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A breathtaking novel about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apart. Veena, Mala and Nandini are three very different women with something in common. Out of love, each bears a secret that will haunt her life—and that of her daughter—because the...

A captivating journey of love, sacrifice, and destiny playing out in the world of music. In 2003, at the prestigious Brookfield Conservatory in Boston, a chance encounter sparks an inimitable friendship between driven pianist and singer Anna Buckley and composer wunderkind Will Pendleton. As...

Une Synnøve échevelée réapparaît, mais ne veut rien dire de ce qui s'est passé. Et lorsqu'elle se confie enfin à son amie Emma, elle l'accable en même temps d'un secret que cette dernière ne peut pas partager avec son bien-aimé Olav ! Alors qu'elle se débat avec la culpabilité de lui cacher la vérité, Emma est aussi assaillie de souvenirs sombres de son passé et des circonstances mystérieuses qui entourent la mort tragique de sa sœur...

"Sara Ackerman never disappoints!" ­—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code "Brilliantly written with a mystery that will keep you reading late into the night. . . . A fabulous read that makes me want to drop everything and travel to Hawaii!" —Madeline Martin, New...

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood—inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules. Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their...

Treize ans après un accident tragique qui avait coûté la vie à son père, Malo revient sur la presqu'île de Crozon de son enfance. Sa mère Emeline avait quitté discrètement le petit port breton de Camaret-sur-Mer avec Malo, alors âgé de dix ans, pour s'installer à Marseille. Le jeune homme est décidé à établir la vérité sur l'accident qui a changé le cours de leur existence. Les découvertes qu'il va faire vont bouleverser sa vie.

'Wonderfully drawn characters you really root for . . . a delightfully uplifting story' – Mike Gayle, author of All the Lonely People When an elderly eccentric collector and a troubled teen become each other's only hope of getting their lives back on track, what can possibly go wrong? Alfred...

“Wolfson’s writing is superb.” —The Washington Post A novel about mothers and daughters, about taking chances, about exploding secrets and testing the boundaries of family Years ago, during a certain summer in Maine, two young women, unaware of each other, met a charismatic man at a...

A tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later—until the clues expose a breathtaking secret... Named a Best Book of Summer by PopSugar, Coastal Living, Family Circle, and The Globe & Mail Laura and...

Since their mother walked out on them as children, Izzie’s taken responsibility for her younger sister, Linda. And when their father’s temper flares up, Izzie knows the girls are better off on their own. But when a handsome Italian chef moves to Worthing and offers Izzie a job in his cafe, she is forced to choose between her responsibilities and her desires. Then her mother resurfaces, and Izzie discovers there’s more to her abandonment than meets the eye.

Becky’s father is not just absent: he’s a total mystery, a hole in her life. He died before she was born and for her mother, Laura, the subject is strictly off-limits. When Laura books a spontaneous trip to Greece, Becky decides to join her, determined to get closer to her mother - and to the truth. But as they make their way to the island of Santorini, it becomes clear that this holiday is not as impulsive as Becky thought. Laura’s hiding something from her daughter - and she’s been hiding it for Becky’s whole life.

When rock star Risk Keller shows up in Frankie’s diner with his heart on his sleeve, it turns her world upside down. Letting him go was the hardest thing she ever had to do. For years, his voice has been a reminder of everything she sacrificed, and now it’s time to face the music. For Risk, coming home shows him what he’s always known deep down - every song, every gig, every drink, every girl - it’s always been about Frankie.

Meet the hapless Jeremy: a man in his late 50s, he scrapes together a living in Paris by writing soft-core pornography under the saucy guise of "Nathalie Cray". When his all-but-estranged sister tells him their father is on his deathbed, Jeremy reluctantly travels back to his parental home in the depths of the English countryside. Confronted with a life that he had always been eager to escape, his return marks the start of an emotionally fraught journey into the family's checkered past.