"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house on Cape Cod. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling...

"When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....

"An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the Covid-19 pandemic"--

One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants--some of whom have barely spoken to each other--become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...

"The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...

"After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four doctors have left practicing medicine. But with COVID-19 sweeping the country, they come together to help the small town of Columbia, New York. The doctors and nurses are buckling as they battle both a raging pandemic and the financial woes facing small hospitals everywhere. But no matter what's happening in the world, babies are born, people fall in love, and doctors will do anything to save...

Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at...

"Daria Salimi vel Darin al-Saud zostawia za sobą praworządny świat, bo pomsta za zmarnowane lata i krzywdy staje się celem jej życia, Marysia zaś w głębi ducha pragnie zemścić się na swojej rywalce Salmie, która odebrała jej życiowego partnera, Hamida Binladena. Czy pandemia COVID-19 ogarnie też arabski świat, zagrozi członkom rodziny Salimich, rozprawi się z ich wrogami, ale czy nie zagrozi tym, których kochają? Akcja najnowszej...

"Kiedy nie wiadomo, czy za chwilę będziemy zdrowi i żywi, oddajemy się uczuciom, dzięki którym zapominamy o otaczającym nas złu. Tak też robią bohaterowie "Arabskiej kochanki", powieści, której akcja toczy się na Bliskim Wschodzie - w Królestwie Arabii Saudyjskiej i w Izraelu - w czasach przeklętej przez wszystkich pandemii COVID-19. Jakie są arabskie kochanki? Czy każda jest gorąca jak wulkan i piękna jak koraniczna, rajska hurysa?...