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Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable. Haunted by visions...

"A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly—once the sparkling object of young men’s affections—runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow. One of these daughters—fiery,...

"In 1911, Europe's strongest woman, Mabel MacGinnis, loses everything she's ever known and sets off for America in hopes of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. When circus aerialist Isabella Moreau's daughter suddenly appears, she is forced to face the truth of where, and in what, she derives her worth"-- Provided by publisher. 1911. Mabel MacGinnis is Europe's strongest woman and has performed beside her father in the Manzo...

Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. When Sarah is chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called "Proxima", it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.

A popular radio host whose career was launched years earlier by an on-air rant about her unfaithful husband struggles with falling in love, an obsessed stalker, and her socially fearful teen daughter, who emerges from a riding accident with a high-risk new personality.

Harper, an eleven-year-old girl finds her life shattered when her single father dies suddenly. Forced to live on a dilapidated farm with an Aunt she's never met, Harper must adjust to her new reality. However, just as she settles in, Isabella, her rich Southern Bell mother appears to claim the child she abandoned at birth. Faced with an uncertain future this young girl inspires us all with her resiliency and determination in the face of secrets, lies,...

Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.

"Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New York Times bestselling author of Woman with a Secret and The Monogram Murders. You thought you knew who you were. A stranger knows better. You've left the city and the career that nearly...

Eva walks with her mother and wonders about the things they see, from gravity to the universe, and learns that it is normal to not know the answer to questions.

When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her.