"Sydney, Australia, 1946. Four women join 650 other war brides on a voyage to England aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries arms and aircraft as well as a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy's ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past...

"When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems -- and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta's life has been missing. As Etta and Henry settle into...

"Una una historia de amor propia de los cuentos de hadas con una trama de misterio en forma de maldición. Hay elementos de bella y la bestia, de La cenicienta o El jorobado de Nôtre Dame. "La reina del romance sobrenatural". Usa Today Nicoletta conoce demasiado bien la maldición que persigue a la dinastía Scarletti. Siempre había creído que sus milagrosos dones sanadores la harían especial y que ningún hombre la controlaría jamás, pero cuando...

"When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from author Lorenzo Carcaterra. Nonna Maria has lived in Ischia, a little island in the Gulf of Naples, her entire life. Recognizable by the widow's black she's worn every day for decades, Maria always has pasta on the stove and espresso in the pot for the neighbors who stop by to ask her advice on life...

The story of four women "as they negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the perils and unease of twenty-first-century life-- "In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants,...

"Still sitting pretty on the reward money from defeating several of the Demon King's generals, Kazuma and the gang are taking it easy. The only one who seems unhappy with the status quo is Darkness, and so she sets out to defeat a monster with an enormous bounty on its head. However, after getting way more help than she bargained for, Darkness suddenly disappears, leaving just a letter behind. This shocking development throws Kazuma, Aqua, and Megumin...

"The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers -- plus little Junebug -- they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death of cleaning, cooking, and mending for her big brothers,...

Tras cumplir dieciocho años, y según lo acordado previamente, la Esposa joven regresa de Argentina y se presenta en casa de la Familia para poder casarse con el Hijo, su prometido. Sin embargo, hay un pequeño problema: éste ha partido en viaje de negocios y nadie sabe con exactitud cuándo va a volver, ni si lo hará. Se inicia así una larga espera en una villa italiana, a principios del siglo XX, en la que la joven tendrá la oportunidad de...

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina's homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God's bride, in the hopes that one day the "true bride" will be chosen and end the suffering. Many...