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What if you're a suburban mom with a snarky sense of humor and a wild imagination prone to dreaming up disasters? What if you and your friends take your daughters for a camping trip, and while on a quick trip to the nearest country market you see a man being bullied and then beaten? What do you do? Back away quietly? Not if you're Molly Deacon, who, along with her Mittyesque imagination, has a temper not to be trifled with.

In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island. And there she stayed for 81 years, while the century raged around her, while lamplight and Victorian order became chaos and nuclear dread. Crusoe's Daughter, ambitious, moving and wholly original, is her story.

The Kents' saga expands as its first heroine takes center stage in the relentless struggle to build the family dynasty opening twenty-two years after the events of The Seekers, John Jakes's fourth Kent Family novel spans the blood-soaked era of America's relentless expansion into the West. Amanda Kent, daughter of Gilbert Kent and Harriet Lebow, is one of the few women to escape the massacre at the Battle of the Alamo.

She's caught in her past until he shows her a future... Some things can never be forgotten. A helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Capture. Torture. Now U.S. Navy nurse Skylar Pascal is struggling to regain control of her life after a trauma that nearly destroyed her. After losing so much, an ideal job at the Elk Horn Ranch in Wyoming offers Sky something she thought she'd never find again... hope.

An infamous sea captain of the British Royal Navy, Devlin O'Neill is consumed with the need to destroy the man who brutally murdered his father. Having nearly ruined the Earl of Eastleigh financially, he is waiting to strike the final blow. And his opportunity comes in the form of a spirited young American woman, the earl's niece, who is about to set his cold, calculating world on fire…

Sean O'Neil was once everything to Eleanor de Warenne - but since he disappeared from his ancestral home, there has been no word, and even Eleanor has abandoned hope, promising her hand to another. Then, just days before her wedding, Sean reappears…but the boy who was once her protector is now a stranger, hardened by prison and on the run. Weary and haunted, Sean is shocked to find that little Elle has become the beautiful, desirable Eleanor.

Blake Caster has been in an emotionally abusive relationship with Justin for so long, she can't tell what is normal anymore, and so she clings to the one thing that is solidly hers - her passion for extreme weather. Three years into her meteorology degree, Blake meets professional storm chaser Dash Lexington, who is as gorgeous as he is daring. Instantly recognizing her passion and skills in analyzing weather data, he makes a spot for her on his tight-knit storm chasing team.

Hitchhiking her way through Alaska, a young woman named Anna is picked up by Kyle, a fisherman. Anna and Kyle quickly fall for each other, as they are both adventurous, fiercely independent, and in love with the raw beauty and solitude of Alaska. To cement their relationship, they agree to become caretakers of a remote lighthouse perched on a small rock in the middle of a deep channel - a place that has been uninhabited since the last caretaker mysteriously disappeared two decades ago.

Punch and Juliette make a pack to live a wild life in Key West for a year, creating scenes to use in his novel with the climax a legendary suicide during Fantasy Fest. But the money runs out early, and their escapades, such as the break-in at Hemingway House and robbing gourmet restaurants for carry-outs take a serious turn. Bohemian atmosphere, a sex-maniac Yorkie, and a Key West witch add magic to the romp as the young woman and her alcoholic African-American-Italian boyfriend try to outsmart fate.

Nevada. Sembra il nome di un deserto, e invece è il luogo in cui vive la famiglia De Boer, in alta val Brenta. Una terra circondata da boschi aspri, dove le case si inerpicano su pendii vertiginosi. Sono gli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento e i De Boer, che lavorano nei campi di tabacco, il pregiatissimo Nostrano del Brenta, vivono consapevoli che solo nella muta e rispettosa alleanza tra uomini e natura selvaggia esiste una possibilità di sopravvivenza.

Succede a tutti, prima o dopo, di pensare: basta, ora mollo tutto e me ne vado. Capita di arrivare a un soffio dal punto di svolta, a un centimetro dalla libertà e dal sollievo, ma poi si torna indietro e si lasciano stare i propositi di cambiamento. Anche a Teresa Guerrini, la protagonista di questo intenso romanzo di Laura Calosso, è successo, una sera al rientro dall'ufficio, quando tra le email trova una fattura telefonica 'fuori scala': i suoi figli hanno esagerato con i download da Internet e in un soffio hanno speso l'ammontare del suo stipendio mensile.

È un giorno di fine aprile quando Sara, guardando la sua immagine riflessa in uno specchio, all'improvviso smette di riconoscersi. E sono molte, in realtà, le cose che non riconosce più nella sua vita. Suo marito l'ha lasciata, sola e con due bambini, proprio dopo essersi trasferiti in una casa nuova, ancora da arredare, ancora da rendere sua. E poi c'è il padre, tanto amato e per alcuni aspetti così simile al marito, la cui mente comincia a essere annebbiata da qualcosa senza nome.

Alice is a scientist who relies on method, precision and proof. But when her relationship with artist Peter Brown collapses, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, it is time to break away.

«Intanto io sogno che quello costa quasi niente.» Potrebbe essere il riassunto di una vita e in un certo senso lo è: una delle vite che schizzano fuori da queste pagine, racconti di donne i cui destini, diversissimi tra loro, si somigliano però nelle mille sfumature affilate del coraggio, della rabbia, della nostalgia, dell’amore. Dentro a interni metropolitani invasi da bucce di cipolla e mariti violenti, borsette in finta pelle e madri disapprovanti, si muovono le protagoniste e come si muovono sbagliano, ma non per questo si adattano a star ferme.

When a lethal spy meets a gentle Viking scholar in the Scottish Highlands, sparks fly—and so do bullets. Samantha "Smack" McAvoy is very good at two things: eliminating threats and staying emotionally unavailable. Fresh off a mission gone wrong, she's supposed to be healing in a remote Scottish inn. Instead, she finds herself protecting Finn Colpher—a gorgeous, book-obsessed academic who quotes medieval poetry to his golden retriever and apologizes to furniture.

When travel blogger Sophie West flees London and her toxic ex for a fresh start in Santorini, the last thing she expects is to be mugged at the port—or rescued by a mysterious artist whose eyes hold secrets deeper than the Aegean Sea. Ethan Carter sketches tourists for pocket change, but Sophie glimpses the dangerous man hidden beneath his easy smile. When she stumbles into a high-stakes art auction involving Russian criminals and a lost Leonardo da Vinci, Ethan's carefully constructed new life comes apart.

Renata tiene catorce años y la certeza de que es feliz por la muerte de su madre: Sabina. Los lectores desconocemos sus impulsos y precisamente esa incógnita es la que nos mantiene enmarañados en esta historia que muestra personajes complejos, trazados con una pluma que sin duda sabe contar historias. El origen de todos los males muestra de lo que es capaz un ser cuando los celos se convierten en su mayor motivación.

Hay muchas maneras de decir adiós, hay instantes únicos en los que la ficción y la memoria se hibridan y enraízan en una misma página para exhibir la red de una despedida. De este umbral doloroso germinan las historias encadenadas con las que Clara Obligado nos acerca a tres mujeres y sus profundas pérdidas, a los diversos espacios y tiempos en que les tocó vivir.

Lei deve tornare nel suo tempo. Lui la tiene prigioniera.Durante un viaggio nelle Highlands scozzesi, l’americana Amy MacDougall scende nei sotterranei del castello di Inverlochy. Ignara, tocca una pietra magica che la trasporta indietro nel tempo e tra le braccia di un highlander.Craig Cambel si è infiltrato nel castello di Inverlochy per preparare un attacco, quando si imbatte in una bella sconosciuta. Ma niente deve intralciare il suo piano ed è costretto a imprigionarla, nonostante l’attrazione che prova per lei.È l’anno 1307 e lei è una nemica. Secoli, sospetti e dubbi li separano.

Jean-Marie Quéméner signe un nouveau roman d'aventure et nous présente l'incroyable destin d'Anne Bonny, femme pirate d'exception. Pirate travestie redoutable, elle soumet les navires ennemis et les plus grands pirates tels que Barbe Noire, Rackam et Charles Vane. Mais comment une jeune fille illégitime irlandaise est-elle devenue une incontournable femme pirate ? C'est ce qu'explore Jean-Marie Quéméner dans ce roman d'aventure.