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Christmas sees Pennington’s at its most glorious, thronged with shoppers, its grand staircase and balcony adorned with holly, mistletoe, tinsel and lights. It should be the happiest time, but dramas are simmering beneath the surface. For shop girl Cornelia Culford, a divorce hearing looms, where she could lose custody of her young sons to her overbearing and unfaithful husband. For Stephen Gower, being head of security at Pennington's is the perfect refuge from a tragic past at Scotland Yard.

It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin’s northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start—and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends—human, animal, and otherworldly—to realize their dreams.

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a poetic voice.

In Legacy, Colorado, I buried my father alongside his elite Hotshot team. Ten years later, I've followed in his footsteps—fighting fires in the mountains of Alaska with my brother. Amid the flames, nothing ignites me like Avery Claire. She's stubborn, strong, sexy as hell, and my best friend. She also has no idea that I'm in love with her.

A duke with a reputation to uphold and a woman with a scandalous past take a gamble on their forbidden love in this Regency romance—perfect for fans of USA Today bestsellers Sophie Jordan and Kerrigan Byrne! Raised in a foundling home and now proprietor of a successful club, Gabriel Cadieux...

Great Plumstead is buzzing with news that the American GIs have arrived on the nearby aerodrome. However, when a serious accident forces Thea to step back from her work, she must focus her full attention on Rookery House. There is an impossible amount to get done - and a new arrival to accommodate. Will she manage to keep things afloat? Prue is as busy as ever, finding homes for evacuees while worrying about her sons, Jack and Edwin, who are involved in key Allied battles overseas...

After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O'Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make. Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums, she invests her unexpected fortune in a new shoe factory to challenge Eliot Tyson's monopoly over the workforce, regardless of whether or not he is the father of her children...

Le Nord façonne les âmes au fil des vagues et du fer. Héritier de l’Ours, Björn n’a qu’une voie: mériter son nom. Des fjords brumeux aux rivages lointains, il doit guider ses hommes, négocier avec l’ennemi comme avec le destin, et affronter les tempêtes qui grondent dehors autant que celles qui se lèvent dans son sang. Entre serments et trahisons, runes et rumeurs, la légende se trempe à chaque coup de rame, chaque choc de bouclier.

Depuis qu’il a trouvé Caramel, petit chien espiègle, Eliott tient bon face aux remous d’une famille qui se défait. Mais quand un accident fait vaciller son monde et qu’une séparation forcée menace son compagnon, l’enfant de huit ans prend une décision qui le propulse hors des sentiers connus. Dans le quartier St‑Roch de Québec, s’ouvre une course contre la montre: une fugue qui devient partie de cache‑cache, des ruelles où l’innocence croise le danger, et autour d’eux des adultes tiraillés entre peur et bienveillance.

In a land scarred by war and haunted by its own dark secrets, betrayal and bloodshed rule the night.

“Lazar is an exquisite and masterly pronouncement that a gifted young writer walks among us.”—Patti Smith An “astonishing…disturbingly dreamlike” (Daniel Kehlmann, The Director) debut, inspired by the author’s own family story—a gothic, inter-generational family saga capturing...

When a hurricane bears down on the town of Grand Meadows, a group of strangers is forced together in a house on Hawkstone Hill. Among them is Trent Barnes, a haunted man carrying a lifetime of family shame, and Maya Bruce, a journalist seeking more than just headlines. As floodwaters rise and walls collapse, what begins as a fight for survival becomes something deeper: a reckoning with the past. A letter, long-buried truths, and the legacy of a man buried in shame emerge from the ruins. For Trent, it’s a chance to face his family name—and to decide who he wants to become when the storm passes.

Sloane is a quick-witted storyteller, with a flair for the outlandish. From psych wards to grave robbers, she’s witnessed some peculiar things in her nearly eighty years. But the story her daughter, Rynn, yearns to hear most, is the one story Sloane never tells. When, in 1954, inside the cozy nook of Riverton, Sloane watched helplessly as a shot ripped apart her idyllic childhood. After an aging Sloane has a brush with death, Rynn fears the truth behind that tragic night will stay buried forever unless she does the one thing she’s promised never to do—ask her mother to reveal what happened.

So, it turns out the town sheriff is a total cinnamon roll. A big, burly, grumpy, hot as sin, cinnamon roll. He found me hiding out on private property. Trespassing. I lied and told him I was only there because I was out of cash and had to sleep in my car. I thought he’d give me a ticket and send me on my way. Instead, he insisted that I stay at his guest house—right next door to him and his three kids.

La novela ganadora del premio de los libreros independientes italianos. El libro revelación del año en Italia con más de 450.000 ejemplares vendidos. Una saga familiar con una protagonista inolvidable: una mujer fuerte e independiente que se enfrenta a una realidad hostil. Una apasionante historia de coraje y emancipación femenina. En Lizzanello, un pueblecito de unos pocos miles de almas, un autobús de línea se detiene en la plaza mayor y baja una pareja: él, Carlo, es hijo del sur y está contento de regresar a casa; ella, Anna, su esposa, nacida en el norte, está triste y preocupada.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people”. Even before he reaches home, he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg, the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR The first novel...

Liesi Thaler lebt mit ihrer neunzigjährigen Großmutter Filomena auf dem Apfelhof. Wie schon die Frauen vor ihr führt sie das Erbe ihrer Familie fort. Ihr Heimatort unweit von Meran ist ein beschauliches Fleckchen, seine Einwohner freundlich, das Leben von gegenseitigem Respekt geprägt. Doch dann kommt es zu eigenartigen Vorkommnissen auf ihren Apfelwiesen. Die Ernte, und somit ihre Existenz, steht auf dem Spiel. So geht sie auf den Vorschlag des Bürgermeisters ein und stellt ihren Hof als Drehort für einen Film zur Verfügung.

From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the ’60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s - history holds many surprises, and lives are changed forever.

Ein schroffer, verschwiegener Rancher. Eine zurückgezogen lebende junge Frau. Ein Sohn, der es zu mehr bringen will als sein Vater. Ein Verbrecher auf der Flucht vor seiner Vergangenheit. Der erste Band der fesselnden und emotional mitreißenden Familiensaga der New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin Jodi Thomas entführt die Hörerinnen und Hörer nach Crossroads am Ransom Canyon im Westen von Texas und stellt die Frage: Was bedeutet Familie? Welche Verbindungen zählen – die familiären oder die selbst gewählten?