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Every girl & woman needs to read this this book. Because knowing the signs could just save your life. I spent five years trapped in hell, beaten down by the man who vowed to love me. Matt, a decorated police officer, who ensured that no one would ever believe me. He planted evidence, turned his colleagues against me. And when I finally broke free, the family courts handed him the one thing I lived for, our daughter. Whilst he played the hero, I was cast as the villain. I was left to rot In a damp one bedroom council flat. Scrubbing floors just to survive. Then my mother died.

Soon to be a major Amazon Prime Video series. An utterly gripping thriller from bestselling author Lauren Oliver. Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never...

Pamela is a newly retired teacher with time on her hands. She’s finding it hard to muster enthusiasm for what’s ahead: exhausting postdivorce dating rituals and an uneasy relationship with her emotionally stunted, live-at-home son. But for Pamela, there’s a surprise in store that could challenge the status quo and, against all expectations, make life interesting again.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

Marie Vachon experiences firsthand the devastation of the German invasion when she takes in a Jewish refugee named Josiane. A loving, if temporary, home for the displaced child. A second chance at motherhood for Marie. After three years, an inseparable bond is created. It’s one that leads Marie and Josiane to an inevitable but surprising reckoning that calls into question what motherhood means—and where it ends.

Isabel, the long-lost Gibson sister, is finally back home on Brinkley’s Island, Maine. With Sophie and Violet, her sister and her niece, she’s got the family bookstore—and with Johnny Lenox, she’s got something even more special. But even as life settles, not everything is falling into place. Isabel and Johnny have set the date three times, baked three wedding cakes, invited the whole island to three parties, only to have each attempt at matrimony fall apart at the last minute.

Eve has a fake ID, a .38, and a violent lover receding in the rearview mirror. He’ll never find her at the isolated motel, and its kindly manager is happy to ease her fears. But if Eve is the only guest, whom does she keep hearing on the other side of the wall? Eve won’t get a good night’s rest until she finds out.

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.

Recommended by Mary Beard as one of the BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra A Penguin Classic There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. These women threaten...

Growing up, Violet was so busy helping others realize their dreams, she found little time to pursue her own. But five years ago, she took the chance of a lifetime, leaving the family bookshop on Brinkley’s Island, Maine, to attend culinary school in Paris. Now she’s working her dream job as a pâtissiere in an upscale Parisian restaurant—yet all she can think about is home.

Die Hansens haben allen Grund zu feiern. Gerade ist es ihnen gelungen, die durch Richards Diebstahl ausgelösten Turbulenzen zu bewältigen. Da droht bereits das nächste Unheil. Die beiden Verstoßenen, Elisabeth und Richard, haben sich verbündet. Gemeinsam sind sie darauf aus, dem Kontor der Hansens die Kundschaft abzujagen. Doch Luise will die Flucht nach vorne antreten und schmiedet bereits ganz andere Pläne. In Kamerun hat es Hamza als vorübergehender Leiter der Plantage geschafft, die Spinnmilbenplage erfolgreich zu bekämpfen.

Dresden 1865: Während in Sachsen immer mehr Schornsteine die Luft mit Ruß füllen, entwickelt sich in einer kleinen Grenzstadt ein völlig anderes Gewerbe. Hunderte von böhmischen Blumenmädchen fertigen in Sebnitz Seidenblumen. Die junge Carla ist eine von ihnen, doch sie träumt zwischen Stoffblumen und Kleister von mehr als dem bescheidenen Los einer einfachen Blumenarbeiterin. Mit dem Geschick ihrer Mutter und kühnen Ideen wagt sie es, die Grenzen ihrer Zeit zu überwinden. Doch der Erfolg hat seinen Preis: Die Gesellschaft verurteilt eine Frau, die nach Selbstständigkeit strebt.

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.

They escaped a revolution—but the revolution never let them go. In the shadow of Iran’s upheaval, six Persian friends are bound by friendship, loss, and an unrelenting will to survive. From Tehran to the glittering suburbs of Texas, Whispers Under the Veil traces their intertwined lives—women whose stories, inspired by true events, reveal the hidden costs of oppression and the quiet power of defiance. At their quiet center is Leila, a shy, brilliant woman burdened by a secret invention that could shatter an empire.

A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on the two accounts of her life--the real one and the one she’s always told the world--in this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild. In 1964, teenage Geraldine Waters was sent away by her parents to an unwed mothers’ home, where she gave up her newborn for adoption. Ever since, she’s lived an alternative narrative. Decades later, it’s time for Geraldine to reconcile the telling of her life, to finally grieve, and to discover what happened to that part of her past that slipped away.

Ellen has a lot to be thankful for. Her fiancé, Troy, is perfectly sweet. Her childhood friend Tanya, despite her edgier taste in men, is like a sister to Ellen: her closest friend—and rival. So familiar and yet, over the years, so many secrets between them. For Ellen, what lies ahead is a series of choices that will add up to a life she never could have imagined.

Luise umsorgt ihre Tochter Viktoria liebevoll und ist so glücklich wie nie zuvor in ihrem Leben. Nach den ersten Wochen als Mutter zieht es sie allerdings schon wieder ins Kontor. Das Aufeinandertreffen mit ihrem Cousin Richard, der interimsweise die Firma leitet, läuft alles andere als harmonisch... waren Luises Anstrengungen vergebens und ein Mann wird am Ende ihren Platz einnehmen? Hamza kehrt in seine Heimat Kamerun zurück, er merkt sehr bald, dass ihn der Aufenthalt in Deutschland verändert hat.

El tiempo de las amazonas recorre tres décadas de la vida de tres primas -Gaby, Virginia e Isabel- que llegan a vivir a París en los años setenta. Su incesante exploración del deseo las llevará a tomar decisiones que tendrán un alto costo para sus vidas. Sus parejas, sus amantes y sus amigos forman parte de un universo narrativo que se mueve alrededor de las preocupaciones centrales de la obra de la autora: la madurez, el placer sexual, la amistad y la enfermedad.

Thirty-four years ago, on October 31, poor Hannah Talbott took part in a scavenger hunt gone violently wrong. The mean girls made sure of it. To this day, for a haunted local mother, the most unsettling Halloween costume of all is an urban legend they call Hannah-Beast. It’s a reminder of the past she can’t forget. Especially tonight when it’s come back, so close to home.

One year after her mother’s death, a woman prepares to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Digging through a trunk in the attic, looking for keepsakes for the occasion, she discovers photographs that call into question everything she believed about her life. The truth is a different story—one of a little girl in danger, a lie, and a mother’s love so fierce it led her to do the unimaginable.