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After a tumultuous childhood she couldn’t control, Addie Morgan is finally living her own life. She’s left her old pressures behind for a job in a country vineyard, and she finds more than just work with the vineyard’s owner, Scott. But as things are looking up, her family comes crashing down. When Addie’s sister gives birth to a baby she can’t raise, she leans on Addie for help. Unable to refuse in a time of crisis, Addie returns home to Alexandria to take care of everything she tried so hard to forget.

"I suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and I had no recourse when they took my boy away from me. I had no rights, no prospects, no future. Everyone believed I was ruined. But no one knew the secrets of my own childhood, nor could they ever have imagined the dangerous and heretical scheme I would devise to protect and watch over my remarkable son as he grew in to manhood. Some might call me a liar, since all I describe would be impossible for a woman of my station. But that is where my design unfolds...."

""After decades of bestsellers, Wayward Girls might be Susan Wiggs' opus. A gut-wrenching story of survival, friendship, and justice. Masterful.""--Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell ""The magnificent Susan Wiggs takes a leap into the history...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice New York Magazine’s Beach Read Book Club...

Alice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic -- now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts...

* OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES (London), THE IRISH TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN...

Dan West wonders which is more important to him: Helping his long-time friend win back his business after being accused of stealing money from the company, or coaching his 11-year-old son’s soccer team trying to win an improbable championship. Money and prestige don’t motivate Dan. Rather, family, work and coaching soccer are the underpinnings of his life. He revels in the simple joys like hanging out with his wife Jill, mentoring a young lawyer at his firm, and watching the boys connect on three passes before drilling the ball into the back of the net.

Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional...

“A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami Herald A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is...

“Funny and poignant... Craig Thomas is a big-hearted, empathetic writer who knows his characters inside and out." —Tom Perrotta, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers “Funny, real and moving all at once...[A] wonderful, heartfelt debut.”...

When sisters Addie and Susanna receive invitations to a memorial for their Aunt Gayle, they're heartbroken to learn the woman who raised them has passed away. But arriving on Anchor Island, they're met with the shock of their lives: Gayle is alive and well, busily preparing her own 'Celebration of Life' at her beloved pudding bar, The Sweet Life Café. Agreeing to stay for the event, the sisters begin sorting through their late father's belongings, reopening wounds they thought long buried, and forcing them to reflect on their lives since leaving the island.

Die neue mobile Arbeitsweise ihres Unternehmens zwingt die New Yorker Lektorin Rebecca Blume dazu, sich ihren Schreibtisch von nun an mit einem Kollegen einer anderen Abteilung zu teilen. Dann erfährt Rebecca, dass ihre Mutter und die Witwe des berühmten Autors in den 1980er Jahren Kolleginnen bei seiner Literaturzeitschrift waren. Bis ein schicksalhafter Tag ihr Leben für immer veränderte … Eine humorvolle, herzerwärmende Reise durch zwei Generationen der Verlagsbranche, eine einzigartige, Jahrzehnte umspannende Geschichte über Freundschaft, Liebe und Literatur.

Maggie Halloran's life is finally perfect. For recently retired Maggie Halloran, life in her renovated two-bedroom St Ives fisherman's cottage is picture-perfect. With her daughter in London and her mother in Penzance, Maggie is free to enjoy the odd sleepover with her boyfriend, Nigel, visit galleries, or do her beloved sudoku. When Maggie's reserved mother falls giddily in love and announces her forthcoming wedding, Maggie takes it in her stride. But then Maggie's daughter, Alice, announces she's pregnant and needs somewhere to live – along with her new puppy.

Danny O'Connor – once the golden boy of their secondary school and a member of their sixth-year drama group – has died suddenly at 49, in their hometown of Belmullet on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. As the friends return to the west of Ireland for the week-long funeral and memorial, old wounds are reopened, and long-buried secrets rise to the surface. Emotions run high as drama unfolds. What truths have they been hiding from one another – and from themselves?

Bella's living her dream life, running a beautiful, rural French B&B and has finally put her past behind her. But when her husband suddenly asks for a divorce, everything changes. Forced to abandon everything she'd built before, she finds herself moving to the beautiful town of Versailles, where she takes a job working in a hotel, and moves into a chaotic house share. At first, it doesn't feel like a problem that she can't seem to convince her young housemates she's older than them – it's quite nice to pretend she's in her 20s again.

QUINN DAVIS shatters the norm. She's successful in the traditionally male-dominated wine world. She'll do anything for a hunk of swoon-worthy cheese. And she only dates married men, a practice designed to evade love and protect her battered heart. But even as a mistress, Quinn has rules. No meddling in happy marriages. No men with young kids. No falling in love. And absolutely, unequivocally, no gigantic panties on a date. She prefers her men the way she likes her food and wine — enticing, intoxicating and utterly delicious.

Viele Jahre ist es her, dass die 30-jährige Kayla zuletzt in ihrer Heimat Irland war: Zu groß ist der Schmerz, den sie dort zurückgelassen hat. Jetzt zwingt sie der plötzliche Tod ihres Vaters, ins beschauliche Old Quay zurückzukehren. Dort trifft sie nicht nur ihre geliebte Gran und ihre Sandkastenfreundin Maeve wieder, sondern auch ihren Bruder Logan, mit dem sie seit einem schlimmen Streit kaum gesprochen hat. Während langer Spaziergänge am Meer kehren endlich auch die schönen Erinnerungen zu Kayla zurück.

Home isn't a place—it's the people who stay when the tide goes out... The sprawling beachfront of Amberjack Shores continues to work its magic as autumn arrives on Anastasia Island. With Linda's health bringing the extended Dalton family closer than ever, unexpected bonds form, and old wounds begin to heal under the golden Florida sun. As Becca throws herself into transforming the resort, she finds herself drawn to Tyler in ways that both thrill and terrify her. Some lines weren't meant to be crossed, but some hearts refuse to listen to reason.

Since the house was built in 1810, the Danes have always lived at Woodspring. Over the generations it has given them shelter, solace and joy. War brings change, and the next three generations of the family will lead very different lives, at home and abroad. Peace is shattered, pain is unavoidable, loves are found and lost, but Woodspring is constant, and will always draw them back...

January 2023. Cara's great-aunt Audrey has died, and her husband needs her presence at the funeral. It will be a stretch for Cara, whose every day is an emotional challenge, a challenge which is getting harder as her daughter's tenth birthday approaches. But with her family beside her, she's prepared to try… June 2000. Ten-year-old Cara and her sister are sent to live with their great aunt and uncle, part of a famous acting family, when their mother is hospitalised. The Wolfes see the world as a drama they are starring in, and when her sister seems at home Cara feels very much the outsider.