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It’s 1947 when Sister Mary Agnes arrives in New Mexico. Her mission is to establish a monastery in the town of Roswell, where weeks before rumors of the crash landing of an unidentified craft have triggered a crisis of faith. Residents are drifting away from the divine, awed no longer by the heavens but rather the stars.

As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Creek Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter’s retreat in the country, but unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom family’s stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family’s legacy, but she needs new resources—financial and emotional.

Tildy Barrows, Head Curator of a beautiful archival library in San Francisco, is meticulously dedicated to the century’s worth of inventory housed in her beloved Beaux Art building. She loves the calm and order in the shelves of books and walls of art. But Tildy’s life takes an unexpected turn when she, first, learns the library is on the verge of bankruptcy and, second, discovers two exquisite never-before-seen dollhouses.

Lena Westbrook, a perfectionist and workaholic, has carefully planned and orchestrated every detail of her life. So when her boyfriend of two years breaks up with her on the night she expects him to propose, she’s heartbroken and confused. Lena flees to her beloved aunt’s home on Seattle’s picturesque Bainbridge Island to lick her wounds but when she awakens the next morning, she is shocked to find herself in Paris—in bed with a handsome French man who seems to think that Lena is his wife.

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor—a married woman close to his mother’s age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands—as his only companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, his life soon spirals out of control, ending in a violent accident that leaves a man dead.

Life’s not going well for forty-year-old Abby. When her beautiful and charismatic best friend dies suddenly, she’s left reeling. Hetty’s always been such a dominant force in her life; now Abby must figure out who she is – and who she wants to be – without Hetty by her side. Abby has always been the odd one out in Hetty’s wealthy, privileged friendship group. Despite their differences, Abby has managed to carve out a place for herself. But Hetty isn’t an easy friend to have. She blows hot and cold, alternating between fierce loyalty and unwarranted cruelty.

Lady Madeline Sheldon and her cousin, Miss Elizabeth Freemantle, are given permission to visit Bath if they agree to take Lord Rushton's daughters with them. The two girls have been running wild in London and it is believed that a change of scene will be of benefit to them. But Beau, the Duke of Silchester, soon comes to regret his decision to allow his youngest sister and cousin to leave home supervised only by his man of affairs..

Coronation Close survives the brutal Bristol Blitz but with rationing, call up papers and new rules and regulations everyone’s lives are changed forever. Resident do-gooder PC Percy Routledge's obsession with rules being upheld finds him spying and reporting fellow neighbours on the slightest infraction whilst his poor brow-beaten wife, Margaret can only watch on in shameful silence. It’s whispered that one day he’ll get his comeuppance…

No es valiente el que no tiene miedo, sino el que lo tiene e intenta enfrentarse a él. Vera, Sara y Alexander eran inseparables. Siendo adolescentes, habían establecido un vínculo especial, una amistad inquebrantable; habían trenzado sus vidas con nudos en apariencia irrompibles. ¿Por qué entonces, en la actualidad, Sara se siente sola? ¿Por qué los veranos en el lago ya no son tan mágicos como en algún momento fueron? Una novela sobre esas decisiones cobardes que tomamos en algún momento, pero también sobre personas valientes que les hacen frente.

У вас неприятности в школе, или, возможно, вы чувствуете себя одиноким и потерянным? Возьмите кошачью шерсть, прижмите к груди и произнесите три раза слово "Пожалуйста". Учитель Пэкко ответит на призыв и переместит свой волшебный магазинчик прямо к вашему дому. Но помните: в это место может попасть только клиент, и оно может пропасть в любой момент, в зависимости от настроения владельца. А потому будьте вежливы с учителем Пэкко и он поможет решить ваши проблемы! Для среднего школьного возраста.

Вместо путешествия на море Томе предстоит летняя практика с мытьем самолетов и разбором старых ангаров. А тут еще подруга просит помочь с соблазнением Эдика Исаева – пилота-третьекурсника! Но сам Эдик, кажется, заинтересован совсем в другой девушке… Томе предстоит нелегкий выбор. А еще эта практика изменит судьбы многих, ведь лето – это маленькая жизнь.

Eine junge Frau wacht mit einem blauen Auge in ihrer Heimatstadt in der deutschen Provinz auf. Eigentlich wollte Rosa immer weit weg, doch nun, nach vielen Jahren in London, ist sie zurück und wird von verwirrenden Erinnerungen an ihre Jugend in einem humanistischen Internat, an ihre Mutter, die jung verstarb, und an alte Freundinnen, die nicht mehr mit ihr sprechen, heimgesucht. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen Nostalgie und Realität sucht Rosa die Wahrheit zwischen alten Geschichten.

" On dit qu'on ne sait rien à dix-huit ans. Mais il y a des choses qu'on sait à dix-huit ans et qu'on ne saura plus jamais. ". Tout le monde rêve d'avoir dans sa vie un Tully Dawson, le type d'ami qui vous marque à jamais, qui vous rappelle que la vie peut être différente. Écosse, été 1986. Sur fond de thatchérisme sauvage, un groupe de jeunes gars de la classe ouvrière décide de suivre Tully pour fêter la fin du lycée dans un festival de musique mythique à Manchester, la Mecque du punk rock, de la new wave, de la musique qu'on met à fond !

When three friends spend the summer of 1905 on a farm, they are inextricably drawn to one another by a force of nature that they neither understand nor feel able to share outside their circle. They have no way of knowing what impact they will have on each other and on the world beyond. Accepting one another for who and what they are, their lives change forever. They have one another to thank for that. And the box. A novella set against the background of apartheid South Africa, The Box is a story of love, friendship, courage, honesty, and determination, in the face of extreme adversity.

Cosa saresti disposto a fare per il tuo migliore amico? Pola, 1946. La guerra è finita, ma la pace è ancora un’illusione. Mentre l’Italia cerca di risollevarsi, nella città di Pola due ragazzi, Zeno e Alvise, vivono quella che potrebbe essere la loro ultima estate insieme. Hanno appena terminato le scuole elementari e cercano di aggrapparsi alla loro amicizia, l’unico punto fermo in un mondo che sta cambiando troppo in fretta. È un’estate di scoperte e di prime volte.

Zuli Linares es una joven que en apariencia lleva una vida tranquila hasta que un día tocan a su puerta para entregarle una singular herencia envuelta en cajas de cartón. A través de esas pertenencias que eran de su padre, una figura escurridiza de la que siempre supo poco, dará inicio una búsqueda inusitada tras las huellas que le dejó a partir de su desaparición definitiva. Entre los objetos heredados encuentra una fotografía que nunca antes había visto, que avivará las inquietudes sobre su pasado, su infancia, su madre... y sus falsos recuerdos.

As someone raised in an orphanage, Carmel knows she should be grateful for a roof over her head and a respectable family, but she would love nothing more than to escape Birr, Co Offaly and get away from her husband, the monosyllabic Bill and his horrible sister forever. Life as Mrs. Sheehan should be bearable, all she had to do was look after the house and cook Bill’s meals. She didn’t even need to speak to him, in fact, he preferred that she didn't. But, as her fortieth birthday approaches, Carmel knows the change must be now or never.

All Lady Alice Walpole wants is to be swept off her feet, but she keeps finding herself on one bad date after another. And when she’s caught partying too hard with her latest royal beau, her father banishes her to Balmoral to clean up her act. Fraser Bell just wants to do his job as Piper to the Sovereign at Balmoral. He prefers tartan to tuxedos, and spends his days with horses rather than dealing with people, so when he’s assigned to wake Alice up to the sound of bagpipes every morning, he’s less than pleased.

Cosa saresti disposto a fare per il tuo migliore amico? Pola, 1946. La guerra è finita, ma la pace è ancora un’illusione. Mentre l’Italia cerca di risollevarsi, nella città di Pola due ragazzi, Zeno e Alvise, vivono quella che potrebbe essere la loro ultima estate insieme. Hanno appena terminato le scuole elementari e cercano di aggrapparsi alla loro amicizia, l’unico punto fermo in un mondo che sta cambiando troppo in fretta. È un’estate di scoperte e di prime volte.

Ci inseguirà per tutto il tempo del romanzo. È la voce di un poeta latino del primo secolo avanti Cristo. È la voce di un condannato all'amore di una donna che l'ha straziato e continua a straziarlo rinnovando la smagliante ossessione di un desiderio inesausto. A quella voce sembrano rispondere le vicende di un giovane professore consumato dalla vita coniugale infelice, dalla vita accademica disertata dagli studenti, ma costantemente acceso dalla passione dello studio e, un giorno, dalla lama di luce che riverbera, a sorpresa, negli occhi di una studentessa.