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After a two-year struggle to conceive ends with her husband getting another woman pregnant, Grace "Britches Get Stitches" Evans is taking out her frustrations on the roller-derby track. Full-contact violence and absolutely no cheating men? Best divorce-support group ever. Grace is reclaiming one piece of her broken heart at a time - starting with the family dog, which she lost in the divorce. When the dognapping ends with a call to the police, the best revenge shows up at her door in the form of Officer Jason Bradley. He's hot. He loves animals. And he's her ex-husband's best friend.

Jemma und Braxton gehören zusammen. Sie sind Sandkastenfreunde, Seelenverwandte und seit Kurzem Mann und Frau. Doch ein schrecklicher Autounfall zerstört ihr Glück. Als Jemma aus dem Koma erwacht, erkennt sie die Menschen um sich herum nicht wieder. Nicht einmal Braxton. Verzweifelt beginnt er, ihr Briefe zu schreiben und von der wunderbaren Liebe zu erzählen, die sie einst verbunden hat.

Leisa Yeats has always defined herself by the things that are important to her - a good family, a loving relationship, and a meaningful job working with kids. Life is good. But within a span of a few weeks, all of that changes. She’s always known she was adopted, but newly revealed lies and secrets kept by her parents make her question everything she thought she knew about her beginnings. Her 10-year relationship with her partner, Nan, is unexpectedly on shaky ground when she discovers that Nan, too, has kept a secret from her all these years.

Un padre y un hijo intentan sobrevivir a la pobreza. Viven en un barrio oscuro, sin faroles, a orillas del mar. A veces encuentran en la playa ofrendas inverosímiles que les hacen las olas: relojes, sartenes, un sofá. Mientras idean planes para conseguir comida y dinero, uno más delirado e hilarante que el anterior, un episodio brutal de violencia termina confrontando la manera como quieren vivir. Este es un audiolibro sobre la pobreza, pero también sobre la recursividad ante la pobreza; una reflexión sobre el cuerpo como espacio de placer y espacio de violencia.

«Había una vez dos hermanos, gemelos idénticos, y aunque yo los quería a los dos, mi alma pertenecía solo a uno…». Annalia se ha criado en la granja de los Sawyer, y ha crecido junto a los hijos gemelos de los dueños: a Cole le dio su primer beso, pero con Preston le une algo más, algo mucho más intenso, y ella sabe que es amor puro.

Tracy Goldstein entiende muy bien lo que implica estar enamorada: ilusiones rotas, perder sus ahorros, y ver la empresa que construyó con arduo trabajo en manos de otro. ¿Cometer el mismo error? No, gracias. Estaba advertida sobre los hombres. No obstante, el día en que empieza a trabajar para el frío y distante CEO de S.W. Group, Tracy sabe que está en graves problemas. A medida que avanzan los días, la tensión entre ambos se cuece a fuego lento, y a ella le resulta cada vez más difícil no cruzar la delgada fina entre la cordura y el riesgo.

In a novel of extraordinary richness the whole sweep of British civilisation unfolds through the story of one place, Salisbury, from beyond recorded time to the present day. The landscape - as old as time itself - shapes the destinies of the five families....

England, 1939: In letzter Minute ist Ruth die Flucht geglückt. Als Hausangestellte kommt sie bei einer Familie in der Nähe von London unter. Ihre Gedanken und Sorgen sind jedoch in der alten Heimat - bei ihrer Mutter und vor allem bei ihrem Vater, der von den Nazis inhaftiert wurde. Ruths muss hart arbeiten, und es bleibt ihr wenig Zeit, sich in London um Ausreisepapiere für ihre Eltern und ihre Schwester zu bemühen. Dann erreicht sie die Nachricht, dass ihr Vater aus der Haft entlassen werden kann - allerdings nur, wenn er innerhalb von vierundzwanzig Stunden die Papiere aus England vorlegt.

Un padre y un hijo intentan sobrevivir a la pobreza. Viven en un barrio oscuro, sin faroles, a orillas del mar. A veces encuentran en la playa ofrendas inverosímiles que les hacen las olas: relojes, sartenes, un sofá. Mientras idean planes para conseguir comida y dinero, uno más delirado e hilarante que el anterior, un episodio brutal de violencia termina confrontando la manera como quieren vivir. Este es un audiolibro sobre la pobreza, pero también sobre la recursividad ante la pobreza; una reflexión sobre el cuerpo como espacio de placer y espacio de violencia.

Tracy Goldstein entiende muy bien lo que implica estar enamorada: ilusiones rotas, perder sus ahorros, y ver la empresa que construyó con arduo trabajo en manos de otro. ¿Cometer el mismo error? No, gracias. Estaba advertida sobre los hombres. No obstante, el día en que empieza a trabajar para el frío y distante CEO de S.W. Group, Tracy sabe que está en graves problemas. A medida que avanzan los días, la tensión entre ambos se cuece a fuego lento, y a ella le resulta cada vez más difícil no cruzar la delgada fina entre la cordura y el riesgo.

When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history.

Hanna ist glücklich. Meistens. Außer wenn sie sich Erinnerungen an Josh erlaubt - ausgelöst durch den Klang einer Gitarre, den Geruch von Leder oder wenn Lichter die Dunkelheit erhellen. Doch von Josh will sie nicht mehr träumen. Fast zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass der Junge, der damals die Welt für sie bedeutete, sie in den Scherben ihres jungen Lebens zurückgelassen hat. Ihm zu verzeihen, kommt also überhaupt nicht für sie infrage.

Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.

La emocionante historia de una joven boticaria londinense en plena epidemia de la peste en el siglo XVII.

Comment l’amour fonctionne-t-il dans un monde désenchanté comme le nôtre? Qu’est-ce qui peut attacher deux êtres l’un à l’autre? Quelle vérité se cache sous le désir qui les rapproche? Et quel mensonge? Magalie, quarante ans, est designer de cuisines. Elle vit avec Mathieu, le père de sa fille, un avocat qui la trompe, et qu’elle trompe en retour. À cause d’un lien de famille qui les rapproche tout à coup, elle fait la connaissance de Guillaume, policier de son métier et père célibataire.

All is right in Ellie Pringle Hagood’s world. Recently married to the man of her dreams and in anticipation of the big family she’s always wanted, she focuses on restoring the large home she inherited from her grandmother on Charleston’s prestigious Battery. But then, in the midst of all her happiness, comes news that throws Ellie’s life into a tailspin.

When two teenagers - Johannes and Mari - are found murdered inside their school, in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim, the finger is soon is pointed at 18-year-old Even, whose relationship with Mari ended just before she died. Mari was writing a story for the school newspaper about Even and his dad, who died in a car accident 10 years earlier. But was it really an accident? And had Mari uncovered information that someone was willing to commit murder to protect?

Well into his 50s, Jagan runs a shop of sweets. A Gandhian by principle, he himself has given up both sugar and salt and announces his desire for an austere life. He spends his days attempting to enlighten those around him with his interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita, faltering when his listeners pose deeper questions. His son, Mali, quietly rebels against his father’s way of life and holds him responsible for his mother’s death due to his reluctance to allow treatment through modern medicine.

To eight-year-old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since the deadly influenza epidemic of 1918 is ravaging their small Midwestern town. To James Morison, his wife, Elizabeth, is the center of a life that would disintegrate all too suddenly were she to disappear. Through the eyes of these characters, William Maxwell creates a sensitive portrait of an American family and of the complex woman who is its emotional pillar.

A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.