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Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.

One day eight-year-old Auggie Pound, the caretaker of the rare animals in the Fabled Stables, ventures into the swamp to save a new rare creature, the wisp.

Maddie's dream guy has to live up to the grace and romance of classic Hollywood heartthrobs, especially the song-and-dance man Gene Kelly, so does Jesse Morales, her charming new neighbor and star pitcher of the high school baseball team, have a chance?

"Clutch follows a group of five friends as they navigate the biggest challenges of their lives, asking: When you're hanging on by your fingernails, how can you extend a hand to the ones you love? As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that college brochures promise--friendship that lasts a lifetime. Two decades later, the women are spread across the country but remain firmly tethered through their ever-unfurling...

Jean Rouch is known to many worldwide as a French anthropologist and innovative filmmaker. Much of his work is linked to the birth of cinéma vérité. However, Rouch's fifty-year involvement with a particular group of people in Niger shines a more personal light on his work - one of friendship and collaboration. Together with this group, Rouch made numerous ethnographic films and developed their own cinematographic style. These films have been termed...

Mia Marks, a black girl from inner-city Detroit, and Danielle King, a white suburban girl, meet at an all-girls Catholic high school and become friends. But an indiscretion destroyd their friendship. Twenty years later Danielle is a successful novelist living in Miami. Mia is a school teacher in Detroit. Both are unhappily married and raising teenage daughters. And botrh are too pround to make the first move to reconnect until tragedy brings them...

Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she's been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much younger woman, Shannon sets out to take revenge... Crystal has stepped into Shannon's old shoes. A young, innocent Texan girl, she simply has no idea what she's up against... Olivia has waited years to take Shannon's crown as the unofficial queen of Buckhead. Finally her moment has come. But to take...

Charlotte goes to Paris to visit her friend Sophie and to bring her cat back home.

"For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer thriller about a group of young women whose Caribbean bachelorette party takes a sinister turn. It's Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco"-- Provided by publisher. Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded...

"Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston, founders of the wildly popular "Sister, I Am with You" online community, address common obstacles to true connection and offer a confessional, hilarious, and practical guide for building deep friendships in the middle of this crazy, rollercoaster life"-- Provided by publisher.