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19-year-old Zippy can hardly believe it: she’s the newest and youngest salesgirl at I. Magnin. Every week, she walks through the employee entrance five days a week as she saves to buy something new. For a girl who grew up in a one-bedroom apartment above a liquor store with her mother and her mother’s madcap boyfriend, I. Magnin represents a real chance for a better and more elegant life. Zippy may not be in school, but she’s about to get an education that will stick with her for decades. Her fellow salesgirls run the gamut. The cosmetics ladies on the first floor share both samples and advice and her new roommate, Raquel tells Zippy she can lose 10 pounds easy if she joins Raquel in eating only every other day. Just when Zippy thinks she’s getting a handle on how to be an adult woman in 1985, two surprises threaten both her sense of self and her coveted position at I. Magnin.

On a bus moving across rural landscapes from town to town, two young people are escaping with nothing to hold except hope. She has committed a horrifying act for which there will certainly be retribution. He is staggering from a devastating discovery. Seamlessly transitioning between past lives and present realities, THE ONES WE LOVED tenderly weaves both myth and memory into an account of two people desperate for connection and yearning for a place to belong. They will find sunflowers carrying death, rivers that whisper secrets and trees that will see it all. THE ONES WE LOVED is told in the rhythms of oral retellings practiced in Zimbabwe. It is a breathtakingly beautiful story about the homes we leave behind, the lonely voices that find us and the painful consequences of experiencing a love that has never known how to let go.

After 30 years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene and their husbands --- until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages. But when the women discover their husbands have seven-figure life insurance policies, a new dream forms. And this time, they need a hitman. Meanwhile, their husbands are working on their own secret retirement scheme and when things begin to go sideways, they fear it’s backfired. The husbands scramble to stay alive...but soon realize they may not be quick enough to outmaneuver their wives.

Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows the new writer. Eliot Crace is the troubled grandson of legendary children’s author Miriam Crace who died 20 years ago. Eliot is convinced she was murdered --- by poison. To her surprise, Susan enjoys reading the manuscript but when it is revealed that Lady Margaret was also poisoned, alarm bells begin to ring. The more Susan reads, the clearer it becomes that Eliot has deliberately concealed clues about his grandmother’s death inside the book. Desperately, Susan tries to prevent Eliot from putting himself in harm’s way. Another murder follows...and suddenly Susan finds herself to be the number one suspect. 

Ever since her dad left them 20 years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben --- left behind by their dad 30 years ago --- has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all. As Mad, Rube and others share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? 

After her husband’s unexpected death 18 months ago, Kausar Khan's daughter, Sana, phones to say that she's been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique. Determined to help her child, Kausar heads to Toronto. Returning to the Golden Crescent suburb, Kausar finds that the thriving neighborhood she remembered has changed. And the facts of the case are troubling: Sana found the man dead in her shop at a suspiciously early hour, with a dagger from her windowfront display plunged in his chest. With the help of some old friends and her plucky teenage granddaughter, Kausar digs into the investigation to uncover the truth. Because who better to pry answers from unwilling suspects than a meddlesome aunty? But even Kausar can’t predict the secrets, lies and betrayals she finds along the way...

In school, Milly Beckett and Nicole Raven were as close as sisters. Now, years later, a gulf separates them and not just because of the different spheres they inhabit. Nicole is a global superstar with the world at her fingertips, but when scandal breaks, she turns to the only person she trusts. Milly is tempted to refuse her friend’s plea for help. Nicole wasn’t there for her when she needed her most and that’s hard to forgive. But Nicole is desperate and Milly agrees to give her the sanctuary she needs. Against a stunning Lake District backdrop, the two women slowly find their way back to one another. Living with Milly gives Nicole a glimpse of a different path for herself, and Milly starts to see a life beyond her divorce, including the possibility of a new romance. But Nicole can’t stay hidden forever --- and neither can the secret she’s been keeping from Milly.