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Dallas, Dealey Plaza, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Mariah Byrne is following her dream of a career in photography. One moment she’s filled with joy and hope watching the president and Mrs. Kennedy drive past. In the next, the world—and Mariah’s life—is split into before and after. What follows, and the unconventional decisions Mariah makes, will affect her and her family forever.

Cousins Tabby and Ellie Mae are due for a change. Running their aunt’s beachfront bed-and-breakfast in Sandcastle, Texas, is just the thing to shake things up…though their lives spin out of control in more ways than one when a hurricane barrels into the coastline. It’s a miracle it didn’t carry them off to Kansas. Not so lucky are the assisted-living center and a small eclectic group of local folks who take shelter with the cousins.

In this sequel to the best-selling Seasons Under Heaven, the families of Cedar Circle band together to support each other as they face the threat of marital infidelity and the birth of a Downs Syndrome baby.

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night.

Annette Goode has finally found a man who loves her. But at a pre-wedding ceremony, her ugly past is revealed, and her world falls apart. When she reunites with her childhood sweetheart, it seems like everything might be fine - until her long-absent friend, who hides a deadly secret, comes back into Annette's life.

Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies.

Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing-except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death: her husband's. And after their five-year-old daughter, Emma, witnesses her father's suicide, Emma refuses to talk about it - to talk at all.Frantic and guilt ridden, Laura contacts the only person who may be able to help.

Keira Johnson, a 50-year-old mother of two grown sons, believes she lives a good Christian life without secrets - until she discovers a life-jarring fact her late mother kept hidden all her life. Kiera was born out of wedlock, and the man she had always known as her father had adopted her as an infant. Meanwhile, Keira's beloved 17-year-old niece, Kirsten, has just discovered an unwanted pregnancy. Her boyfriend, Jose, is bound for college and Kirsten does not know what to do.

Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband’s vicious temper emerges, Maura worries that her home might never be safe for a child. Meanwhile, her close friend Bernie, a mother of three, learns the devastating news that if she conceives again, her health complications could prove fatal.

The Warmest December is the incredibly moving story of one Brooklyn family and the alcoholism that determined years of their lives. Narrated by Kenzie Lowe, a young woman reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, as she visits her dying father and finds that choices she once thought beyond her control are very much hers to make.

A rainy-day ritual - a tea party between three little girls - becomes the framework of not only their friendship, but their lives. Blonde, curly-haired Zoe Alexander is openhearted, kind, and free-spirited, but struggles with body image. Emily Waters is shy, diminutive, and would prefer to live vicariously through books. And Shannon Morell - tall, athletic, strong - has a deep sense of loyalty, but will always fear abandonment. As years pass, they forge careers, have their hearts broken, marry, and have children, but the one constant that remains is each other and their tea parties.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.

Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. The Hall must be sealed from top to bottom - every window, chimney and keyhole closed off before night falls. But what the pompous, dishonest Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies within... By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered by his own ancestral crossbow.

The massive earthquake predicted for decades finally strikes along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska. California is decimated. Millions are trapped. Thousands flee to Nevada and Arizona to escape the destruction. James Hader is on a business trip in Belize. Blocked by the earthquake's destruction, he makes the decision to travel the length of a devastated Mexico to get to his preteen granddaughter trapped in Northern California. Fueled by fear, love, and desperation, James begins a journey filled with unimaginable hazards. Unknown to James, his granddaughter has survived the initial ...

In 1945, a German Christian family fears death from the Allies’ hasty advance, so they flee on a journey to the United States. There are many obstacles that challenge them along the way. World War II fighting has not ended, so a mother and her son must pretend to be a French family in order to escape an uncertain future. They take a cargo ship to New York City and hide out in an Amish town. In 1969, while her son is studying at a university, his mother passes away. Her son, Hans, decides to build a shrine to honor his German SS father, but he goes too far. His German meetings are his only...

Shirin har tagit sitt beslut och nu finns ingen återvändo. Hon och hennes dotter kommer lämna den trasige man som förstörd av krig och droger misshandlar och plågar sin lilla familj. Flykten sker med hjälp av Shirins älskade mormor, en sofistikerad kvinna som dyrkats av sin man, rest över världen, köpt sina kläder i Paris och som anser att dotterdottern till varje pris förtjänar sin frihet. Men flykten blir allt annat än enkel.

Det är åttiotal och Maria växer upp med sina äldre bröder Giuseppe och Vincenzo i den lilla kuststaden Bari. Hon är intelligent men vild och inte lik de andra flickorna i kvarteret. Uppväxten vid havet och bland de vitputsade husen skulle kanske kunna vara idyllisk, men den präglas av våld och styrs av den lokala maffian. Pappa är fiskare, en dominant och hård man som samtidigt älskar böcker och amerikansk film.

Elvira Ljungs pappa är död. Hon är tolv, snart tretton, och har flyttat till Paris med sin mamma och styvfar Guillaume. Hon ägnar sin fritid åt att spela teater, se på film med sin bästa vän Delphine och läsa Stephen King-böcker som hon köper hos den mystiska bokhandlaren Béatrice. Hon skriver brev till Arnold Schwarzenegger, besöker kyrkan i smyg för att komma närmare sin ateistiske pappa och en dag kommer hon alldeles säkert att bli nästa Ingrid Bergman. Ulrika Lundin är Elviras mamma.

Det är tidigt 1990-tal. Unga Kiona lever med sina syskon och föräldrar på Manihiki i södra Stilla havet, en av världens mest isolerade atoller. Hon arbetar på familjens pärlfarm: fridyker, kontrollerar ostron och skördar svarta pärlor. En morgon fastnar en stor segelbåt på revet. På däck ligger en svårt skadad man. Han är svensk och heter Erik. Så börjar en hisnande historia som sträcker sig över ett halvt årtionde och fyra världsdelar. Den ställer frågor om människors sökande efter mening och sammanhang, priset för världsekonomin, och vad vi egentligen är beredda att göra för dem vi älskar.

Maggie Grant is happily married to Adam with three children, Sol, Saffron, and India -she's living a normal suburban life. Her days are spent looking after her family and helping at the local school. But her life is unexpectedly disrupted when she sees a poster about an upcoming event hosted by filmmaker Apollo Black. Maggie is convinced she recognises him and soon realises he is, in fact, Nigel Blackthorn. Curious about how this change took place, Maggie attends the lecture where he announces his new release 'Freedom Weekend.' He shows the audience a trailer, and Maggie is horrified when ...