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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...

"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...

En lo alto de una montana, en los paramos de Noruega, hay un viejo caseron habitado por un hombre solitario. Se llama Roy, es experto en pajaros, lleva la gasolinera del pueblo y en cada casa corre un rumor sobre el. Su vida gris se reabre con la vuelta de Carl, su hermano pequeno. No se ven desde que se fue a estudiar a Estados Unidos hace quince anos, tras la muerte tragica de sus padres en un accidente de coche. El hijo prodigo trae consigo a su...

"Han pasado dos décadas desde que Julia, la hermana mayor de Claire y Lydia, desapareció sin dejar rastro a los 19 años. Tiempo después, ellas dejaron de comunicarse y tomaron caminos opuestos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos se había recuperado del horror y la tristeza de su tragedia compartida: una herida atroz que se reabrió cruelmente al morir asesinado el esposo de Claire. ¿Qué relación podía haber entre ambos hechos?"--Cover.

"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...

"A widow turns to her sisters for comfort--only to discover, after all these years, she might not be blood-related at all. Heather Harvey Talbot is the youngest of the three Harvey sisters. She's a devoted wife, sensitive yet lively woman--who is the author of children's fantasy books and pours all of her love and life into her relationships with her husband, Max, and her two daughters, Kristine and Bella. But all that changes when Max, an oceanographer,...

"I thought he took my secret to the grave. But the truth can't stay buried forever... In the wake of my darling husband's death, I am so lucky to have my three beautiful, grown-up daighters by my side at our holiday home in Scotland. We need some time together, to recover from the shock. but I also need to set some things straight about their beloved father... I've always known this house was the perfect place to bury secrets - remote, isolated, surrounded...