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Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy's most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)

Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante's four-volume...

"Sable--Her bestselling novels have made her a star, but the woman who has everything, in fact, has nothing but a past she is desperate to hide. Elly--The intellectual who has hidden herself within the walls of academia, afraid to admit she is tired of being alone. Barbara Ann--The talent behind twenty-six romance novels wakes up one day to discover she's lost control of her career, her sanity and her family. Beth--Her popular mysteries have become...

Hannie and Nancy, Karen's best friends, make plans to play together without her, and Karen is really mad.

In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes. Newbery Honor 1945.

Facing homelessness and a loss of social standing after her husband cheats rich investors out of billions of dollars, Meredith and her best friend, Connie, who has troubles of her own, escape to Nantucket to heal.

When their best friend, Felicity, invites them on a weekend of a lifetime--a birthday bash in Botswana--Grace, Alice, and Hannah arrive at the luxury safari lodge where they discover they are utterly on their own as things start to go very, very wrong.

Nancy searches for a best friend in second grade.

Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.

When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.

Little Bear makes friends with a little girl and introduces her to his friends Owl, Hen, Cat, and Duck with ducklings.