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Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: serious, stubborn, prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, a young scholar, have been learning Latin together in secret—but just as she thinks their connection might become something more, he abandons her for the monastery. When her family falls on hard financial times, her father promises her in marriage to the unctuous head of the weavers’ guild, and in desperation she runs away from home, eventually finding shelter within a community of religious women who do not answer to the church.

Call it inertia. Call it a quarter-life crisis. Whatever you call it, Cricket Campbell is stuck. Despite working at a zeitgeisty wellness company, the 26-year-old feels anything but well. Still adrift after a tragedy that upended her world a decade ago, she has entered early adulthood under the weight of a new burden: her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

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Lucy Barnes is a gardener with an uncanny ability to know exactly which scent among her flowers will illuminate to a person a key from their past that might change their future. Sadly, after a tragedy ten years ago, she no longer uses her gift and has fled her hometown. But six months after her mother’s death, Lucy awakens to find her mother’s unmistakable scent drifting over her, and she knows that she is being called home.

An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly hilarious debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams?

De'Quincy Harrison thought he had found the love of his life, until she broke his heart and made him a single father. Not one to wallow in hurt and self-pity, he picked up the pieces and strived to provide a stable environment for his daughter, giving her the love she deserved.

An effervescent millennial coming-of-age novel about a woman who spirals after she pulls the death card during a tarot reading and writes cringe-worthy confessional letters to her closest friends and family in anticipation of her imminent demise…only she doesn’t die.

At thirty-one, Chloe Fairway isn’t where she wants to be in life. Stuck in a PA job for a boss who barely notices her, and back home with her parents after a painful breakup, she feels like a failure. So, when she's invited to her Oxford college’s ten-year reunion, the last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her "most likely to succeed.” To make things worse, Sean Adler, her former best friend—and the man she turned down when he declared his love for her all those years ago—is living the life she always dreamed of, working as a film director in L.A.

As opening night nears for a local amateur production, the cast begin to realise that the real drama is taking place off-stage -- and in life there's no such thing as a dress rehearsal ... When Edward Bull agreed to direct the amateur production of Death by Dying, he thought it would take his mind off his wife's recent affair. He was soon to discover, however, that all the real drama was taking place off-stage ...

The Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down her stairs, knocking her out of commission. Now, as well as running errands and shepherding those less able to their doctors’ appointments, they have to pick up the slack. Between navigating their own relationships and aging bodies and attending choir practice, these invisible yet indomitable women help where they can. They bake cookies, they care for pets, they pick up prescriptions, they sit vigil by the sick, and most of all, they show up for the people they’ve pledged to help.

June's Beauty Shop is a staple in Whitetail, a small Southern town north of Atlanta. It may look like an outdated hole-in-the-wall slathered in Dolly Parton memorabilia, but to the women in town, it is a sacred space. To Georgia and Junie Scott, it is their family legacy, particularly their late mother's. For generations, the shop has been passed to the oldest daughter, always named June. But Mama wanted more for her firstborn. Now Georgia is living the life everyone expected, the life everyone wanted for her. Everyone, that is, except her.

Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.

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Our narrator’s name and origins are unknown. Oliver, who has served as both her caregiver and her captor, told her she came to him from another star. Though she arrived a grown woman, she did not yet have the ability to speak or count. Oliver had to teach her how to properly chew her food and clean herself. Though isolated from our world, he did his best to care for his charge and, she insists, always felt the need to develop her into more than she was.

A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body.

Band 2 der Montmarte-Saga. Paris 1889: Elise Lambert und Valérie Dumas wurden am selben Tag geboren. Sonst haben die beiden Frauen nicht viel gemeinsam. Nach der Eröffnung des Moulin Rouge steigt Elise Lambert rasch zum Star des Tanz-Ensembles auf. Darunter leidet ihre Freundschaft mit der Tänzerin La Goulue. Obwohl der Maler Toulouse-Lautrec sie durch seine Werke immer bekannter macht, betrachtet La Goulue Elise zunehmend als Konkurrentin. Die Situation eskaliert, als sich ein reicher Adeliger für Elise interessiert.

Wünsch dir etwas, stell dich deinen Ängsten und sieh, was passiert …. In einer von Einsamkeit geprägten Kindheit fand Lucy Hart Trost in Büchern, insbesondere in der "Clock Island"-Reihe von Bestsellerautor Jack Masterson. Jetzt ist sie Mitte zwanzig und kann ihre Liebe zum Lesen mit ihren Schülern teilen, vor allem mit dem Waisenjungen Christopher. Lucy würde alles dafür tun, Christopher zu adoptieren, doch um ihm ein richtiges Zuhause zu geben, fehlen ihr die nötigen finanziellen Mittel.

In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen’s minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant of Sense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams and much more. Blurring genres and taking us across the oceans, Ladies in Waiting is a heartfelt celebration of Jane Austen and her timeless masterpieces.

1959. Claire, Bridget, and Frannie Reilly are as close as sisters can be. Though their mother left when they were young, their loving father raised them with everything they could want. But when Claire marries a handsome cowboy and settles out west, a thousand miles away, the sisters’ strong bond begins to unravel.

Sadie Sheridan’s new husband Felix, a professor of planetary sciences, has vowed to never leave her. But when Felix departs on a work trip and disappears, Sadie is stranded at Hemlock House, a remote mountain homestead and the site of their sabbatical for the past several months. First doubts creep into Sadie’s heart. Then panic. Where is he?