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Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what ‘A letter, a goodbye, and a baby girl whose name will begin with “L”…’ When Heartcross’ resident clairvoyant tells Molly McKendrick to expect a whole lot of scandal and upset to blow in with the approaching winter...

Unraveling Eunjoo’s heritage is a bit like mining for gold—painstaking and seemingly futile. Her family’s Korean past and the conditions of their subsequent immigration are as hazy and ever-changing as her mother’s moods. Growing up, she struggled to piece herself together, sifting for truths of her family’s heritage while navigating the American culture that now engulfs them. But one thing was always crystal clear: she was expected to marry by twenty-five.

Four friends. One pact. Zero compromises... Until now. When EJ and her three roommates swear off marriage and motherhood with their infamous "Anti-Marriage Pact," they think they've got life figured out. No white dresses, no baby fever, no losing themselves to societal expectations. Just fierce...

For readers of Rufi Thorpe and Taffy Brodesser-Akner, the story of an ad exec who bombs the biggest pitch of his career and decides to forgo capitalism and live off the land of his suburban Connecticut home--a timely and comedic take on ambition, consumerism, and the sticker price of privilege...

The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time. When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they...

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Magnificent Ruins comes the electric story of two sisters who have to navigate a terrible betrayal from within their family. Indian-American Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York. She reconnects with Jack...

Sandwiched between caring for her mother and rebuilding the relationship with her estranged daughter, Emma, Rosie Lucas’s life is full. In the best way. With Emma and her 3-year old daughter, Olive, back home, Rosie has a partner for The Rainy Day Bookshop, the family business, and a chance to...

Apples Never Fall meets Maine in this captivating novel of family secrets, summer celebrations, and putting things back together again after they’ve all fallen apart— from the acclaimed author of The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson. Lindy has the summer of a lifetime planned at her family’s...

“Meg Mitchell Moore is my own go-to for beach reading, and Down With the Shipmans is a pure delight. It’s a family drama with three sisters, some very charismatic dogs, and a glorious setting. What sets Meg’s books apart is her writing. It’s quick-witted and self-aware and filled with...

When Dana and Nigel got married, they had such promise. After sixteen years, the cracks are showing. Dana is a burned-out ER nurse, and Nigel is a recently unemployed stay-at-home dad whose professional identity is disappearing. Questioning the directions their lives have taken, Dana and Nigel are each granted a wish from a mysterious stranger. For one week they can escape the pressure of their lives in favor of ones in which they never married.

When four ride-or-die friends reunite for a getaway, they’re desperate for a break, a chance to reconnect. But each is hiding a deeper reason why. Marie feels like an impostor teaching “How to Say No” seminars while her marriage has evolved into something she never said yes to. Brooke’s most heartfelt goal—motherhood—is proving out of reach. Lucy’s dream career has broken her spirit, possibly for good. And Collins feels trapped in grief by her late husband’s legacy.

In 1946, two German sisters, child refugees in a program dubbed Operation Shamrock, arrive in Ireland to live in foster care while Europe recovers from war. Nearly fifty years later, on a fateful day in a bustling Maine farmhouse, an Irish newspaper clipping threatens to unravel Faye Sullivan’s carefully constructed life with husband William and daughters Maeve and Molly, a life already on the brink of collapse.

Andrea Schnidt landet ohne große Ambitionen und mit ihrem Mann Paul auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff und schippert Richtung Nordkap. Alles nur, um ihrem Ex-Schwiegervater Rudi und seiner Liebsten Irene einen Gefallen zu tun. Dass auch noch ihr Ex und dessen Neue auf dem Schiff sein werden und Andrea dem All You can eat verfällt – geschenkt. Rudi verschwindet, und auch Enkelsohn Halvar sorgt für Aufregung.

Ein verschollen geglaubter Ring und ein norwegisches Wappen enthüllen ein dramatisches Geheimnis, das die Geschichte einer ganzen Familie neu schreibt ... Band 7 der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Saga Die verlorenen Töchter von Soraya Lane: gefühlvoll, herzzerreißend und zum Träumen schön! Norwegen, 1951: »Du musst wissen, wie sehr ich dich liebe, Amalie. Ich wollte nie, dass uns etwas trennt, und ich werde tun, was immer nötig ist, um zu dir und unserem Baby zurückzukehren.

Nach zwei Büchern über die Familie ihrer Mutter widmet Anne Berest dieses neue Kapitel ihres Romanwerks dem väterlichen, dem bretonischen Zweig ihrer Familie. Wie schon in Die Postkarte vermischt sich die private mit der »großen« Geschichte, von der Gründung der ersten Bauerngenossenschaften bis zum Mai 1968, von der deutschen Besatzung eines Dorfes im Léon bis zur Zerstörung der Stadt Brest.

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements and hearts, is finally...

Violette Toussaint ist die stille Hüterin eines kleinen Friedhofs in der französischen Provinz. Von den Nachbarn respektiert, von den Trauernden geschätzt, lebt sie zwischen Gräbern, Rosenstöcken und Erinnerungen – ein Leben, das nach außen hin schlicht wirkt, aber voller Geheimnisse steckt. Als eines Tages ein Polizist an ihre Tür klopft, um die ungewöhnliche letzte Bitte seiner Mutter zu erfüllen, beginnt für Violette eine Reise zurück in ihre eigene Vergangenheit. Nach und nach entfaltet sich das Mosaik eines bewegten Lebens, gezeichnet von Verlust und Liebe, von Schweigen und von Hoffnung.

Megan has a holiday coming up in the south of France with her beloved dad - it's just a shame he will be joining her in an urn, rather than wheeling a suitcase. He has left a long list of wishes for Megan after his death, and the last request was for Megan to scatter his ashes in his favourite...

Vintage comedy drama starring Dame Thora Hird as straight-talking Hilda Springett, one very determined widow… Treat yourself to this vintage sitcom from the 80’s, full of charm and humour starring the inimitable Dame Thora Hird as the strong-willed yet lovable Hilda Springett. This is a...

Three semi-autobiographical plays by Victor Pemberton telling the story of one family across the 20th century Novelist and playwright Victor Pemberton was best known for scripting Doctor Who and working on Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock. His many plays for BBC Radio included The Slide, Kill the...