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"Nantucket Blue: For Cricket, a summer on Nantucket with her best friend Jules is a life-changing dream come true. That is, until Jule and her family suffer a devastating tragedy, and Jules becomes a stranger. And instead of lying on the beach working on her tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise. But it's the things she hadn't counted on--most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits--that...

"Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved. Kate's life is interrupted once more when she wakes up one night to the sound of...

"Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel 'The Gates Ajar', in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven and demonstrated that for American women, the war didn't simply end at Appomattox. When Mary Cabot loses her beloved brother, Union soldier Royal, in the war, she feels as though she will never feel peace again until the arrival of her widowed aunt Winifred....

"Todos son sospechosos. Todos tienen algo que esconder. Pero alguien va a tener que responder por la muerte de su hija. En una empobrecida zona de los montes Ozark, en Misuri, en un pueblo pequeño con grandes secretos, dos niñas de doce años aparecen asesinadas. Sin nada que perder y rota de dolor, Eve Taggert se lanza a averiguar qué le ocurrió realmente a su hija. Eve conoce el lado oscuro de la vida. Su propia madre se encargó de enseñárselo....

"From the author of the 'sweet, airy novel' (Publishers Weekly) The Color of Tea comes a resonant new book about a woman starting over following the tragic loss of her fiancé.́ Frankie is a runaway bride. Or rather, she is running away from her fiancé'́s funeral, the unthinkable event that has thrown her entire life into crisis. Frankie and Alex were high school sweethearts and each other's first loves. They should have been together forever....

Nanami, starting high school with an optimistic attitude, meets and falls in love with the popular Motoharu Yano, but Yano is still trying to cope with the death of his girlfriend.