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Sechs Frauen, ein Kampf: Der große Roman aus Südkorea über den sozialen Druck, der auf Frauen lastet, Mütter zu werden. Munjeong und ihre fünf ...

Natalie’s landed the opportunity of a lifetime hosting television show 'Luxe Life Swap', but she’s dreading going back to Venice, scene of the school trip that changed her life. The beauty of the floating city and handsome watch restorer Eraldo begin to win her over, however. But then glamorous contestant Cate arrives, the girl who was once plain, ordinary Cathy – the ex-best friend Natalie blames for the night that wrecked her life.

Deputy Clementine Calaway spent her whole life trying to prove she was just as tough as her six older brothers. Becoming a deputy in the small town of Calaway Crossing was one way to do it. And it was relatively safe. She was related to half the people in a town whose crime rate was practically non-existent. She loved working with her Chief, the man who had been in charge of the department for thirty years. But an unexpected heart attack led to an early retirement for Chief Masters, and his replacement, an outsider, was a surprise to everyone.

Una simple pelea entre madre e hijo por subir una caja al altillo hará estallar su relación, sacando con ello mucha mierda, rencores y fantasmas. Este relato supone una curiosa mirada a los sentimientos entre padres e hijos, la rebeldía de la adolescencia y los sentimientos y sus perspectivas.

Marianne ist acht Jahre alt, als ihre Mutter verschwindet. Sie bleibt mit ihrem Bruder Joe und ihrem Vater in einem Haus am Rande eines kleinen Dorfes zurück, neben dem ein Fluss entspringt. Die bruchstückhaften Erinnerungen an die Liebe ihrer Mutter geben ihr Kraft: der Duft frischer Kräuter, die Spiele, die sie spielten, die Lieder und Märchen aus ihrer Kindheit, die in Mariannes Fantasie weiterleben. Doch da ist so vieles, das verborgen liegt im Dunkel ihrer eigenen Geschichte. Die drängendste Frage: Warum ist ihre Mutter gegangen, wie hat sie Marianne nur zurücklassen können?

Eine berührende Geschichte über einen tragischen Schicksalsschlag und eine große Liebe, die alles überdauert, von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin A.D. WiLK. Jess ist glücklich verheiratet und wagt mit ihrem Mann Rick und ihrer kleinen Tochter Lilly einen Neuanfang. Gemeinsam ziehen sie von Edinburgh nach Berlin – doch der Start ist schwieriger als gedacht. Jess vermisst vor allem ihre Freunde. Die einzige Verbindung, die sie in die Heimat hat, ist Caleb, Ricks früherer bester Freund.

Ein Freund ist da, wenn alle anderen weg sind. Als Ambers Freund nach acht Jahren Beziehung mit ihr Schluss macht, bricht ihre Welt zusammen. Besonders, als er ihr den Grund dafür nennt: Ambers pflegebedürftige Mutter belastet aus seiner Sicht die Beziehung. Sie fühlt sich alleingelassen, doch zum Glück ist da Caleb, ihr bester Freund seit Kindheitstagen. Er fängt sie auf, als sie das Gefühl hat, sich im freien Fall zu befinden, und verspricht ihr, immer für sie da zu sein. Bis das Leben auch sie voneinander trennt.

I woke up this morning, the day of Barbara's funeral, and I fell out of bed. And so begins the tale of one-hundred-and-one-year-old Martha Mayhew. Born in southern New Hampshire in the early 1920s, Martha meets her new neighbor Barbara Brown at the tender age of three and a half. The two girls learn immediately that they are bound to each other, and as the years progress, their friendship blossoms.

Los Angeles lawyer Lena Antinori has dedicated her career to fighting discrimination, including for the LGBTQ community, but her own family's secret haunts her. At thirteen years old, she made the startling discovery that her father, Frank, was gay and her mother, Teresa, knew. Fearing social stigma, Teresa instituted a code of silence meant to protect their Italian Catholic family—a code Lena adhered to for decades. Now, Frank plans to marry his partner, and he wants Lena to help plan the wedding.

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people.

When we discovered we were having twins, a boy and a girl, I couldn’t believe our luck. Within months we would have the perfect family we’d always dreamed of. The first few years were so happy. Our house was chaotic but full of love, just as it should be. But as the years passed, we had to acknowledge that our son Ben needed a lot more support than Mollie. I had no choice but to put his needs first. I wanted him to have the best life possible. But it came at a devastating cost.

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s just been Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While she sometimes admits it’s a bit lonely and a less exciting life than she imagined for herself, it’s mostly OK. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister.

From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.

Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month with their father at his lake house—separately. Raised in New York City, Vivian is an ambitious sommelier with a secret that could derail her future. Lucy grew up in a tiny Maine town, where she now teaches high school English while watching her marriage unravel. They’ve never met. While Lucy envied her half-sister from afar, their father kept Vivian in the dark. When Vivian arrives at the lake to spread his ashes and sell his cabin, she's shocked to find Lucy there, awaiting his return.

Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination, Yetunde finds help in an unexpected form—the Devil himself. The Devil, seeking a way to reenter the pearly gates of heaven, decides to prove himself to an indifferent God by protecting Yetunde and granting her a piece of his supernatural power. In return, Yetunde makes an incredible sacrifice.

Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer's hottest party, Hendrix feels like she’s met her match. Only he can’t be. Mav may be the first to make her feel this seen and desired and appreciated, but he’s the last one she can have. Forbidden fruit is the juiciest, and this man is off limits if she plans to stay the course she’s set for herself.

It is a Tuesday evening in June when Ruth receives the phone call that all parents dread. Her daughter Daisy has been hit by a car during a deadly storm in Puerto Rico. How Ruth wishes she could tell Daisy she loves her. That she is sorry her own muddy feelings about Daisy's move to San Juan caused them to fight. What a waste of precious breath. Instinctively, it's her mother, Rafaela, Ruth wants to turn to. Rafaela whose own memories of growing up in Puerto Rico are becoming ever more vivid, as have her sudden flashes of forgetfulness.

On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. I

Ireland 1973, a baby boy is found on the beach of a close-knit fishing village. Fisherman Ambrose Bonnar offers to bring the child into his own family: his son, Declan, wife, Christine, and up the lane, Christine's sister and aging father. The townspeople remain fascinated by the baby, now named Brendan, as he grows into a strange yet charismatic young man.

Leah O'Connor is torn between the life she's currently living and the allure of a phantom life that can no longer be hers. Swept off her feet by the gentle charm of Lucas O'Connor, Leah's unexpected pregnancy changes the course of her carefree and nomadic existence. Over a decade and three children later, Leah is unraveling. She resents the world in which her artistic aspirations have been sidelined by the overwhelming demands of motherhood, and the ever-present rift between herself and her mother-in-law, Christine, is best dulled by increasingly fuller glasses of wine.