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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.

Joybird Martin—an Uber driver with cheerfulness to spare—desperately wants to be a life coach. She’s so sunny about her chances that even her snarky father—a has-been TV writer with a failed third marriage—can’t dim her light. So when he shows up broke on her doorstep, Joybird takes him in with no questions asked, trying to find a balance between her bright optimism and his sarcastic pessimism. It works, and she continues sharing her earnest wisdom with her Uber riders.

Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from his classmates, his adoptive family, and himself. When Michael signs up for a film class, he meets Robert Dunning, a teacher who wears his own scars unapologetically. Robert encourages Michael to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception.

Emma had spent her life dreaming of a happily ever-after. When she met Theodore Flynn, she was sure she’d found hers. Theodore was smart. Thoughtful. Accepting. Falling for him was the easiest thing Emma had ever done. Their love was strong. Ever-lasting. Until it wasn’t.

Annabelle Hubbard thinks she has good reason to be exhausted all the time: she's the caretaker for three good-hearted but challenging grandkids and a three-legged cat named Ms. Pickles, plus she feels awkward about settling like a charity case into her grandmother's home, now owned by her wealthy cousin Regina in Wichita, Kansas.

Bogotá, Bangkok,Santo Domingo, Madrid y finalmente Ámsterdam - sus calles,el Distrito Rojo, las cabinas y la casa de Ana Frank- son los escenarios de esta historia que mezcla ale amor, la prostitución y la solidaridad entre tres mujeres con pasados y culturas diferentes que luchan por sobrevivir en medio de las redes de tráfico de personas. Una historia narrada de forma inteligente, que atrapa al lector desde el principio, para saber cómo cada una de las Princesas de Ámsterdam logra escapar al infierno del presente y encuentran la salvación a su manera.

When Ivory reunited with her twin sister Lisa and inherited a quaint farm near the village of Landow Creek, Missouri, she unknowingly stepped into a world tinged with ancient healing traditions and buried deceptions. Now she must unravel the mysterious history of the Frederick family before her inheritance is usurped.

¿Y si no existiera el felices para siempre? Erase una vez una terapeuta con mucha paciencia y unos métodos poco ortodoxos, que se había convertido con los años en la favorita de todas esas mujeres para quienes su vida era un desastre. Un día empieza a recibir la visita de las protagonistas de los más famosos cuentos de hadas, que han crecido. ¡Y están hartas! Su vida no es, ni mucho menos, como ellas habían soñado.

¿Y si no existiera el felices para siempre? Erase una vez una terapeuta con mucha paciencia y unos métodos poco ortodoxos, que se había convertido con los años en la favorita de todas esas mujeres para quienes su vida era un desastre. Un día empieza a recibir la visita de las protagonistas de los más famosos cuentos de hadas, que han crecido. ¡Y están hartas! Su vida no es, ni mucho menos, como ellas habían soñado.

Vivian Molloy hardly expected to retire early from teaching, but for her husband, Dave, she'd do anything. But when Dave abandons her after a weekend away, she returns home to their picturesque town in Tasmania, shell-shocked and alone with nothing to fill her days. When an old colleague tries to rope her into teaching a writing class at the local library, Vivian is hesitant. How can she teach with her life falling apart? But it is the people she meets that help her remember who she is.

Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning she braids her hair and wears the same costume, sings the same breakfast song in a family room identical to every other family room in the community; every one of these moments is meant to be a prayer, but to Ruth they remain puzzles. Her life is seen in glimpses through childhood, marriage, and motherhood, as she tries to manage her own perilous curiosity in a community built on holy mystery. Is she happy? Might this in fact be happiness?

Vienna,1946: Chana Rosensweig has endured the horrors of war to find herself, her mother, and younger brother finally free in Vienna. But freedom doesn’t look like they imagined it would, as they struggle to make a living and stay safe. Despite the danger, Chana sneaks out most nights to return to the hotel kitchen where she works as a dishwasher, using the quiet nighttime hours to bake her late father’s recipes.

لكن هذه المرة عدت له نادمة على فقدانه، حالمة بأن أستنشق هواء حب آمن مستقر دون أي من تزييف البشر، بل ذهبت له مجددًا، ولكن بشخصية جديدة ذابلة هشة انطفأ بداخلها حب المغامرة وروح الحماس لتجربة الحياة. كانت الصفعات القوية كافية للقضاء على ذكرى ياسين التي بات طوال أعوام محفورة فوق جدران قلبي، لقد تحولت شخصيتي، وانتهت بكارتها وفتورها، حتى أصبحت الآن جافة المشاعر بخيلة العطاء لا أريد سواء الإجابة على سؤال واحد: هل كانت خطيئتي في محاولة الاستقرار مع أي منهم أبديًّا؟ أم هناك حلقات مفقودة في هذه القصص طويلة المدي، منعدمة الإستقرار، قوية المفعول؟!

In the heart of Benin City’s impoverished streets, sixteen-year-old Esosa clings to a dream that shines brighter than her bleak reality. Despite her humble upbringing, she’s drawn to the glamour of wealth and fame—a path that seems within reach when she’s offered a modeling career in Europe. For Esosa, this is the miracle she’s always yearned for, a way to escape poverty and secure a future for her struggling family.

Dr. Theia McDormand has spent years perfecting the art of invisibility. As a successful New York dentist, she’s built a life of quiet routine and careful isolation. She believed her family’s secrets were buried in the past. She was wrong. When tragedy strikes close to home involving a neighbor’s child, Theia is thrust into chaos, unraveling her carefully constructed world. Suddenly, every stranger on the street feels like a potential threat, and shadows from the past loom at every corner.

Young married couple Heidi and Freddie just moved to Huntington Grove. All the neighbours see they are friendly and polite but why is one door in their house always locked? Across the street, Willow tries not to argue with her teenage daughter – even as her marriage is falling apart. And where does her husband really go each night, leaving the bed beside her cold?

Winner of the British Book Awards, TV & Film Book of the Year, 2007.
A sharp, witty, and hugely entertaining debut novel, The Devil Wears Prada is The Nanny Diaries set in the world of high fashion. Welcome to the dollhouse, baby! When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's never heard of the world's most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly.

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter.