検索キーワード： 家庭生活

Mitsuko tiene una librería de lance especializada en obras filosóficas. Allí pasa los días serenamente con su madre y Tarô, su hijo sordomudo. Cada viernes por la noche, sin embargo, se convierte en camarera en un bar de alterne de alta gama. Este trabajo le permite asegurarse su independencia económica, y aprecia sus charlas con los intelectuales que frecuentan el establecimiento.

Tras once años de ausencia, el protagonista de El río vuelve a los escenarios de su niñez. El pueblo por el que correteó durante varios veranos ya no existe. Ha sido cubierto por las aguas del pantano y solo emerge, como inquietante aparición, cuando baja el nivel con el calor de agosto...

Josephine Ying longs to overthrow Big Uncle as the best host, and after his roast duck incident, she’s finally getting her chance this Chinese New Year. Even better, her son is bringing a surprise. Unfortunately, the surprise turns out to be a gold-digging fiancée—who dies at the dinner table. Her problems just got a lot bigger than hosting the perfect meal. Certain there’s a killer at the table, Josephine sharpens her questions to find them out.

Lucas Pereyra, un escritor recién entrado en la cuarentena, viaja de Buenos Aires a Montevideo para recoger un dinero que le han mandado desde el extranjero y que no puede recibir en su país debido a las restricciones cambiar i as. Casado y con un hijo, no atraviesa su mejor momento, pero la perspectiva de pasar un día en otro país en compañía de una joven amiga es suficiente para a ni mar le un poco.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor.

Beth é uma mulher simples que vive uma rotina pacata no interior de Dorset com o marido, Frank. Seus dias se resumem a arrumar a casa e ajudar Frank e o cunhado, Jimmy, a cuidar da fazenda onde moram. Os três formam uma família feliz e unida, até que um incidente inesperado muda o curso de suas vidas: Jimmy atira em um cachorro que invade a fazenda, e o animal pertence a ninguém menos que Gabriel Wolfe, o homem que Beth amava na adolescência ― e que partiu seu coração.

After the death of their young daughter, Penny Whittaker and Adam Riggs are struggling. Penny's lifelong dream of becoming a successful artist has stalled, and Riggs, battling an addiction to prescription painkillers, is coming to grips with the end of his glittering professional skateboarding career. When Penny is unexpectedly offered a chance to exhibit her work at an Auckland gallery, she accepts, despite her reservations.

Berlin, 1932. Als Johanna von Fehrsberg ihren Bruder Karl-Georg in der pulsierenden Hauptstadt besucht, gerät sie mitten in den Strudel des politischen Umbruchs. Der idealistische Sozialdemokrat Karl-Georg kämpft mit einer Gruppe Gleichgesinnter gegen den aufziehenden Schatten des Nationalsozialismus und bringt dadurch nicht nur sich, sondern auch seine Vertrauten in Gefahr. Als das Naziregime immer brutaler durchgreift und Karl-Georg plötzlich verschwindet, sieht Johanna nur einen Ausweg: die Flucht nach Norwegen. Dort hofft sie auf Sicherheit – und auf Sven.

Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. They find themselves in a strange and unfamiliar city: a place where adulterers can live openly as couples, without fear of consequence, putting the theory of their love into practice. How do you know when you've found true love? How much would you sacrifice to keep hold of it? And how long can you stay in paradise before the cracks start to show?

Alexander verliert seine Gesundheit, seine Würde und seinen Wohlstand und als auch noch tief verborgene Geheimnisse ans Licht kommen, wendet sich sogar Claudia von ihm ab. Einsam und gebrochen versucht er, die Trümmer seines Lebens neu zu ordnen. Dabei trifft er Nina, die wie er alles verloren hat.

Als sie der Frage begegnet, welchen Wert sie hat, wenn andere ihr keinen geben, gerät ihr Leben aus den Fugen. Diese Frage löst eine Verwandlung aus, die sie zwingt, alles zu hinterfragen: ihre Arbeit, ihre Beziehungen zu ihrer Mutter und den anderen Menschen in ihrem Leben und ihr Selbstbild. Sie lernt, auf ihre innere Stimme zu hören. Unterstützt wird sie dabei von außergewöhnlichen Menschen, deren Geschichten sie berühren und inspirieren.

Spinning at the Edges has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Johnny Sullivan is a bright and intelligent young man who finds himself caught in a dangerous life of crime and drug addiction. With his very existence on the line, Johnny must dig deep into his soul and revisit his past innocence to break free from the agony and suffering that threaten to consume him.

The Eighth Life (for Brilka) has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Raised during the Great Depression and coming of age during WWII, this poignant story follows a brother and sister who, though bound by shared past, yearn for very different futures. Left on their own for much of their childhood, they develop an unshakable bond and resilience to face life’s challenges head on. Through years of separation and personal struggles, their connection endures, proving that ties of family are as enduring as the roots from which they grow.

Ghalen has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

1900: 28-year-old Anna Bradley spends summer days supervising three little girls, including her niece, Julia Demarest, on an island off the coast of Haven Point, Maine. There, the girls run free, pretending to be all the things society says they cannot: pirates and rum runners, treasure hunters and Roughriders. A college graduate determined to remain unmarried, Anna is eager to establish herself independently.

At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. Her children and grandchildren worry it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: she’s pregnant.

After a courtroom trauma shatters her emotional defenses, Dr. Mira Tévasurez retreats to her late grandmother’s cottage in the North Carolina mountains. There, amid cedar groves and the echoes of childhood memories, Mira stumbles upon a journal from her great-grandmother—a midwife and healer who carried the weight of women’s stories in silence. As Mira reads, memories surface: forgotten rituals, haunting dreams, and the quiet power of feminine lineage. The town of Wren’s Hollow—full of eccentric locals and ancestral whispers—becomes not just a place of rest, but a crucible of transformation.

Rome, 2019. Wanneer Giuseppe Russo, een rijke antiquair, door een zware financiële tegenslag plotseling alles verliest, sleurt hij zijn gezin mee de afgrond in. Moeder Ginevra gooit na een tijdje de handdoek in de ring. Dochter Elena probeert het gezin overeind te houden in een afgedankte caravan aan de oever van de Tiber. Kort nadat ze op stelen wordt betrapt door sterrenchef Matteo Amato neemt haar leven een onverwachte wending.