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Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)...and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed—especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness.

Peter Heller is unique in his ability to capture the beauty and nuance of the natural world and its pull on women and men. In The Orchard, he pairs evocative storytelling with jewel-like poems—Hayley’s translations of her most beloved Tang poet, Li Xue—that echo Hayley and Frith’s life in the wilderness and tell their own tale of mother and daughter.

Lies. Adultery. Betrayal. Murder. Hattie Durham committed some Unthinkable Sins in her lifetime, but now she’s gone, leaving her three sons and their wives behind to deal with the fallout.

1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. As Junie finds adulthood, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighborhood—once gushing with potential—begins to change.

In The Third Person, a collection of uncanny short stories by Emily Anglin, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality: employees dissolve from job titles, neighbors overstep comfortable boundaries, voices distanced by space or time make their presence felt. Uneasiness builds among these separate but entangled lives.

Searching for meaning in her Montreal life, Marthe begins an intense friendship with an older woman, also from Newfoundland, who tells her a story about purpose, about a duty to fulfill. It's back home, and it goes by the name of Jane. Marthe travels back to a small community on the island with the older woman to continue the work of an underground movement in 60s Chicago: abortion services performed by women, always referred to as Jane. She commits to learning how to continue this legacy and protect such essential knowledge.

Lorrie Hope hat zwei entzückende kleine Kinder, einen liebevollen Partner und einen Bürojob bei der Stadtverwaltung. Und außerdem absolut keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem restlichen Leben anfangen soll. An diesem Freitag hofft sie auf eine Veränderung: Es ist der Tag, an dem ihr großes Projekt "Green Cities" anläuft, und sie hat eine Beförderung in Aussicht. Glaubt sie zumindest. Derweil bandelt ihre beste Freundin Alex mit der Frau von Lorries Ex an – der eine wichtige Rolle im Sponsoring von "Green Cities" spielt. Das Chaos ist vorprogrammiert.

Jessica Shelton loved her work fixing the mistakes for athletes, movies stars, and elite executives. Yet, she yearned to be an agent, the ultimate step on the ladder. The goal became a reality when asked by her boss to help a wayward prince. Fix the prince, get the agent position. The only problem was two years ago they had a whirlwind romance that ended in heartbreak.

Philomena Webster, a quiet woman in her late forties, is seen as a dry old hag by most people in her village. She forms a friendship with a father and his son in the same village, but otherwise keeps to herself. Yet, there is much more to Philomena than meets the eye. She has had love affairs, is knowledgeable about music and literature and has written a series of best-selling novels under a pen-name, which gives her financial independence.

As a single mother of two children and a veteran military Intelligence officer, Connie brings a unique perspective to her writing, drawing from her extensive experience in military intelligence and espionage. Hailing as the granddaughter of Anna Jarvis, the West Virginia woman who founded Mother's Day in 1906 as an anti-war holiday, Connie is deeply committed to re-examining and challenging the societal norms and expectations surrounding motherhood in America.

Spring is bluebonnet season in the Hill Country, and as Kate is planning the perfect wedding, Zach has a conflict with one of his business partners from California that threatens to thwart the entire deal. Will he stand by his morals, or have to turn away from his dream of having a 100% Texas winery? Will their new relationship withstand the twists and turns of the Texas wine business?

Haunted by nightmares, doubts, and hints of depression and PTSD that she keeps denying, Christine decides to embark on the riskiest journey of her life so far: the one that ends with meeting her birth father. Despite her mother’s pleas to reconsider, she jumps on a plane to America, gets a room at a cheap motel and tries to work up the courage to approach the man who created her. The man who still has no idea she exists.

He isn’t prepared for the situation . . .Mylas always thought the owner of the McKinney Law Firm, where he’s employed, would outlive him, so when the owner suffers a fatal heart attack, Mylas suddenly faces an uncertain future, his hope of a partnership shattered. He isn’t prepared for the consequences . . .When Mylas learns he’s mentioned in the will, he expects to receive a small token of appreciation for his years of service to the firm, but then, when everyone assembles to hear the reading of the will, things take a bizarre turn with unexpected consequences.

Für Fans von spannenden und mitreißenden Büchern wie denen von Lucy Clarke und Delia Owens. Eigentlich wollte Hanna Forscherin werden. Doch als sie den Winzer Matthias kennenlernt, entscheidet sie sich für ein Leben mit ihm. Ein Leben in den Weinbergen. Sie wird Mutter, nimmt einen Halbtagsjob im Weinlabor an und will glauben, dass sie die richtige Wahl getroffen hat. Als Matthias nach Kalifornien reist, um sich dort als Winzer weiterzubilden, wird ihr klar, dass das Leben, das sie gewählt hat, nicht so perfekt ist, wie es schien.

Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master’s degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter’s retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues—and rightly so. Stymied by writer’s block, Summer hasn’t finished her thesis, and she can’t graduate until she does. vElm Creek Manor offers respite while Summer struggles to meet her extended deadline.

1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.

Recently, Shyamala Mehta’s life in LA feels stagnant: she’s undervalued at work, newly single, and constantly clashing with her marriage-obsessed mother. So when she’s offered a transfer to Mumbai, she travels halfway around the world to the now drought-stricken city her parents left behind.

Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father’s Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act—a scathing one-woman show about motherhood. Two decades later, Jude is a talented actress in her own right, and her fraught relationship with Sadie has come to a scandalous head.

Whitney Gilford is delighted to be called away from Hollywood where her co-star and former lover, Zane Blanchard, is addicted to drugs and blaming her for his unhappiness. News of her beloved grandmother, GG, giving her and her sisters a cottage on the land of The Lilac Lake Inn is a tremendous relief from the negative publicity about her on social media. In Lilac Lake, helping with the renovation of the cottage, Whitney starts to rethink her entire career.

Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking bestseller.