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Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper...Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than 60 years.

Irene ha tutto ciò che molti desiderano: un matrimonio stabile con un uomo presente e affettuoso, una vita ordinata e senza scosse. Ma alla soglia dei quarant'anni, sente crescere un vuoto incolmabile, una voce sottile che le sussurra che forse c'è di più. Imprigionata in un'inquietudine che non riesce a spiegare, una notte, quasi per gioco, si iscrive a un sito di incontri, e da quel momento la sua vita cambia per sempre.

Brave, compassionate and humorous, People Like Us is a novel about the very best kind of friendships After Tina Lamb loses her family home in a bitter divorce, she finds herself living in a caravan on the city’s fringes. Having raised four children and nursed her dying mum, she was not anticipating making a new start alone or from scratch. And while some of her new neighbours are welcoming, she soon finds herself getting far more attention than she bargained for.When Tina finds work caring for a wealthy elderly woman, it is a welcome break from an ageist, sexist job market.

Tem laço que é nó. Bem ali, no meio da garganta, um caroço que não se deixa engolir. Um incômodo que é tão grande que pode mudar até o destino. Todo mundo tem mãe, Catarina é uma frase assim, jogada ao vento, no meio da cara de uma menina de cinco anos, uma Catarina que depois vai ter doze, depois quinze, depois muitos. Uma Catarina que precisa descobrir a sua história, para poder contá-la. E Carla Guerson faz isso sem concessões, jogando tudo no meio da nossa cara, e veja: a gente gosta.

No primeiro audiolivro, Júlia, uma advogada independente, solteira, que vive sua regrada vida dentro dos limites, recebe a oportunidade de escapar da atual rotina para um refúgio de alguns dias numa bela fazenda, em celebração ao casamento de um amigo de infância.

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

I inherited a freaking husband. Grandpa's will was a shocker: huge fortune, gorgeous ranch, and the best horse ever. The fine print? Marrying Mr. Grump-alicious. The man who's supposed to protect me from...what, exactly? That's what I hope to find out if Drake Larkin ever talks. I know what I'm in for the first time his glance tears me open. A broody enigma who's large and in charge. A mute who curls my toes when he barks a few words.

Bossy. Heart of stone. Snarly mess next door. Send help before I'm prick-matized.... My next big mistake has a name. Warren Ford. Best kept secret in this weird little town. An alpha's alpha. Spartan abs. Too blunt for everybody's good. Moody, broody, mysterious, and totally up in my business.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

Click your heels three times and say, "There's no place like Bloomies!" Katie Chandler's life is pure magic - literally. As an executive assistant at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., she's seen more than her share of fantastical occurrences. A mere Manhattan mortal, Katie is no wizard, but she's a wiz at exposing "hokum" pocus, cloaked lies, and deceptive enchantments. And she's fallen under the all-too-human spell of attraction to Owen, a hunky wizard and coworker. Owen, however, is preoccupied. Someone has broken into his office and disrupted top-secret files, and it reeks of an inside job.

Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her. Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-50s, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing 80-something mother.

With a seven-year age difference, Ryke and Daisy have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple, their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media. Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke and Daisy's resilience and shape their future together.

Le piccole donne di Maria Lazar sono Grete, Anette, Ulla e l'anonima narratrice che parla in queste pagine. La sua confessione, concitata e rapinosa, suscita in noi un crescente turbamento, perché la sua voce si mimetizza con le altre. Una presenza, che lei chiama «l'Estranea», la spia dagli specchi e dalle finestre, e si fa via via sempre più ardita e invadente.

Quando o trânsito entre as fronteiras volta a ser possível, os gêmeos podem enfim se reencontrar e retomar sua narrativa juntos. Mas também as fronteiras entre as vidas, as histórias e as personalidades de um e outro, assim como entre verdade e imaginação, se tornam cada vez mais permeáveis.

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.

Connie McColl is finally free to make her own decisions for the first time in decades. And when she meets glamorous Gill and downtrodden Maggie, at a rather dull flower arranging class, it seems that she’s not the only one dreaming of adventure. The three very different women all agree it’s about time they had a holiday to remember. So they make a pact for this summer to be their best yet - and drive off into the sunset together....

Plantée comme un refuge au milieu des bois, la Haute-Île ne ressemble en rien à un hôpital psychiatrique. Pourtant, derrière la beauté des murs, d'étranges événements ont lieu. Olga, jeune mère en post-partum venue s'installer dans l'hôpital avec son mari psychiatre ; Josépha, auxiliaire de crèche précaire et isolée ; et Elsa, jeune enquêtrice tenace, voient leurs destins se nouer.

Francesca, de 13 anos, está às margens do rio Lambro, em Monza, na Itália, e sobre ela jaz um homem que tentou estuprá-la. Após salvar a amiga, Maddalena a ajuda a se livrar do corpo. A partir desse evento fatídico, Francesca narra como as duas chegaram até aquele momento. Tudo começa em 1935, um ano antes, num domingo de missa, quando ela se fascina pela menina que todos chamam de “a Maldita”, uma rebelde de origens humildes e segregada pela comunidade por supostamente ter poderes misteriosos.

Alex leva uma vida livre e errática. Sem dinheiro para o aluguel, a jovem acaba expulsa do apartamento em que mora com alguns colegas e, sem ter aonde ir, aceita passar uma temporada na casa de praia de Simon, um homem mais velho com quem tinha começado a sair havia pouco tempo. A ideia é curtir a pacata vida litorânea durante o mês de agosto e em setembro, quem sabe, se mudar para a casa dele na cidade.