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Zwei Schwestern. Ein Geheimnis. Eine Insel von rauer Schönheit. Ein mitreißender Roman voller Zuversicht über Zugehörigkeit und Vergebung - wie eine warme Umarmung an einem eiskalten Tag. Als ihr Vater schwer erkrankt, kehrt Evie in ihre Heimat auf den schottischen Orkneyinseln zurück. Nicht alle sind glücklich über ihr Auftauchen, vor allem ihre Schwester Liv nicht, denn nach einem traumatischen Vorfall in der Kindheit ist die Beziehung der Schwestern zerrüttet.

In these three novellas, children navigate profound changes that reshape their families and their understanding of the world. A young boy finds meaning through soccer as his mother's illness and death transforms their family's rhythms. In Bogotá, a girl discovers her mother's sewing machine can speak, revealing protective magic woven into their clothes as they plan a daring escape. And in a story that blends reality with wonder, two siblings unlock the mystery of their grandmother's hidden identity through a dimensional window above their kitchen door.

Beth has it all- a beautiful family, a successful career, and plans for a lavish ten-year wedding anniversary party. But when her former high school boyfriend dies in a brutal mugging, Beth's perfect life starts to crack. Grief turns to fear as Beth receives a message that another of her exes has died in violent circumstances. Followed by another... and another... Someone's eliminating everyone Beth's ever loved. Someone who knows the awful truth, because Beth isn't even her real name.

Ein Anruf genügt, um Allisons Glück zu zerstören. Ihr Ehemann Peter wurde verhaftet und lässt Allison schwanger und mittellos zurück. Allisons Stieftochter Summer möchte ihr beistehen und bittet ausgerechnet ihre Mutter Erica um Hilfe, Peters kampfeslustige Ex. Erica würde alles für ihre Tochter Summer tun, auch wenn sie in Allison eine Konkurrentin sieht. Allison wiederum fühlt sich von Ericas Stärke und Erfolg eingeschüchtert. Doch mit der Zeit erkennt Allison, dass Erica genauso dringend eine Freundin braucht wie sie selbst.

Baby groups: a warm, supportive haven for new mums? Yeah, not so much. Or is it just Stevie?Motherhood has turned Stevie’s world upside down. She adores...

Herzenswege: Liebe, Freundschaft und Wahrheit. Daphne lebt ihren Traum als erfolgreiche Anwältin in Seattle. Gleichzeitig trägt sie die Verantwortung für die Familie allein auf den Schultern. Dann glaubt ihr Mann, dass sie eine Affäre hat, und plötzlich steht ihre Ehe auf dem Spiel. Eigentlich hat ihre Freundin Heather alles, doch sie fühlt sich wurzellos ... Jahrelang hat sie gewartet, bis sie jetzt ihren leiblichen Vater kennenlernt. Tori scheint ein Magnet für die falschen Männer zu sein – zum Glück hat sie ihren besten Freund.

Virginia is a Jill—a professional Buffalo Bills cheerleader—living the life she’s always dreamed of. She spends her weekdays practicing, her weekends cheering, and her nights hopping between events and bars and clubs with her close-knit band of teammates, especially her best friend, Jeanine, whose dynamic friendship has given Virginia confidence in spades and allowed her to put aside her troubled past with her sister, Laura. But one Sunday, Jeanine fails to show up for a game, and all her calls and texts go unanswered.

Moving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s This Is Where the Serpent Lives paints a powerful portrait of contemporary feudal Pakistan, and a farm on which the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters are linked through violence and love, resilience, and tragedy.

Fourteen-year-old Ida was born with a hole in her heart. Forbidden from most physical activities and considered strange by her teachers and peers, she prefers spending time alone, memorizing countries and capitals on her globe and imagining the world outside the tiny logging town of Mineral, Washington. One afternoon, in walks her cousin Elna, here to stay for a few weeks. Ida hasn't seen Elna since they were young, and she's immediately drawn to her older cousin, who's everything Ida is not: confident, glamorous, charismatic, and daring.

​On the night his granddaughter is born in America, Professor Francis Almeida rides a bicycle through his quiet Catholic neighborhood in a suburb of Mumbai. It is 1978. He has recently retired, his grown children are scattered across the globe, and for the first time in decades, he is not sure what he should do next. A few streets from his home, in the heart of a Koli fishing village, he encounters a young mother praying for her baby daughter, ill with dengue fever, at the shrine of Our Lady of Navigators. He hopes the child will live.

സാമൂഹ്യജീവിതത്തിന്റെയും കുടുംബജീവിതത്തിന്റെയും ദുരന്തഭൂമികയിൽനിന്ന് തെയ്യമായി ഉയിർക്കുന്ന മനുഷ്യരുടെ കഥകളാൽ നിറഞ്ഞ സാംസ്‌കാരിക ജീവിതമാണ് ഉത്തരകേരളത്തിനുള്ളത്. അവിടെനിന്നും ഉയിർക്കൊണ്ട ഒരു പെൺതെയ്യം--കടാങ്കോട് മാക്കം. പുരുഷാധികാരത്തിന്റെയും കുടുംബാധികാരത്തിന്റെയും കാർക്കശ്യത്താൽ ദാരുണമായി കൊലചെയ്യപ്പെടുന്ന മാക്കത്തിന്റെ ജീവിതകഥ പറയുകയാണ് ഈ നോവൽ. ഉത്തരകേരളത്തിന്റെ ഭാഷാസവിശേഷതകളും ആചാരാനുഷ്ഠാനങ്ങളും ജീവിതപരിസരങ്ങളും സൂക്ഷ്മമായി വിന്യസിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന നോവൽ.

She believed life could follow a plotline—until the story she was living unraveled. Anne Gallagher has always lived by the book. Anne of Green Gables, that is. Growing up on Mackinac Island, she saw herself as her namesake: the same impulsive charm, the same fiery imagination, even the same red hair (dyed, but still). She followed in Anne Shirley’s fictional footsteps, chasing dreams of teaching and writing, and falling for her very own storybook hero.

After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea's dime. Usually the responsible one, Bea isn't about to admit exactly why she's suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure that an antiquities dealer claims to have hidden somewhere in the western U.S.?

A wonderful collection of stories from the author of My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell, one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists.

The story opens in Newcastle, Northern England, and we meet J.B. Sutherland—brewer and eventually the owner of the Victorian pub by the River Tyne, The Barley Mow. The family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth, whose childhood is wonderful until her father suddenly dies, and their eldest illegitimate brother, John Thomas, shows up at their father's funeral to inherit the pub.

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

Ogni sera, Martina apre il suo quaderno a quadretti e decide se colorare una casella in base a com’è andata la giornata. Se la lascia bianca è stata una buona giornata, se è nera il suo opposto. Nessuna via di mezzo. Lei è fatta così. Per ora il bilancio è piuttosto negativo: ha trentaquattro anni e un lavoro che non la gratifica, non riesce ad avere un bambino e il suo compagno non vuole né sposarsi né acquistare una casa. Martina sa che le case non sono solo muri, ma fotografie di varie fasi della vita.

The Lamberts–Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children–are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

In LA Times First Fiction Award winner Maggie Shipstead's "Angel Lust", Simon Orff, a thrice-married movie producer, departs for his deceased father’s house, daughters selfishly in tow. “If he had to referee their squabbles and navigate their quicksilver emotions while sifting through his father’s possessions, he hoped the house would not seem so empty, or he hoped at least the emptiness would be neutral.” "If only," writes Halimah Marcus, co-editor of Electric Literature, in her introduction.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker - a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia.