"Ever since seventeen-year-old Ann Bennett was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition two years ago, her family has been pulling apart. Ann and her two younger siblings fight constantly, as do their parents. When the doctors announce that Ann's only hope of survival is a heart transplant by the end of the summer, the Bennetts decide to wait for news of a donor at a family vacation home on the Oregon coast, near Haystack Rock. But rather...

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"Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall under suspicion and surveillance, and their lives are suddenly turned upside down--just like the glasses in her superstitious Aunt Theresa's house that are used to ward off evil spirits....

"Present-day Casablanca, Morocco: Nadine Alam, a physician by training and housewife by choice, has reached her hour of reckoning. Her marriage has broken down, her teenage daughter Al has retreated into silence, and now her young housekeeper Ghalia has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. One morning, Nadine receives an envelope from an unidentified sender. Inside it is a newspaper clipping, an article about a single mother and her newborn...

As the spirit of experimentation swirled around him in the 1960s and '70s, John Williams, working in relative obscurity as an English professor, wrote finely crafted novels distinguished by precise form, powerful but restrained prose, and close attention to physical detail and its symbolic import. His three major works Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and the National Book Award-winning Augustus (1972) have come to be recognized as masterpieces...

"Selena Murphy wraca pociągiem z pracy do domu. Zajmuje miejsce obok sympatycznie wyglądającej kobiety. Pociąg rusza, jednak po chwili się zatrzymuje, a z głośników płynie komunikat o opóźnieniu kursu. Selena wdaje się w rozmowę z nieznajomą, która przedstawia się jako Martha. Przeczuwając, że już nigdy więcej się nie spotkają, postanawia wyjawić jej swoje sekrety. Wyznaje, że podejrzewa męża o zdradę z opiekunką ich dzieci,...

"Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home. Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy. But after his brother Archie's death, Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best, and then...

Sam Dodsworth is a rags-to-riches millionaire who finds that his money cannot bring him happiness. His unsatisfied wife, Fran, seeking glamour and sophistication, persuades him to take her on a grand tour of Europe, where she promptly deserts him for a romantic but penniless baron. Brokenhearted, Sam meets Edith, a widow who arouses passions he never thought he had and sets him on a collision course with his wife, unleashing a torrent of desire, betrayal,...

Ten ślub zaszokował salony... Teodora Saxby nie słynie z olśniewającej urody, jest więc ostatnią kobietą, w której londyńska socjeta widziałaby wybrankę oszałamiającego Jamesa Ryburna, dziedzica książęcego tytułu. Lecz po romantycznych oświadczynach w obecności samego następcy tronu nawet trzeźwo myśląca Teodora ufa w szczerość uczuć przyszłego męża... Plotkarska prasa wróży, że małżeństwo nie przetrwa pół roku....