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Raised by their mother, a bar owner in Bolohead Row, Honolulu's red-light district, they each face issues of varying addictions. Charlie, the newly divorced stepson, works a dead-end job in an ABC store and spends nights at his mother's bar singing karaoke. Mark is a shut-in who occupies all of his waking hours playing a computer game called Everquest. Within 24 hours of being out of prison, Winnie, the eldest, has a boyfriend, money, and enough drugs to send her back for life. Dangerous people are searching for her, and Charlie is unwittingly swept into her turmoil.

Nachdem Laura vor dem Altar sitzen gelassen wurde, hat sie von Männern erstmal die Nase voll. Sie erfüllt sich endlich ihren alten Traum von einem eigenen Café und genießt ihr unabhängiges Leben - bis sie Luca trifft. Der einfühlsame Reporter weckt längst vergessene Gefühle in ihr. Doch nach ihrem ersten Date ist Luca verschwunden. Wurde sie schon wieder versetzt oder hängt Lucas Verschwinden vielleicht mit seiner Arbeit zusammen? Laura will Klarheit und reist in seine Heimat Venedig.

Eine Mutter auf Abwegen. Eigentlich hat Fee viel erreicht: eine harmonische Ehe, zwei tolle Kinder, einen guten Job. Doch ein verunglückter Familienurlaub mit maulenden Kindern und dauerschweigendem Ehemann bringt sie ins Grübeln: War das schon alles? Was ist von meinen Träumen übrig? Wo stehe ich als Frau? Als ihr der attraktive Zumbatrainer Felix eine Selbstfindungsreise nach Bali vorschlägt, ist die Familie entsetzt. Egal, Fee will sich wieder lebendig fühlen! Nur, dass es gar nicht so leicht ist, von der braven Gattin und Mutter in den Abenteuermodus umzuschalten.

As his family falls apart day by day, Robin finds himself pulling away from the unquestioned, unexamined life that has been carefully laid out for him. Small acts of rebellion lead to larger questions of what it means to stand on his own. Falling into a fevered triangle with two other outcasts, Todd Spicer and Scott Schatz, Robin embarks on an explosive odyssey of sexual self-discovery that will take him beyond the spring-green lawns of suburbia, beyond the fraying fabric barely holding together his quickly unraveling family, and into a complex future, beyond the world of normal boys.

From the acclaimed author of Ninety-Two in the Shade and Cloudbursts—the stories of Gallatin Canyon are rich in the wit, compassion, and matchless language for which Thomas McGuane is celebrated. Set mostly in famed Big Sky Country, McGuane brings us an "astonishing" (The New York Times Book Review) collection in which place exerts the power of destiny.

Joe Starling, a man teetering on the edge of spectacular failures—as an artist, rancher, lover, and human being—is also a man of noble ambitions. His struggle to right himself is mesmerizing, hilarious, and profoundly moving.

Gott - eine Frau wie du und ich... Eine himmlisch sündhafte Komödie: Wer Samantha aus "Sex and the City" mochte, wird Gott lieben! Die ehrgeizige Genforscherin Maike versteht viel von Fortpflanzung, von Liebe jedoch nichts – bis sie Gott begegnet. Gott ist eine Frau und Sie hat Liebeskummer. Schuld daran ist ein gewisser Lover L. Doch damit soll nun Schluss sein, wie auch mit dem Unfug, den all die sogenannten "Herren der Schöpfung“ sonst noch anstellen. Gott bestellt bei Maike einen Gencocktail für einen weiblichen Messias.

These stories attest to the generous compass of Thomas McGuane's fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way with words. In this collection, filled with grace and humor, the ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia, and a father's outdoor skills are no match for a change in the weather. But complications arise equally in the absence of blood, as when lifelong friends on a fishing trip finally confront their deep dislike for each other.

Afastada da mãe desde a juventude, quando fugiu de sua pequena cidade rural na Irlanda, Kate jurou que seria uma mãe presente. Mas a vida é um ciclo que se repete, e Kate agora precisa encarar o abismo que surgiu entre ela e a filha, Sabine. Prestes a viajar para encontrar a avó que nunca conheceu, Sabine não está nada animada. Mas a natureza impetuosa e inquisitiva da jovem forçará a avó a encarar seus segredos há muito enterrados e a fará perceber que talvez tenha chegado a hora de finalmente curar as feridas do passado.

Nello scenario austero e bellissimo delle isole Sakhalin si consuma il dramma dell'uccisione delle balene che fa da sfondo a una complessa relazione familiare.

Nove pessoas se reúnem em um spa bem distante da cidade. A quilômetros da civilização, sem carro nem celulares, elas não têm qualquer contato com o mundo exterior. Apenas tempo para pensarem em si mesmas e se conhecerem melhor. Algumas estão lá para perder peso, algumas para tentar recomeçar a vida, outras por razões inconfessáveis até para elas mesmas. No meio de tanto luxo e mimo, sucos e meditação, todos sabem que vão precisar se esforçar nos próximos dez dias. Mas ninguém é capaz de imaginar o tamanho do desafio.

Ibla, 1884. A Palazzo Chiaramonte, una notte di maggio porta con sé due nascite anziché una soltanto. Fortunato, abbandonato davanti al portone, e Giuditta, l'ultima fimmina di quattro sorelle. Figlia del marchese Romualdo, tutto silenzi, assenze e donne che non si contano più, e di sua moglie Ottavia, dall'aria patibolare e la flemma altera, è proprio lei a segnare l'inizio di questa storia.

Progressing from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae coast, west of Honolulu, Ana, against all odds, becomes a physician. While tending victims of Hurricane ‘Iniki on the neighboring island of Kaua’i, she meets Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker with a violent and tragic past, who can confront reality only through his unique prism of lies. Yet he is dedicated to recording the ecological horrors in his motherland.

It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump?

La famiglia di Skye Turner va in pezzi il giorno della morte di sua sorella Ginny. Tutti nella loro piccola comunità nelle isole scozzesi l'hanno creduto solo un terribile incidente, ma più di una persona in città è perseguitata da un segreto di quella notte... A Skye non resta che fuggire lontano, attanagliata dal senso di colpa per non essersi presa cura di sua sorella e schiacciata dalla sensazione che la madre la accusi per la perdita che ha distrutto ogni speranza e gioia del futuro.

Anni Ottanta: il regno dei paninari, delle griffe, delle diete affamanti e dell'aerobica di Jane Fonda. In un villaggio residenziale della periferia bene di Torino vive Alessandra, figlia grassottella di una coppia di bellissimi, piena di tic e senza un amico, mangiatrice compulsiva perennemente a dieta. Ale si aggira fra l'ippodromo e la stazione di Porta Nuova, un centro sportivo e un ristorante per cerimonie. Cosa cerca? Prima di tutto il cibo e poi un flipper con cui sbaragliare la solitudine e un grande amore che ha molti visi ma ogni volta lo stesso nome: Elena.

Durante años, en la recóndita colonia menonita de Molotschna, decenas de mujeres han sido sistemáticamente drogadas y violadas mientras dormían. Despertaban doloridas y sangrando. La comunidad se empeñaba en mantener que todo era producto de su absurda imaginación, o quizá del demonio, que las castigaba por sus pecados. Los violadores, sin embargo, eran hombres de la propia colonia: tíos, hermanos o vecinos que finalmente acabaron en prisión pero que en apenas dos días serán liberados bajo fianza y regresarán a casa.

Von Hoffnungen, Sehnsüchten, harten Zeiten und Lebenswillen. Hallertau, 1936: Nachdem das Geistbeck'sche Anwesen versteigert worden ist, scheint es für die drei Töchter des einstigen Großbauern keine Zukunft mehr in Deimhausen zu geben. Immerhin wird Zenzi, die älteste, endlich die Frau von Peter, den sie seit ihrer Jugend liebt. Resi hat ins benachbarte Dorf geheiratet und ist an der Seite von Korbinian Hardt Bäuerin und "Schmiewirtin". Nur die jüngste Schwester, Wally, arbeitet weiterhin als Haushälterin in München und ist auf der Suche nach ihrem Platz im Leben.

Set in the North Georgia mountains, in the fictional city of Redvale, Transcendent Gardening is the story of Angel Maso, a gardener and would-be playwright, whose life has been quietly unraveling ever since his wife, Dolores, a.k.a. Doll Maso, divorced him. Doll, who continues to live in Redvale, is happy and successful and well-adjusted in her new life. Their daughter, Claire, is also successful, wildly so, as a social media entrepreneur. Angel, however, has been struggling for years, eking out a livelihood as a gardener and part-time poets-in-the-schools teacher.

Une envoûtante saga familiale sur les effets dévastateurs de la guerre. Novembre 1972, Hanoi. Face aux rumeurs d'offensive américaine, Huong et sa grand-mère, Dieu Lan, décident d'abandonner la capitale pour rejoindre les campagnes vietnamiennes. Un retour qui ravive le souvenir du départ de Dieu Lan, vingt ans plus tôt, chassée de la ferme familiale par la réforme agraire du gouvernement communiste nouvellement au pouvoir.