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Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again.

On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate...what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of 20 wishes. Anne Marie's list starts with "Find one good thing about life". It includes learning to knit, doing good for someone else, falling in love again.

She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It's a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.

At age 55, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer - and a bone-deep feeling that she's through with living. Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying mother a quick, painless end in exactly 20 days. Though her mother never needed them, Meg does. But a strange thing happens after Meg swallows the little green pearls....

Anthony grew up without any knowledge of his father. Only when his mother dies does he unlock the secrets she kept for 20 years. Each discovery leads him closer to the people who knew his father best. Including the man who killed him.

Charlie Smith, a 15-year old negro sharecropper, fascinated by his grandfather’s long-lost dream of playing golf befriends a young talented and Nationally ranked junior golfer. They both end up learning that their lives share similar interests despite their socioeconomic differences. A tragic turn of events happened that allowed the young sharecropper to display hidden talents that resurrected hopeful dreams and united a deprived county that had been left desolate due to hurricanes and drought.

Del 20 av 22. En släkthistoria i samma anda som Margit Sandemos serier - fullmatad med dramatik, romantik och starka kvinnoporträtt. 'Familjearvet' berättar om livet kring ett järnverk i slutet av 1800-talet. Erika föder medan Aleksander sitter på Akershus fästning. Trots de svåra omständigheterna gläder sig Erika åt den nyfödde. Det visar sig snart att Olette är intresserad av sitt barnbarn - ovanligt intresserad. Och det skrämmer Erika mycket mer än att vara ensamstående mor, för hon vet att Olette inte skyr några medel för att få det hon vill ha.

Guri väntar tålmodigt på att Sturla ska komma tillbaka. När hon hör fotsteg blir hon först glad, men inser snabbt att det inte är han som kommit. Samtidigt fortsätter Emilie att söka efter sin far i Amerika. Sagan om Emilie är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga.

On the eve of her 30th birthday, Wilhelmina Mann is already dealing with more than enough problems, so a birthday misadventure landing her in the lock-up is hardly even a surprise. But that mistake leads to Wil receiving a packet of old letters—letters to Wil from her mother that were written just before she died, back when Wil was a small child. Suddenly, Wil's life is thrown into a new kind of turmoil as she discovers the mother she lost. And while the letters begin as tales of growing up, they soon become a great love story, almost as great as the bond between mother and daughter.

Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than 500 poems and stories. This collection brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven’t been in print since their initial periodicals.

When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies surrounding Ovum-to-Ovum (o-o) technology and stoke the fears of the public. What will happen to the numbers of little boys born? Is there a sinister conspiracy to eradicate men at play?

“Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense.”—Kirkus Reviews Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and...