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1939. As the daughter of a groom at historic Foxden Hall, Bess Dudley has pushed herself to escape her humble background and train as a teacher. Just as she arrives in London to take up her first post, the shadow of war sweeps over England. The city is thrown into chaos and schools close, taking ...

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the...

Written over six years, this autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis's Italian roots and his ancestors' courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, a...

Molly Gray's life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, two good things are just around the corner-a taping of the hit antiquities TV show Hidden Treasures and, even more exciting, her wedding to ...

Suddenly Maddy is right there - in her very own future. And it's all wrong, yet again. It happens to her every time. When the kisses lead to the bedroom, just when she thinks she might have found the one. Just for a split second, Maddy disappears, and she finds that she's living her own life. But...

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony Horwitz settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings co...

Though hardly a household name, the New York Times v. Sullivan decision is fundamental to the creation of the modern media as we know it. Some of the world's richest and most powerful people and companies, who believe they should be above scrutiny and want to silence or delegitimize voices that ...

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman.To pursue her passion for writin...

This is the story of one family told three different ways, leading to three different fates. It follows one woman, Cora, across three parallel lives, each shaped by the name she gives her son. Will she choose the sweet name her daughter loves? A neutral option to keep the peace? Or will she cave...