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Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister Theresa, look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly. After tragedy strikes and her mother dies, Sophia becomes increasingly involved in the resistance.

Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.

1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen—children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.

Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master’s degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter’s retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues—and rightly so. Stymied by writer’s block, Summer hasn’t finished her thesis, and she can’t graduate until she does. vElm Creek Manor offers respite while Summer struggles to meet her extended deadline.

Haunted by nightmares, doubts, and hints of depression and PTSD that she keeps denying, Christine decides to embark on the riskiest journey of her life so far: the one that ends with meeting her birth father. Despite her mother’s pleas to reconsider, she jumps on a plane to America, gets a room at a cheap motel and tries to work up the courage to approach the man who created her. The man who still has no idea she exists.

Spring is bluebonnet season in the Hill Country, and as Kate is planning the perfect wedding, Zach has a conflict with one of his business partners from California that threatens to thwart the entire deal. Will he stand by his morals, or have to turn away from his dream of having a 100% Texas winery? Will their new relationship withstand the twists and turns of the Texas wine business?

He isn’t prepared for the situation . . .Mylas always thought the owner of the McKinney Law Firm, where he’s employed, would outlive him, so when the owner suffers a fatal heart attack, Mylas suddenly faces an uncertain future, his hope of a partnership shattered. He isn’t prepared for the consequences . . .When Mylas learns he’s mentioned in the will, he expects to receive a small token of appreciation for his years of service to the firm, but then, when everyone assembles to hear the reading of the will, things take a bizarre turn with unexpected consequences.

Sadie Barnhart, a tenacious dancer longing for the limelight of Broadway, discovers that sometimes, the path to success leads back to where it all began. When her beloved grandparents need her help, Sadie must return to her hometown of Fontana, Kansas. Guided by her unwavering determination and the memories of her late parents, she sets off on an adventure to save her family farm that will change her life forever.

Matthew Hale, billionaire CEO of Hale Properties, is drop-dead gorgeous. I mean hot, but he demands obedience from his employees. I’m his brand-new assistant, and I’m no exception. When Mr. Hale instructs me to pack for a three-hour hike to a remote cabin, I know I have no choice. Go or be fired. The snow pours from the sky, stranding us in the cozy, secluded cabin in the middle of the mountains. As the snow deepens, so do our feelings. He opens up to me in ways I never thought possible. I’m playing house in my head, and I need to stop.

Whitney Gilford is delighted to be called away from Hollywood where her co-star and former lover, Zane Blanchard, is addicted to drugs and blaming her for his unhappiness. News of her beloved grandmother, GG, giving her and her sisters a cottage on the land of The Lilac Lake Inn is a tremendous relief from the negative publicity about her on social media. In Lilac Lake, helping with the renovation of the cottage, Whitney starts to rethink her entire career.

"Behind the Red Line" by V.V. Liles unravels a gripping narrative of one woman's harrowing journey through the murky depths of medical corruption within a prestigious Heart Institute. Victoria Villa, Director of Operations, finds her world turned upside down when a celebrated yet morally compromised cardiac surgeon, Dr. Shetan Pathan, descends upon the institute.

La tímida June Jones vive en Chalcot, una pequeña población de Reino Unido, y es bibliotecaria de corazón. Sus mejores amigos son las personas que conoce cada día en el trabajo: el viejo Stanley, a quien ayuda con el ordenador; Chantal, una joven que busca un lugar tranquilo para estudiar; Leila, una refugiada que aprende inglés con ayuda de los libros de cocina que June elige para ella, o la activista Mrs. Bransworth, que critica todas las obras que encuentra en la biblioteca.

A writer discovers that her ex has published a novel about their breakup. An immunocompromised woman falls in love, only to have her body betray her. After her boyfriend makes an insensitive comment, a college student finds an experimental procedure that promises to turn her brown eyes blue. A Reddit post about a man’s habit of grabbing his girlfriend’s breasts prompts a shocking confession. An unsettling second date leads to the testing of boundaries. And when a woman begins to lose her hair, she embarks on an increasingly nightmarish search for answers.

William Waters è cresciuto senza l'affetto dei genitori, in una casa segnata dalla tragica scomparsa della sorella; così, quando al primo anno di università incontra la vivace e ambiziosa Julia Padavano, è come se il mondo si illuminasse intorno a lui. Con Julia arriva anche la sua famiglia e, soprattutto, le sue tre inseparabili sorelle: Sylvie, grande sognatrice, felice solo con un libro tra le mani; Cecelia, artista dallo spirito libero; Emeline, che si prende pazientemente cura di tutti loro.

Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father’s Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act—a scathing one-woman show about motherhood.

Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking bestseller.

After the loss of her single father, Josie Wills gives up her dreams and returns home to take care of her autistic teenage brother Nick. But she doesn’t just leave her dreams behind; she has to leave her first real love Julian Russell. Having been the mother figure for Nick his entire life, stepping into the role of parent comes easily for Josie. She adores Nick, and taking care of him makes her feel closer to her mother who never had the chance to see them grow up.

Her body used to work perfectly. For years, she tallied her orgasms, maintained a Top Humps list, and rated men on whether they excited her more mentally or physically—all with the purpose of finding the ideal love match. Now, as she moves into her thirties and is settled down with Serious Boyfriend Number Three, she’s run into a problem. Sex hurts. She can’t get wet. Her vagina, which has never led her astray before, suddenly seems like it might be broken.

Der große neue Sommerroman der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Zoé ist ein echtes Glückskind. Alles im Leben scheint ihr zuzufliegen. Als sie die Chance bekommt, ein Jahr als Innenarchitektin in London zu arbeiten, zögert sie keine Sekunde. Prompt landet sie in einem wunderschönen Viertel, das sich anfühlt wie ein kleines Dorf inmitten der Großstadt. Wenn Zoé über den Blumenmarkt streift oder frühmorgens im Naturteich schwimmt, kann nichts ihr Glück trüben. Nicht einmal der Mann, der ihr einst das Herz gebrochen hat und sich ausgerechnet jetzt wieder meldet.

The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith—and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better.