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Today is National Day. It is also Cheryl Dada's birthday. As Elderflower Home prepares for the celebration, Cheryl Dada too gets ready for her party. Between the hours of noon and seven p.m., she encounters the cantankerous residents and caregivers, her mother and people of yesteryears. What unfolds is a story about a woman coming to terms with age, loss and love.

It takes a village to fall in love. Set in Scotland, on the Isle of Skye, we meet Harry and Emilia, who have always been best friends, well, until they complicated everything by sleeping together. Drunk and alone on New Year’s Eve, Emilia phones up the TV’s psychic and spills out all of her sorrows. When her friends propose to stay in a cabin in the middle of nowhere for Christmas, Emilia jumps at the chance, but the atmosphere quickly dampens when Harry announces his girlfriend will be joining them.

Tina wants to feel Indian. Really Indian. Not Indian in the sense of going to yoga in Brooklyn. She wants to know the real India – only whenever she visits, people take her to bars and restaurants and boutiques that could be anywhere in the world. So she jumps at the change to get to know the country when she heads to Delhi for her glamorous cousin Shefali's week-long wedding, with her best friend, her parents and her mother's all-American boyfriend in tow.

Paula Llorente, una de las tenistas más relevantes de los últimos tiempos, desaparece sin dejar rastro en una playa del litoral catalán. El país está conmocionado. Nadie sabe con certeza qué ha ocurrido, pero los posibles problemas de salud mental y la depresión que arrastraba apuntan a un suicidio.

Ricardo Osorio es el antipático y obsesivo jefe del departamento de Recursos Humanos de una compleja empresa con tintes kafkianos que es el otro gran protagonista de esta novela. La vida de Osorio se desmorona: su arbitrario y cínico comportamiento en la empresa provoca la desconfianza de sus jefes, el odio de sus compañeros y, lo que es más grave, que su secretaria Elsy —mano derecha insustituible de Osorio— le abandone. Y en el peor momento. Como jefe de Recursos Humanos tiene que organizar la fiesta anual de la empresa.

Rodrigo es un joven burócrata que podría pertenecer a lo que Strindberg llamó «el club de los jóvenes viejos». Sus días pasan sin mayores aspavientos en un museo de la Ciudad de México, hasta que la secretaria que le hacía la vida imposible le desliza una nota que dice «Acepto». Rodrigo se enterará de que alguien le ha propuesto matrimonio a Cecilia en su nombre, y la inercia no le deja más opción que casarse. A partir de ahí se desencadena una siniestra odisea en la que pierde su trabajo y pasa el rato espiando a una gallina que deambula por el terreno baldío.

Carretera no siempre fue este showman eminente. Antes de convertirse en subastador ejerció como vigilante en una fábrica de jugos durante muchos años, hasta que el ataque de pánico de una compañera de trabajo cambió su vida de manera irremediable. En el tránsito hacia su destino Carretera deberá enfrentarse a la ira de un hijo al que ha abandonado, llevar a cabo una subasta para ayudar a un cura a salvar su iglesia, y realizar a manera de gran performance final «La historia de mis Gustavos personales», una subasta alegórica.

1996. Saná (Yemen). La vida de las mujeres cada vez es más complicada, si no que se lo digan a Samira, madre de tres hijos, embarazada de un cuarto y casada con un hombre egoísta y ruin, que solo la ve como objeto de placer y servidumbre. Por si no tuviera suficiente, su vida cambiará en el momento en que, tras un parto prematuro, de a luz a un niño con parálisis cerebral.

Die Glasbläserin, von der niemand wissen darf Murano, 1895: Schon lange fertigt die schöne Flavia Volpato heimlich an Stelle ihres eher untalentierten Zwillingsbruders das cristallo der Familie an, auch wenn den Frauen Venedigs das Handwerk immer noch untersagt ist. Trotzdem muss sie machtlos mitansehen, wie der Vater schließlich mit dem Erzrivalen Dal Corso fusioniert. Obendrein bekommt sie einen Glaskenner, den adligen John Pomeroy, auf den Hals gehetzt, der im Auftrag von Sibilla Veridiani ihrem gut gehüteten Geheimnis auf der Spur ist.

The Cohen sisters are at a crossroads. And not just because the middle sister, Fortune, is starting to question her decision to get married in just a few months. Nina, the eldest sister, is single at 26 (and growing cobwebs by her community's standards) when she runs into an old childhood friend who offers her the chance to leave behind the pressure to follow in her younger sister’s footsteps. Meanwhile, Lucy, the youngest, a senior at her yeshiva high school, has recently started sneaking around with a mysterious older bachelor that has everybody asking themselves, 'Fortune, who?'

Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company … though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky relationship, insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotion, leading Bo to take stock of his life, his relationships, and the imperfect way he’s expressed his love over the years.

Alice isn't like the other Storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and untold billions, she left, building her own life beyond the family’s name and influence. Nothing could induce her to come back, except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back on the family’s private island off the Rhode Island coast, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects, and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans.

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.

When Benjamin lands in 1960’s Nigeria hoping to explore his roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father, he meets Margaret. As the two begin to fall in love and learn more about their respective histories they realize their lineage is interwoven in the deepest of ways.

Fed by the author’s cherished Italian roots comes a bighearted, hilarious novel of the moment: the story of one woman’s determination to live a creative life that matters, with enough room left over for love. With a one-way ticket to Italy, Jess is determined to write a new story on her own terms--this time, in stone.

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.

La primera actriz mexicana Ofelia Medina narra esta apasionada historia sobre el triángulo amoroso entre Elena, una joven actriz de la era dorada del cine mexicano (inspirada en Raquel Díaz de León), y dos de los más importantes músicos latinoamericanos del siglo XX: Andrés Cobán, bolerista mexicano, y Eduardo Santiago Salvatierra, tanguero argentino (inspirados en los grandes compositores e intérpretes Agustín Lara y Enrique Santos Discépolo).

The only educated guy in the village, Sachin was going back to his village after 10 years. On the way to the village, the bus suddenly stops working near a forest and Sachin gets down and roams around and he gets attracted by a waterfall and goes deep into the forest. While he is watching the waterfall, his foot slips and when he is about to fall into the ditch, a girl holds his hand and saves him. He gets mesmerized by her beauty and Sachin falls in love with her.

Arjun Shekhawat is a 27-year-old young man. He has reached great heights at a very young age. Arjun studied abroad and now after returning home, he has become Asia's biggest businessman. About a month ago, Arjun's life was shaken when his father died in a tragic accident. And after his father's death, Arjun took over the entire business and became a big successful business man. To celebrate Arjun's success, his mother Madhuri organizes a party in which big businessmen and media people have come.