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Set in the world of pop music about sisters, motherhood, young love, and the dreams we chase, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits is one of the most anticipated books of the year, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner.

The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can’t write, maybe because she’s lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to tell, and a grudge against her former favorite sister, Fred. George, the baby, is estranged from his wife and harboring both a secret about his former employer and an ill-advised crush on one of his sisters’ friends. Gathered after a major loss, each sibling needs the others more than ever—if only they could trust each other.

From a Nigerian migrant worker conned out of her earnings in London to a recently widowed housewife rediscovering her suppressed African heritage, a long-suffering wife who poisons her husband to a woman whose family secrets endanger her upcoming marriage, Hail Mary illuminates the private lives of Nigerian women in ten searing stories of longing and belonging, survival and triumph, death and rebirth each featuring a very different Nigerian woman at a crossroads.

After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a cruel attack by her drunken father, Ella Parker decides that dishonesty is fine when it serves her needs. Ella escapes her luxurious but lonely life and meets an eccentric ship surgeon who allows her to assist him during a surgery. Compelled by Ella's intelligence and interest in medicine, the doctor prepares her for a medical career, but there's a catch: in early nineteenth century England, women are not accepted into universities. To fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, Ella must disguise herself as a young man.

When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there’s been some mistake. She can’t imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of the house matron, Mrs. Morris. When their mother fails to rescue them week after week—and Mrs. Morris drops hints that their mother may be a “fallen woman”—Nora begins to doubt they will ever see her again.

Born amidst the dawn of Prohibition, Sofia Russo always dreamed of being her family’s next winemaker. But when her father chooses her reluctant twin brother, Alonso, to carry on the family legacy, Sofia’s world is upended as her hopes for a future in wine crumble alongside the relationship with her father. Feeling the intense sting of her father’s rebuke, Sofia is determined to rise above inequality and the hardships of The Great Depression to prove him wrong.

Auch Frauen können Helden sein – für die junge Krankenschwesterschülerin Frances McGrath gleichen diese Worte einer Offenbarung. In der sich wandelnden Welt des Jahres 1965 wagt sie es, von dem ihr vorherbestimmten Pfad abzuweichen, und folgt ihrem Bruder nach Vietnam. Und während sie inmitten der Grausamkeit des Krieges über sich hinauswächst, erwartet sie die wahre Herausforderung bei ihrer Rückkehr. Wie schon in Die Nachtigall lässt Weltbestsellerautorin Kristin Hannah einen besonderen Moment der Geschichte aus der Sicht von Frauen lebendig werden, deren Mut und Tatkraft allzu oft vergessen werden.

Let’s start off with telling you about Denise. Denise is from Texas. She is feeling overweight and ugly about herself. She uses her best friend Jennifer’s photograph for a chatroom she joins. She figures if she can use Jennifer’s photograph, men will be interested in her. It works! She begins talking to a few men, but becomes more interested in a man named Rowan.

Amanda's life took an unexpected turn when a woman was discovered in her hotel bathroom half drowned. An investigation into the woman's attack and her past cause the two women to form a relationship. They are constantly surrounded by security while a search is on to find out who the attack in the hotel room was really meant for.

Donna Sanders has done everything right. She has created a successful home-organizing business and distanced herself from her crazy twin—the witch of Shadow Cove. Donna is completely blindsided when her husband locks her out of the house and demands a divorce. With nowhere else to turn, Donna moves back to her childhood home, a creepy gothic house on the outskirts of town.

When a woman is subjected to constant conflict—and this conflict enters her home, and she meets an opponent stronger than her, who breaks her, and she becomes alone to see the flows of society pressuring her with such cruelty—she chooses victory through defeat.

Depicting the eternal struggle between the woman as a human being and the woman as a wife and mother, Rubble takes place inside many of our homes and takes place inside a few of the women inside those homes. So what happens when this conflict goes outside and who will win in the end?

Deirdre and Sam, mother and daughter, have been stuck in individual grief cycles since husband and father Niall died less than a year earlier. Now it is time for a change. For Deirdre, this means hiring a life coach, rediscovering long-dormant parts of herself, and putting the family home on the market. For Sam, it's jettisoning an abusive employer, re-evaluating her strengths, allowing for the possibility of love, and maybe even moving home for a while.

For years Melchior, the youngest son of the Fate Atropos, has thought of nothing but vengeance against his mother - Death. A prisoner in his own castle, the Prince of Darkness is trapped in her wicked web, despite the fact that the Gods are on his side. He's been learning dark magic as a way to protect himself and his people from the cruelty of their Queen... with limited success, and the only way he's managed to leave the castle is by promising his mother that he'll find a bride and give her a grandchild.

Welche Geschichte über unser Leben erzählen wir uns – und von welcher möchten wir, dass sie bleibt? 1963: An einem einzigen Tag in London lässt Marianne ihr Leben und ihre Entscheidungen Revue passieren. Als junge Frau wollte sie Pianistin werden. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Jugendfreundin Lotte hatte sie große Pläne nach der Haushaltungsschule. Und Lotte hat es geschafft. Während sie in den 20er-Jahren eine bekannte Malerin wurde, ist für Marianne alles anders gekommen.

Addis Abeba, 1937. Vittorio Gargano non ha mai visto tanto sangue in vita sua. È ovunque, tinge di rosso l’acqua dei fiumi, da cui affiorano i cadaveri come pesci avvelenati. La rappresaglia per l’attentato al viceré d’Etiopia, il generale Rodolfo Graziani, è un’apocalisse: soldati e civili italiani uccidono, stuprano, incendiano. Furiosamente. Quelle ore di morte plasmeranno il futuro di Vittorio, camionista al servizio del Regio Esercito, della famiglia che formerà. Di Arturo, il figlio che ancora deve nascere.

La casa di legno brucia nel cuore della notte. Lingue di fuoco illuminano la vallata fra le montagne. Nel silenzio della neve che cade si sente solo il ruggito del fuoco. E quando la casa di legno crolla, restano soltanto i sussurri impauriti di chi è riuscito a fuggire in tempo. Ma qualcosa non è come dovrebbe essere. I conti non tornano. E il destino si rivela terribilmente crudele nei confronti di una madre: Serena. Se c’è una parola con cui Serena non avrebbe mai pensato di identificarsi è proprio la parola "madre". Lei è lo "squalo biondo", una broker agguerrita e di successo nel mondo dell’alta finanza.

Escape to the wondrous Sea Glass Cove - where love surfaces amidst sunken treasures! Marine archaeologist Lauren Sunshine is always ready to explore the country’s underwater heritage, so when a shipwreck is found off the Dorset coast, she is thrilled to lead the excavation team. Philippa "Phil" Silver has devoted her life to the Museum by the Sea. But funding is tight, and Phil hopes the wreck discovery could bring more visitors. However, the museum is too small to house its treasures. Thankfully, new friend Lauren seems as determined as she is to save the museum.

"Anche le donne sanno essere eroiche." Per la ventenne Frances "Frankie" McGrath, studentessa di infermieristica, questa frase è una rivelazione. Cresciuta nell'idilliaco mondo assolato della California del sud e protetta dai suoi genitori di idee conservatrici, si è sempre vantata di fare la cosa giusta, di essere una brava ragazza. Ma è il 1966, il mondo sta cambiando, e Frankie si ritrova all'improvviso a immaginare un futuro diverso, così, quando suo fratello parte per il Vietnam, lei decide di arruolarsi nel Corpo infermieristico dell'esercito.

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a masterful tale of morality, sin, and courage. Set in Puritan New England, the story revolves around Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears a child out of wedlock. The scarlet letter “A” embroidered on her gown serves as her punishment for adultery. But Hester is more than just a sinner — she possesses unyielding character and compassion. Her love for the enigmatic minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, is entwined with their shared guilt.