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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A charming, uplifting debut novel-full of humor and depth-that has taken readers around the world by surprise. Everyone has a story to tell. But does Janice have the power to unlock her own?She can't recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always...
Author
Publisher
Planeta México
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
México, 1925. El gran deseo de Frida es ser médico, pero un terrible accidente le impide vivir su sueño. El azar la une a Diego, una de las grandes figuras en el mundo de la pintura. Frida y Diego se enamoran al instante y él la convence para que se convierta en artista.
Frida sigue sus propias ideas, intuiciones y sueños, y consigue triunfar con un estilo único, con una fuerza nunca vista. Pero el dolor del amor fallido es insoportable y ella,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family.
“Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they’ll feel lucky to have met.”—Harper’s Bazaar (Best Summer Beach Reads of 2023)
Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative...
“Readers will find a poignant, memorable voice they’ll feel lucky to have met.”—Harper’s Bazaar (Best Summer Beach Reads of 2023)
Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Inspired by history, a riveting novel of love and friendship, motherhood and ambition, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice.
Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein to die. The other half is praying for her to hold on. At 83, “the contemptuous S.O.B.” doesn’t have much time left. What she has is a story, one she has wrested from the grip of history to tell herself—of...
Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein to die. The other half is praying for her to hold on. At 83, “the contemptuous S.O.B.” doesn’t have much time left. What she has is a story, one she has wrested from the grip of history to tell herself—of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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An NPR Books We Love selection for 2023
"An unforgettable read that should be at the top of every TBR list."—NPR
In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.
New York heiress Catherine...
"An unforgettable read that should be at the top of every TBR list."—NPR
In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle.
New York heiress Catherine...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family’s house when Isla was a child.
Isla Larsen Sanchez’s life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage.
When Isla turns eighteen, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla...
Isla Larsen Sanchez’s life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage.
When Isla turns eighteen, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla...
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Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It’s summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall.
For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . .
Maggie Adair’s first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success.
...8) Curtain Call
Author
Publisher
C H Clepitt
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
C H Clepitt has a knack for creating real, relatable characters, who face adversity with humour and humanity, and Curtain Call is no exception.When an assistant to the director role turns into P.A. to her favourite film star, Jen can't believe her luck. Eleanor Francis is charming, kind and funny, but she has a secret, and when tragedy strikes, things threaten to unravel at an uncontrollable pace. Despite being out of her depth Jen has to adapt to...
Author
Publisher
Kathleen Shoop
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For anyone who's ever needed a second chance, to find love, to find the right path in life. . .Des Moines, 1892. After losing their promised inheritance, the Arthur family's luck finally changes. An extraordinary woman, Violet Pendergrass, provides refuge for them to rebuild their broken lives. Or has she?Handsome fifteen-year-old Tommy Arthur has one foot in manhood and the other dragging up the rear of his boyhood years. He strives to protect and...
Author
Publisher
Sara Creasy
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Wynter is struggling to find her place in the world. Now in foster care, her only desire is to move home with her brothers, who become increasingly frustrated by her inability to tell them about her childhood.While she finds success by putting together a rock band with some boys at school, she fails at the social rules required to befriend the girls.Meanwhile, her sister Joy is falling back into the Light, the cult-like community where the girls grew...
Author
Publisher
Brenda Hampton
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Season 2 Episode 1: President Stephen C. Jefferson and the first lady are back, and Season 2 starts exactly where Season 1 ended. The first lady has survived a tragic event that almost left her saying goodbye to Stephen forever. But as we all will learn rather quickly, everything that happens in America is not always what it seems. The president has plenty of new tricks up his sleeves, and after being betrayed by people within his tight circle, he...
Author
Publisher
Ginger Voight
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Join Andy Foster as she navigates her tumultuous relationship with Giovanni Carnevale, the charismatic lead singer of "Dreaming in Blue." This bad boy rocker keeps Andy under his seductive control for more than three years as their relationship faces gun-wielding stalkers, groupies and grifters. Everyone is flawed and no one is safe since the world of celebrity operates by its own rules.This sizzling contemporary romance series stars a full-figured...
Author
Publisher
Swordworks & Miro Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Black Widows: Episode 6 is sixth story in a thrilling science fiction series about the infamous all-female mercenary unit. Aboard their heavily-armed ship Medusa, they embark on secretive missions throughout the crumbling Confederacy as it wages a terrible and bloody civil war.Syala and the Black Widows are heading home to the infamous haven for mercenaries, traders, criminals, and cutthroats from a dozen worlds. To Syala it is a chance to follow...
Author
Publisher
Jean C. Joachim
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Two people, two tragedies, two deep, devastating secrets. . .. Griff Montgomery is the headline-making, heart-breaking star quarterback of the Kings - a 6'4", 33 year old womanizer. Lauren Farraday is a beautiful young interior designer, bitterly scarred by divorce, whose life is falling apart. Though they violently oppose one another in court over her beloved pug (she thinks he's arrogant and conceited, and he thinks she's a bitch on wheels), something...
Author
Publisher
Melissa Foster
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
RESCUED BY LOVE is a USA Today BestsellerThe Ryders are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series."You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that's fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won't want to stop reading. Every book's a winner!" New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak"Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy,...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
People like Feeney Simms don’t commit suicide. Beautiful, charismatic, mother of two, wife to a handsome, successful husband, beloved by her friends—this is not the typical picture of a tortured soul. But one summer night, Feeney drives to the beach and swallows a handful of pills. No note, no explanation, nothing. Like that, she’s gone.
Faced with this loss, Ali, Max, and Liddy, Feeney’s closest friends, are left reeling, grappling...
Faced with this loss, Ali, Max, and Liddy, Feeney’s closest friends, are left reeling, grappling...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
“Encantadora y cómica...Hipotizante...Maravillosa.”—USA Today
Yolanda García—su apodo es Yo—ha demostrado que es una escritora con una muy exitosa primera novela cuyos “personajes” son su familia, sus amigos y sus amantes. Mientras Yo goza su celebridad, sus seres queridos se encuentran “desnudos” y reconocibles ante el mundo en su nueva via pública....
Yolanda García—su apodo es Yo—ha demostrado que es una escritora con una muy exitosa primera novela cuyos “personajes” son su familia, sus amigos y sus amantes. Mientras Yo goza su celebridad, sus seres queridos se encuentran “desnudos” y reconocibles ante el mundo en su nueva via pública....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Her family is built on secrets and lies. Can she confront the truth she’s been running from for years?
Fifteen years ago, Berta fled from Madrid to London to escape the controlling mother who made her childhood a living nightmare. Now, following her mother’s death, she is forced to return and face the ghosts of her unhappy past.
...20) Illicit: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Kindle Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
I was never supposed to see him again.
One night of passion with a complete stranger.
My last tryst before senior year.
But I was lost the moment his tempting lips were on my skin.
His intense touch on my body.
It should have ended there.
But he’s not a stranger.
He’s my history teacher.
And wanting him is against the rules.
Off limits.
Forbidden.
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