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DI Nikki Galena: A police detective with nothing left to lose, she's seen a girl die in her arms, and her daughter will never leave the hospital again. She's gotten tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough. And now she's been given one final warning: make it work with her new sergeant, DS Joseph Easter, or she's out.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

That cream-filled, caramel-topped doughnut should have been hers. Still, Haley Raynor can’t deny that the pastry thief with the dreamy blue eyes looks even more delicious. But moving in on a handsome devil like Trevor Kelly is bad news for a die-hard romantic like Haley. Trevor doesn’t believe in love. She does. Giving in to a fling and Trevor’s irresistible charms can’t end well. Can it? What can it hurt to give it a shot?

The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for generations. But when Vanessa Jacobs is widowed and left to manage the property, she finds costs spiralling out of control. In order to stay in their beloved home, she and her daughters will have to sell part of it off - a decision that drives a wedge between Vanessa and her mother-in-law. The new owners of the north wing are Laurence Sturridge and his father, Marcus. Both of them long for an escape: Laurence from the monotony of his City career; Marcus from the grief of losing his wife.

Com 23 anos, a infanta Catarina de Bragança, filha de D. Luísa de Gusmão e de D. João IV, deixou para trás tudo o que lhe era querido e próximo para navegar rumo a uma vida nova. No coração, um misto de tristeza e alegria. Saudades da sua Lisboa, de Vila Viçosa, do cheiro a laranjas, dos seus irmãos que já haviam partido deste mundo e dos que ficavam em Portugal a lutar pelo poder. Mas os seus olhos escuros deixavam perceber o entusiasmo pelo casamento com o homem dos seus sonhos, Charles de Inglaterra, um príncipe encantado que Catarina amava perdidamente ainda antes de o conhecer.

Simona, una mujer en la mitad de sus cuarenta, sufre la muerte de su madre, una figura tutelar en su vida que, hasta cierto punto, era determinante para la construcción de su identidad. Este suceso coincide con la llegada de un amor inesperado a su vida. Nora, una fotógrafa de clase acomodada, hace tambalear sus certezas y la fortaleza que Simona creía tener. Así se dispara una travesía en la que conviven, en simultáneo, las dos acepciones del cortejo para crear una alegoría acerca de los ciclos de inicios, finales, pero sobre todo de transformaciones.

El conocimiento fue para Matilde Montoya su único dios verdadero, pero también el origen de todas sus desdichas y su olvidada gloria. A pesar de su inteligencia y sólida vocación, siempre fue relegada en la Academia por su condición de mujer. Al interior de las escuelas donde estudió, Matilde fue ignorada por condiscípulos y maestros, su presencia en las aulas callada o abiertamente cuestionada y sus opiniones, siempre certeras, fueron objeto de controversias o de burla.

Una prostituta despreciada por sus acompañantes reparte su comida con los burgueses que viajan en el mismo carruaje. También les da a aquellos conciliadores burgueses una lección de patriotismo, cuando un oficial invasor detiene el coche y demanda los favores de la prostituta como condición para permitirles continuar el viaje. Viendo que sus vidas dependen de Bola de Sebo, los burgueses recurren a todo tipo de halagos. La prostituta finalmente se entrega al enemigo y éste permite que el carruaje siga su marcha.

Continuación de Claudine en la escuela, aunque de lectura independiente, Claudine en París (1901) sigue a nuestra heroína en un viaje de descubrimiento por la ciudad de la luz, adonde se traslada con su distraído padre una vez finalizada su educación en Montigny. Con el desparpajo que la caracteriza, Claudine se aventura por los bulevares, asiste a conciertos y entra en contacto con las nuevas ideas de principios del siglo XX. Sin embargo, lo que de verdad le abre los ojos a la vida en la capital son las relaciones que entabla con su pintoresca familia parisina.

Marcele de repente descobre que está apaixonada pelo namorado da vizinha. Mas, ele vai se mudar em 10 dias. Então ela começa a correr contra o tempo! Uma história divertida, de uma menina que não mede as consequências para conquistar o homem dos seus sonhos.

Melissa Henderson fue autora superventas, pero después de perder a su hijo y de que su matrimonio se derrumbara, ahora dedica su energía a restaurar una antigua casa victoriana. Tras un incendio que amenaza la integridad de su hogar y provoca que aparezca en televisión, Melissa recibe una llamada de su hermana, Hattie, con la que hace años perdió el contacto. A pesar de todo, Hattie está decidida a ayudar a Melissa a pasar página, aunque eso signifique que esta última se vea obligada a reabrir uno de los capítulos más dolorosos de su vida.

Tres mujeres arrebatadoras, tres historias brutales, entre Amores perros y Thelma y Louise. La obra cumbre de uno de los narradores con más talento de la nueva narrativa española. Mujeres en la oscuridad narra la huida de tres mujeres distintas, cuyas vidas están entrecruzadas sin saberlo, y que comparten algo en común: una vida deslustrada y la búsqueda de luz en el amor, en el deseo.

In the spring of 1914, Nadia Shulkina, the daughter of Russian aristocrats, looks toward a bright future. She has no premonitions of war, let alone the revolution that is about to destroy her comfortable world. Her once-noble family is stripped of every possession, and more terrible losses soon follow. To save what's left of her family and future, Nadia marries a zealous Bolshevik in an act of calculated reinvention.

A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on the two accounts of her life--the real one and the one she’s always told the world--in this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild. In 1964, teenage Geraldine Waters was sent away by her parents to an unwed mothers’ home, where she gave up her newborn for adoption. Ever since, she’s lived an alternative narrative. Decades later, it’s time for Geraldine to reconcile the telling of her life, to finally grieve, and to discover what happened to that part of her past that slipped away.

Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi - her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant - who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.

When Ethan Bishop returns to the Hudson Valley, his body and spirit are a little worse for wear. As a former Special Forces paratrooper, he saw his fair share of conflict, and he came home with wounds, inside and out. At his sisters’ B & B and farm, he can keep all his pain at a safe distance. But quiet time isn’t easy when a fiery woman explodes into his life...

Detective Inspector Nikki Galena's close friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar. After her hard-won recovery, Helen is still getting flashbacks to a man she says was down there with her and who confessed to a murder. But no trace of this man can be found. Then Helen tells Nikki that someone is watching her. But is all this in her friend's imagination and part of her post-traumatic stress?

Willow Tree Hall, the proud ancestral home of the Earl and Countess of Cranley for centuries, has seen better days. Annie Rogers takes the job as housekeeper at Willow Tree Hall, having to work with a reluctant heir Sam Harris to renovate the failing estate. With Sam running from his past and Annie hiding from hers, just maybe together they can bring Willow Tree Hall back to life.

When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.

Abandonando la tensión política de la República Dominicana de los explosivos años 70, las cuatro hermanas García acompañadas de sus padres se autoexilian en el Bronx Neoyorquino, arribando a un ambiente totalmente desconocido y en extremo liberal para sus conservadores padres. La excelente narrativa de Julia Alvarez nos lleva de la mano por el recorrido de las dinámicas hermanas García, por caminos deliciosamente divertidos y también plagados de conflictos generacionales.