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"Leonie and Max are on separate but tangled paths. Now, she might be pregnant. And he’s not answering her texts, off on some questionable assignment translating poetry from a language he seems barely to know. As Ana moves through the disintegrating island house her father filled with his paintings, the house where her mother struggled to survive, she guards her poems closely. Will Max bring her success enough to keep it? Can this foreign man rewrite...

"The perfect choice for your next book club: Julie Carrick Dalton's The Forest Becomes Her is a gorgeous, hopeful novel about three women from different generations navigating the complexities of family, the impacts of our choices, and our deep connections to the natural world beneath our feet. In historic, bucolic Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are...

Lila loves drawing but feels overshadowed by her talented older sister, so she comes up with a plan to win an art competition to showcase her skills, but an unexpected discovery helps her see their rivalry in a new way.

"Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet, that's exactly the quandary in which she finds herself. Her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, abroad at grad school in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate...

When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she can't believe her ears. Her Tata Colette died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, it's Aunt Colette. But then, who rests under the stone engraved with Colette's name? And why did she fake her own death? So begins an investigation back in time, as Agnes pieces together the multitude of...

"One summer evening, in a quiet seaside town near Rome, everything changes for the Ansaldo family. The Ansaldo family's contented life is built on routine, with days spent running their beloved delicatessen and summers at their modest house by the sea. But when sixteen-year-old Betta sets off for a beach party and never returns, they are left only with grief - and questions. The town whispers, the police are lost, and as the family fractures under...

"You always told me that writing is life itself. After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a role Hatoko trained for as a child under the guidance of her strict grandmother. As the locals seek out Hatoko's help, she takes on all manner of requests: writing letters of greeting,...

Retired defense attorney Leslie Woodhouse is drawn back into the courtroom when her husband is arrested as the prime suspect in a string of serial murders along Florida's Gulf Coast. Convinced of his innocence, Leslie takes on his defense, uncovering secrets, conflicting evidence, and a conspiracy that forces her to question everything she believes about the man she married.

"Una mañana de primavera, un hombre desconocido llega a la pequeña localidad de Golden. Nadie sabe de dónde viene, ni por qué está aquí…Descubre el bestseller que ha enamorado a legiones de lectores en inglés y que está conquistando al mundo entero, con ediciones en más de treinta idiomas. En la apacible ciudad de Golden la llegada de Theo despierta curiosidad. Nadie sabe de dónde viene, pero su presencia transforma las vidas de quienes...