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Tess and Orla have been best friends throughout most of their adult lives. So when life gave them lemons and their loved ones let them down, they pooled their resources and bought a dressmakers shop on the corner of Penny Lane. And they’ve been doing just fine ever since. But one day, while studying her tired eyes and shapeless figure in the mirror, 62-year-old Tess realised that she doesn’t want her life to be just fine anymore. She wants it to be extraordinary.

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Determined to thwart her parents' plans to marry her off into Asian suburbia, Fiona seeks her freedom at any price. How far will she go to bury the Hello Kitty stereotype forever? Fiona's journey of self-discovery is biting and clever as she embraces her true nature and creates her own version of the American Dream, eliminating - without fear or remorse - anyone who stands in her way.

For travel escort Emily Andrew and her fellow Iowans, aloha means "hello" to all the sun, surf, and scrumptious cuisine their Hawaiian cruise has to offer. But for Professor Dorian Smoker, a renowned expert on the legendary Captain Cook, aloha also means "good-bye" - as in "man overboard." Sure, it could have been an accident. But Emily wonders if some guest with a grudge might have knocked off the opinionated professor.

Una mattina di fine estate, in un Giappone di un'era imprecisata, la direttrice dell'Istituto Gokuraku, Sada, e la sua assistente, Yuki, prelevano da una vecchia casa una bambina rimasta orfana: la piccola Sumiko. Presto si accorgono che Sumiko non intende parlare, mangiare, interagire con niente e nessuno; i suoi occhi sono persi in un punto indefinito davanti a sé, su qualcosa che sembra nulla. Anche Yuki, venticinque anni prima, è stata ospite dell'istituto: privata dei genitori, è stata sottoposta a un programma di accudimento materno artificiale.

Braxton Monroe’s taking a break from teaching to do some strenuous work on a Civil War-era house, and feeling the strain in every rock-hard muscle. Good thing he has to interview massage therapists for the spa - even if it’s embarrassing to meet a job candidate in his boxers. Cora Buchanan has hands so talented - and a voice so sultry - he wants to hire her before he even lifts his head from the table. But he’s shocked to meet her outside the massage room - with her seeing-eye dog, Heidi the yellow lab.

To-do: Stop the bad guys. Rescue the wizard. Find the perfect outfit for New Year's Eve. At last, Owen Palmer, the dreamboat wizard at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., has conjured up the courage to get Katie Chandler under the mistletoe at the office holiday party. But just when it looks like Katie has found her prince, in pops her inept fairy godmother, Ethelinda, to throw a wand into the works. Ethelinda's timing couldn’t be worse. A plot hatched by MSI's rogue ex-employees, Idris and his evil fairy gal pal Ari, threatens to expose the company's secrets - and the very existence of magic itself.

Once upon a time, a girl loved a boy and he loved her back. They lived happily ever after. But our story was never that simple. I loved Josh with all I had, right until the day he left. Now, all these years later, he was back - and wanting me the way I'd always longed for him. Except now, I belonged to someone else. Someone who never left me the way Josh had. I figured that was the end of our story. I couldn't alter the past. I didn't want to rewrite my future.

Der Triumph der Frauen. Paris, 1918: Vianne Mercier wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als Modedesignerin zu werden. Als ihre Familie von Verlust und Verrat heimgesucht wird, nimmt sie all ihren Mut zusammen und wagt den Neuanfang in New York. Sie findet Arbeit in einem Modeatelier, wo ihr Talent für das Entwerfen spektakulärer Kleider schnell Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Doch dann verliebt sie sich in den charmanten Restaurantbesitzer Giorgio und muss sich zwischen Karriere und privatem Glück entscheiden... Eine junge Designerin erobert New York – und auch ihre große Liebe?

The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend’s abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others’ bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star’s channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes.

Écosse, 1873. Ailis, Donna et Katrina, issues de la prestigieuse lignée des Hard, grandissent au sein de l’aristocratie écossaise. La tête dans les étoiles, les trois cousines s’imaginent parcourir le monde, bien loin des conventions imposées par leur famille et leur rang. Tandis qu’Ailis veut explorer le ciel, Donna rêve de voler en montgolfière et Katrina, elle, espère devenir actrice de théâtre. Le jour où elles sont admises à l’école St Leonards, le premier lycée écossais pour filles, leurs rêves semblent enfin à portée de main.

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.

It was one little dare with razor-sharp teeth—work for him. Yes, he's a fire-breathing grump and gazillionaire bachelor. Yes, I just gave him an ego check he'll never forget. Yes, he's still offering me the job dreams are made of. But Cole Lancaster is the stuff of bossy nightmares. Too handsome for real life. Big Coffee kingpin. Guarded papa bear. His precious daughter is the only reason he ever stops grumping for five seconds. I'm sure I can deal with his scowls and cutting glances for one huge payday. Only, sometimes your best assumptions are dead wrong.

En la costa coruñesa existe un refugio que desafía la razón: Brétema. David, un prestigioso cardiólogo casado y con tres hijos, y Patricia, su residente, buscan cinco días de desconexión y libertad en Brétema. Su plan es sencillo: vivir su affaire sin máscaras y sin miedo a ser descubiertos. Sin embargo, todo se tambalea cuando descubren que en la casa vecina, conocida como Casa Nigra, se aloja otra pareja que no está ahí por casualidad.

Per la trentenne Piglet – soprannome poco lusinghiero che le è rimasto appiccicato dall'infanzia – sposarsi significa coronare la vita che progetta da sempre. Lei e il fidanzato Kit sono il ritratto della felicità domestica: padroni di casa perfetti, impegnati nell'organizzazione del matrimonio perfetto, con amici perfetti. Ma se una vita sembra troppo bella per essere vera, probabilmente lo è: tredici giorni prima delle nozze, Kit rivela alla futura sposa una terribile verità, un segreto che manda in frantumi la loro realtà.

Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort.

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.

Cate Forbes, a dedicated college student with a carefully plotted future, doesn't know the first thing about love. When she accepts a blind date with a rumored tasty piece of eye candy, she thinks she can get by with a night of fun. Cate's plans quickly unravel when she gets one look at the sexy Drew McKnight....

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself.... New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn.