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Due mesi prima di sposarsi, James Donato scompare in mare, in Messico, impegnato nelle ricerche di suo fratello Phil, invischiato in traffici illeciti. Sei anni più tardi, lo stesso uomo dato per disperso riemerge dal suo stato di fuga dissociativa in cui era piombato quel maledetto giorno, per ritrovarsi protagonista di un'altra vita, con un nuovo lavoro e un nuovo nome. Vedovo e padre di due figli, vive a Oaxaca insieme a sua cognata Natalya, un'ex surfista professionista, con cui ha condiviso gli anni più bui.

The baby that was supposed to bring us all together has torn us all apart. She’s mine! I need to have her. But fate wants something else. Very soon she’ll belong to my elder brother. It’s my brother’s wedding, and she is the maid of honor. She stands across at the altar, and I just can’t keep my eyes away. Our attraction is mutual, a magnetic force pulling us together. Both of us know it’s forbidden, But keeping our fling a secret wouldn’t hurt anyone, would it? That’s just what we thought, until the tragedy strikes, and our whole world is shattered.

Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At 50, she is no stranger to loss. But now, as she stands on the precipice of her own death - just as she has learned that her daughter, Aram, is pregnant with her first child - Nahid is filled with both new fury and long-dormant rage. Her life back home in Iran, and living as a refugee in Sweden, has been about survival at any cost. How to actually live, she doesn’t know; she has never had the ability or opportunity to learn.

Home alone with her eccentric home-brewing father and a Jack Russell, she is just getting her life back on track when her job at the local museum is threatened by her first love and nemesis, Councillor David Barton, who intends to sell the beautiful old building to a pub chain. But help is at hand from her colleagues: Jackie, a former Greenham Common warrior; Tish, a flamboyant historian; and Carol, mega-flirt. Plus newcomer and former campaigner Tom. Who happens to be a widower. And quite sexy.

Five minutes after walking through the door, I hated the sexy Greydon West. I wondered why he’d ever had kids in the first place. The broody, single father of two didn’t know the meaning of the word fun. The only things my regimented, hot-tempered boss seemed to care about were his ridiculous spreadsheets. But for some reason, his prickly, stiff-mannered disposition made me curious about what was hidden beneath that exterior. Then, one day I stumbled upon the key that unlocked the mystery of Dr. West.

One rule: No more men. Two years ago I walked away from a marriage I thought would last forever and all I got from it was Dick…And I don’t mean the one between my stupid ex’s legs. I’m talking about the 150 pound furry dog said ex dropped off at my doorstep. But I’d take Dick over any man, any day. So why did I resemble my dog, panting and drooling, whenever I ran into Hudson West, my sexy new neighbor? True, the gorgeous veterinarian was hotter than sin. And my new roommate only made it impossible for me to avoid conversation with a man I didn’t need.

1932: Ruth hat eine unbeschwerte Jugend. Die meiste Zeit verbringt sie in der Villa des benachbarten Seidenhändlers Merländer. Sie ist fasziniert von den kunstvoll bedruckten Stoffen, lernt Schnittmuster zu entwerfen und Taschen und Zierrat zu fertigen. Hier begegnet sie auch Hans, ihrer ersten großen Liebe. Als die Nazis an die Macht kommen, scheint es für sie beide keine Zukunft zu geben, denn Ruth ist Jüdin. Über Nacht muss sie aus ihrer Heimatstadt fliehen, und lässt ihre Eltern und alles, was ihr wichtig ist, zurück. Und dann kommt der Tag, an dem das Schicksal ihrer Familie in Ruths Händen liegt.

It feels like I'm on autopilot; I have no control over anything. The pain of losing you is so crippling that I can barely hold pieces of myself together. The slightest nudge could break me. But somehow, my possessed brain knows what I need. It's telling me to stick to my choice, to stay away from you, to open a Word document and bleed on paper, try to throw up all my jumbled thoughts in form of words, collect all disconnected facts, try to make sense of it all.

Summoned to their magnificent family home on the shores of Lake Ontario - a paradisiacal mansion perched on an escarpment above the city - three adult sisters, Georgina, Jax, and Pippa, come together in what seems like an act of family solidarity. Pregnant and unwell, the youngest, Pippa, has left her husband and four young children in New Zealand and returned home to heal. But home to this family means secrets, desire, and vengeance - and feasting on the sexual appetites and weaknesses of others. Each daughter has her own particular taste, and overlaying everything is their parents, with unquenchable desires and cravings of their own.

1932: Ruth hat eine unbeschwerte Jugend. Die meiste Zeit verbringt sie in der Villa des benachbarten Seidenhändlers Merländer. Sie ist fasziniert von den kunstvoll bedruckten Stoffen, lernt Schnittmuster zu entwerfen und Taschen und Zierrat zu fertigen. Hier begegnet sie auch Hans, ihrer ersten großen Liebe. Als die Nazis an die Macht kommen, scheint es für sie beide keine Zukunft zu geben, denn Ruth ist Jüdin. Über Nacht muss sie aus ihrer Heimatstadt fliehen, und lässt ihre Eltern und alles, was ihr wichtig ist, zurück. Und dann kommt der Tag, an dem das Schicksal ihrer Familie in Ruths Händen liegt.

Marie è una bellissima diciannovenne che gode a suscitare l'invidia delle sue coetanee. Quando va in sposa a un giovane benestante, non si rassegna alla nascita di Diane, l'incantevole figlia che attira su di sé l'attenzione di tutti, come non si rassegna a una vita che sembra deludere le sue aspettative. Amélie Nothomb torna a regalarci un romanzo crudele, mettendo a nudo con precisione millimetrica i meccanismi più distruttivi dell'animo umano. "Colpisci il tuo cuore" è la storia di un amore assoluto. L'amore di una figlia per la madre, la sua ricerca di tenerezza, di conferme.

L'aiuto cuoco Aimee Tierney ha trovato la ricetta per la vita perfetta: sposare il ragazzo che ama fin da quando è una bambina, creare una famiglia e poi chissà, un giorno rilevare il ristorante dei genitori. Il futuro che aveva sognato le passa però davanti in un lampo, come strappato dal vento, quando il suo fidanzato James perde la vita in un incidente in barca. Dal giorno in cui la chiesa che avrebbe dovuto ospitare il loro matrimonio è diventata il triste scenario per il funerale di James, Aimee non ha pace.

De las calles habaneras al prostíbulo y de allí a los fastuosos salones de la alta sociedad isleña, enriquecida hasta lo inimaginable con el cultivo de la caña de azúcar, El sueño de las Antillas nos cuenta la historia de una mujer fuerte, valiente y carismática que, en una época de intrigas políticas por la independencia de Cuba y por la abolición de la esclavitud, se debate entre la ambición, la venganza, y el amor verdadero.

One night would change everything...affect our families...our own lives. The feelings buried inside for so long are suddenly coming to life! She was my childhood friend. I didn’t know if I loved her. And now I meet her in college again. She’s gorgeous.... I can lose myself forever in those big dark eyes and her silky black hair. But, she’s forbidden fruit; our families hate each other. I am a tough talker, but I know my family holds a certain control over me. And I wonder if she worth losing my family over.

On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table.

I'm leaving you this note because I know you're very busy, and I don't want to waste the town sheriff's time. Lord knows I've already wasted enough of it. Thank you for taking me home last night and...everything else. I made you a basket of wild blueberry muffins for your trouble. That seemed like the appropriate baked good for getting naked in your living room. I wasn't myself last night. I didn't mean to kiss you or fondle your backside or ask all those intimate questions. Thank you for pretending to enjoy it.

Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the kind of person who is up for it and down for it - and not remotely troubled over how those two semantically opposed phrases could have come to mean the same thing. In the sweltering city, she encounters Bill, a once-lauded now booze-sodden novelist, and Inez, his teenage daughter who makes extra cash catering to the sexual fantasies of men she has met online - and falls into a complex infatuation with them both.

Her lips tasted like Cabernet and her touch was like fire. I was blinded by what she did to me. I so easily fell for something I thought I’d never have. I was weak for her and should’ve known better. I should’ve known she could never love a man like me. She brought out a side of me that I wish had stayed dead. I won’t make the same mistake twice. I don’t care how much she begs me. I don’t care that I crave her more than anything else.

Erica Larson had dreamed of being a lawyer for as long as she could remember, but the job at Ford & Associates - a family business run by a father and his three sons - is sheer drudgery. Erica is ready to pull up stakes and move home - until devilishly handsome but arrogant Brock Ford, the youngest son, makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Play his fiancée for a month...maybe two, because his future with the firm depends on deception. Just attend a function here and there. No kissing and definitely no sleeping together.

After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompt the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang’s story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel back, layer by layer, the events that brought her to this moment - and forces her, against her will, to confront the tragedy she has refused for half a century.