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The Big Island Saga continues . . .Emma's life is in an uproar as her niece faces a decision that will change their lives forever. She's got Juniper's back, no matter what . . . but as things between Jun and her dad go from bad to worse, Emma begins to wonder if the fragile peace between her and her brother can survive this growing rift in their family. Next door, Tara deals with a fresh twist of fate that throws her family life into chaos.

Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga. Fru Aas har kallat in både Emilie och hennes mor. Samtidigt tas en länsman in för att medla i Jacobs och Halvors tvist, vilket får Karen att överväga att berätta sanningen.

Once a grand country house, Hope Hall is now beautiful luxury apartments and when Cassie and Nina become new neighbours, they soon become firm friends. But as perfect as life in the Cambridgeshire countryside seems, both have heartaches of their own. Cassie is blissfully in love with Ben, but shadows from her first marriage loom large, threatening her happiness. Meanwhile Nina, a widow, must confront a painful decision that will shatter her mother-in-law’s dreams.

The Morgan sisters spent many blissful summers at their family’s lake house growing up, but as they grew older, their lives took very different paths. Hope adores her twin girls, but she doesn’t love being a stay-at-home mom. When her workaholic husband doesn’t support her career aspirations, she packs up the kids and goes to Sunset Cottage, thinking that some time apart will help her decide what she really wants. But when the life she dreamed of becomes a possibility, she is more torn than ever.

Visiting her family's South Carolina estate, socialite Gray Godfrey wakes from a night out to an empty bed. Her husband, Paul, is gone, and a thrashing hangover has wiped her memory clean. At first, she's relieved for the break from her tumultuous marriage; perhaps Paul just needed some space. But when his car is found abandoned on the highway, Gray must face the truth: Paul is gone. And Gray may not want him found. Her life is unraveling. When a stranger named Annie calls claiming to know Paul's whereabouts, Gray reluctantly accepts her help.

In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, number-one New York Times best-selling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals - transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of fate.

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late 20th century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between England and France yet a world away from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the story of those he has known.

"Regain" ou l'éclatante première manière de Giono : mystique, solaire, animale. Aubignane se meurt. Seuls trois fidèles occupent encore ce village devenu un nid de spectres. L'hiver finit par chasser le vieux forgeron, et la veuve du puisatier disparaît au printemps, avec la promesse qu'elle avait faite à Panturle de lui trouver une femme. Au village, désormais, ne reste plus que ce chasseur qui devient peu à peu fou de solitude. Une femme surgit, par des chemins presque surnaturels.

A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.

Iniziato nel 1795 e pubblicato nel 1811, Ragione e sentimento di Jane Austen narra le vicende umane e sentimentali delle sorelle Dashwood...

Selma, eine alte Westerwälderin, kann den Tod voraussehen. Immer, wenn ihr im Traum ein Okapi erscheint, stirbt am nächsten Tag jemand im Dorf. Unklar ist allerdings, wen es dann wirklich treffen wird. "Was man von hier aus sehen kann" ist das Porträt eines Dorfes, in dem alles auf wundersame Weise zusammenhängt. Vor allem ist es eine Geschichte über die Liebe unter schwierigen Vorzeichen, Liebe, die scheinbar immer die ungünstigsten Bedingungen wählt.Das WDR-Hörspiel - mit Jule Ronstedt als Erzählerin - fängt den herzerwärmenden und gewitzten Ton der Romanvorlage kongenial ein.

Une maison d'un étage, à la façade de lierre, dans un village des environs de Paris où le narrateur, que l'on appelait plus facilement "Patoche" à l'époque, a grandi avec son petit frère car leur mère était partie jouer une pièce en tournée. Une maison où ne vivaient que des femmes, une époque où tant de questions se bousculaient : qu'est-ce qu'une tête brûlée ? et une "série noire" ? Eliot Salter, marquis de Caussade, reviendrait-il dans son château comme l'avait promis le père des enfants lors d'un déjeuner ?

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park.

It is 1987, and a small Irish community is preparing for the wedding of two of its young inhabitants. They're barely adults, not so long out of school and still part of the same set of friends they've grown up with. As the friends head home from the beach that last night before the wedding, there is a car accident. Three survive the crash, but three are killed. And the reverberations are felt throughout the small town.

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now, more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead.

Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population 600. Make a difference against a backdrop of towering California redwoods and crystal clear rivers. Rent-free cabin included. When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees this ad, she quickly decides that the remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache and to reenergize the nursing career she loves. But her high hopes are dashed within an hour of arriving - the cabin is a dump, the roads are treacherous, and the local doctor wants nothing to do with her.

Récit d'une renaissance, ode à la beauté et au mystère du monde, le nouveau roman de Christian Signol convoque des thèmes chers à l'auteur d'une oeuvre qui célèbre la nature et dénonce le danger qui la menace. Sur la terre comme au ciel est l'histoire poignante d'un père et d'un fils séparés par le destin. L'un n'a jamais quitté la terre qui l'a vu naître, cet univers immuable auquel il est viscéralement attaché et dont il connaît les moindres secrets.

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early 40s, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils.... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.

A worldwide conspiracy dismantles civilization one city at a time. What could you do about it? Who would you leave behind? Even if you were the mayor… Cory Beringer returns in a new confrontation that leaves Fairbanks struggling, suffering, and unable to get back on its feet. Trials, tribulations, conflict, a newly hostile media, and wishful thinkers stand in Cory’s way. He never wanted to be mayor, but since he was, he would do the best job he could. The people had put their trust in him.

After receiving a frantic call from his friend Alvin about a dead body with a bag of money out in the swamps, Joe heads up the bayou in his Jon boat to try and figure things out. The further he digs, the stranger things become. With more bodies showing with gruesome markings and injuries, rumors begin to spread of everything from a rogue Swamp Booger, the Rougarou, a Satanic Cult, or possibly the workings of a decades-old serial killer known as The Pale Skinned Man.