Winter Women

Jane March's greeting cards have lost their jingle. While worried about her job at New England's Cobblestone Cards, she stumbles upon a forgotten box of her mother's nostalgic paintings. They depict small-town Addison's covered bridge and red barns and picket-fenced colonials. If only Jane's designs could capture the same heart. When her mother shows her how with a Christmas to-do list of memories in the making, Jane gets checking.

"Mi Amor - Winter im Frühling des Lebens", ist die Geschichte eines kleinen Mädchens, das im Frühling seines jungen Lebens den Winter erfährt. Die Kälte und Hartherzigkeit einer Welt, in der es schutzlos der Willkür, Brutalität und Perversion seines Peinigers ausgeliefert ist. Ein Hörbuch, das erschüttert und tief berührt und gleichzeitig Kraft gibt und Hoffnung macht. Es nimmt den Leser an die Hand und führt ihn durch die Abgründe menschlichen Verhaltens.

Frank Lombardo's never been spontaneous. The closest he's come was accepting a side job chopping firewood for a lakeside community of rustic cabins. But with another lonely holiday season imminent, Frank's sister urges him to be spontaneous because, seriously, who does he ever expect to meet out in the woods?

With a suitcase in hand and a bit of reluctance, too, Penny Hart arrives at Cardinal Cabin on Snowflake Lake. It's only for a brief stay, though nobody knows where she is. Not her boss, not her friends....

Only Frank Lombardo.

La primera novela de Albalucía Ángel es una obra torrencial y adelantada a su tiempo que mezcla vivencias, digresiones y quimeras para trasladar al lector, a través de la mente de su protagonista, en un viaje frenético que lo llevará a toda velocidad a París, Roma, las islas griegas o Venus en una narración sin límites de género ni convenciones de estilo. Una obra que supuso un antes y un después para la literatura latinoamericana escrita por mujeres e introdujo con arrebato la experimentación posmodernista en la narrativa colombiana.

For friends Stevie, Holly and Angela, the last few years haven't been kind. With marriage breakdowns and sacrifices, their only moments of peace come when they are outside in the wild waters of the Lake District. Now it's time for these three women to love themselves, just as they love the cold, and take charge of their own happiness in this uplifting and meditative novel of friendship and the healing power of nature.

An arresting memoir equal parts refugee coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev’s flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her.

Interior designer Shelby Nelson is looking for a new start. She gets a lucky break when she's hired to help decorate the homes in a wealthy subdivision for the holidays. But not everyone is thrilled with being forced to follow the strict rules set by the homeowners' association. And the person they're angriest with is Heather Redstone, the president of the HOA. So when Shelby is found standing over Heather's dead body under the Christmas tree, she quickly becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she’ll need to find the killer.

In 1917, Madeline Fairbanks is an herbalist healer devoted to the people of Jamesville, a dying town in the Southern Appalachians. Renetta Morgan—with whom it is taboo to fraternize because of race—is her apprentice. Maddie’s precocious granddaughter, Hannah Tillman, is mesmerized by an ancestral box in Maddie’s possession that contains hints of a mystical heritage.

It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have its own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She's lodging in the island's bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security. Soon after Anna's arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to behave in peculiar ways.

Ksenia steht finanziell mit dem Rücken zur Wand. In ihrer Verzweiflung plant sie, den Notgroschen ihrer Freundin Heddy zu stehlen. Doch der Mann, der ihr dabei helfen wollte, liegt ein paar Tage später tot in seinem Büro, und Heddy ist spurlos verschwunden - mit dem Geld. Zusammen mit Heddys Tochter Karina macht Ksenia sich auf, ihre Freundin zu finden. Dabei stellen sie fest, dass diese keineswegs die treusorgende Mutter ist, für sie sie hielten.

"Du musst Konfetti in dein Leben bringen, es bunt und lebenswert gestalten." Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes flieht die fünfzigjährige Zoey nach Sylt. Alles scheint ohne Sinn. Doch dann trifft sie am Strand auf die Künstlerin Marlene, die mit ihrem Hund mitten im Nordsee-Idyll wohnt. Marlene macht sie mit dem Witwer Moritz bekannt und führt sie nicht nur damit in Versuchung... Wird Zoey in ihr Leben zurückfinden? Oder doch ein ganz anderes entdecken? Ein liebevoller und mutmachender Frauenroman – ein Plädoyer für das Leben.

After a hit-and-run car crash, Caitlyn's life is put on hold. Her broken leg refuses to heal, and she is questioning her future career plans as a doctor. She realizes the only way forward is to find out what happened, who hit her and left her to die, and—most importantly—who was at fault. She dusts off her (very average) hacking skills, and enlists the help of Thomas Dean, a former cop turned PI, and a permanent wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury. He hopes he still has what it takes to get the job done.

Sheriff Elizabeth Benoit has her sights on bringing down Eckardt County's corruption when two bodies surface, both bearing striking similarities to the serial killer victims discovered along I-80—and one delivers a personal message for her department. Lila spirals out of control under the pressure, pushing everyone out of her life.

Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.

Lilie und Schneerose wachsen im frühen 19. Jahrhunderts in der chinesischen Provinz auf. Sie schreiben sich in der Geheimschrift der Frauen, Nushu, und schaffen sich so einen kleinen Freiraum. Beide leben in einer von Härte und Lieblosigkeit geprägten Umgebung: So müssen sie auch in jungen Jahren das Binden ihrer Füße ertragen. Eigentlich eine Auszeichnung, denn kleine Füße lassen die Familie auf eine vorteilhafte Heirat für die Mädchen hoffen.

Christine Sheridan is the middle sister of the Sheridan clan: lost between her older sister, Susan, a successful criminal lawyer and her whip-smart little sister, Lola. After twenty years apart, they have just learned the secret their dead mother kept from them. But now, Christine returns to New York City, to her boyfriend Frank, to a life she once loved. But the prestigious restaurant they own is no more, and Christine is left once again without solid ground. At forty-one, unable to have children, and with nowhere to go—she knows only to return home to the Vineyard and her family.

When 30-year-old Nick loses his prestigious job at a city law firm, he is forced to grudgingly accept work as a Santa at a local Christmas grotto. There he meets five-year-old Alfie, and all Alfie wants for Christmas is for his mum to be happy again. She has been sad ever since his dad died three years ago. Moved by the boy's selfless wish, Nick arranges a date between Alfie's mum, Sarah, and his best friend, Matt.

Eine Ermittlerin im Polarkreis. Anelie Andersson hat es an eine Polizeistation im nordschwedischen Polarkreis verschlagen. Hier lebt man fast das ganze Jahr in Eis und Schnee. Als sich eine Frau bei ihr meldet, weil ihr siebzehnjähriger Sohn verschwunden ist, macht Anelie sich an die Arbeit. Bald wird der Junge aufgefunden; er ist - in Felle gehüllt - überfahren worden. Doch offenbar wurde er zuvor irgendwo gefangen gehalten. Je intensiver sie ermittelt, desto mehr sagen Anelie ihre Erfahrung und Intuition, dass es um mehr geht als um einen Unfall.

From the moment they meet one December day there’s something between Charlotte Taylor and her brother’s best friend, Tom Farley. But Tom’s already taken, and Charlie has to let him go.... It’s another five years before their paths cross again, only a secret from the past forces Charlie to make a choice. She promises herself she’ll never look back.... The years pass, and Charlie moves on with her life, but she can never forget Tom. He’s always there whispering, ‘What if?’ Can Charlie leave the life she has built for one last chance with Tom?

Most probationary constables would baulk at chasing a drug dealer into a train tunnel in the dead of night – not Lexi. But when she emerges, injured but alive, to face the wrath of her boss it’s clear that while Lexi may now be in uniform, she has as much trouble with authority as ever. Just to prove it, Lexi is quietly using her hacking skills to investigate a notorious drug-dealing Sydney crime family with links to her old prey, the paedophile Damon Vaughn.