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Historien udspiller sig i en afsidesliggende dal i Appalacherne i løbet af én lang og varm sommer og beskriver tre kvinder, som på en eller anden måde ikke er faldet til i samfundet. Oppe på bjergskråningen lever Deanne Wolf et eneboerliv som vildtbiolog. I dalen nedenunder bor Lusa Landowski, født og opvokset i en storby og af samme grund aldrig accepteret i det lille samfund. I dalen bor også Nannie Rawley, der er hæmningsløs i sin kampagne for et renere miljø.

From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally dense, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams.

Feeling alienated from wider society, Sara, Abida and Naeem gravitate towards their university's Muslim Students' Association. Within its austere confines, Sara watches Naeem. Over time, the pair commence a furtive relationship outside of the gaze of their families and peers. But Naeem is especially burdened by the widening gap between his public façade and their clandestine forays. As the MSA elections approach, Abida seeks to win the presidency at all costs, threatening her longstanding friendship with Sara and risking her reputation.?

Family doesn’t mean everyone has to like each other. That’s the case when cousins Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja return to Shamrock, Texas, to help manage their grandmother’s flower shop, the Lucky Shamrock. The reunion isn’t exactly a beautiful arrangement—considering they’re as compatible as ranchers and coyotes. Thank heaven for a handsome go-between like Clinton, who lives above the shop.

Clover Brooks has always felt a stronger connection with those at the end of their life than in the middle of it. She dedicates herself to ushering people peacefully though their final days, working as a death doula in New York City. Her client's last words are collected in three treasured notebooks, neatly labelled: ADVICE, CONFESSIONS and REGRETS. Then she meets Claudia: a woman who has had the kind of life that Clover hasn't dared imagine for herself.

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another's great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility of them being together shatters. But that tragedy - and their history - is what will connect them forever.

In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible . . . from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be. In 2019, Kasey has returned to her small Southern hometown of Goldie for the first time since high school—and she still hasn’t told even her closest friends the truth of what really happened that summer after graduation, or what made her leave so abruptly without looking back.

City dweller Gwen feels like she’s living a secondhand life. She’s thirty-eight, perpetually single, and in dire need of a dentist’s appointment. Her friends are busy procreating in the country, and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around hedge borders and the trash pickup schedule. Above all she’s lonely. But then, isn’t everyone? Then she’s let go from a job she drifted into a decade ago and never left, and Gwen realizes it’s time to make a change, starting with cleaning out her apartment.

Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed.

Money and fame: in 1970s Los Angeles, everyone is fighting to reach the top, but very few have the talent, ambition, and luck to get there. Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the city’s reigning style queen. By day, she’s at the helm of Sunset on Sunset, the store beloved by Hollywood’s young and beautiful. By night, she’s on the arm of Kai de la Faire, Hawaii’s hottest export, and the screenwriter of the moment.

Après avoir « survécu » à la vie communautaire et à la pandémie, qu’arrivera t-il aux amies du Club des dames d’argent ? On retrouve, dans ce troisième et dernier opus, nos huit voraces lectrices, soixantenaires et solidaires, toujours installées dans leur immeuble en copropriété. Comme dans les deux premiers tomes, chaque chapitre évolue autour d’un livre au programme du cercle de lecture. Un roman qui met en lumière les amitiés touchantes entre ces femmes présentes les unes pour les autres, beau temps, mauvais temps.

Mit dieser fantasievollen Geschichte möchte die Autorin wieder daran erinnern, dass die wahre Zauberkraft in einem jeden von uns liegt: "Glaube an Wunder, denn Du bist selbst eins!" Die Hörbuchsprecherin Julia Gruber nimmt uns mit auf eine inspirierende Reise entlang der vier Elemente Wasser, Feuer, Erde und Luft. Sinnlich und ausdrucksstark lässt sie uns die Freude am Leben, am Träumen, am Hoffen und Wundern miterleben und am Ende erkennen, dass es noch ein weiteres, ein fünftes Element gibt: Dich! Ein Hörbuch mit magischer Wortkraft.

Five friends found each other senior year of high school, but things have changed since then. From cross-country moves to demanding school and work schedules, keeping a friendship going is harder than any of them anticipated. But when their beloved Waldo’s Diner burns down, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and come together to save it. They have mere weeks to raise enough money to buy it back from a greedy corporation and rebuild it to what it once was.

Youth by Kevin Curran dives into the lives of four teenagers in Ireland's most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and his YouTube fame can deliver on their promises. Princess is battling to escape her claustrophobic surroundings and go to university. Dean is ready to come out from under his famous father's shadow. Tanya, struggling with the spotlight of internet infamy, is still posting her dream life for all of her faithful followers.

Over de kracht van moederschap, het desastreuze effect van geheimen en de helende kracht van de waarheid Australië, kerstavond 1959. Aan het einde van een bloedhete dag wordt een verschrikkelijke ontdekking gedaan. Het stadje Tumbilla wordt het middelpunt van een van de schrikbarendste en raadselachtigste moordzaken uit de geschiedenis van Zuid-Australië. Londen, 2018. Journalist Jess krijgt een telefoontje uit Sydney, omdat haar oma Nora onverwachts in het ziekenhuis ligt. Haar oma heeft altijd een levendige en sterke persoonlijkheid gehad, maar nu ligt ze er heel kwetsbaar en verward bij.

Eine geheime Vergangenheit. Eine verbotene Leidenschaft. Ein Sommer, der alles verändert. Juli 1973: Ruth und ihre Freundinnen nennen sich die Ophelia-Girls. Am Fluss stellen sie präraffaelitische Gemälde nach – bis etwas Tragisches passiert. Vierundzwanzig Jahre später zieht Ruth mit der siebzehnjährigen Tochter Maeve und ihrem Mann Alex in ihr einst prachtvolles Elternhaus zurück. Als Stuart, ein Jugendfreund von Ruth, für ein paar Wochen zu Besuch kommt, entflammen eine alte und eine neue Leidenschaft.

Jeden zweiten Samstag sitzt die frisch geschiedene Schwedin Esther auf einer Bank unter einer alten Eiche und schaut hinaus aufs Meer. Die Wochenenden, die ihr Sohn bei seinem Vater verbringt, sind besonders schwer, und nur hier kann die junge Frau ihren Gefühlen freien Lauf lassen. Eines Tages trifft sie dort auf Rut – eine ältere Dame mit der wunderbaren Fähigkeit, all die schönen Dinge des Lebens zu sehen. Esther fasst Vertrauen zu der warmherzigen Frau, und zwischen den beiden entwickelt sich eine unerwartete Freundschaft. Doch Rut hat ein Geheimnis, das sie vor Esther verborgen hält.

As 1954 draws to an end, the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creeping lethargy as the villagers stay in watching their new TV sets, instead of going out to enjoy each other's company. As usual, however, Nelly is busy keeping tabs on the villagers' comings and goings. There's Griff, whose thieving and dishonesty have long-lasting repercussions; Sheila, whose pregnancy sets tongues wagging; and George, whose helpfulness masks a deeper problem.

A successful summer has seen Holly's shop thriving for the first time since she bought it, and she has high hopes for the future of Just One More. However, it is not only her business prowess that has been growing. In a little over a month she will be trying to run the shop with a baby on her hip. If only her love life was so easily managed. With things far from solid with Ben, and Giles back on the scene, Holly might find herself changing more than nappies.

Shae, Tyler, Ariana und Evie erleben alle früher oder später den bitteren Moment, in dem die eigenen Träume auf die harte Realität treffen. Doch die besondere Freundschaft zwischen den vieren hält sie aufrecht. Gemeinsam lernen sie voneinander, stärker, mutiger und freier durchs Leben zu gehen, und der Welt zu zeigen, wer sie wirklich sind.