Amistad

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges.

The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem and a possible murder follow....

Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance....

Kristen Petersen doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children....

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America....

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation....

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting....

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

Sadeqa Johnson's And Then There Was Me is the story of love and friendship, heartache and betrayal. It’s the journey of a woman stripped down to her lowest point and needing to find the will to press on....

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting....

Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. For decades, “Ama” played host to American presidents, Wall Street titans, and cultural icons....

As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries.

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking....

Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....

Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed....

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone....

Dannie Kohan's meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger....

At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She’s come home. Home to a place she thought she’d left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future....

From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival....

Aurora De La Torre, or Ora to her friends, knows moving back to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, a place that was once home and is now full of bittersweet memories of her late mother, isn’t going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be....

Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply....

Olivia Jones, hard-working and accomplished, has, against the odds, blazed an enviable career path in the finance world. But behind the veneer of her success, she is mourning several devastating losses and betrayals. Untethered from her life in New York City, Olivia moves to a summer home....

Un largo verano. Un escenario perfecto. ¿Puede la ficción inspirar la vida real? A veces un libro te agarra del corazón y llega a significarlo todo para ti. Eso es lo que Hope Falls es para las amigas Emily, Rachel y Tori. Por eso, cuando tienen la oportunidad de pasar todo un verano en la casa de campo de Lakeside, donde se sitúa la adaptación cinematográfica, saben que van a ser las vacaciones de su vida. Pasar seis semanas fuera les dará la oportunidad de reevaluar sus elecciones vitales.

Sofía Montalvo y Mariana León fueron amigas en el colegio. Sofía, joven imaginativa, de carácter abierto, se ha visto atrapada en una anodina existencia de esposa y madre de familia. Mariana se ha convertido en una brillante psiquiatra de moda. Al cabo de más de treinta años, el azar las hace coincidir y el recuerdo de su amistad desencadena en ambas una revolución interior que irá creciendo a lo largo del libro. En el encuentro, Mariana evoca la afición de Sofía por las palabras y la anima a escribir.

Una amistad inesperada Una segunda oportunidad que cambiará su vida. Con toda su familia y amigos ya muertos, Murray McBride, un anciano centenario y exjugador de beisbol, no ve una razón para seguir viviendo. Sin embargo, el inesperado encuentro con Jason Cashman, un niño de diez años que tiene un defecto cardiaco terminal, le enseñará que, incluso a su avanzada edad, puede vivir nuevas experiencias que le den sentido a su vida.

Lucía, una joven mexicana, ha dejado atrás un hogar violento para mudarse a un departamento infestado de ratones en el East Village de Nueva York. Allí conoce a Juliana, una chica de Colombia que la deslumbra con su alegría caribeña y con la que comparte el asombro y el entusiasmo por la nueva ciudad. Pero cuando Juliana inicia una tormentosa relación con un profesor veinte años mayor que ella, Lucía rememora el maltrato que la persigue desde su niñez y que reconocerá en la progresiva transformación de su amiga.

En el Londres de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, un joven matrimonio se dispone a romper con los estereotipos impuestos por sus familias y por la sociedad. Para ello, deciden dejarlo todo y aventurarse a las tierras de la naciente nación potencia: Estados Unidos Con los ahorros de su vida, llegan al que será su nuevo hogar; allí se encuentran con una realidad abrumadora marcada por el esclavismo, el tráfico de influencias, el racismo, el machismo, y mucha pero mucha violencia social.