Britt-Marie is a socially awkward, fussy busybody who is used to being organized. When she walks out on her cheating husband and gets a job as caretaker of the dilapidated recreation center in Borg, she is woefully unprepared for the changes. But as she takes on the task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory, she just might find a place she belongs.

Sometimes it's hard to be good friends with dragons because they forget how, but with some deep breaths and calming words, people and dragons can learn to be best friends forever.

When little Sergio realizes that the Snapper gang bullies others, he breaks away from them and makes new friends, only to become the new target of the gang's bullying.

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer. There his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to life's profane pleasures.

A young Irish drama student in 1990s London makes new friends, establishes a place for herself, and seeks to shed her plain-girl identity before entering a whirlwind affair with an older man who changes her in unexpected ways.

Hayden Reese once believed he could have it all. He had a wife he loved completely, a daughter he adored, and a new child, a son, they were told on the way. And then little by little, his life came undone. But this destruction mirrored a much older tragedy. Hayden's life had begun to come apart years before, when his little brother died in an act of bravado caused by his insistence on playing the role of the cocky, confident son their father wanted...

A captivating debut novel that looks inside the private lives of Charleston aristocracy, where a former debutante learns that sometimes good behavior leads to bad decisions. Simons Smythe knows there's more to her hometown than sweet tea and Southern hospitality. She was born into the powerful aristocracy of Charleston's elite that has quietly ruled the city for centuries. But her job producing the news at a local TV station increasingly tests her...

Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them.

"Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more. However, today is no ordinary day at the Stabler estate. Tonight, everyone who's anyone will be there for the Hollywood event of the season, and if the party's a success,...