Set against the backdrop of revolution in China when Shanghai was like no other place on earth, three women determine the tragic fate of a young piano prodigy. Which of them is really responsible? As the city crumbles around them and danger threatens at every turn, the lives of the four protagonists also crumble and their relationships dissolve.
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Follows a family of three generations of women: a grandmother whose senility brings strange dreams and hallucinations about her younger life; her daughter, an unfulfilled housewife with a strange eating disorder; and her teen granddaughter, who strives to navigate the terrors of high school, despite her mother's dysfunction.
(Romance)
Can a former fidelity inspector tear herself away from her old calling for the sake of the perfect guy, or is the temptation to conduct love under cover just too strong? Jennifer Hunter never saw herself as the relationship type. But when Jamie Richards walked into her life, everything changed.
(Mystery)
It is 1087 and William Rufus has just ascended the throne; England lies under a harsh new militaristic regime. Rebellion is in the air and, in the shadows, secrets are muttered that men will kill for. On her sister's wedding day, Lassair meets an attractive and enigmatic stranger who brings a breath of the glamorous and fascinating outside world to her backwater Fenland village.
(Science Fiction)
Surviving with her family members for four hundred years after the events of The Tempest, Miranda enlists her siblings in a search for their missing father after receiving a warning about ancient demons who would harness their powers.
(Mystery)
Celebrating the 1866 holiday season at the side of his fiancée, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is drawn into the double-homicide case of two reporters, an investigation that is complicated by a police ruling that the killings are unrelated.
(General)
Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is unlike other women of the sun-battered mountains at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though she shares their poverty and, like them, bears life's hardships without complaint, she is also fiery and independent.
(General)
Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, marries a veteran sea captain, Nathaniel Bradstock, and believes she will sail at his side. But when she becomes pregnant she is forced to stay behind. She is restless and lonely and becomes embroiled in a scandal.
(Science Fiction)
What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
(General)
As her marriage of 20 years collapses and her beloved twin sons prepare to flee the nest, Ros's world is tilting on its axis. But as she is trying to find herself, the arrival of a memoir her late mother wrote begins to reveal a woman Ros never knew.
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