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Searching for meaning in her Montreal life, Marthe begins an intense friendship with an older woman, also from Newfoundland, who tells her a story about purpose, about a duty to fulfill. It's back home, and it goes by the name of Jane. Marthe travels back to a small community on the island with the older woman to continue the work of an underground movement in 60s Chicago: abortion services performed by women, always referred to as Jane. She commits to learning how to continue this legacy and protect such essential knowledge.

He's the grumpy hotshot hockey player. She's too shy to look him in the eyes. He needs a live-in summer assistant, and she's perfect. Chord Davenport is the hottest, surliest man to ever slap shot a puck. He's given up everything to be the best—family, friendship, love—but he's about to retire as a legend of the game, and that makes his sacrifices worth it.

She'd spent her entire life as a wallflower, hiding from the rest of the world. Willow Thorne had gotten really good at blending in with the wallpaper. The shy, quiet little mouse was more comfortable spending her days in her protective little bubble. Then she met a big, burly mechanic who...

Sallie ist die Tochter des mächtigsten Mannes einer Kleinstadt in Virginia. Geboren zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, ist sie fünf Jahre alt, als ihre Mutter stirbt nach einem Streit mit Sallies Vater, dem charismatischen Duke Kincaid. Er heiratet erneut und bekommt einen Sohn. Als Sallie dem Halbbruder beibringen will, so stark wie der Vater – und sie selbst – zu sein, führt ihre waghalsige Nachhilfe zu einem schweren Unfall. Sallie wird verstoßen und muss das Anwesen verlassen. Mit siebzehn Jahren kehrt sie zurück ins Große Haus, entschlossen, sich ihren Platz in der Familie zurückzuerobern.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is autumn 2004 and in a farmhouse on the hills outside Llandudno, a family endures the agonizing wait for their son to return from Iraq. His decision to join up has left them reeling, yet there are other pressing concerns to be met at home: the working of the...

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will...

When the sudden death of his mother forces outback opal miner Jack Hargreaves home to Wirralong, his plan is simple: mourn his mother, sort out the family farm and get the hell out of the town that has always hated him. But Elsa O'Donoghue, the beautiful hairdresser with a big heart and even brighter smile, has other plans.