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The Pearl Button Sisters is a multi-generational story that connects 1914 to 1986. In 1914, following the sudden death of her father, eighteen-year-old Anya Odegaard is forced to take over his dangerous clamming business on Lake Pepin to provide for her seven-year-old sister, Linnea. Faced with navigating a man's world, Anya vows to keep her sister safe at all costs, which soon propels her into making an impossible decision. Should she follow her...

In Destin, the drama isn't winding down--it's deepening, carrying the families of the Summer House into a month marked by change, celebration, and unexpected new beginnings. Kate and Eli face the tender, complicated work of aligning not just their lives, but their hearts and their beliefs--and their new love faces the most difficult challenge yet. Meredith makes a surprising connection at her dream job that stirs emotions--and possibilities--she never...

Dot Brightmore has never been one for lists. But now she's been given one of her own, by the love of her life, with whom she's finally been reunited. Dot's list has just two words on it: 1. Marry me. The problem is, Dot can't get married. Because what Dot hasn't yet told anyone is that she's already married. To a man she hasn't seen in years. But her beloved Mabel isn't a woman who can be stopped easily. After all, her own last list helped her find...

"Kiersten Cleaver feels like she's flunking Motherhood 101. Exhausted by travel sports, homework, and her son's dyslexia, she joins forces with her neighbors, Rosamund and Piper, to drop out of the scholastic rat race for one year. Together they start the Beaverbrook Academy for Inquiring Minds in Kiersten's kitchen, embarking on a journey back to the idyllic life they experienced as children ... But the women quickly realize fractions aren't their...

Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine has just walked out on his. Lewis is a retired actor whose career never amounted to much beyond a bit part on a B-list sitcom; Korine has always dreamed of acting. Slowly and then all at once, each begins to live on the other's...

"What began as a brief reunion of two families at the renovated Summer House has become something far more complicated and meaningful than anyone expected. And now they must weather one last storm. Just as the Lawsons and the Wylies begin to feel anchored again, a hurricane on the horizon threatens their home and happiness. As tensions rise and difficult choices loom, they are forced to test the bonds they've spent the summer rebuilding. Amid shifting...

Trapped home alone during a blizzard, Rama and her younger sister Leena must face their icy relationship, anxiety, and grief as they fight to survive the storm and the turmoil around them.

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. When Iris--newly single and living at home with her mother--meets the mysterious and beguiling Hazel, who lives in a women's commune, she finds herself drawn into the possibility of a new start away from the world of men who have only let her down. Here, at Breach House, the women can be loud and dirty, live and eat abundantly, all while under the leadership of their gargantuan...

A fresh and witty debut about a young immigrant mother and her increasingly inquisitive daughter, who wakes up one day and decides to find out who her father is. Sonia is a Hungarian immigrant who is raising her daughter, Mila--her beloved Milosh--on her own in sunny Los Angeles. Her days are a blur of not-quite-illegal business activities, dodging PTA moms, and baking birthday cakes laced with rum--minor mistakes that nevertheless continually remind...

"Best friends of over twenty years, Tania and Margot are preparing to host their monthly Sunday Loaf dinner party, when Tania tells Margot this isn't working for her anymore--they've been entangled for too long, she wants to "unknow" her. But how do you extricate yourself from someone whose family owns the apartment you live in, who has taken you in as their own, even claims you as their "person"? As Tania attempts to live her life loudly on the outskirts...