Novedades

Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the “Lowe girls” are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: the responsible and academically-minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young. While Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom. But the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price.

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

When Gigi Jenkins finds herself broke, unemployed, and out of options, she has no choice but to return to Mackinac Island, the horse-and-buggy hometown she swore she'd left behind forever. Living under the same roof with her meddling, divorced mother, Eloise, feels like a recipe for disaster—especially when Eloise hatches a scheme to set Gigi up with the island's charming new doctor.

Beatrice Nilsson is what some might call “feisty” (those who love her) and others “combative” (those who don’t). But no matter what you call her, she’s a good lawyer and an even better friend. So when the marriage of her two closest pals ends in divorce, Bea picks a side and storms the office of attorney Nathan Asher to tell him exactly what he can do with his alimony petition. Unfortunately, what should end with a few choice words soon spirals into uncharted territory when Nate shows up at her NYU Law office a few days later as a newly-minted adjunct professor—and her new colleague.

Since Bailey Rae Rigby’s adoptive aunt Winnie passed, Bent Oak, South Carolina, doesn’t have much of a hold on her anymore. So it seems. Bailey Rae aims to settle the small estate and, armed with her aunt’s inspiring personal cookbook, buy a food truck with an ocean view in Myrtle Beach. Everything goes awry when a distraught young mother arrives in town clutching a copy of that same cookbook. Embedded inside is a code that promises a safe place in Bent Oak for desperate women on the run. For Bailey Rae it opens up a world of questions.

Ebey’s End is a small town on an island off the Pacific coast, reachable only by ferry (assuming the gods are with you and it’s not a Tuesday). It’s a comfortable, familiar (but okay, fine, sometimes lonely) life for its resident grocer Anita Odom. That is, until fourteen-year-old July shows up on her doorstep. Taking in the recently orphaned daughter of an estranged cousin had not been on Anita’s to-do list. In fact, it’s a terrible idea. Anita is ill-suited, ill-prepared, and absolutely certain the entire enterprise will end in disaster—for both of them.

When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it sent shockwaves through the tight-knit community. How could one of their own do such a thing? Especially when his own little girl was the same age – and the victim's best friend. Kathryn and her family left under the cloak of darkness one night, unable to bear the shame, and the anger of their neighbours. She hardly remembers that time. Now, she suffers the consequences of living under an assumed name, always looking over her shoulder.

Joan Liang’s life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan for California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all this she wrestles with one persistent question: Will she ever truly feel satisfied?

Cassandra "Cassie" Hardwick, everyone's favorite rock star's wife, is back! And this time, be prepared for family drama of epic proportions! You see, Cassie's best friend since sixth grade, the ever-fabulous Shawna, embarks on a journey to uncover her birth family. And being the supportive BFF that she is, Cassie decides to spit in a tube, too. Thinking she'll maybe discover a distant cousin who knits sweaters for cats or something equally “thrilling,” Cassie's blindsided by results that will challenge everything she thought she knew about her own identity. Meanwhile, in the Hardwick ...

Love. Devastation. Anger. Sadness. Hope. Love. Everything that we do, leads back to love. But what happens when you lose the one who is closest to you? How do you continue on after such a loss? Meet Emily who is a single mother of Sam. Not only did Emily lose her husband, but Sam has lost a father. The struggles of putting one foot in front of the other is getting harder by the day but all of that changes when a fiery red head named Jamie comes into the picture. Coming in like a whirlwind, she brings back the hope and friendship that Emily has once lost. Not only does she bring in a ...

Habits are easier to make than they are to break. Especially when they are for someone you love. It all started with a promise to my dying mother. A promise to keep my family together and take care of them. Then came finding my brother getting his you know what kicked in high school, all because he owed someone money. More than a decade later and I was wondering, how would this end? Would I eventually pay the ultimate price to settle his debts? I might have been a sucker for helping my brother, but that didn't mean I was a pushover. So when his hot bookie tried to con more money out of me.....

On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be.

Ciara Moretti has never been in love but that hasn’t stopped her from dreaming of Mr. Right. When months of correspondence via emails and texts with Maurizio Bianchi begins a long distance romance, not even 5,000 miles and an ocean between them can keep them apart. Maurizio wants a future with Ciara but until he comes to America, his true motive will stay hidden from everyone, including Ciara, her brother Paolo, and the entire Wheeler Family.

Tucson, Arizona is a place for runaways. Everyone you meet here came from somewhere else and has a story about what they left behind. Blood & Water tells these stories in five alternating first-person narratives: a young mother named Ally, the deliberately childless Tim and Sara, single dad David with a college-bound daughter and David's little sister, Delilah, who shows up on his doorstep with a secret. This novel is about family, in its various manifestations: the one you're born into, the one you choose and the one you create.

Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She never wanted to be a stay-at-home parent—losing her job left her no choice. Now, between her toddlers’ demands, husband’s distance, and father’s deteriorating health, she’s pulled in every direction except her own. Something has to give. Katrina’s in the same dissatisfied boat. After flirting with a handsome stranger at a bar, she’s ready to choose pleasure over responsibility.

The Family Koenig is a historical novel about several generations of physicians in a Jewish family during the core years of the 20th century. It is a gripping book that is rich with historical detail that contains love stories, abandonment, wars, murders and suicides; and yet is a meditation on how its physicians find inner strength, become true healers, and find and nurture love.

Maple Tree Lodge has been the home of the Jackson family for over a century. But the hotel has never been a success and, following the sudden loss of his father, architect Ben Jackson soon discovers the hotel is close to financial ruin. Ben has to make some tough decisions if the hotel is to survive and his family are to keep a roof over their heads.

Laura ha da poco compiuto diciotto anni, ha capelli neri e lunghi e grandi occhi a mandorla. È inquieta e bellissima, e sogna una vita oltre la linea dell'autostrada, magari in un piccolo appartamento nel centro di una grande città. Romina, due anni più piccola, la ammira e la imita, sogna insieme a lei. Entrambe vivono in un luogo in cui il tempo sembra fermarsi e dove il dolore e gli sguardi della gente scavano solchi profondi come l'aratro nella terra. Lo sa bene la loro madre, la signora Nives, che ha sempre vissuto ascoltando il ritmo delle stagioni e il respiro della campagna.

James is a stay-at-home dad, with a comfortable life of dance recitals and school volunteer work, despite his complicated marriage to workaholic Tina. When Tina suddenly dies, James struggles as a single parent to his three children, without the safety net and sizable income his wife once provided. For the sake of his family, he’s forced to return to a past he’d much rather leave alone.As James’ world crumbles, he begins to question if he ever really knew his wife. Why did she want him to be the primary parent, while she stayed on the fringe of their marriage? And now that she’s ...

Meet Lucy, an intoxicatingly glamorous former Broadway star, and Beatrice, a stoic gardener with ancient wisdom in her blood. Together, they sweep 11-year-old Lauren out of her troubled home and introduce her to delicious living on Italy’s isle of Capri. Under their tutelage, Lauren discovers the ingredients required to transform a painful past into a courageously joyful life. This sparkling short story offers a roadmap for emotional healing, and a provocative exploration of the depths of love. Ready to enter a world of epicurean adventure, Italian romance, and la dolce vita?