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The eighth book in Natalie Keller Reinert’s beloved Eventing Series, set in the high-stakes world of three-day eventing, now reimagined with an all-new recording! Ten months after giving birth to her son, Jules is back on top. Or, she’s ready to be. She and Pete have traveled to Maryland in...

Twenty years as an army brat, and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart. Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next door neighbor, and not to mention he has the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again.

After a long night celebrating her success, Baylee is confronted with an unexpected blast from her past, setting off a domino string of events that sends her spiraling into a part of her life and heart that she’d spent the last decade trying to forget. She doesn’t want to go back. Normally, she wouldn’t—but there’s a bucket list, a debt to pay, and the promise of what might be her grandest adventure yet.

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university. Una Vane, whose widowed mother runs a hairdressing salon in her front room, goes bicycling with Ray, the boy who delivers the fish and milk. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her possessive, loving, tactless mother. And Lieselotte Klein, uncovers tragedy in the past and magic in the present.

Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl's dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he has yearned for since his high school hockey days. Together they have survived grief, the military, distance, and time as they've fought for stolen weekends between his post at Ft. Rucker and her schooling at Vanderbilt. Now that Josh is a medevac pilot and Ember is headed toward graduation, they're moving on - and in - together.

Since her sister’s death, 20-year-old Paisley Donovan, who shares her sister’s heart condition, is treated like delicate glass by her parents. But nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List - even if it kills her. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs - he sets her soul on fire.

An exciting page-turner about a fearless female aviator competing in a death-defying race across the Pacific. Brilliantly told… My favorite read this year!” —Andie Newton, USA TODAY bestselling author of A Child for the Reich This extraordinary novel, inspired by real events, tells the...

This is the dark but humorous tale of Sarah Pemberton, who is not a happy woman. A down-to-earth, inventive soul who despises her stuck-up, pompous husband Neil, who believes he is much more intelligent and important than she is. When he refuses her a divorce and emotionally blackmails her into staying with him by threatening to take custody of their daughter, she decides to make life a little more entertaining for herself—by subtly torturing him at every available opportunity. Creative and adaptable, with a wicked sense of humor, she comes up with more and more ways to ridicule him.

Inspired by true events, a breathtaking WWII historical novel about the brave American women who trained the British Royal Air Force, by New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath. 1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in...

One of Amazon's Best Romances of March! Love takes flight in a collection of sexy, fun novellas all set at the airport from the acclaimed author of The Fastest Way to Fall. The Love Connection An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and finds herself in a fake-dating situation with...

En un pueblo escocés entre acantilados se alza la mansión de la adinerada Cordelia MacDonald, una mujer déspota y cruel, que lleva años sin apenas recibir visitas. Tras su muerte, Nora, la hija de una antigua criada, se ve obligada a asistir al funeral donde recibirá la sorprendente noticia: se ha convertido en la heredera del legado más preciado de la aristócrata, Nightstorm House.

Sot, rescued as a child from the brutality of Danish slave markets, grows up under the fierce protection of Roar Bjornsson, a famed warrior and trader. Known for her dark skin and amber eyes—marks of a distant land she cannot remember—Sot is both admired and feared, called witch and warrior in equal measure. But beneath her poised exterior, she wrestles with a restless heart and an aching desire for identity. When she leaves the comfort of Roar’s protection to follow the enigmatic Saxon warrior Eadric, Sot plunges into a world fraught with treachery and bloodshed.

This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last. Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life...

When I discover I'm the descendent of the first licensed female pilot in California, there's only one thing to do, right? Yes! Take flying lessons, of course. It must be in my blood. Except the grumpy former Air Force pilot who's taken over his late father's flight school under duress doesn't seem thrilled to see me. Maybe that's because I spilled hot coffee all over his crotch in one of my "I love Lucy" moments.

54 Flights is a quick listen and an inspirational "coming-of-self" story about a woman named Alexandra who travels the world for business during her first pregnancy. As Alex jet-sets to new adventures, she faces her biggest challenge yet: transitioning from career woman to mother. She battles the societal expectations placed on working mothers and the internal conversations telling her she can’t have it all. Alex reflects on who she is and aspires to be in this "coming-of-self" literary debut.

Maryn Alessi retired from mercenary service after her last assignment went horribly sideways and settled down on a quiet planet with the love of her life. Unexpectedly widowed, Maryn must fulfill a promise to return her mate’s ashes to zer home planet for funeral rites, but a brutal civil war has destabilized space travel.

Sherri Van Ness, an unassuming girl from the burbs of Kansas who’s about to embark on the adventure of her life when she signs up to become a stewardess. But it’s much more turbulent than this doughy-eyed 19-year-old ever imagined as she tries to navigate past grouchy passengers, fly-by-night relationships, and the unforgiving, relentless, humiliating, monthly weigh-ins. Some dreams come true. Others require a vomit bag.

Texas, 1941. Die junge Audrey Coltrane ist eine leidenschaftliche Pilotin. Als sie die Möglichkeit erhält, auf Hawaii junge Soldaten zu trainieren, ist sie mit ganzem Herzen dabei - nicht einmal der charismatische Lieutenant James Hart kann sie ablenken. Bis der verhängnisvolle Tag kommt, der alles ändert: Bomben fallen auf Pearl Harbor, Audrey hat den Tod vor Augen. Um die Army zu unterstützen, schließt sie sich den "Women Airforce Service Pilots" an, wo sie in der eingeschworenen Gemeinschaft der Fliegerinnen eine neue Bestimmung findet.

Based on true events around the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, the book traces the life of a young English woman and her Muslim husband. From the husband's death in Pakistan, the story becomes her daughter Meena's recollection of the traumatic death and her own personal struggles and challenges in India and finally in Canada.

Léna decide dejarlo todo y emprende un viaje al golfo de Bengala. Perseguida por los fantasmas del pasado, no encuentra un poco de paz hasta que se acerca a nadar a las aguas del Índico, donde una niña juega con una cometa todas las mañanas. Un día, a punto de ahogarse arrastrada por la corriente, Léna sobrevive milagrosamente gracias al aviso de la pequeña y la intervención de la Red Brigade. Agradecida, se pone en contacto con la niña. Nunca ha ido a la escuela y se ha encerrado en un mutismo absoluto. ¿Qué esconde su silencio? ¿Cuál es su historia?