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In the wake of a major loss, five sisters agree to meet on the regular to keep it real. But secrets they never saw coming will challenge them and everything they counted on. Savvy and decisive, Burgundy Reeves feels blessed with a good husband and a successful career. She is the sister everyone envies. Since her beloved mother's death, she's given troubled youngest sister, Elyse, a stable home when she needs it most. And she's taken it on herself to keep her contentious siblings together.

He said incredible every time. Over his shoulder. Into his phone. On his way to bed. Fifteen years of incredible and amazing and you're the best, babe — said at the exact moment when the compliment was already the whole conversation. She baked for bake sales. She baked for birthday parties. She baked at nine o'clock on a Tuesday night while he slept upstairs, and in the morning he'd take a brownie on his way out the door and tell his mother: She's got it handled. She saved six thousand dollars from the grocery budget. He had full access to the account. He never once looked. She signed a ...

For fifteen years, Heather Prescott translated her husband's absence into love. Late meetings meant ambition. Canceled dinners meant stress. The night she sat alone in a hospital waiting room for four hours meant he was busy and the surgery went fine and there was nothing to report that required interrupting whatever he was doing. Then one Tuesday she stopped translating. She stopped expecting. She left. Six months later, Heather has a small apartment with morning light, a career she'd abandoned, and a man at a coffee shop who asks what she wants and actually listens to the answer. She's ...

Frazier James is already lying to his wife. He is unemployed, ashamed, and pretending everything is fine when a letter blows up his life. Nicole Renée Coleman is dead. In her will, she names Frazier as the biological father and guardian of Layla, a fourteen-year-old girl he never knew existed. Layla is grieving and furious. His wife, Clara, is blindsided and enraged that the woman they agreed never to mention has re-entered their marriage in the most devastating way. Then comes the catch. If Layla is going to inherit her family’s property, the Kumbaya and Rest Inn in Beaufort, South ...

Ein herrlich frecher Roman über zwei wunderbare Freundinnen und die Suche nach der großen Liebe. Ohne Männer geht es nicht. Aber mit ihnen auch nicht. Nathalie und Ina sind beste Freundinnen und lieben das Großstadtleben in Berlin. Als Ina von ihrem Freund sitzen gelassen wird, ist Nathalie sofort zur Stelle und fest entschlossen, sie so schnell wie möglich wieder an den Mann zu bringen. Gerade als es zwischen Ina und dem attraktiven Barkeeper Nick zu funken scheint, erbt Ina ein Gasthaus im tiefsten Schwarzwald.

The Miner’s Wife follows the life of Virginia Hopper Spears, a strong and determined woman living in early 20th-century Illinois. When her husband, Ron Spears, goes to war and later vanishes into the Oregon mountains in search of gold, Virginia is left to raise their five children alone during a time of war, poverty, and the Great Depression.

Das echte Leben ist eine herbe Enttäuschung. Leonie, genannt Leo, will sich nach der Schule kopfüber in die Freiheit stürzen und landet stattdessen auf dem Boden der Realität. Streit mit der Mutter, Strafanzeige gegen den Vater und Ferientage mit dem kleinen Bruder, statt ein Sommer mit Olli, der sie erst geküsst und dann sitzengelassen hat. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Wunsch, sich ins Leben zu werfen und der Angst vor dem Absturz, beginnt für Leo ein unvergesslicher Sommer, in dem sie lernt, was es bedeutet, mutig zu sein.

Ein Lastwagen, drei Männer, ein Moment der Unachtsamkeit – von einer Sekunde auf die andere ist das Leben der MacBrides ein anderes. Einzig Sohn Matthew übersteht das Unglück mit schweren Beeinträchtigungen. Und doch findet er zielstrebig zurück nach Meredith Downs, zurück zu Mutter und Schwester, als das Schicksal ein zweites Mal zuschlägt. Und plötzlich steht nicht nur sein Leben auf dem Spiel, sondern seine Seele – und zwar auf eine Weise, die kaum jemand vorhersehen, geschweige denn hätte überleben können.

Jamie y Wes disfrutan de la vida en Toronto, donde Wes juega en la liga profesional y Jamie adora su trabajo como entrenador de porteros de hockey sobre hielo. Pero todo cambia cuando llega una propuesta laboral inesperada que podría separar sus caminos… Épico es una novela corta que retoma el universo de Siempre él y Siempre nosotros de las autoras superventas Elle Kennedy y Sarina Bowen.

Regina ist eine typische Vertreterin der Nachkriegsgeneration, sie hatte bereits viele Möglichkeiten, sie konnte Psychologie studieren und von einer akademischen Laufbahn träumen, um dann doch der Familie zuliebe Abstriche zu machen. In ihre Töchter Antonia und Wanda setzt sie nun alle Hoffnungen. Antonia unterläuft diese konsequent, bricht ihr Studium ab und wird alleinerziehende Mutter. Wanda erfüllt alle in sie gesetzten Wünsche und manövriert sich in eine Essstörung, die von allen ignoriert wird.

Troisième volet de Les espérances inachevées, Viduité explore la faille ouverte par l’absence. Au lendemain d’une perte, le quotidien se délite, les promesses se fissurent, et l’on cherche comment habiter le vide sans s’y perdre. De chapitre en chapitre, se dessine une traversée du deuil et de la solitude, où l’on réapprend à nommer ce qui demeure et à accueillir ce qui revient.

His phone was on the counter. The screen lit up while she was making dinner. One text. His sister's name. One sentence: "She's not going anywhere. Stop worrying and focus on the deal." Justin didn't correct her. Didn't push back. Didn't defend his wife or their marriage. He read it and kept working. Simone wasn't snooping. She was chopping onions. And in six seconds, she understood something about her marriage that had taken twelve years to see: his entire family had built a strategy around her patience. She was the one who stayed. The one who adjusted. The one who showed up to every Sunday...

She was two semesters from finishing when they got married. She deferred so he could do his MBA. She deferred again when the baby came. Then she stopped mentioning it. The credits sat on a transcript in a filing cabinet for twenty years. His diploma hung on the office wall. She re-enrolled on a Tuesday afternoon while the house was empty. Two semesters to complete. She told him three days later. He said: "That's great, babe." He was already reaching for something else. Now she has classes two nights a week. She needs the dining room table. She has a capstone project due in April. And the ...

Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls' mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care. Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister.

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Lee Ann London once had big plans…scholarship, college, love. Then she found herself raising her deceased sister’s twin girls when their father disappeared. Now, with her beautiful girls, a community that depends on her, and her photography studio finally taking off, Lee Ann may not have the life she’d imagined, but it’s definitely the one she wants. Until Cody, her bad-boy ex, returns to Sugar Springs…

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how...

Gloria's life is upended when her son, once a promising college athlete, returns home to Florida after dropping out of school in Boston. Desperate to get his life back on track, he's a shell of the confident young man he once was. As Gloria works to rebuild their relationship and help him heal, she's forced to confront her own desires for the future—and whether she's ready to rebuild her own life as well, and finally leave the past behind her.

Meet Frost, Morgan, and Belle—a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their children attend Atherton Academy, the top private school in the city, and their social lives revolve around elaborate themed parties. On the first day of school, the...