Amy Harmon

A lost girl and a blind boy discover their greatest strength is their bond with each other in a beguiling fantasy by the New York Times bestselling author of The First Girl Child. An insidious curse is weakening the Norse kingdom of Saylok, where no daughters have been born in years. Washing up on these plagued shores is Ghisla, an orphaned stowaway nursed back to health by Hod, a blind cave dweller. Named for a mysterious god, Hod is surrounded by prophecy. To Ghisla, he’s a cherished new friend, but to Hod, the girl is much more. For when Ghisla sings, Hod can see.Unable to offer safe shelter, Hod urges Ghisla onward to become a daughter of the temple, where all the kingdom’s girl children have been gathered. But because of a magical rune, the two cannot be separated, no matter the time or the distance.Now, subject to a ruthless king, Ghisla enters a desperate world of warring clan chieftains and catastrophic power struggles. Uncertain whom to trust, their bond strained by dangerous secrets and feuding loyalties, Ghisla and Hod must confront the prophecies that threaten Saylok while finding a way to save each other.

From the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together.New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble. So he keeps to himself, writing songs for other musicians, avoiding the spotlight…until the night his father brings him to see Esther Mine sing.Esther is a petite powerhouse with a gorgeous voice. And when Benny writes a hit song and performs it with her, their collaboration thrusts the duo onto the national stage…and stirs up old issues and new scrutiny that the mob—and Benny—would rather avoid.It would be easier to walk away. But the music and the woman are too hard for the piano man to resist. Benny’s songs and Esther’s vocals are an explosive combination, a sound that fans can’t get enough of. But though America might love the music they make together, some people aren’t ready for Benny Lament and Esther Mine on—or off—the stage.

Pisatelnitsa Enn Gallakher s detstva zacharovana Irlandiej i gorditsja svoimi irlandskimi kornjami. Molodaja amerikanka priezzhaet v Irlandiju v nadezhde uznat istoriju sobstvennoj semi, kotoraja tait mnozhestvo zagadok i tesno perepletena s samymi tragichnymi stranitsami irlandskoj revoljutsii. Poiski podrobnostej privodjat Enn k neverojatnomu peremescheniju vo vremeni. Enn popadaet v 1921 god i okazyvaetsja v epitsentre borby za nezavisimost Irlandii. Doktor Tomas Smit, spasshij ej zhizn, prinimaet Enn za druguju zhenschinu i podozrevaet v shpionazhe. Odnako protivitsja vlecheniju k tainstvennoj "goste" Tomasu ne po silam. I ljubov ego vzaimna. Enn okazyvaetsja vovlechena v politicheskuju borbu, iskhod kotoroj ej izvesten napered. Enn ne vprave vlijat na techenie istoricheskikh sobytij, no mozhet li ona izmenit istoriju svoej semi radi velikogo chuvstva? Perevodchik: Fokina Ju.

Ja vyigral svoj pervyj boj, kogda mne bylo odinnadtsat. Borba - eto samaja chistaja i nastojaschaja vesch na svete. Odna podobna nebesam. Nekotorye ljudi opisyvajut raj kak more beskonechnoj belizny. No dlja menja on byl chem-to inym. Ring byl dlja menja raem. Poka ja ne vstretil Milli. S nej ja izmenilsja. Ja ponjal, chto ljublju etu devushku, kogda uvidel ee khrupkuju figuru sredi tolpy. Milli sovershenno nepodvizhno stojala v tsentre perepolnennoj komnaty, no nikto ne zamechal ee. No ona stala pervoj, kogo uvidel ja.Moj raj byl ringom, a ona - moim angelom. Milli stala devushkoj, za kotoruju ja khotel borotsja. Imenno ona nauchila menja, chto chasto samye bolshie geroi ostajutsja nezamechennymi, a samye vazhnye bitvy eto te, pobedu v kotorykh slozhno predstavit.

Ego nashli v korzinke dlja belja v prachechnoj. Mladentsu bylo vsego neskolko chasov otrodu, no smert uzhe podzhidala ego za uglom. Malysha okrestili Moiseem i nazvali slomlennym rebenkom. Kogda ja uslyshala etu frazu, to predstavila, budto pri rozhdenii po ego khrupkomu teltsu poshla ogromnaja treschina. Ja ponimala, chto eto vsego lish metafora, no kartinka ne vykhodila u menja iz golovy. Vozmozhno, imenno obraz slomlennogo junoshi i privlek moe vnimanie.Mama govorila, chto ves gorod sledil za istoriej malenkogo Moiseja, no nikto ne mog emu pomoch. Spustja neskolko let on sam vorvalsja v moju zhizn podobno volne i stal glotkom svezhej vody - kholodnoj, glubokoj, nepredskazuemoj i opasnoj, slovno sinjaja bezdna. Kak obychno, ja okunulas v nee s golovoj, nesmotrja na vse zaprety. Vot tolko na sej raz ja poshla na dno.

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss.The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both.But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together.When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi’s family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. Ripped apart, they can’t turn back, they can’t go on, and they can’t let go. Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually…make peace with who they are.

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a breathtaking fantasy of a cursed kingdom, warring clans, and unexpected salvation.Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words: From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok.Raised among the Keepers at Temple Hill, Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba, the first girl child born in nearly two decades and the salvation for a country at risk.Now the fate of Saylok lies with Alba and Bayr, whose bond grows deeper with every whisper of coming chaos. Charged with battling the enemies of their people, both within and without, Bayr is fueled further by the love of a girl who has defied the scourge of Saylok.What Bayr and Alba don’t know is that they each threaten the king, a greedy man who built his throne on lies, murder, and betrayal. There is only one way to defend their land from the corruption that has overtaken it. By breaking the curse, they could defeat the king…but they could also destroy themselves.

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.As tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make?

It was a big lie. The biggest lie she'd ever told. It reverberated through her head as she said it, ringing eerily, and the girl behind her eyes-the girl who knew the truth-screamed, and her scream echoed along with the lie. "Are you in love with Noah, Mercedes?" Cora asked. "I mean . . . I know you love him. You've been friends forever. We all have. But are you in love with him?" If it had been anyone else-anyone-Mercedes would have stuck out her chest, folded her skinny arms, and let her feelings be known. She would have claimed him. But it was Cora. Brave, beautiful, broken Cora, and Cora loved Noah too. So Mercedes lied. And with that lie, she lost him. With that lie, she sealed her fate. She was the best friend, the bridesmaid, the godmother, the glue. She was there for the good times and the bad, the ups and the downs, the biggest moments and the smallest parts. And she was there when it all came crashing down. This is the tale of the girl who didn't get the guy.

Italy, 1943—Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood.Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic Church.But Eva can’t quietly hide, waiting for deliverance, while Angelo risks everything to keep her safe. With the world at war and so many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after trial, choice after agonizing choice, until fate and fortune finally collide, leaving them with the most difficult decision of all.

Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive. The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother's words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my father's greed. I can't speak or make a sound, and I can't wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?