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"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler’s forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can...

THURSDAYS AT EIGHT, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's new hardcover novel from MIRA Books, is the story of four friends, each at a turning point in her life. Each woman's story is unique, told with the warmth and compassion that demonstrates why the author has become one of the leading voices in women's fiction today.Four women come to a journal-writing class with different needs and goals. What they found was friendship -- a closeness...

Five women embark on a harrowing ride in which even the magic of friendship may not be enought to save them.

Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat - and occasionally clash - over their stories of love, life, and everything in between....

While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, sisters Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.

Mary Sullivan has never stopped grieving for her mother. When she meets a young woman in a luncheonette who tragically loses her mother, Mary offers to help and opens her home to her. Mary enjoys the female companionship while her husband and teen sons begin to resent the relationship. But Mary realizes by helping the young woman, she is healing.

In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two-year-old woman. She has finally landed her own apartment in San Francisco, she waitresses to pay the bills, and she wishes she weren't so nervous around new people. She sees herself as living a pleasant structured life. But Reeve's life has been anything but normal. Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive for four years. After a lucky escape, she has spent the past six years working...

"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with...

The campers at Camp Lakeview help each other solve problems, and form lifelong friendships along the way. Join them for their secrets, twists, and adventures.

"No holiday in tiny Salt Lick, Texas, is more revered than January 8th-Elvis's birthday! To commemorate the grand occasion, Hogg's Drive-In-where the King enjoyed many a burger on the road to fame and fortune-is displaying an "actual" pair of Elvis's blue suede shoes. That is, until some heel without a soul swipes them right out of their display case. Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin-the shoe-loving Domestic Equalizers-are shocked...