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This is the story of Billy and the baron's entrancing daughter, Karin, and the dangerous paths they travel as their childhood attachment deepens to a complex love overshadowed by the rise of the Nazis. Their story takes us from a golden Edwardian summer on the Isle of Wight to London under zeppelin attack to Ireland on the brink of its War of Independence and at last to Germany in the darkening Weimar period, where Billy and Karin come of age in a country wounded by war and seething with hatred.

She’s starting over with a son to protect. He’s hiding behind scars no one can see. In a town full of grace, could love be the healing they both need? After a broken marriage and too many lonely nights, Aspen Hayes is ready for a fresh start. With her six-year-old son in tow, she lands in the small town of Ashwood Falls, Tennessee, hoping the slower pace and scent of warm cinnamon rolls from the local bakery, Whisk Me Away, can offer the peace she’s been praying for. What she doesn’t expect? The town’s grumpy vet—Brooks Landon—with eyes full of sorrow and a heart that’s ...

"The Year of Birmingham", 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young Black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with Black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative....

One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot. So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin? Investigators suspect Jane’s husband. A criminal defense attorney, Dan Larkin would surely be an expert in outfoxing the police.

Melissa Ohden is 14 when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir, she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.

She carried the relationship. He carried nothing. And now, she’s carrying the pain. This is not a book about anger. It’s a soft but honest journey back to yourself — for every woman who gave her all and was still left empty. If you’ve ever stayed too long, loved too hard, or silenced your needs just to keep someone from leaving, this book is for you. Inside, you’ll find 10 soul-touching chapters that walk you through the emotional weight of one-sided love and guide you toward reclaiming your peace, your power, and your worth — without becoming bitter or hard. ✧ Learn to set ...

Paradise, Idaho, may not be the largest town, but for newly minted professor Zoe Santangelo, it's the first step on the path to her big break. After teaching in a small Idaho school, her next stop is the Ivy League, and no one is going to stand in her way. She'll do what it takes to move up, to protect her students from a creepy campus stalker - and to protect her heart from Cal Jackson, the hot, hunky cowboy who keeps coming to her rescue.

Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says, “it’s best if we keep it to ourselves,” and so they have. But hiding your past is one thing. Hiding where you live—and that your Daddy has gone missing—is harder. At first Lulu isn’t worried. Daddy has gone away once before and he came back. But as the days add up, with no sign of Daddy, Lulu struggles to take care of all the responsibilities they used to manage as a family. Lulu knows that all it takes is one slip-up for their secret to come spilling out.

Harper Mason finds solace in hiding. She spends all her days as a school teacher, and spends all her nights reading to her heart's content. It's easier to focus on the happy endings of fictional characters than focus on the realization that she may never have it. That is, until she follows a whim to go visit her big brother, and best friend, Jasper. He lives in Mountain Creek, Colorado working at Marlow Boy's Ranch and he convinces her to stay for the summer-- forcing her to interact and be seen.

"Masterful...a classic parable of the human condition," said Publishers Weekly about Ethan Canin's For Kings and Planets, and the same can be said about Canin's brilliant new novel. Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water tells the story of a complex man's extraordinary life, lived against the backdrop of the central years of the twentieth century.

When You Carried Me. Jesus came and found me in the Wilderness and carried me to salvation and to safety. Not only that He carried my sins to the Cross at Golgotha.

A moving tale of the unshakable bond between two brothers set against a backdrop of family secrets, loyalty, and small town life. Earl "Earwig" Gunderman is sixteen-years-old when the world is thrust into war and his older brother Jimmy is shipped out to the Pacific theater. Being what they used to call simple-minded, Earwig must cope without the protection of his revered older brother as he strikes out towards independence and adulthood.

When Una meets Aidan, she is swept off her feet. He is solid and dependable, a sexy and attentive lover, and he's in love with her. But Aidan, to Una's endless sorrow, is not the man she thinks he is.

Amanda became a nurse to save as many lives as possible. After her mother died while being swindled by a church leader, Amanda swore off religion and turned to medical science to solve all of life's problems. But when she loses her home and job, and struggles to make a new life in a new town, Amanda's feeble beliefs can't withstand the pressure.

In a surprising and shocking narrative, one woman tells the astonishing true story of her mysterious ailment, two harrowing nights in Mexico, and the life-altering experience that would change her life forever. An unbelievable story that nearly cost a vibrant, vital young woman her life, Carry Me Home is an exploration of radical trust and relinquishing control. A profoundly compelling tale of survival. What happens when a control freak loses control? Either faith steps in, or fear overcomes.

A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence.

I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand’s life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities. It explores the legacy of the film, from pushing women’s stories to the forefront of commercial cinema, to its ‘Gold Standard’ depiction of abortion according to leading pro-choice campaigners, and its fresh and powerful take on the classic ‘coming of age’ story told from a naïve but idealistic 17-year-old girl’s point of view.

With a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family, singer-songwriter Annie Walsh seeks refuge at her secluded home, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove and the company of her old dog Detour. But a crime connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart, and Annie is forced to shore up her loyalties and question some profound disappointments of her past. From the ever-changing present, where each hour brings an unforeseen piece of news, to the poignant childhood days of first allegiances and life-changing losses, circumstances converge and Annie steps out....

Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and deadbeat father, Lucy unravels. They run to their grandparents’ place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy’s barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They’ve joined a gang called VC. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns.

Man kann sich nicht aussuchen, an wen man sein Herz verliert... Auf einem Stipendiaten-Empfang der Berkeley Universität trifft Autumn auf Ryan. Seine geheimnisvolle Art zieht sie magisch an – obwohl ihre oberste Regel lautet: Verschenke nie dein Herz, denn Gefühle machen angreifbar. Trotzdem flirtet sie mit Ryan. Trotzdem kommen sie sich immer näher. Was unverbindlich beginnt, wird schnell eine emotionale Achterbahnfahrt. Bis Ryan von einem Tag auf den anderen spurlos aus Autumns Leben verschwindet und ihr damit das Herz bricht.