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Maddie Weeks and Gerry Stern leave their homes when Uncle Sam calls for help winning the Second World War. Maddie is desperate to escape the economic and racial oppression of the Jim Crow South. Gerry doesn't see a future for herself as a farmer's wife in California's Central Valley. When they meet by chance in a blues club in San Francisco, not even their differences can prevent them falling in love.But love doesn't solve every problem as Maddie and Gerry struggle to hold on to their identities and livelihoods as the war comes to an end and their independence is threatened. The war brought them together, but it could wind up destroying everything, including their future.

After a bitter and humiliating breakup, Charlie Vernon lives not-quite-alone in his Capitol Hill town house. He kept Mamie, the cockapoo that he and Freddie adopted together, but he's just arrived home to find he's been visited by thieves...and they've taken Mamie.For the next thirty-six hours, he and his family of choice-a pair of rhyming lesbians, a Georgia-born man who might be married to a sex addict, and the hostess of DC's hottest Drag Bingo-will band together to search for Mamie. What's at stake isn't just a beloved dog, but whether Charlie will be brave enough to love anything or anyone, ever again.

Stress, drama, and hopeful hearts come together when a group of friends and family try their best to survive another holiday season.Billie is madly in love with her girlfriend, Leah, but her plan to use the spirit of Thanksgiving to figure out if Leah feels the same doesn't go as planned. Theo wants a baby, but Liv isn't quite ready, and being surrounded by family at Christmas time only serves to twist the knife in their marriage. April and Gemma, strangers only looking for a good time on New Year's Eve, are surprised by the fun and flirtation of their chemistry. Jesse can't believe Eloise is back in town only a few months after ending their secret affair for good, but even more shocking is Eloise's intention for a second chance by the New Year.'Tis the season for love, hope, and wishful thinking.

What do you do when the whole world breaks?Like when you make it through a plague with the woman you've loved for way more than half your septuagenarian life-only to watch her die, leaving you alone. And then, just weeks later, the world around you descends into relentless dark and cold.Besieged, desolate Hester is too numb to know what to do. And even though she's lucky to have the means to endure for quite a while, she's tempted-really tempted-to just give it up. What, after all, is she enduring for?¿But giving up will have to wait when she stumbles upon people who introduce her to the first rule of survival: Don't try to go it alone if you don't have to.

Sophia and Pru have no intention of falling in love, but sometimes love happens when and where you least expect it.