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Samantha Whipple, the only remaining descendant of the Brontë family, embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the family's long-rumored secret estate--diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts--using clues mysteriously arriving at her doorstep from her eccentric father.

June Elbus' uncle is her best friend, the only person who understands her. When he dies, far too young, fourteen-year-old June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life--someone who will help her heal.

When a tryst with a partner at her firm derails her legal career, Marin Bishop seeks solace in a road trip to Cape Cod with a young woman claiming to be her long-lost half-sister. Full of delicious descriptions of coastal New England and richly imagined characters, The Forever Summer is an emotional, hot-topic summer listen.

A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast.

The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, flees abroad with her political refugee lover--but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.

Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's new legendary ball, one family's life will change forever.

In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school or leave the house. Their only hope lies in an ancient custom that will allow Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.

Meg and Kenneth Sorenson are in their fifties and near early retirement, their hearts set on traveling abroad and spending limitless hours in the garden. But when they learn their son has gone MIA on a military assignment, they try to hold the family, and even their plans, together.

Raised in the Midwest, Jersey Cameron knows all about tornadoes--or so she thinks. When her town is devastated by a twister, Jersey survives but loses her mother, her sister, and her home. Sent to live with her only surviving relatives, she discovers a new definition of family.

In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in its wake.