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Step into a place where the scissors are sharp, the gossip is juicier than a summer peach, and healing comes with a fresh set of highlights. The Salon Chronicles follows the everyday magic happening behind the chair, a lively neighborhood salon where clients come for more than just cuts and color—they come to reconnect, release, and rediscover themselves. Through a colorful cast of customers and stylists, this heartwarming collection of stories reveals how beauty isn’t just about what we see in the mirror, but what we find within.

If you loved Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted, you'll absolutely adore Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip. In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that at the age of 77 she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone.

For the first sister-wives of the early LDS Church, polygamy was just the beginning—the real story is survival. Amid the harsh beauty of the Mississippi River in the 1840s and the rising tide of religious fervor, two women bound by faith question everything they’ve been taught. Louisa—young and still clinging to dreams of love and independence, believes she is destined to marry Prophet Joseph Smith. As she grapples with her place in a faith that demands silence and sacrifice, she finds an unexpected ally in Mary Ann. Mary Ann—devout and dutiful, accepts the sacred principle of plural marriage.

August Monk has built her life on control—every deadline tracked, crisis managed, milestone marked. But at 47, with her company hemorrhaging money and her marriage fracturing, even perimenopause rejects her careful plans. On a family holiday, August is certain her joy will return and her marriage will repair. Instead, at Britain's oldest brewery, a sip of beer transports August to an alternate reality where she awakens naked in a field of pulsing red mushrooms.

Childhood’s Eternal Light follows a quiet soul returning to a hometown that no longer fits its old map. In the attic’s dust and a river that remembers every skipped stone, the narrator pieces together a mosaic of first friendships, small betrayals, and the one luminous summer that seemed to last forever. As past and present braid together, ordinary objects—an enamel cup, a scratched vinyl, a kite snagged in a tree—turn into lanterns that guide the way through grief, love, and the long echo of choices we didn’t know we were making.

Framed in a drug sting by the person he trusted most, grad student Jean emerges from seven months at Rikers Island into a pandemic-ravaged New York City. His parents won't speak to him. His girlfriend has moved on. And Marcus, the friend who betrayed him, has vanished. Working as a food delivery cyclist through the empty streets of 2020, Jean pedals between his shattered past and an uncertain future. But as the city erupts in protests over George Floyd's murder, he's forced to confront not just personal betrayal, but the injustices that have shaped his life as a young Black man in America.

Dopo aver vissuto a Londra per tre anni, Ada torna a casa e, durante i lunghi mesi estivi che seguono il suo ritorno, si riunisce con la famiglia, gli amici e un vecchio amore. Con l'intenzione di ricongiungersi con quel piccolo universo da cui era partita, Ada inizia a scrivere e a inventare storie sul luogo in cui è cresciuta e su coloro che la circondano.

The Bottle Factory Outing follows Freda and Brenda, who work together in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing becomes a pivotal moment that promises different experiences for each woman: excitement for Freda and apprehension for Brenda. The intense emotions of that chilly day of freedom fundamentally alter their lives, ensuring nothing will return to its previous state.

An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the invitation of bearded, satyric Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend, as Lily's friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell-bent on seducing his milk-white hostess; behind them is old, persecuted Shebah; and, slightly apart, the young man on whom all hopes are pinned: quiet, pleasant Edward.

Gloria's life is upended when her son, once a promising college athlete, returns home to Florida after dropping out of school in Boston. Desperate to get his life back on track, he's a shell of the confident young man he once was. As Gloria works to rebuild their relationship and help him heal, she's forced to confront her own desires for the future—and whether she's ready to rebuild her own life as well, and finally leave the past behind her.

Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home and her job is leading nowhere. But luckily Sookie is back in her life - vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends. As Ruth is caught up in Sookie's life, she sees that everything is not as simple and Instagrammable as Sookie would have you believe.

Newly divorced from overbearing husband Malcom and with only reruns of Bergerac and an irascible black cat called Ivan for company, Meg decides it’s time to add a little colour back into her life. So when she spots a flyer for a local art class at the Lower Begley community centre, she grabs a brush — despite her only painting experience being a half-hearted coat of magnolia in the downstairs loo.

On a grey London day, Esme's world crumbles around her when she loses her glitzy job on a top TV programme, her gorgeous, city-slicker boyfriend and her stunning apartment, all in one fell swoop just before Christmas. Esme is forced suddenly to move back to her sleepy home town of Sandchester, and despite the snow blanketing the roof and the fairy lights that twinkle in her rustic little cottage, everything is looking bleak. That is until she reconnects with an old crush and finds herself unexpectedly getting swept away. But Joe, handsome and charming as he is, is not all he seems.

A bitingly funny novel about your late 20s as you stare down 30—when do you tire of morning hangovers, days of dead-end entry-level jobs, and late nights at bars? This friend group is about to find out. “A little bit Dolly Alderton and a little bit Lena Dunham, with a wholly Irish soul...

A century of American history unfolds through the eyes of a giant tortoise with a heightened awareness for live music, the location of edible flowers, and the nuances of human behavior in this spellbinding debut novel. Snatched from her ancestral lands, a giant tortoise finds herself in an...

Brought to you by Penguin. SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on...

Hamburg 1999: Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter reist Paula nach Rajasthan, wo sie als Kind einige Jahre gelebt hat. Dort lernte sie damals die Familie Khandal kennen, bei der sie, anders als in ihrer Familie, Wärme und Geborgenheit erfahren hat. Doch Paulas Mutter und Gesa Khandal beendeten die Freundschaft plötzlich. Nun will Paula herausfinden, was aus den Khandals geworden ist, denn der Bruch hat in ihrem Leben Spuren hinterlassen. Indien 1935: Gesa zieht als Ehefrau von Ravi, in den sie sich in Berlin verliebte, nach Rajasthan.

When Shannon gets engaged, her beloved mom, Cindy, is the first person she wants to tell—and the last. Cindy’s engaged, too, and has already hinted at a double wedding. The image of a synchronized bouquet toss with her mom fills Shannon with horror. She’ll keep her engagement a secret until Cindy’s I-dos are done.