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"The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family from the first meeting of the parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings--Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally--feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets...

"The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one, full of family trips to the beach and long afternoons at the local pool with her older sister Kathy, which they mostly use as an excuse to ogle Billy Barnes, who works the concession stand there. Their fascination with him is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. By summer's end Billy and Kathy are an item-an unthinkable...

"With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decided what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--

Kat comforts her younger sister Tina as they prepare to sleep in their own rooms for the first time, but as a storm thunders outside their windows, it turns out Kat might be the one who needs the extra support.

Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere. Drawing is what Ramon does. It's what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree sketches into joyless struggles. Luckily for Ramon, though, his little sister, Marisol, sees the world differently. She opens his eyes to something a lot more valuable than getting things just "right." Combining the spareness...

"Grace, Maya, & Joaquin are siblings who are unaware of one another's existence, until Grace gives up her own child for adoption-and feels compelled to seek out her biological family. Maya, Grace's loudmouthed younger sister, is quick to search for traces of herself among her bio siblings. But she's not quite sure where it is that she belongs. And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, never found a family. In Joaquin's life, there are no heroes,...

When their father is killed in a plane crash, twins Kara and Lizzie are taken from the step mother who loves them into the hands of their greedy relatives.

Una de las historias de amor más apreciadas de todos los tiempos, esta clásica comedia de maneras habla del poco probable noviazgo de Elizabeth Bennet y Fitzwilliam Darcy. La historia de cómo estos dos personajes superan su propio orgullo y prejuicio, así como su familia y la sociedad en general, continúa fascinando a los lectores de todas las edades a través de las generaciones.

"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"-- August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby sister, Kit....