What really goes on behind those perfect white picket fences? In Frances’s mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma
Dunham is the height of female perfection. Frances, recently dumped with
spectacular drama by her boyfriend, aspires to be just like Emma. So do
her close friends and fellow teachers, Lisa and Jill. But Lisa’s too
career-focused to find time for a family. And Jill’s recent unexpected
pregnancy could have devastating consequences for her less-than-perfect
marriage. Yet sometimes the golden dream you fervently wish for
turns out to be not at all what it seems—like Emma’s enviable suburban
postcard life, which is about to be brutally cut short by a perfect
husband turned killer. And in the shocking aftermath, three devastated
friends are going to have to come to terms with their own secrets...
and somehow learn to move forward after their dream is exposed as a lie.
April 20th
Marlo Spencer relishes all things retro. Old TV shows, classic movies,
and even the collectible lunch boxes to go with them. In fact, she's
quite cozy in her Malibu apartment, surrounded by her treasured
knick-knacks and vintage memorabilia. It's her best friend, Nik, who
doesn't get her fascination with all that "old junk," as he calls it. He
especially doesn't understand why she's so keen to get back to their
hometown of Napa when her high school sweetheart, Josh, suddenly returns
after twelve years in Paris and nary a single phone call, eager to
reunite with her. So, when Marlo heads up north to wine country to
rekindle her relationship with Josh, Nik tags along, claiming he was
already planning to visit his sister, Savannah, Marlo's gal pal. Once
they reach Napa, however, dreams of a blissful reunion are shattered as
old secrets and past betrayals are revealed, leaving an unsuspecting
Marlo to pick up the pieces. Can she forgive and forget, or will true
love find a different path to her heart?
April 24th
When Percy Harding, Goliath’s most important citizen, is discovered
dead by the railroad tracks outside town one perfect autumn afternoon,
no one can quite believe it’s really happened. Percy, the president of
the town’s world-renowned furniture company, had seemed invincible. Only
Rosamond Rogers, Percy’s secretary, may have had a glimpse of how and
why this great man has fallen, and that glimpse tugs at her, urges her
to find out more. Percy isn’t the first person to leave Rosamond:
everybody seems to, from her husband, Hatley, who walked out on her
years ago; to her complicated daughter Agnes, whose girlhood bedroom was
papered with maps of the places she wanted to escape to. The town
itself is Rosamond’s anchor, but it is beginning to quiver with the
possibility of change. The high school girls are writing suicide poetry.
The town’s young, lumbering sidewalk preacher is courting Rosamond’s
daughter. A troubled teenaged boy plans to burn Main Street to the
ground. And the furniture factory itself—the very soul of
Goliath—threatens to close. In the wake of the town’s undoing, Rosamond seeks to reunite the grief-shaken community.
Five unforgettable women. One beloved yoga studio. A million tales to tell. Lee
is a caring yoga teacher who changes lives and inspires friendships.
But a year after the breakup of her marriage, she's struggling to raise
her twins and make ends meet at her small studio in LA's trendy Silver
Lake. The California yoga scene is dominated by celebrity teachers with
agents, publicists, and other trappings Lee has rejected. When she's
offered a teaching stint at a high-profile yoga festival at Lake Tahoe,
she has to choose between standing by her principles--and those of the
man she's just started dating--and the lure of becoming a "star." It
would be an easier choice if her four best friends could join her, but
each has problems of her own. Katherine, a masseuse with a troubled past, is being evicted from the only real home she's ever had. Graciela, a dancer, is in New York trying to hide her affair with a famous baseball player from her volatile boyfriend. Imani is a TV actress coping with motherhood as she's struggling to make a comeback in film. Stephanie, a screenwriter, is trying to come to terms with a very unexpected relationship.
Head Over Heels explores the burgeoning world of commercialized yoga.
Meera is happily submerged in the role
of corporate wife and cookbook writer. Then, one day, her husband fails
to come home. Overnight, Meera, disoriented and emotionally fragile,
becomes responsible not just for her two children, but also her mother,
grandmother and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family
home in Bangalore. A few streets away, Professor J.A.
Krishnamurthy or Jak, cyclone studies expert, has recently returned from
Florida, to care for his nineteen-year-old daughter, the victim of a
tragic accident. What happened on her holiday in a small beachside
village? The police will not help, Smriti’s friends have vanished, and a
wall of silence and fear surrounds the incident. But Jak cannot
rest until he gets to the truth. Meera and Jak's paths intertwine as they uncover the truth about the secrets of their pasts and the promise of the future.
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