Sarah Jio
1) Always
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"Kailey Crain can't believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a writer for Seattle's Herald and is engaged to Ryan, who is perfect in nearly every way. But one evening, as the couple leaves a romantic dinner, Kailey spies a thin, bearded homeless man on the sidewalk, and is stunned when their eyes meet: The man is the love of her life, Cade McAllister. When Kailey met Cade ten years ago, their attraction was immediate and intense. But it all...
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"A librarian inherits a bookshop from her estranged mother, leading her halfway across the world on a journey of self-discovery that transcends time and honors the unbreakable bonds of love and family. When librarian Valentina Baker was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own. Now in her thirties and fresh out of a failed marriage, Val feels a nagging disenchantment with her life--and...
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Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present-- Publisher's description.
2009: Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past. Slowly regaining recollections of a man and a young child, she vows to piece her life back together. 1943, Nazi-occupied Paris: Céline, a young widow, tries to build a new life for her daughter...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio comes an escapist timeslip contemporary book club novel following a young woman stuck in a "time loop" of one-day relationships with romantic partners from her past, perfect for readers of Rebecca Serle's In Five Years and Josie Silver's One Day in December. "An ingenious and heartfelt love story. I absolutely adored this novel!" -Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Pact...
7) The bungalow
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In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow,...
8) O Bangal
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Verão de 1942. Anne tem tudo o que uma garota de sua idade almeja: família e noivo bem-sucedidos.
No entanto, ela não se sente feliz com o rumo que sua vida está tomando. Recém-formada em enfermagem e vivendo em um mundo devastado pelos horrores da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Anne, juntamente com sua melhor amiga, decide se alistar para servir seu país como enfermeira em Bora Bora.
Lá ela se depara com outra realidade, uma vida simples e responsabilidades...
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# Mesma autora do best-seller As Violetas de Março, considerado o melhor livro do ano (2013) pelo Livrary Journal.
# O livro mescla drama, suspense e ação contando a história do sequestro de uma criança durante uma grande nevasca em Seatle.
Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray dá um beijo em seu filho, de três anos de idade, e, mesmo contrariada, sai para trabalhar. Ela odeia o turno da noite, mas o emprego de camareira no hotel é a única fonte de sustento...
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Emily Taylor é uma mulher jovem e escritora de sucesso, mas não gosta muito de seu próprio livro. Também tem um casamento que parece ideal, no entanto ele acabará em divórcio.
Sentindo que sua vida perdeu o propósito, Emily decide fazer as malas e passar um tempo em Bainbridge - a ilha onde morou quando menina - para tentar se reorganizar.
Enquanto busca esquecer o ex-marido e, ao mesmo tempo, arrumar material para um novo - e mais verdadeiro...
11) A Última Camélia
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Às vésperas da Segunda Guerra Mundial, o último espécime de uma camélia rara, a Middlebury Pink, esconde mentiras e segredos em uma afastada propriedade rural inglesa.
Flora, uma jovem americana, é contratada por um misterioso homem para se infiltrar na Mansão Livingston e conseguir a flor cobiçada. Sua busca é iluminada por um amor e ameaçada pela descoberta de uma série de crimes.
Mais de meio século depois, a paisagista Addison passa...
12) The look of love
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"Jio has become one of the most-read women in America." -Woman's World. Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives from the midwife who delivered her, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth...
13) Morning glory
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Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but little suspects that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.
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"Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On the second of May, Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge...