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On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift from her father, is lost. Two years later, Alice answers a phone call from a stranger and runs away to New York, and tries to forget her last golden summer at the orchard on the banks of the Hudson.

El cautivador broche final de una gran saga familiar. Atravesando décadas y continentes, una maravillosa historia de amor, de amistad y de mujeres que rompen barreras.

"Una família rica, una casa abandonada, un jardí desolat… Tenia ganes de fer una novel·la on hi hagués de tot això." Mirall trencat és la més profusa de les novel·les de Mercè Rodoreda, un retrat de família al llarg de tres generacions, i un imponent retrat de dona amb la figura de Teresa Goday.

The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.

Nascidos no mesmo dia, perto da virada do século e em lados opostos do mundo, dois homens são unidos pelo destino e pela busca de um sonho. Ambiciosos, poderosos e impiedosos, ambos estão presos numa luta incessante para construir um império, alimentados por seus ódios destruidores. Ao longo de 60 anos e três gerações, através da guerra, casamento, fortuna e desastre, Kane e Abel competem pelo sucesso e triunfo que só um homem pode obter.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

A British officer FILIP arrives in Shyamli village, who has to get his sick wife treated and for the treatment, he brings Ravikant with him, who is a Tantrik and has power to treat Filip’s wife. After Filip’s arrival, teenage girls start disappearing from the village, whose first periods have come. Later it is revealed that Ravikant himself is trying to cure Filip’s wife by sacrificing those girls. Ravikant takes help of his father Badrikant, who has a deep knowledge of Tantra Vidya.

Faded photographs of a glamorous couple in postwar Europe. Old letters hinting of tragic loss. And a breathtaking array of magnificent jewelry, spectacular stones in exquisite settings. These are the contents of a safe-deposit box long abandoned in a New York City bank. If no heir can be identified, the jewelry will be auctioned. But who was the woman who left such a fortune and no will?

BOOK 3 IN THE RAGS TO RICHES TRILOGY FROM BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED SAGA AUTHOR

BOOK 2 IN THE RAGS TO RICHES TRILOGY FROM BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED SAGA AUTHOR

When little orphan Annie finds herself liberated from the workhouse and taken to a smart home on Swan Lane, she thinks her fortunes might finally be turning around. While grateful to the Lilburn family, she soon realises they have problems of their own. Grieving the loss of their young daughter a number of years earlier, Maggie Lilburn adopted two children from the workhouse: a newborn baby, who she thought would be the answer to her family's woes, and Annie.

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career it was published before he turned twenty. It is a prime example of the male Gothic that specialises in the aspect of horror.

That summer with Damien was the best of her life. Now, she's back in Sunshine, fifteen years later, and the New Year is fast approaching. After a breakup and a job loss, Beth moves home to stay with her newly divorced mother and take stock of her life. She can't help wondering if Damien will come to the New Year's Eve festival on Sunshine Beach again.

After a devastating loss, Grania Ryan flees her life as an artist in New York and returns home to Ireland and the arms of her loving family. While out walking the windswept cliffs of West Cork, she comes across Aurora, an enigmatic eight-year-old girl. Mysteriously drawn to the troubled child, Grania soon discovers that the histories of their families are strangely and deeply entwined.

Nidal, after many decades of restless exile, returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the popular resistance began and, through the bloodshed and bitter struggle, Nidal fell in love with freedom fighter Rabie. He was her first and only real love—him and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth, the resistance fighters in the hills, the nation as embodied in her family home and in the land.

Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she’s locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, as they both attempt to hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives.

Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. She loves her work and adores her grown children, treasuring the time they spend together. But after two marriages she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love. Then, after a chance meeting with Zack Winter, a television producer visiting Manhattan from Los Angeles, everything changes.

When Cullen’s Celtic Cabaret rolls into a sleepy Irish seaside town, their eccentric and theatrical presence stirs up a flurry of excitement—the public clamouring to buy tickets for the greatest show in Ireland. Set against the backdrop of a relentless war for Ireland’s freedom, the stakes are higher than ever for Peter Cullen and his troupe as they try to stay out of the conflict. But as they soon discover, that’s a luxury nobody can afford. As well as fighting the forces of occupation, some people are using this time of chaos to settle old scores.

Tras descubrir la traición, Lula comienza a soñar su venganza: ahora será ella quien tome las decisiones en Zaraza y su amiga Corina no tendrá más opción que ver cómo su rol de mánager estrella se desvanece. Además, el nuevo noviazgo mediático de Lula se verá amenazado cuando sus sentimientos por Tomás pasen de una simple relación de trabajo a (quizás) algo más. Toto también empezará a tener sentimientos por Lula, pero el fantasma del abandono de su madre ensombrecerá su futuro.