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"The Enchanted April" is Elizabeth von Arnim best-known novel, a beloved story of transformation, friendship, and the rejuvenating power of nature. Set in the 1920s, the story follows four very different English women who, weary of their dreary lives at home, decide to rent a medieval castle on the Italian Riviera for a month. As the women settle into the sunlit beauty of San Salvatore, the tranquil surroundings begin to work a quiet magic on them. The castle's enchantment also extends to the men in their lives, leading to reconciliations and renewed affection.

"The Romance in Italy Collection" celebrates two radiant journeys into desire, self-discovery, and the transformative beauty of the Italian landscape. In E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View," a young woman's awakening unfolds amid Florence's sunlit terraces, social restraint, and the liberating pull of passion. In Elizabeth von Arnim's "The Enchanted April," four very different women escape the grey pressures of English life for a blossom-filled villa in the tiny Italian village of San Salvatore, where warmth, friendship, and possibility begin to bloom.

Este es un espacio para mostrarnos, para ser vulnerables y raros, sin juicios, ni reproches. Eres perfecto como disfrutas ser y eso está bien.

A dark past. A haunted mind. A young girl caught in the crosshairs. Charlie has a dark, hidden past. It includes an early induction into a troupe of young shoplifters and the accidental death of childhood mentor and troupe leader, Bill Edwards. Since Bill’s death, Charlie has tried to settle into a more normal life and to walk the straight and narrow. This, despite frequent, intrusive thoughts whispered in Bill’s familiar voice.

She bet me she could break the wildest horse on the ranch. I should've known she'd break me instead. I gave up bull riding when a two-thousand-pound monster shattered my leg and nearly killed me. Now I break horses for the Shotgun Saints and keep my head down. Stay loyal to my Prez. Don't touch what doesn't belong to me. Especially not Dakota—Phantom's daughter, Sharp's rodeo princess, and the woman I've been trying not to want for the last few years.

Hunted in a blizzard...a child’s life depends on this K-9 duo. Rescuing the inhabitants of a wrecked Jeep, park ranger Gabriel McCray and his K-9 partner, Macky, suddenly find themselves under gunfire. But who would be shooting at a woman and a baby in a blizzard? Now the ex-military...

Jack the Ripper. Victorian London. A beastly mystery. This novel will have you howling at the full moon. Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Laini Taylor. When Caroline Foster arrives at the Whitechapel Full Moon Society in search of her missing brother, she finds a dilapidated façade belying...

A witty and sharp-tongued novel about a writer and actress who finally comes to write the manuscript that is thirty-seven years overdue – for fans of We All Want Impossible Things and The Correspondent. Maria Astorini, once late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress...

May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, Herbert's meek daughter, is...

Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving. With her elegant prose the author traces the web...

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall. Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth...

Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities - until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancings' house would enrapture her, taking her back to that very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the station . . . All the longing, excitement and...

"I absolutely adored The Little White Horse." —J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series Winner of the Carnegie Medal When orphaned young Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, she feels as if she's entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...

Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti present Book 3 in the Quill & Packet Mystery series...

In Crucible of Light, Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds over an 800-year span, taking in the conquest and re-conquest of Spain, the meteoric rise of Arabo-Norman Sicily, the Ottoman renaissance of the 16th to 18th centuries, the ebb...

It’s a harmony of second chances, forced proximity and festive mayhem in this warm and bright holiday romance! Music was everything to professional soprano Charlie Ward...until her brother died, leaving her lost in grief. It’s only when her beloved Gram moves into the Glendale Retirement...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A remarkable trio, whose lives were upended by their husbands’ crimes, unite to catch a killer in 1960s California Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966...

In Cornwall, a man suffers a violent death – and the killer may lurk within the community . . . Featuring Detectives Barbara Havers and Thomas Lynley, A Slowly Dying Cause is an atmospheric, gripping crime thriller from bestselling author Elizabeth George. Amid the beauty of Cornwall’s...

Return to the Underworld . . . Deina has finally found what matters most to her in all the world. And lost it. To save the one she loves, she's bound herself to the Underworld and an endless future of darkness. But not even her sacrifice is enough to secure Theron or her friends' safety in the...