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Aviana Lehrer thinks she has finally reached the pinnacle of her career as a hospital executive in Denver when her life shatters and she is sucked back into the oppressive family drama she escaped ten years earlier. In order to ensure that her mentally deteriorating father stays out of trouble, she gives up her dream of big-city hospital administration, moves back home to the town of Berndtbridge, Michigan, and takes an entry-level position as a home care nurse under the tutelage of a far-less-experienced mentor.

From the streets of Cincinnati’s Avondale neighborhood comes a raw, unflinching story of survival, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of family. Born on December 4, 1972, Donnice “Squeak” Carter never knew her father and barely knew her mother. Raised by her grandmother Doris in a house on Reading Road, Squeak becomes the eyes and ears of a family fighting to survive in a world that wants to break them. Her grandmother Doris is the glue—a woman whose Sunday dinners and fierce love hold together four sons and a wild-child daughter. Uncle Dana, the lawyer fighting for justice in a rigged system.

England, 1861: Die adlige Vivian verliebt sich völlig unstandesgemäß in Ross, den Stallmeister ihres Vaters. Die beiden brennen durch und schiffen sich nach Kanada ein, um sich dem Overland Transit zu den Goldfeldern in British Columbia anzuschließen. Auf der Überfahrt treffen sie auf Colleen, die vor ihren Dienstherren flieht und ihre Reise umsichtig vorbereitet hat. Sie träumen von einer glücklichen Zukunft und einem neuen Leben am anderen Ende der Welt.

Alice Storm war seit fünf Jahren nicht mehr auf der familieneigenen Privatinsel, nachdem sie sich von ihrer einflussreichen und überaus vermögenden Familie losgesagt hat. Doch der plötzliche Tod ihres Vaters führt sie und ihre Geschwister wieder auf die Insel. Dort erwartet sie eine überraschende Herausforderung: Sie müssen eine Woche gemeinsam auf der Insel verbringen, jede und jeder muss eine Aufgabe erfüllen – nur dann erhalten sie ihr Erbe.

Told with razor-sharp wit and an unfiltered, hypnotic voice, Clean Houses follows Sol. She is a progressive young woman obsessed with cleanliness who, upon becoming pregnant, hires two housekeepers to help her at home. Although having cleaners should, in theory, make her life easier, it instead becomes a source of inner turmoil: she needs them, yet she wishes they didn't exist. Morally compelled to justify her privilege, she searches for a more "respectable" and creative job—one just as precarious as those of her girls.

Uma trama sobre as emoções, sobre doença e fé, vida e morte, sobre as ligações que fazemos com os outros e sobre diferenciar aquilo que verdadeiramente importa do que não temos escapatória. Ao caminhar de volta para casa após um dia de trabalho, uma jornalista é atacada por dois estranhos na rua. Seu corpo reage de imediato, e ela cai e perde a consciência, afugentando os agressores. Quando desperta no hospital, o diagnóstico é óbvio: ela possui uma arritmia grave e de tratamento incerto.

Sara entflieht dem dunklen Januar und ihrer Winterdepression und reist für eine Woche alleine nach Teneriffa. Sie ist Mutter eines zweijährigen Jungen und enttäuscht – vom Kinderkriegen, von ihrem Mann, der sie gleich nach der Geburt ein paar Wochen alleine ließ, von der Gesellschaft, in der immer noch die Männer dominieren. Auf Teneriffa hat sie Zeit über alles nachzudenken und zu beobachten: Warum Frauen bitterfotzig werden, an welchen Punkten die Ungleichbehandlung offensichtlich wird und wie hoffnungslos alles ist, wenn bereits in der Zweierbeziehung so vieles falsch läuft.

Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement and intellect. But neither knows enough about love to see it blooming nor has the confidence to make the first move.

A hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel—the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture! "There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich ... A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Push, a bold, unputdownable story of motherhood, desire, betrayal, and loss told by a mother after her own death. “All those moments in life that mark a before, and an after. Before the death of me, and after. Before...

Brought to you by Penguin. Every family has its secrets. But in this provocative, hilarious and dizzyingly fast-paced horror debut, some families have: the Need. THE NEED is a rare genetic disorder. Those who have it must consume human flesh, or die. For some The Need is power. For others it is...

Does the past hold the key to her future? Returning to work after a terrible personal tragedy, location scout Neve Ashley visits historic Everly Manor. Touring the elegant Tudor mansion, she’s delighted by the vivid tapestries and intricately carved features, and is intrigued by the local...

Na pierwszy rzut oka Ulka Marron wydaje się przebojową i energiczną kobietą, która osiągnęła sukces w każdej dziedzinie życia. Ale czy na pewno? Co zrobi, gdy u jej drzwi pojawi się dawna miłość, a wraz z nią wspomnienia traumatycznych wydarzeń? Perspektywa. Rozdarcie to druga część trylogii opisującej dzieje trójki przyjaciół – Oliwii, Ulki i Andrzeja. Każdy tom porusza trudne społecznie tematy – m.in. przemocy, alkoholizmu, nietolerancji – ale jednocześnie nie brak w nich nadziei i ciepła.

A sharp, tender, and genre-bending debut novel from the mind of celebrated playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Jordan Harrison, about a young woman and the strange, brilliant boy she’s entrusted to raise. Growing up in the Squares, Dre Archer was always told human history was over. Until...

For three years, Alice has been waking up in strangers' bodies. Not in dreams. Actually inhabiting someone else—feeling what they feel, seeing through their eyes, living their crisis. Sometimes while they sleep. Often while they're wide awake, going about their day, with no idea she's there.

A world of fame turns dangerous as rising Hollywood careers draw menacing attention to the private life Cate and Kyle are desperate to protect. In Ambient Light, the second installment in Antonia Gavrihel's evocative Back to One series, public fascination begins to blur into obsession, pushing admiration into far more invasive and hazardous territory. With their lives under siege and ever-rising stakes, Cate and Kyle must navigate loyalty, trust, and the hidden costs of life in the spotlight.

Funerals are never easy, and this one is particularly difficult. These community events are the reason why the narrator left home, escaping to the city in the hopes he could forget his fears and past traumas. But now that he's returned to the secretive small town, where neighbours help one another with even the most difficult tasks, he's struggling to fit in and to connect with those around him. Worst of all, he's struggling to make it through the day as he can't help but think of what is being done to prepare for the gruesome burial to come.

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

As a Korean student in a Japanese high school, Sugihara has had to defend himself against all kinds of bullies. But nothing could have prepared him for the heartache he feels when he falls hopelessly in love with a Japanese girl named Sakurai. Immersed in their shared love for classical music and foreign movies, the two gradually grow closer and closer. One night, after being hit by personal tragedy, Sugihara reveals to Sakurai that he is not Japanese - as his name might indicate.