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Freelance photographer Coty Fine falls in love with her traveling companion as they escape 1954 Hanoi. Spanning multiple decades, this four-part, cross-generational novel follows Coty and her progeny-strong women each?as they navigate their strained relationships and, assisted by the revelation of a once forbidden photograph, make halting steps toward reconciliation and redemption.

Set in the 1850s, The Stockwell Letters is based on the true story of a high-profile runaway slave and the bold women who dared to help him, even when it meant defying their husbands, male abolitionist leaders, and society at large.

Holly Walker-a rare American living in Turks and Caicos? becomes a reluctant hero, and finds love, when she is caught in catastrophic Hurricane Nestor on the Caribbean island of Grand Turk.

In this suspense thriller, identical twin sisters Anjali Murphy and Riah Arora are reunited in their thirties after being separated at birth, only to find themselves caught up in a deadly con game that tests the fine line between sisterly loyalty and rivalry. One sister wants the money; the other wants to be free. Which one will win?

When Lucie, a smart and sassy girl from NYC, meets Pierre, a dashing Frenchman, at a grad school party in 1973, she abandons her PhD program to run off with him. It's the start of the sexual revolution, and she doesn't intend to miss a thing. They first land in Mexico, then marry and settle in Paris to live the dream. But not long into their marriage, Pierre becomes an intolerant critic of her wifely imperfections; Lucie just can't seem to measure up to French standards. Instead of settling into her new life, she balks at French customs. As planned, she has their baby son in 1976, but far from succeeding in settling her down, the baby highlights her inability to depend on Pierre and precipitates a meltdown. Finally, she makes two friends, young mothers she's met at the playground. When one of them tries to commit suicide, Lucie panics and considers returning to the U.S. but fears the impact on her young son. An English-speaking women's writing group sets her on the right path. Ultimately, those women help her realize what she truly needs and wants out of life: to be a mother, a career woman, and a writer.

With each chapter focusing on stories from the seminal periods of a lifetime¿motherhood, childhood, relationships, work, and spirit¿A Story That Matters provides the tools and motivation to craft and complete the stories of your life.

After losing her job and fiance the day before her thirty-fifth birthday, people-pleaser and rule-follower Allison James decides she needs someone to give her some new life rules-and fast. But when she embarks on a self-help mission, she realizes that her old life wasn't as perfect as she thought-and that she needs to start writing her own rules.

When her husband is kidnapped by ruthless gold miners, frontier woman Briar Logan is forced to accept the help of an emotionally damaged young man and a famous female horse trainer. On her quest to save her husband, she discovers that adventures of the heart are almost as dangerous as tracking down lawless killers.

Twelve-year-old Leon is among a group of 120 boys sent to New England in the 1870s by the Emperor of China as part of a Chinese educational mission. Once there, he falls in love with baseball, even though he's expressly forbidden to play. The boy's host father, who's recently lost his own son in an accident, sees and cultivates Leon's interest, bringing joy back into his own life and teaching Leon more about America through its favorite sport than any rule-bound educational mission could possibly hope to achieve.

A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass middle-aged men, but what she demands in return soon becomes untenable. A short time later she goes missing, prompting the county sheriff to open a murder investigation.

When novelist Mia Gladwell attempts to reinvent herself by moving into the house of a famous writer, she discovers that life there is not what she expected.

Sarah, a parson's young daughter and dedicated patriot, is sent to live with a rich Loyalist aunt in Philadelphia, where she is plunged into a world of intrigue and spies, her beauty attracts men, and she learns that love comes in many shapes and sizes.

Now that she's passed her trial by fire, Skylar Southmartin has been entrusted with the ancient secrets of the Book of Sophia. Ahead is her greatest mission to date: a journey to the Underworld to restore a vital memory to the Akashic Library that will bring her face to face with the darkness within.

Fortysomething Sam Hughes is at a crossroads-disillusioned professionally, stretched financially, strained in family life. As he teeters toward midlife crisis, a return to his midwestern roots and fortunate mishap give his start-up career one more chance?but also force him to choose between massive entrepreneurial success and his morals, friends, and family.

A coming-of-age YA novel about the daughter of a Pacific Northwest fisherman, whose presumed drowning in 1967 has her searching for answers, including whether or not he's really dead.

Nineteen-year-old Oliviäs life takes a turn when she receives an overseas call from a man she doesn¿t know is her father; her mother Rhonda, meanwhile, haunted by her sister¿s ghost, must face long-buried truths.

As a handful of parents and their children face the all-important senior year of high school¿an intense time of change for the kids and their soon-to-be-empty-nest parents¿the cracks beneath the surface of their seemingly perfect lives begin to appear.

Having emerged triumphant from her trials in the Underworld, Skylar Southmartin is stronger and gutsier, and can handle anything that comes her way. In the gripping climax of the Equal Night Trilogy, she uncovers one last secret no one saw coming-one that Vivienne, the Great Mother of Water, hoped would stay buried for another 13,000 years.

The coming-of-age journey of a young girl from the South who joins the African American great migration to the North-and finds her way through challenges and unforeseen obstacles to womanhood.

When a California girl gets stuck in upstate New York for the holiday season, a clean teen, sweetly romantic Christmas adventure perfect for fans of Netflix¿s Dash & Lily ensues.