NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kristin Hannah is beloved by readers around the world for her unique blend of powerful emotion and exquisite storytelling. In Comfort & Joy, she offers a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance at happiness.
Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life;

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Left on their own to swim the chilly waters after their ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, a group of circus animals stagger onto a nearby island, quickly winning over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways, and when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart him.

Thirteen-year-old Noelle feels like the luckiest girl in the world to be cruising the Atlantic aboard the famed Titanic. The trip is made even better by her new friend, Pauline, a girl who is traveling with her father to live in America. The girls spend the first days of the journey exploring, but on the fifth night, Noelle awakes to a sinking ship. Women and children will be rescued first, and Noelle realizes motherless Pauline will be left all alone....

Nautical archaeologist Christina Alvarez searches the Caribbean for her ancestor's sunken treasure ship, but as she battles for the assistance of her only help, Mitch Crawford, she leads them to an even greater treasure.

"The true stories of Captain William Bligh, survivors of WWII U-boat attacks, Thor Heyerdahl, Poon Lim, and Ellen MacArthur, who survived harrowing experiences at sea"--Provided by publisher.

Records the struggles and sufferings of the young Uruguayans during the ten weeks following an airplane crash in the Andes