Novedades

A nasty twist of fate turns a beautiful beginning into a tangle of deceit and regret. From the foothills of North Carolina to the mountains of West Virginia, Birdie weaves her story with homespun simplicity, creating a tapestry that vibrates with the colors and textures of her life and times, spinning a tale from the years before the Great Depression on up through the end of World War II.Enthralled by her first taste of womanhood, she follows her heart with the man of her dreams, only to find that life is not fair. Or perfect. Or easy. Will she find the courage to risk everything in order ...

Life changes in ways you can't predict. Could she be responsible for it all?... As a middle child, Boston native Kathryn Moore has always struggled to fit into her nouveau riche family and would rather do anything than carry on with the family business. Her aspirations lie in more artistic pursuits: to become a writer like her uncle, which strains her already turbulent relationship with her mother. After Kathryn’s uncle, her mentor and confidante, dies tragically in a car accident, she learns he has bequeathed his Charleston home to her, and life changes in ways she never could have ...

Her worn boots crunched on shards of broken glass and twisted metal, remnants of a world that had once teemed with life. Buildings, skeletal remains of their former glory, clawed at the sky, their empty windows like hollowed-out eyes staring blankly at the desolate landscape. She moved with the slow, deliberate grace of someone who had learned to conserve energy, every movement measured, every step calculated. Survival was a delicate dance, a precarious balance between hope and despair. Elara clutched the worn leather satchel close to her chest, its contents her lifeline: a handful of dried...

1943. The tide of the Second World War is turning. The Russian victory at Stalingrad—the bloodiest battle in history—has opened the door for the Allies. Now, they must strike decisively at the heart of Hitler's Reich. But military success cannot be guaranteed without total secrecy. Special Operations Executive, Saffron Courtney, is sailing from the west coast of Scotland to New York on the Queen Mary. Her mission—to identify the mole in the British Embassy in Washington, DC.

Small-town Minnesota teenager Basil “The Brute” Thorson—a shy, reluctant wrestling star and “special” tracked into special education classes—vows to make his family whole again in the wake of multiple tragedies, during a year in which his community is roiled by strange religious and mythological events. Another perceptive and empathetic novel from the author of Indie Next and All Iowa Reads selection Little Wolves, blending myth, history, and religion with a nuanced look at contemporary rural life, perfect for fans of Marilynne Robinson, Richard Russo, and Paul Harding.

Rose would never speak of the horrors she had endured. But when her wounds begin to permeate through the generations, her daughter resolves to uncover a secret left untouched. 1942, Brussels. Sarah Zychlinska never imagined she would have to face another war. But as the Nazis begin deporting Jews, threatening to destroy the world she worked so hard to rebuild, she sets her mind to doing everything she can to save her only daughter, Rose. With the help of a trusted priest, she sends Rose to a convent far from imminent danger. But when the war is over and Rose returns home, it is clear to ...

Beginning in 1955 in Lewes on the Delaware Bay, Disconnected and Drifting is a novel duo prelude to The Willow Chronicle. In Part 1, Carl Meyers, a former Marine and the Lewes Police Chief, is living a life disconnected from significant others and must deal with the horrific murders of two boys, but Part 1 is less about “who done it” than it is about exploring life in a town affected by fallout from World War II and from the Civil War, a town where the racist beliefs of the Confederacy endure in the practice of segregation. In Part 2, Meyers, disillusioned with police work and driven by...

El único objetivo en la vida de Myriam Sloan es hacerse un nombre en el duro mundo de la investigación científica. No busca la amistad, ni el amor. Y cuando ambos se presentan en la forma de un hombre de ojos extraños que consigue acelerarle el corazón, acepta la primera, pero no la segunda. Nirien no cree posible volver a enamorarse. Después de perder a la que ha sido su único amor, se resignó a tener una vida vacía y triste. Pero Myriam le devuelve las ganas de reír y de soñar, y no puede evitar sentirse muy atraído por ella. Lo que Myriam no sabe es que Nirien es un ninsabu, ...

In the first paragraphs of this 4th novel of the Hurricane Road series, A Change of Times, we learn that Captain Asher Byran, an elderly man, has passed away at sea. He is buried by his sixteen-year old great-grandson, Cory Byran MacArt on a deserted Island of the Cay Sal Bank. The young man sails back to Coconut Grove, a village on Miami’s Biscayne Bay, to report the death to the family attorney. Unaware that he's heir to a substantial fortune, Cory sets out on his great-grandfather's old ketch, now his, to make his way in the world. On a far-off island, he meets a British girl, Ann Lacy...

Sunshine in a Bottle: Indi inherits a wellness clinic from her late hippie mom. She intends to sell it until she reads the fine print Castaway: Hailey witnesses a crime when she is seventeen. She is subpoenaed to testify. When her safehouse is compromised, she bolts to Belize. Thom, the detective on the case, vows to drag her back. But Hailey has a trick up her sleeve. A Spectacular Shift: Aspen's life has been on hold for five years looking after aging parents and a restaurant she doesn't want to run. When her old high school flame moves back to Rose Coral Cove, sparks fly and old patterns...

¡La esperada cuarta entrega de la saga New Humans, por fin a la venta! Cuando Lesta escapa a Nueva York para encontrar pruebas que demuestren a sus hermanos la identidad real de Boss, Xemx es enviado tras él para obligarlo a volver a Belt. Para llevar a término esta misión, cuenta con la inestimable ayuda de la agente federal Ashanti Simmons, la mujer a la que no ha sido capaz de olvidar. La única con la que desea tener un futuro y conseguir la misma felicidad de la que gozan sus hermanos. Pero Xemx no cree tener derecho a amar, ni que merezca ser amado. ¿Cómo podría, cuando lleva ...

When Indi inherits a wellness clinic from her estranged mom, she intends to sell it. Immediately. She ran away from her mom at 15 for a reason. Even though her mom is deceased, Indi doesn't want her chaos in her stringent life. However, the hippies at the clinic have other plans for Indi… Reviews: "Finch takes women's humorous fiction and rom com to a whole new level... This book stayed with me long after I put it down. I laughed, cried, and I got motivated to renovate my own life." - Verified Review "I was completely blown away at many levels. This book will touch all the good and deep ...

Everyone you know is dead. While coping with the loss of friends and family members, Wylie learns that a government “Containment Protocol” will soon be in effect. Once established, no one will be allowed in or out of the city. Survivors are no longer being evacuated to safe zones, leaving them to wonder if anywhere is truly “safe.” The discovery of the truth behind the Evacuation Centers leaves them all wondering just who is left that they can trust. They must face the realization that no one is coming for them and that the government they thought was their ally has become yet ...

An heir to an earldom on his Grand Tour. An archaeologist's daughter intent on spinsterhood. Uncovering secrets from the past may force them into a future neither wants. Accompanied by several family members, Lord Randolph Foster is continuing his Grand Tour with a stop in Athens, Greece. He certainly doesn't anticipate running into former classmates and second cousins—particularly not the woman clad in breeches, exuding an air of disdain, who he encounters in a temple on the Acropolis.

In a house lined with silence and cedar, generations of women buried what they could not say. Spanning the cane fields and bayous of South Louisiana—from the Civil War to the present day—The Weight of Ash and Prayer traces a family’s legacy of memory, silence, and quiet resistance. When Sylvie Rose Broussard agrees to help her young niece with a school genealogy project, she expects a simple task. But what begins in church ledgers and courthouse archives slowly draws her back to the long-quiet house her family once inhabited—and into a story nearly lost to time. Among faded records ...

„Wie oft denn noch: Dein Vater ist nicht da und darum gilt, was ich sage. Will das endlich in deinen dummen Schädel?“, herrschte ihre Mutter sie an.Anna ist verzweifelt. Der zweite Weltkrieg war gerade vorbei. Nach dem Willen ihrer Mutter sollte sie den unsympathischen Bauernsohn Sebastian heiraten. Ihr Vater, der einzige Mensch, der ihr in dieser Welt von bäuerlichen Traditionen und Konventionen die freie Wahl gelassen hätte, war im Krieg geblieben.Die US-Army hatte ihr kleines, biederes Heimatdorf eingenommen.

Falcon is back on his home turf. After getting the Missouri chapter settled, he is now ready for his future. His future can't be tied to his greatest enemy, can it? The girl who doesn't want anything to do with him. The girl who would rather not speak then to stir anything up with her brother. Her brother, one of the only enemies that is in sight for the Skull Shifters. Why did it have to be her? Madison is ready to move on with her life. To escape the past that her brother has made miserable. She's ready to go to school and become what she always strived to be. When a known MC member comes...

The moment Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York's Gilded Age, she senses instantly that its elegant walls hide a dark secret. Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the mysteries of the past, and as she slips back over a hundred years, she's shocked to find herself in the midst of one of the most famous events in history. As the stars twinkle overhead, Pixie realises that time is running out.

Bletchley Park, 1942. When teacher Hana Phillips is unexpectedly recruited to Bletchley Park she's determined to do her bit for the war effort. A talented linguist, she's soon put to work cracking Japanese naval codes and her newfound talents make her confidence soar, even as her work puts pressure on her already fracturing marriage. Then Hana is tasked with a secret mission. There is a mole in her team, sharing secrets with the enemy, and Hana must search them out.

It is 1952 and the grown children of Louis Pelletier, a prominent businessman with a dark past, have settled in Paris. Jean, the menacing eldest brother, is trapped in a stifling marriage, his days lightened only by his love for his three-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, the bloody consequences of his violent impulses threaten to catch up to him at last. François, an up-and-coming reporter, is caught up in a turbulent love affair with an intriguing woman who isn’t quite the person she pretends to be.