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On Nancy’s phone sits a column of texts to her sister Molly which have never been answered. Molly may be off galivanting somewhere far away, but you’d think in two years she’d have found time to let her family know what she’s doing. At a loss, Nancy’s distracted herself by working sixty-hour weeks at her city job; that is until the day she is rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack. Nancy's been working a little too much. Drinking a little too much. Everything has become just a little too much.

Asher Logan has been a lot of things: runaway, guitarist, cage fighter, and cowboy, but the one thing he’s always avoided was being a father to his young son. Now faced with returning to his family's ranch, he’s forced to deal with the knowledge that the move would put him right down the road from Shawn. Still, it’s better than staying in the city, with drunken, bitter older brother Cole, whose anger and prejudices have made him difficult to be around.

Interwoven Lives: Tales Spanning Generations is a literary journey that explores the invisible threads connecting generations within a single family across time. The book begins with intimate, emotional stories—quiet sacrifices of ancestors and the simmering ambitions of the younger generation. Each chapter serves as a piece of a larger tapestry, where past and present intertwine to form a continuous flow of experiences, values, and life lessons. Characters from different eras are bound together through universal themes such as family, loss, resilience, and unfulfilled dreams.

At the Bounty Canyon Ranch in Southeastern New Mexico, the bodies of Luke and Deona Pruitt are buried in a manure pit and their 14-year-old son Leeland Pruitt is missing. Deputy Sheriff Greenwood is called out to investigate the missing Pruitt family and discovers the grim scene. Leeland’s brutal upbringing was an open secret overlooked by neighbors and teachers for years. The community turned a blind eye as Leeland was moved by his cruel father from one remote ranch to another. And so, Deputy Greenwood begins a twenty-four-hour hunt to find and save the boy suspected of murdering his parents.

After a decade chasing dreams in New York—and running from the pieces of herself she left behind—Tiffany W. White returns to her childhood home in Tulsa with nothing but a suitcase and a broken melody echoing in her heart. Haunted by past regrets and the silence of an absent father, she never planned to stay long. But the porch light still flickers, the piano still plays across the fence, and a familiar neighbor still remembers the girl who once believed in music.

It’s the height of the pandemic when Randy Green learns that his brother Adam has been found dead in a deserted New England marina, 3,000 miles away. With little interest or help from the police or other family members, he sets out to piece together what really happened to his complicated, difficult brother—and why.

In the quiet suburbs of Crystal Creek, Christina Maxwell thought she had it all—a loving husband, a stable teaching job, and a peaceful life. But a single photo shatters her perfect world: her husband, Daniel, with another woman. A woman who isn’t just a fling—but a ghost from his past with a red coat and a dangerous secret. As Christina digs deeper, she discovers layers of lies, gaslighting, and a chilling journal that catalogs every step of her life—like she’s been part of an experiment.

Ausgerechnet am Pariser Stammsitz lernt Pierre Emma kennen. Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Sie heiraten und eröffnen gemeinsam eine weitere Filiale an der New Yorker Fifth Avenue. Als Emma und Pierre den geheimnisumwobenen Hope-Diamanten erwerben, folgt eine Reihe unerwarteter Ereignisse. Der Erfolg der Familie Cartier ist ungebrochen. Unter der Leitung von Pierre Cartier eröffnet das Unternehmen eine Filiale in London.

After walking away from everything he loved a decade ago, Winter King no longer recognizes the man he's become—the man who tried burying the pain of his past underneath a billion-dollar smile, women, and work.

Ophelia Dahl has just buried her beloved father when she finds among his personal effects a blindsiding document. The mother Ophelia thought died thirty years ago isn’t dead after all—she abandoned her. But how could she, and where is she now? With some neighborly help, Ophelia’s going to find out. Beau Augustin is an acclaimed author and Ophelia’s childhood bestie turned teenage nemesis, still chafing after all these years.

El escritor Emilio Renzi, que ha escrito una narración conjetural de una historia que circulaba en su familia, conoce por fin al protagonista, su tío Marcelo, que vive en provincias e investiga los papeles del secretario privado de un personaje que pudo ser un héroe pero del que se sospecha...

부모를 잃은 고아에서 세계 최고의 체스 스타가 되기까지! 넷플릭스 최고의 화제작 [퀸스 갬빗]의 원작 소설 2020년 최고의 화제작으로 수많은 기록을 남긴 넷플릭스 오리지널 드라마 [퀸스 갬빗]의 동명 원작 소설이...

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.

Die exzentrische Urologin Ulli und ihre medizinische Fachangestellte Nathalie sind seit Kurzem ein Paar. Gemeinsam mit Nathalies pubertierendem Sohn planen sie zum ersten Mal als Familie einen Urlaub nach Griechenland. Weil Timmy ein Einzelkind ist, darf er einen Freund einladen. Doch kurz vor Urlaubsantritt verliebt Timmy sich und möchte statt eines Freundes gerne seine Freundin mitnehmen.

Als bei der Zwangsräumung der Wohnung seiner Mutter durch eine Verwechslung alles von Wert in die Müllverbrennungsanlage wandert, bleibt dem Erzähler wortwörtlich nur der Abfall der eigenen Familiengeschichte. Wie hat es so weit kommen können? Der Erzähler blickt auf die Biografie seiner Familie: ein Stammbaum des Wahnsinns. Die Großmutter bipolar, zwölf Suizidversuche, der Großvater Stammkunde in Steinhof, die Mutter Alkoholikerin, der Vater depressiv.

Twenty-six-year-old NICU nurse Annabelle Kaplan is devoted to the preterm infants in her care—even as her own life quietly unravels. Haunted by the stillbirth of her daughter and drowning in secret debt from compulsive shopping, Annabelle clings to her work as a lifeline. When a tragic accident leaves her beloved patient, Baby Olivia, orphaned, Annabelle’s world tilts again. Olivia is placed in the custody of her only relative—an aunt who seems more interested in money than motherhood.

Adele is a caretaker. Always has been, always will be. So when his lifelong best friend comes home after losing his job to a nervous breakdown and chronic illness, Adele steps in. And it's easy enough, except for the fact that Adele has been in love with Kash for most of his life. He'd moved on once, with a wife and kid, but all that fell apart, and now Kash is back in his life and needs him more than ever. Adele isn't quite sure how to protect his heart while also giving his best friend what he needs, but the one thing he does know is that he won't let Kash down. Not now. Not ever.

Nach dem Tod seines Vaters verlässt Yann Paris, um sich in Saint-Malo in dem Haus seiner Kindheit niederzulassen. Erinnerungen an unbeschwerte Sommer an der Seite seines Zwillingsbruders werden wach: Wie sie als Kinder den hüpfenden Wellen auswichen und mit dem Segelboot die Küste erkundeten. Hier, gegenüber der Insel Cézembre, wurde das Schicksal der Familie Kérambrun geschrieben. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts heiratete sein Urgroßvater die Frau, die er liebte, und gründete eine florierende Reederei, die an die folgenden Generationen weitergegeben wurde.

From warm Kampala to gloomy London, Goretti Kyomuhendo's novel charts the joys and tribulations of Ajuna and her fiancé, Kagaba. Young, highly skilled, and ambitious, both are caught up in financial hardship in their native Uganda. When Kagaba leaves for the UK as an economic immigrant, Ajuna's happy, fulfilling relationship is under threat. And in the indifferent UK, Kagaba must battle the cold, and the cold shoulder of London.

​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.