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Confederate Camel Caravan 1861: The Civil War is raging. The men have gone to fight, leaving the women behind to cope. Cotton is the lifeblood of the South. Sara, a young wife, risks her life and reputation to lead an official Confederate Camel Caravan hundreds of miles across Texas to Matamoros, Mexico. There, cotton can be sold and shipped to the buyer, avoiding the Union blockade and providing critical funds for the South and for desperate Dallas cotton growers.

Your book is about Tasha, a resilient mother of three who finds herself at a painful crossroads: stay with her unfaithful, jobless, and emotionally abusive husband, Reggie, or risk becoming a struggling single mother. Reggie is not the biological father of her eldest child and constantly tears him down, while Tasha shoulders the entire household—working a full-time job, paying the bills, and providing for her kids.

The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound is the third installment in the charming young adult series by Laura Lee Hope, best known as the author of The Bobbsey Twins. First published in 1914, this delightful story continues the adventures of sisters Ruth and Alice DeVere, along with the spirited crew of the Comet Film Company, as they navigate the early days of silent filmmaking. In this volume, the company journeys to a remote lodge in upstate New York to capture picturesque winter scenes for their latest motion picture.

Clementine Crane has a few things on her plate: She keeps the peace, picks up the slack, and always puts everyone else first. But when her first hot flash strikes, perimenopause sends her into a tailspin. Between a husband who can’t navigate a revolving door without her, three kids who treat her as their fixer, and a career stuck in neutral, Clementine begins to wonder: When is enough enough? Overwhelmed and fed up, Clementine takes a stand—one small refusal at a time.

When Chris Lawler is left adrift by the sudden loss of her partner, she heads west on a cross-country road trip—but no GPS can navigate her loneliness or the guilt over her part in Sally’s accident. Struggling to find belonging among Utah’s red rocks and in the Texas Hill Country, she meets two remarkably different people who begin to kindle her healing. She is smitten by one of them, but past rejection renders her insecure and awkward. Adding to her isolation, her judgmental kin in Texas rebuff her attempts to reconcile.

It is 1922. Myrtle Wilson lives a lonely, desolate existence above her husband’s garage in the “valley of ashes” between New York and Long Island. All her dreams—and her marriage itself—are turning to dust until she crosses paths with Tom Buchanan on the subway. In one moment, Myrtle’s life is irrevocably changed. “You can’t live forever, you can’t live forever” becomes the mantra that galvanizes her decision to embark on a fateful affair with the wealthy stranger.

My life is perfectly fine. Alex has pretended this for years—despite an emotionally absent father, a best friend drifting away, and a floundering dog-training business. At least Alex has her sister, Meredith, a driven polar opposite. But both their lives are upended when their estranged mother dies of a genetic condition that the sisters have a fifty-fifty chance of inheriting. For Alex, a world without her mother is uncomfortable. But a world without Meredith is unthinkable.

Innsbruck, 1485. Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is doing: keeping house, supporting her husband, and bearing his children, but as an outspoken, strong woman, she sometimes has difficulty fitting in. Then she draws the unwanted attention of a malign priest who is just starting his campaign to root out “witches” from among the women of her town, and when her husband’s footman dies, she finds herself accused not only of murder but of witchcraft.

November 2001: Chloe Harlow wakes up late, with hazy memories of the party the night before but no recollection of how she got back to her Brooklyn apartment. Ever since the terrifying and catastrophic terrorist attack, it seems she has been on a collision course with destruction. When she finally arrives at the exclusive Upper East Side art gallery where she works, she is immediately called into her boss’s office. A pair of NYPD detectives greet her, also very curious to know how her evening ended…because the host of the party, a rising painter and the gallery’s newest artist, is dead.

Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought she and her boyfriend were soulmates. He even took her to a love hotel, where she believed he was going to propose. Instead, he left her after four years. So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in an empty cafe. When she awakens, she’s eager to tell her story to anyone who will listen, and pours her heart out to a curious manager and the sole other customer in the cafe, a monk who trains at a temple nearby.

In this follow-up to the critically-acclaimed The Laughter—winner of the Washington State Book Award—a middle-aged woman starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritual, in which men must compete to win her affections.

From a stunning new voice in romance, Lauren Okie’s The Best Worst Thing is an intimate story about starting over, second chances, and two people who cannot help falling into each other’s orbit once again.

An epic tragicomedy spanning three generations, Ugly explores the horrifying and hilarious truths of man's inhumanity to woman, delivered with unforgettable characters and indelible dark humor in the grand tradition of John Irving.

New York Times bestselling author Daniel M. Lavery returns to the world of Women’s Hotel in this delightful and heartwarming novella about one especially lively Christmastime at the Biedermeier.

At the turn of the millennium, Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo” Harmon wants nothing more than to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t have the right pedigree. Instead, Clo is a “workhorse” surrounded by beautiful, wealthy, impossibly well-connected “show horses” who get ahead without effort, including her beguiling cubicle-mate, Davis Lawrence, the daughter of a beloved but fading Broadway actress.

Donna Russo's 'Vincent's Women' is the untold story of Vincent's loves: how they shaped his life, his art, and his death. It writes against the ‘myths,’ exploring the possibility that none of them are true. It is the only novel to bring into question his sexuality, how he lost his ear, who he lost it for, and how he might have died, all through the eyes of a woman. We learn of Her; we learn all of it through Her. The story is guided by Johanna van Gogh Bonger, Vincent's sister-in-law, as she decides to reveal the truth about Vincent to her son.

After her husband wipes out their savings, sells the house, and walks away, Mina is left with nothing but her teenaged twins and a broken heart. But when she unexpectedly inherits her late uncle’s diner, she sees a flicker of hope. Mina has no experience running a diner, and in this tight-knit island community, her resilience is tested in ways she never imagined. With the business losing money and no backup plan, she’s faced with the daunting possibility of failing herself, the diner’s staff, and leaving her children homeless.

San Francisco. Two trailblazing women—separated by a century—fighting for their futures. The Covert Buccaneer is a sweeping, dual-timeline historical fiction, women’s fiction, legal drama, and love story..

Die Fortsetzung der genussvollen Schokoladen-Trilogie von Lisa Graf als Hörbuch. Bern 1863: Kurz bevor die Räder einer vorbeifahrenden Kutsche den kleinen Tagträumer Rudolphe Lindt auf dem Marktplatz erfassen, wird er von einem wunderschönen Blumenmädchen gerettet. Von diesem Augenblick an ist klar: Der junge Lindt hat überlebt, um Großes zu vollbringen! Doch nicht etwa so, wie es sich seine Familie wünscht. Der Sohn eines Arztes wird zum Schulabbrecher und stürzt sich in das Abenteuer. Als Charmeur und Lebemann haben ihm schon immer alle Türen offen gestanden.

Tilly fällt aus allen Wolken, als sie an ihrem Geburtstag einen Anruf von Buchhändler Alfie Lane erhält. Ihr Verlobter Joe hat in Alfies kleinem Laden ein Geschenk für sie hinterlegt: ein Jahr voller Bücher – für jeden Monat eins. Seit Joes Tod vor fünf Monaten ist Tilly nicht mehr dieselbe, doch nun fasst sie sich ein Herz. Die Bücher führen sie von einem Abenteuer ins nächste. Durch die lebhaften Straßen New Yorks, zu neuen Freunden in Paris, in die friedvollen Hügel der Toskana und zu den kilometerlangen Sandstränden von Bali.