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A crazy promise is still a promise. Zoey Jones is spreading her late mother’s ashes along a path her eccentric grandma G-Lo followed in 1972: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust tour. G-Lo was no ordinary groupie. According to her, Zoey’s mom was conceived somewhere between Memphis and Malibu, and Zoey’s grandpa is the glam rock icon himself. Revving up G-Lo’s old Cutlass, complete with her mother’s journal and a Ziggy Stardust 8-track, Zoey hits the open road.

Julia Esdaile is hired to restore the historic gardens at Havenworth Manor—the grounds of which are now an abandoned snarl of bramble and weeds—to their original splendor. For the enigmatic lady of the manor, ninety-two-year-old Margaret Clarke, the reason for the restoration is the deeply private story of a promise made a lifetime ago, and a vow to keep it before she dies.

Pips Leben hat enge Grenzen. Erst eine unerwartete Begegnung schenkt ihr Hoffnung: Ein Astronom aus der örtlichen Sternwarte lehrt sie, zu den Sternen zu blicken und damit auch ihre Welt ganz neu zu sehen. Viel größer und schöner, als sie es sich je vorgestellt hat. Und vielleicht wartet darin sogar jemand auf sie. Wenn sie den Mut findet, ihr Herz zu öffnen.

Jette hat für ihren Sohn Piet den Traum vom eigenen Café auf Eis gelegt. Stattdessen muss der Job bei einer Event-Agentur nicht nur sie und Piet, sondern auch Jettes Vater durchbringen. So täuscht die Idylle auf dem Hausboot der drei im Hamburger Hafen, denn die Reederei der Familie trudelt langsam aber sicher der Insolvenz entgegen. Und dann ist da auch noch Mats, in dessen Nähe die Schmetterlinge in Jettes Bauch plötzlich eine ausgelassene Reeperbahn-Party feiern.

Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home and her job is leading nowhere. But luckily Sookie is back in her life - vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were teenagers, but who now seems to want to be friends. As Ruth is caught up in Sookie's life, she sees that everything is not as simple and Instagrammable as Sookie would have you believe.

There aren't enough hours in the day for Jo Randall, overworked, sleep-deprived newspaper reporter, newly single mum, and logistical genius (when it comes to Barbie-themed birthday parties, anyway). Between wrangling her two young daughters, dodging her smug ex-husband and his new girlfriend, and trying to remember where she last saw her car keys, Jo’s barely got time to breathe — she's not just breaking news, she's at breaking point.

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing From the multimillion copy number one bestselling author of The Women, The Nightingale and The Four Winds, Wild is a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and...

Beloved naturalist and author Gerald Durrell introduces an eccentric cast of characters in this entertaining collection of stories, first published in 1991. Which of these stories is true and which is semi-true I have, of course, not the slightest intention of telling you, but I hope this will...

June views the world in colour and bloom. She is a keen horticulturist and an amateur arborist, and she can name every flower species beginning with the letter J. She knows a lot about garden management and soil cultivation. But what she doesn’t know a lot about, is people.

Der Krieg ist vorbei! Endlich erhält Marianne ein langersehntes Lebenszeichen von ihrem Verlobten Hans. Kurzerhand beschließt sie, alles zu riskieren, um ihn zu retten. Gleichzeitig hofft sie, ihre beste Freundin Else zu finden, deren neugeborene Tochter sie im Tumult der Kriegsereignisse in Obhut genommen hat.

Published in 1937 to commercial success, The Years is a powerful narrative that traces the fortunes of the Pargiter family from the 1880s through to the 1930s, capturing the shifting tides of English society as old traditions give way to modernity. Through Woolf's characteristically lyrical prose and sharp psychological insight, the ordinary rhythms of domestic life – births, deaths, reunions, quiet moments of longing – become heavy with meaning.

Successful Misty is happy living with her perfect boyfriend until he tells her he is leaving. Elegant Gwen is excited about the new man in her life until she discovers he's been lying to her. Angry Babs has the love of her life lured away, first by Misty then by Gwen, and she wants revenge. Long-suffering Dee is a wife who takes her wandering husband back every single time. When the lives of these four women collide, the results are deadly.

When Angie Fairlie returns to her coastal hometown after a devastating divorce, all she wants is a fresh start. But then, while clearing out her beloved grandmother's home, she stumbles upon a mysterious box. Inside is an anonymously written book and newspaper clippings about a child who vanished decades ago. As Angie digs deeper, she discovers that the heartbreaking novel, The Loneliest Girl by the Sea, may hold clues to the fate of the little girl who disappeared from a family picnic in 1952.

The Pilbara, late 1800s: Frontier country, the wild west of Australia—a lawless, violent place where treachery is a way of life. Widower Charles Burton arrives in this forbidding corner of the world with his three young children. They've travelled half the globe, from the lush rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales, on a mission to save their family's sheep and cattle property, which has been forced into debt by the avarice of a ruthless Londoner.

Aida is just six years old when her family escapes the war bearing down on their village in Bosnia. But survival comes at a price. The home they make in Italy is safe, though not their own. Aida watches, helpless, as her parents grapple with a guilt and nostalgia she doesn’t understand. They yearn for a place that no longer exists, a place she barely remembers yet comes to resent for its lingering ghost.

Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, unpredictable, relatable, family. Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn’t happen to us. And then there’s a secret third column: ‘This could happen to us unless I am very careful/ superstitious/ grateful…’ So what happens when ‘this could happen to us’ turns into ‘it really might be me’?

Julia Song, CEO of Starlight Cosmetics, is at the height of her career. Then why does she feel like such a failure? Maybe because she’s thirty and single, with a terrible track record at dating. And in the eyes of her Korean family, that is just unacceptable. It never really bothered her—that is until her beloved grandmother drops the bomb that she is sick and her dying wish is for Julia to get married. Impossible. So in a moment of weakness, Julia asks her family for help. Set her up on three dates to help her find The One. But it will never work—Julia is undateable.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller HEX comes a modern twist on the Faustian tale about a gilded street in a Pacific Northwest town where the charmed residents have made a frightening deal...resulting in devastating consequences.

If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry—and relate.) Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky’s widowed father, has moved in.

Hamburg 1999: Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter reist Paula nach Rajasthan, wo sie als Kind einige Jahre gelebt hat. Dort lernte sie damals die Familie Khandal kennen, bei der sie, anders als in ihrer Familie, Wärme und Geborgenheit erfahren hat. Doch Paulas Mutter und Gesa Khandal beendeten die Freundschaft plötzlich. Nun will Paula herausfinden, was aus den Khandals geworden ist, denn der Bruch hat in ihrem Leben Spuren hinterlassen. Indien 1935: Gesa zieht als Ehefrau von Ravi, in den sie sich in Berlin verliebte, nach Rajasthan.