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Dinah Lin is the living proof it’s never too late…for anyone. Now in her 70s, she has become a published author and begun a new career. Daring to Dream Once Again shares her amazing journey—spanning seven decades and six countries. What was it like growing up in a small town in Ohio as the only Asian family and living in Asia for 15 years raising two young children? How did she make the transition from housewife and social hostess to the senior executive levels in both corporate American and in Washington, DC, then leave everything behind to move to Beijing for a decade?

Adnieva loses everything she holds dear and decides to leave her small village of Tiermerra in search of better things. At the top of her list is revenge. Naveen travels from city to city trying to conceal her ability, an ability she learned at a younger age at great cost to her. Divinity grows tired of the politics in the city of Legain and her father's hold over her. She decides to take things into her own hands and escape.

Despite attempts to suppress its publication and the advertising ban placed on it, The President’s Daughter enjoyed bestseller rankings after its eventual publication in 1927. Written so that Britton could raise enough funds to support her (and Harding’s) daughter and thus argue for the true legitimacy of children born out of wedlock, this tell-all about the affair between a starry-eyed girl and the man who would eventually become the twenty-ninth president of the United States is still a fascinating and relevant story in the context of the Me Too era.

When Cate came home to an empty house and a "Dear John" note, she did what any woman would do - take the next flight to Ireland. Follow Cate as she picks up the pieces and finds her new path in life.

2019: Mina Cooper hopes her study-abroad program in Japan will solve her anxiety issues. After all, she’s doing what she loves—studying Japanese language and literature. But she’s still waking up at four am with a racing heart, so Mina decides to change her life, to change herself. And suddenly she has a lot more to be anxious about.

I didn't murder Adam. I survived an abusive marriage, broke away from a misogynistic religious group, and enrolled in nursing school to better provide and care for my disabled son Adam and his older sister Anne. When Adam died, I believed his death was a result of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, the genetic anomaly with which he was born, a bad infection, and complications of CPR.

Life's special moments are meant to be celebrated. That's why Hazel Lavigne launched and perfected her own event planning company outside of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a single mother in her early 30s, Hazel means business when it comes to her career. But when her daughter's life is suddenly in jeopardy, Hazel has no choice but to pack up and move back to her hometown of York, Maine. Little does she know that this roller coaster ride she has found herself on is only just beginning.

In 2016, Dr. Angela Mailis, a world-renowned expert on chronic pain management, was brought face-to-face with domestic violence, when an accomplished colleague was murdered by her equally accomplished husband. It was familiar territory for Dr. Mailis, who herself had been involved in an emotionally abusive relationship for 27 years.

Sheryl Heartwood loves everything to do with plants, flowers, and trees. She tends to the grounds around The Heartwood Inn, and she's content with the beach-side life she's always known. But she's not very happy about the ex-boyfriend who keeps showing up on her front step, following her around the expansive grounds at the inn, and scaring her. So she hires Gage Sanders to be her "boyfriend" to keep the other man away. The lines become blurred on the very first day, when she kisses him, which is so unlike Sheryl.

As a 23-year-old college graduate, Tessa Walker had it all. Psychology degree—check. School counseling position at the local elementary school—check. Everything was falling into place. Tessa was making significant strides with students, especially with a first grader named Beckett (Bex) who struggled with social anxiety. She adored her job and, for the first time, was able to rent her own apartment. She was even slightly convinced that maybe, just maybe, a proposal from her college sweetheart was right around the corner.

Ravenna has grown up isolated and ostracised amongst the sylphs for her small wing size and her unusual colouring. She lives with the Intellecti, a collection of sylphs dedicated to learning, to facts, to history, to thought. But she feels most free when she runs through the trees of her beloved home. Until, that is, she comes across beings that should have been myth. Humans. Captured, Ravenna is taken from her home and into the vastness of the desert mainland.

Tabitha’s entire life came undone because of a simple, mundane errand. Now left a young, widowed mother with two boys, she has to pick up the pieces of the life she created with her husband, Tate. But there are too many reminders. Too many memories. Too much of Tate woven into the world around her. Tragedy stole Tate from her and yet, he is everywhere. A year later, consumed with grief and exhausted from going through the motions, Tabitha uproots her family to live in a small, fishing town on the Oregon Coast. She hopes to find healing and the fresh start they all need.

Join Jackie Norwood, a down-and-out celebrity chef, as she judges the first gig on her comeback quest—a Texas Crab Festival cooking contest. This new venture takes an unexpected twist when she discovers that her archnemesis, Heather Curtis, is her co-judge. As if that weren’t enough to stir the pot, one of the competitors is Chef Benjy Hayes, Jackie’s long-lost ex-boyfriend.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, known for her best-selling mystery novels such as The Circular Staircase published in 1907, earned a reputation as “the American Agatha Christie” through the success of her novels. Yet Rinehart was also a WWI correspondent. After convincing her editor at The Saturday Evening Post to send her to the Belgian front, and armed with letters of introduction, her status as a well-known writer and member of the American Red Cross, as well as plenty of fearless initiative, she became the first American to report from the front.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy Black and her mom have moved in to Trinity Row for a quick renovation to make an easy buck. Then it will be on to the next rundown, abandoned eyesore. Simple: Move. Fix. Sell. Run. For the last three years, Ivy and her mom have run far away from their past. That's the thing about Trinity Row, though. It doesn't let the past die.

Cassidy Quinn is an attorney living in Boston, who comes close to making the biggest mistake of her life. Picking up the pieces and retreating back to a town that holds her heart, Cassidy reunites with a summer fling and uncovers a connection exists between them they could never even imagine. In the midst of discovering the secrets and heartbreak that lay deep within her own family’s legacy, Cassidy will learn that sometimes when life gives you lemons - it gives you a second (or a hundred) chances to get it right.

In 1689, Atia Crisp finds herself imprisoned in the wickedest city on earth, Port Royal, Jamaica, while the refugees from Strangewayes’s plantation in the Blue Mountains are on the run and seeking a new home, deep in the Caribbean. Captain Jean-Paul la Roche must get them to safety and find a way to liberate the woman he loves while waging a war against the English with the pirate Laurens de Graaf.

At an early age, we learn to devalue ourselves. Most of us die without knowing how special and powerful we are and without experiencing our innate divinity. We cannot find meaning in life when it so often revolves around earthly luxuries and pointless commitments.

Adriana is probably the girliest girl you’ve ever met. She loves clothes, shopping, and looking like the most fabulous person in the room. She even has a magic purse that lets her travel wherever she wants! When Adriana takes a trip to Paris, she learns valuable life lessons along the way: how important it is to be kind, what it means to be grateful, the power of selfless love, and how some good old-fashioned bravery and a little curiosity can go beyond anyone's imagination.

Ravenna has spent the last moons preparing her people for war, and now it is time to fly. She knows that this is right, but facing Davorin has consequences that not even she could predict. Reunited with Miska, with Lenore, Ravenna realises that things are not the same as they were in the time she was away, and they may never be again. Was bringing the sylphs to war really the right thing to do? Or has she doomed them all?