baby, then freedom. But as Ara navigates the complex and invasive procedures within the program, she’s plagued by questions. Is the government really looking out for the good of the people, or do they have hidden motives?

Nora, Ross e Penny si rincontrano dopo anni davanti alla polverosa vetrina di una piccola libreria sul Lago Maggiore, grazie alla quale le loro vite - e i loro amori - tornano a intrecciarsi irrimediabilmente. E così, tra libri e sogni, i loro cuori ricominciano a battere all’unisono, grazie alla forza invincibile dell’amicizia. Ombre Rosa è una collana e insieme un viaggio alla riscoperta di un’intera generazione di scrittrici italiane che, tra gli anni Settanta e gli anni Duemila, hanno posto le basi del romanzo rosa italiano contemporaneo.

Mother in Name Only is the transparent, sometimes painful, and always poignant portrait of Myrna Kaye—held inside for almost her entire life.

Job, Mann, Familie. Wo ist bitte mein Komplettpaket, fragt sich Mila verzweifelt, als sie schon wieder ohne Freund und ohne Job dasteht, während ihrer besten Freundin Maya alles, aber auch alles nur so zu zufliegen scheint? Ein bisschen so wie Maya sein, denkt sich Mila und beginnt abzunehmen. Doch schnell findet sie heraus, dass mit weniger Pfunden die Dinge immer noch nicht leichter werden.

Über Nacht stürzt Caras Leben ins Chaos. An ihrem neunzehnten Geburtstag muss sie sich mit ihrer Magie verbinden und einem der drei magischen Reiche verpflichten. Doch die Zeremonie verwandelt sich in einen Albtraum, als nicht nur eine, sondern gleich zwei Fähigkeiten in ihr erwachen. So etwas sollte es nicht geben und erst recht niemanden, der neben der Beschwörer-Magie noch die gefürchtete Geist-Magie beherrscht. Denn die sogenannten Gedankenleser sind schon vor Jahrzehnten in Ungnade gefallen und verstoßen worden – nach dem Beginn des großen Krieges, den sie verursacht haben.

Liz Millanova has stage four cancer, a grown daughter who doesn’t speak to her, and obsessive memories of a relationship that tore apart her marriage.

Sadie Wingate has been keeping secrets... from her family and from her brand-new husband. Once the truth is revealed, her whole world melts like a truffle in the sunshine. Can Sadie finally settle for a sweet life on Amelia Island… or will stability send her searching for the next adventure? Raina nears her delivery date and signs the papers ending her marriage, but there’s one thing missing in her life. Despite being the fixer in her family, the only solution to her heart’s dilemma seems all wrong for this newly divorced mother of infant twins. But how can she say no?

In December 2013, an ice storm buries Toronto as realtor Laura Keys prepares to sell a one-of-a-kind house on behalf of its comatose owner. Haunting Laura, and longing to be invited in, is a mysterious teenage girl with a Scottish terrier tucked into her coat. As Laura readies the house for showing, she learns more about its owner, Edna "Eddie" Ferguson. Leading up to the Great Snowstorm of 1944, Eddie, a brickmaker, enters into a passionate yet ill-fated affair with her boss's daughter. While uncovering the past, Laura navigates both the death of her mother and a troubled marriage.

Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the tiny village of Little Warby. Having settled in with a rescued dog and a pet pigeon, she manages, despite her anti-social instincts, to have surprising effects on her new neighbors. But her biggest challenge will likely be the twelve-year-old runaway who shows up at her door.

Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family’s Salem spice shop. Restless and reluctant, Tulsi yearns to follow her own path—destiny has other plans. When Tulsi finds a letter written by her grandmother, addressed and never sent, that speaks of a long-ago betrayal, she decides to unravel the mystery as a distraction. But Tulsi stumbles into much more than she bargained for.

Ehli-nikkalu, eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor, is married to a mere vassal of her father's. But despite her status, her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary is mysteriously murdered while carrying the emperor a message that would indict the loyalty of his vassal, Ehli-nikkalu adopts the dead man's orphaned children out of a guilty sense of responsibility.

Die Fortsetzung der Familiensaga um eine große Liebe zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn. Du hast mich gefunden, doch schon beginnt der Sommer, lange Schatten zu werfen... Berlin, 1914. Isa und Henning träumen von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft, doch die Wirklichkeit schiebt sich unbarmherzig zwischen sie. Die gesellschaftlichen Schranken der Kaiserzeit prägen das Leben in der Hauptstadt und der Krieg fordert erste Opfer. Aus Pflichtgefühl verlobt die Arbeitertochter Isa sich mit ihrem Freund Viktor.