"The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past"--

British couple Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke, vacationing on a Nigerian beach in a last-ditch effort to save their faltering marriage, come across Little Bee and her sister, Nigerian refugees fleeing from machete-wielding soldiers intent on clearing the beach. The horrific confrontation that follows changes the lives of everyone involved in unimaginable ways.

Two years later, Little Bee appears in London on the day of Andrew's funeral and reconnects

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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated...

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

When Rachel Vinrace sets out on a sea voyage to South America aboard her father's ship, she not only departs from England, but also sails away from her small, insulated life, and her preconceptions about the world and the people in it. The Voyage Out was Virginia Woolf's first novel and was originally published in 1915 after five years of work. The book was well-received and added much to the foundations of Woolf's literary fame. In 1981, the scholar...

"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna,...