After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the accident with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women, and poker tables. Cosima navigates her personal and professional challenges with a wisdom beyond her years, but her success has come at a cost: Her needs are always secondary. She’s married to the business, and her free time is given to those who rely on her….until she meets Oliver Bayard, the founder of France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company. A brief conversation on her palazzo’s terrace turns into a tour of the Saverio workshop, and, fifteen years after her parent’s death, Cosima has found a confidant. Now the business is financially stable and generating enough income for the Saverios to live comfortably. Then Luca loses a hefty sum at the casino, and his debt must be repaid with money or his life. Cosima, forced to bail him out, is given an impossible choice: Put the palazzo on the market, sell a third of the family business, or let Luca fend for himself. But is there another way to save everything she has fought for before it goes up in flames?
Elin Hilderbrand – The Five- Star Weekend
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. So when Hollis hears something called a “Five-Star Weekend”- a woman summons together her best friends, one from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife- she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend. The gathering turns out not to be joyful Hallmark movie. The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Holli’s first love, Jack Finigan, to drop by, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with Dru-Ann, Hollis’s abrasive and elitist best friend from UNC-Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent sports agent is in jeopardy after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis on her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.
Gabhi Martins – Meet the Kittycorn Children’s book
One rainy day, a baby kittycorn arrives at the Dollhouse! Everyone pitches in to take care of Kico until she can meet her family. What fun things will they do together?
