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Brought to you by Penguin. Can your mother really know you better than you know yourself? On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker has been taken into the islander’s hearts and, between days on the farms and nights with a new love interest, she’s content to remain in blissful retreat from...

Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together, angrily philosophising and leading each other astray in the pubs and flats of Manchester. But things are set to change. Laura is engaged to teetotal Jim, the wedding is just months away, and Tyler becomes hell-bent on sabotaging her friend's plans for a different life.

With Dhruv on paternity leave, Emily Main is busier than ever. When she hits an unexpected roadblock at work, can she turn her adversary into an ally? Meanwhile, Dhruv and Stephanie discover that parenting a newborn is a challenge—and the baby isn't the problem. Sylvia interrupts her fun family vacation to take a stand in support of a stranger in need. Will her selfless act find her dancing her way to the love she thought she'd never find again? At the same time, Martha and Doug deepen their bond over a life-changing addition that surprises even their family.

In this imaginative debut, the tale of Noah’s Ark is brilliantly recast as a story of fate and family, set in a near-future London. Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo. When...

An NPR Books We Love 2025 One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025 The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started… It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire...

“An uplifting tale of friendship, kindness, and connection . . . This joyful story of the unlikely friendship between five strangers and one remarkable cat is a must-read for cat lovers.”—Marianne Cronin, author of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Núria, a single-by-choice...

Il romanzo vincitore del Premio Calvino all'unanimità. Il difficile percorso di emancipazione, lavorativa ed esistenziale, di una giovane donna alla ricerca di sé stessa. Fuggita da un malinconico paese e dal controllo asfittico della madre, Rosita cerca di costruirsi una propria indipendenza a Padova. Le cose non vanno come spera e si ritrova così schiacciata tra un lavoro poco gratificante e una relazione con un uomo sposato.

Die Liebe in den letzten Tagen des Patriarchats - der neue Roman der Nr.-1-Bestsellerautorin von "Three Women - Drei Frauen". Viel zu lange hat Joan die Grausamkeiten von Männern ertragen. Den einen liebt sie, doch er bleibt kalt. Und der, der sie liebt, gibt sich eines Tages vor ihren Augen die Kugel. Joan flieht aus New York nach Los Angeles und sucht die einzige Frau, die ihr helfen kann, ihre Vergangenheit zu überwinden und eine andere zu werden: ihre Halbschwester Alice.

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past. Struggling to deal with the familial trauma of her Catholic upbringing, hotel cleaner, Noelle, travels to the Isle of Bute. There, she meets a man who claims to be a vampire, and a relationship blooms between them based solely on confession.

“In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The 15 stories of Animal Wife are each about girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds.

From the author of Dog Days Forever, a heartfelt, holiday contemporary romance perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Kristan Higgins, and Susan Mallery, in which a young woman returns to her small hometown and ends up fostering a pregnant dog with—of all people—the man she used to love. Lucy...

New and Noteworthy from USA Today A Best New Book of the Week from People "This book will grab your heart and not let go." —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me “A wise, engaging meditation on dogs, love, and recovery from pain. Come. Sit. Read!” —Lily King, author of Euphoriaand The...

‘Warming and lighthearted… this is a novel that leaves you romanticising crumbling mansions and the brooding bachelors hiding in their mazes’ Megan Clawson, author of Falling Hard for the Royal Guard 'Charming! Small rural town, rolling hills, and an old manor house, all embraced in a...

New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a heartwarming story about the choices we make and the love we let into our lives... Luna Wright is a lot of things, but sweet and trusting isn’t on the list. However, she’s a sucker for the underdog and a hard-luck...

"Sweet as ice cream on a hot summer day." —Booklist on The Somerset Girls She was fine arranging other people’s weddings… But life had other plans. When it comes to creating the perfect happily-ever-after, Yardley Belanger is a bona fide miracle worker. From bridal bouquets to matching...

Miranda Waters has always loved Seashell Island, while her brother and sister escaped it as soon as they were old enough. So when Miranda is left in charge of her parents' Lighthouse B&B for the summer, the last thing she expects is her wayward siblings showing up at the door, seeking sanctuary. It's been years since they've all lived under the same roof. Now, they're facing a whole summer together - and a crisis for the B&B and Seashell Island.

As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured a...

WINNER OF THE KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire Oshetsky Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world...

""Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying."" —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is...

Lorraine Heath begins an exciting new series with a breathtaking romance about a young woman who must marry a titled gentleman to obtain her inheritance and the unsuitable man she begins to fall madly in love with. She is desperate to wed a duke… Lady Kathryn Lambert must marry a titled...