"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...

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When two friends spend a summer in Barcelona, they meet an artist who suggests the three of them take off for a romantic weekend.

The private lives of three nouveau riche Croatians are brought to a boil in a love triangle, pinning a self-assured architect between his tart-tongued wife and his long-suffering mistress, who also happens to be his business partner. When the architecture business begins to struggle, their miseries begin to surface from behind the glass, for everyone to see, and the threesome gradually fall apart, together, through a series of suspenseful spasms.

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else...

"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...

Emotionally troubled, pregnant Rose leaves the husband she doesn't love and takes refuge in a remote Kentucky shelter for single pregnant women, where she meets and marries the shelter's handyman, beginning a new life with him and her daughter. Eventually, a difficult choice is forced on Rose when her first husband finds her.

A young girl finds herself in a reform school after therapy since she was blamed for the death of a young boy. At the school she finds herself drawn to a fellow student, unaware that he is an angel, and has loved her for thousands of years.

Siddharth and his parents travel to Mauritius for his brother's wedding. His brother, Harsh, is preoccupied with work so Siddharth spends most of his time with his brother's fianceé, Aaliyah, and soon they fall for each other.

Dos hombres descubren que están enamorados de la misma mujer y pronto se encuentran en una colisión de celos, ira y venganza. Two men discover they love the same woman and soon find themselves on a collision course that spirals through the depths of jealousy, rage, and vengeance.