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Tracee is a runaway bride and kleptomaniac. Lana's an audacious beauty and a recovering alcoholic. Rita is a holy-roller minister's wife, desperate to escape her marriage and discover whether she actually has a mind of her own.

One warm summer's night, these three women go on the lam together. Their car breaks down on a rural highway in North Carolina, and they're forced to seek shelter in a seemingly abandoned nightclub - which is where they meet Marcel. And soon everything changes.

The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father?

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother.

Paulie Johansson is lost: on the brink of midlife, all she's got to show for herself is a dead-end job and some serious family baggage. Maybe that's why, drunk and sure it's a fool's errand, she agrees to audition for Sverige och Mig, a Swedish reality show where Americans compete to win an unusual prize - a reunion with long-lost Scandinavian family. To everyone's surprise (and her boyfriend Declan's disapproval) Paulie makes the final cast, dropping everything to jump on a plane to Sweden - armed only with a copy of Pippi Longstocking and a sense of possibility.

Christina Valdecchi has had to face the bitchy clique of school mums for years, ever since her fallout with Lisa, the mum of her daughter’s best friend. The picture perfect parent that never misses a chance to remind Christina she doesn’t measure up. Lisa Marco was taught that being a good parent meant making the hard choices. She understands why Christina’s ‘friendship parenting’ approach makes her fun, but Lisa’s priority is keeping her daughter safe even if she fears it’s driving her daughter away. They say mothers know best but how well do they really know their daughters?

Johnny Gonzales let her walk away from everything they built and everything they were. Winnie left me to fix something—someone—she couldn't save, and I refused to help. When she packed her bags to leave, I didn't chase her. Now she's back, years later, looking just as beautiful as the first day I met her. I'm slammed back to the time when she was mine and the feelings I thought I lost come rushing back. I'm speechless, I'm pissed, and I'm trying to figure out why she's in Whispering Oaks.

Newly married and settled into her new home in Winchester, Virginia, Leah Brooks eagerly embarks on a promising new life beyond Carson’s Bakery. Her days are soon filled with family and ministry, surrounded by her sister Cynthia’s family and sweetened with the fulfillment of helping her husband William at the little downtown mission, Turning Point Corner. With these new roles come new joys—as Leah embraces one by one the responsibilities of being a wife, aunt, and mother. Life seems all sunshine, despite its trivial challenges.

El coleccionista de rinocerontes es la última obra de Leopoldo Ceballos López, una novela llena de guiños hacia su vida, con dramatismo, melancolía y lucidez, donde lo vivido y lo imaginado se entrelazan con libertad.

From acclaimed writer Kathryn Heyman comes a luminously beautiful and personal novel, Circle of Wonders. It is the story of two deaths, but more importantly, it is the story of the legacy of life that flows from them—an uplifting celebratory song to life, and a homage to human resilience.

Single dad Luke means well. But ever since his son, Jace, had an accident, Luke's been trying to keep him safe from everything, driving Jace crazy. When a move to a dilapidated farm brings a chance at healing, Luke will take it. Even though it means fly-in-fly-out work and living with his interfering sister, Sal.

Some questions don’t fade with time—they wait. Camila Reyes has built a peaceful life as a school counselor, years removed from the chaos of her early beginnings. But a birthday gift from a friend—a DNA test—unearths a secret she never expected: a half-sister. What begins as cautious messages soon opens a door to a past Camila never knew she was missing. With every new detail, she finds herself unraveling the stories she was told and confronting the silence she’s lived with for decades.

After spending a lovely weekend at a bed and breakfast, Nolan revisits it the following year with his wife, Emma, hoping to relive those happy memories and forget a painful event that had occurred in the interim. Nolan dearly—hopelessly loves his wife, and in the face of the grief that had settled over their marriage like volcanic ash, he’s willing to do almost anything to make her happy again.

Nunzia non ha ancora vent’anni. È andata via dalla Sicilia, studia lettere classiche a Milano, conosce il greco, come sognava suo padre, che non c’è più e ha lasciato lei e sua madre con una pescheria da gestire. Maddalena di anni ne ha di più, quasi quaranta, viene da un passato difficile, ma ha saputo laurearsi in ingegneria, ha sposato Luca, violinista di buona famiglia, e ora dall’esterno è indistinguibile da quelle giovani donne eleganti cui sognava di assomigliare, quando frequentava un liceo popolato da ragazze più ricche di lei.

A collection of original radio dramas by the much-loved Irish literary legend. One of Ireland's greatest contemporary authors, William Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times, and was shortlisted four times for the Man Booker Prize. He received an honorary CBE in 1977 for his services to literature, was made a Companion of Literature in 1994 and in 2002, and received an honorary knighthood. These eight radio plays display all his hallmarks: his keen observation of human life, his mastery of dialogue and his distinctive voice.

A collection of some of William Trevor's most acclaimed works, as heard on BBC Radio William Trevor was an Irish literary legend. In a 40-year career, he published a multiplicity of novels, plays, and short stories, and received numerous awards and honours. He was often compared to Chekhov for his extraordinary insight into the human condition, and in these eleven tales, he delves into the inner lives of ordinary people, with all their passions, secrets, fears and disappointments.

When Ellie Kellaway and her family seek a fresh start in the tranquil Peak District, she hopes to leave behind her haunting memories of the sea – and of Ethan's affair with the younger, beautiful wild swimmer he met there. As eerie occurrences unfurl, Libby, the youngest, is drawn to a grotesque mermaid carving hidden in their house. As more ominous tales and truths rise to the surface, it becomes clear that the mermaid's curse might be real.

Sagan om Emilie är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga. Karen känner sig ensam i stugan med den lille sonen. Plötsligt bankar det på ytterdörren.

Oma Feline lebt allein „achtern Diek" an der Nordsee. Eines Tages beobachten die 8-jährigen Zwillinge Jonte und Jelda, wie Feline Martin füttert. Nach und nach freunden sich die Kinder mit ihr und Hajo an. Als sie erfahren, wie sehr Feline sich ein Weihnachtsfest „wie früher" wünscht und wie sehr Hajo seinen Sohn vermisst, schmieden die beiden einen Plan.

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.

シングルマザーの笹谷(ささや)梨(り)恵(え)は、宮城県(みやぎけん)多谷市(たやし)(架空の街)一帯を襲った津波で、一人息子の光を失くした。