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Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future! For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She's single, with no interest in changing that. Her successful restaurant in downtown New York consumes every ounce of her passion and energy. Ready or not, though, April's life is about to change, in a tumultuous discovery on the morning of her milestone birthday. April's mother Valerie is a popular TV personality. Since her divorce, she has worked tirelessly to reach the pinnacle of her career. But she's having trouble equating her age with how she feels, and all the hours with personal trainers, top hairdressers and plastic surgeons can't hide the fact that she is turning sixty - and the whole world discovers it on her birthday. It is also Jack Adams' birthday - the most charismatic sports announcer and hall-of-fame football star on TV, a man who has his pick of desirable younger women. But he fears his age may finally be catching up with him when he wakes up on his fiftieth birthday needing an emergency visit to the chiropractor...As these three very different people celebrate their birthdays, they discover that life itself is a celebration - and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise. ..

La historia de una c#lebre actriz que, a causa de una amnesia, deber# reconstruir su pasado y encontrar# en este arduo viaje la oportunidad para enmendar sus errores. Carole Barber ha viajado a Par#s en busca de inspiraci#n para escribir una novela. Actriz consagrada gracias a una prestigiosa carrera ante las c#maras, pretende encontrarse a s# misma en esta ciudad que tantos recuerdos le trae de una historia de amor que vivi# a#os atr#s y que acab# de forma tr#gica. Sin embargo, Carole resulta herida en un ataque terrorista y pierde la memoria. Sus hijos se reunir#n con ella para ayudarle a recordar, a reconstruir su vida pedazo a pedazo, detalle a detalle. Desde su infancia en Mississippi hasta los inicios de su premiada carrera como int#rprete, este viaje interior ofrecer# a Carole la oportunidad de reconquistar a aquellos que perdi# en el camino y de enmendar los errores de un pasado que no fue tan feliz como todos imaginaban. Una historia de peque#os milagros y grandes sorpresas. La cr#tica ha dicho... "Sus fieles lectores se sentir#n catapultados por el ritmo incesante y la prosa sincera de Danielle Steel." Booklist

A devoted single mother with life-changing decisions to make. Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company, but she still has to meet the challenges of her world every day. Devoted single mother, world-class strategist, and tough negotiator, Fiona weighs every move she makes and reserves any personal time for her children. Isolation and constant pressure are givens for her as a woman in a man's world. Meanwhile, Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. At his side is his wife Liz - the perfect, supportive corporate spouse - who has gladly sacrificed her own law career to raise their three children. Smooth, shrewd, and irreproachable, Marshall is a model chief executive, and the power he wields only enhances his charisma. And to maintain his position, he harbors secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. Both must face their own demons, and fight off those who are jealous of their success. Their lives as CEOs of major companies come at a high price. But just how high a price are they willing to pay? Who are they willing to sacrifice to stay on top? Those they love, or themselves?

A tale of love, courage and family, interweaving the lives of two extraordinary women u a writer working in the heart of modern academia, and a daring young Sioux on an unforgettable journey in the eighteenth century. Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday she'll finish writing her book. Someday she'll stop playing it so safe... Then something happens that changes Brigitte's life completely. Struggling to plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a genealogy project u and makes a discovery that reaches back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitte's ancestor, Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Marie Antoinette? How did she come to marry into Brigitte's family? Brigitte decides to travel to South Dakota and Paris to follow the path of this exceptional young woman who lived so long ago. And as she begins to solve the puzzle of Wachiwi's journey, her quiet life becomes an adventure of its own. A chance meeting and a new opportunity put Brigitte back at the heart of her own story. And with family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, someday is now.

La aventura de una mujer que pasa de ser una esposa y madre entregada a convertirse en una exitosa guionista de Hollywood. #Podr#n convivir ambas facetas de su vida? Tanya Harris es feliz junto a su marido y sus hijos en San Francisco. Trabaja como ama de casa y guionista para la televisi#n, y aunque su eterno sue#o es triunfar como escritora, siempre ha antepuesto la familia a sus anhelos profesionales. Sin embargo, una llamada telef#nica de su agente har# que su vida d# un vuelco: una leyenda de Hollywood, el productor Douglas Wayne, quiere que escriba un guion cinematogr#fico. Aceptar este proyecto significa que deber# abandonar su casa, su familia, su ciudad. No obstante, Tanya sabe que oportunidades as# solo se presentan una vez en la vida. A pesar de sus continuos viajes, Tanya no sabe c#mo sellas estas grietas que la distancia ha abierto entre ella y su familia, sobre todo con su marido, quien parece necesitarla cada vez menos...

What makes a house...a home? Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she can't possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers. First arrives Eileen - a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA. Then comes Chris, a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. Last to arrive is Marya - a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world - and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak. And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after all...

Assistant D.A. Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial ...until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to Alexa's beautiful 17-year-old daughter, Savannah, who Alexa has raised alone since her painful divorce years before. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters - and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly Alexa must make the toughest choice of all - and send her daughter back to the very place that Alexa swore she would never return: to her ex-husband's world of southern tradition, long memories, and the antebellum charm of Charleston. While Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history she's never known. As a family's wounds are exposed and the healing begins, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again - strengthened by the trials they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, armed with miracles that are uniquely their own.

Brigitte Nicholson is thirty-eight years old and a passive academic stuck in a dead-end job and a desultory relationship. Her life becomes strangely linked to that of Wachiwi, the young daughter of a great Dakota Sioux chief in the late eighteenth century Stolen from her tribe by a Crow raiding party, Wachiwi went on to become a marquise in the court of Louis XVI.

Victoria -a chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes and ordinary looks - has always felt out of place in her family. When her younger sister Gracie is born, their parents make no secret of the fact that she is the perfect one. While they can eat as much as they like and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch every mouthful, as well as endure her father's belittling comments about her appearance and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods offer only temporary comfort. The one thing she knows is that she has to get as far away from home as possible and, after college in Chicago she moves to New York City. There, Victoria finds joy and excitement as a high school teacher while waging war on her weight among the sleek and slinky at Manhattan's fitness clubs. Her lifeline to her family is through Gracie - though they can't be more different in looks, style, or social lives, the two sisters love each other unconditionally. Victoria knows that she has been a disappointment to her parents all her life, and no matter what she does, she can never win their approval. A chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point in the lives of Victoria and Gracie. Behind Victoria is all the hurt, neglect, and loss she has tried to forget.- ahead is a new life of sisterhood, confidence and fulfillment.

The sensational new novel from the world's favourite author. Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brightest young architects. But overnight she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make. Now, at forty-two, with a satisfying career and a fulfilling family life, Annie has reconciled herself to being single. With the children now grown into young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, she is navigating a parent's difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting them go. Then, an accident leads Annie to a man who will tempt her to reconsider her belief that it isn't too late to fall in love, after all...