"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--

"Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino. No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost...

"Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endured her fair share of arranged matches--first dates she calls "doorknock appeals," where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living room in the company of both sets of parents. Her general rule: no shoes with tassels, no cheesy leather jackets, no mustaches. A girl has to have some standards, right? The truth is, Samira is already experiencing...

"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de Mxico desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prcticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dej paraltica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos aos despus en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli se asent...