Family Life

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....

When Callie rents a beach cottage in Whitstable, she doesn't expect for its owner to be glamorous influencer Vanessa Lowe....

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, Verity, and It Ends with Us comes a hauntingly seductive tale of love, control, and the devastating secrets that can destroy it all.

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild....

Thirty years ago, my father became the other half of a broken love story. A relationship he’s kept hidden for decades....

The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister?

For 18 years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows - her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers....

Kristin Hannah's True Colors is a novel about sisters, vengeance, rivalry, betrayal - and ultimately, what it truly means to be a family....

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, and It Ends with Us comes a “brilliant” (Tracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author) tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance.

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably....

A story of love, friendship and rekindled romance. In Keys to the Kingdom, Alison Armstrong takes you on a journey of discovery into the workings of men, women, and relationships....

Rebecca Waterhouse is just thirteen when she witnesses her mother's death at the hand of her father in Seaview Cottage. But what else did she see....

A grieving widow and a disenchanted writer form an unexpected bond in a novel about second chances and finding the courage to let go of the past....

Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job.

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate....

Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread....

New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal.

It’s three days before Christmas, and detective-turned-chef Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is drafted in to cater a charity event run by a notorious millionaire at a 13th-century abbey on Bodmin Moor.

Two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives from scratch....

Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the best-selling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook.

It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adventure in the colonies, helping to establish the Firm's new Australian factory.

Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer, with dogs of her very own. But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complicated than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about - her family, her friends, the dogs - it's up to Andie to reclaim her future.

New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal. But her new life in Lisbon, known as the Capital of Espionage, challenges everything she thought she knew about herself.

Fay Roper is a divorced single mom and a globally famous actress. She’s also unlucky in love. Maybe because the last thing Fay wants in a man is yet another superfan. But somehow, every time she has a boyfriend who isn’t a stalker, he abruptly disappears from her life. With the help of her best friend and right-hand woman, Poppy, Fay decides to change the game and join an exclusive new dating app under a false identity. A subscriber named Oliver takes the bait. But Oliver likes to play games too. And only one of them can win.

Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night. Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs.

The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life—and a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he’s left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible.

Beckett é um militar americano endurecido pelos horrores que já testemunhou na guerra. A não ser pela amizade sincera que tem com Ryan, um soldado de sua unidade, e com a cachorra Bagunça, ele perdeu a fé no amor e na humanidade. Até que Ryan o convence a se corresponder com sua irmã, Ella, que está do outro lado do mundo, em Telluride, no Colorado. Mesmo sem nunca tê-la conhecido pessoalmente, Beckett encontra refúgio nas cartas que os dois trocam e fica totalmente encantado por ela.

When Georgie Greene is evacuated to the English countryside to keep him safe from the London Blitz, he can’t think of anything worse than leaving his family behind to face the nightly bombings. With her little brother safe from the air raids, his sister, schoolteacher Kate, prays for a brighter future, but in a time of war, tragedy is never far away. Faced with uncertainty and heartache at every turn, Georgie and Kate must find the courage to carry on without each other. Can they be strong and keep their hopes alive of being a family once again?

Hava hat ihre Heimat als junge Frau verlassen, aber in Deutschland, am Bodensee, ist sie nicht glücklich geworden, genauso wenig wie in ihrer Ehe. Den Mann, den sie nicht heiraten durfte, hat sie nie vergessen - und ihrem Vater nie verziehen. Und so machen sich Ayla und ihr Bruder Yasin mit ihrer Mutter in einem alten Mercedes auf den Weg nach Anatolien, damit Hava ihre große Liebe wiedersehen kann. Eine Reise beginnt, die in die Vergangenheit führt, zu dem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen, in dem Bauer Mesut von der großen, weiten Welt träumte - und seine Tochter von der Freiheit.

Laurel, at eleven, was conscious of being happy. She was almost afraid of it. 'I'll never be as happy again. When I'm quite old, as old as 30, I'll come back to this bit of Eastbourne. I'll come on the same day in June and remember me now. ' The four Wiltshire children live a comfortable middle-class English life. But as WWII overtakes the country, the family, like so many others, slowly disintegrates.

Can one kiss melt a cold, broken heart? When career-focused Chloe Bellamy is sent to Iceland on a work trip at the last minute, it’s her chance to prove she deserves a seat at the top. There’s just one problem: she may have embellished her CV a little, saying she speaks Icelandic. She doesn’t. And to top it off, she’s landed with no place to stay.

April Bannerman is een jonge moeder van drie, getrouwd met haar middelbareschoolliefde en woont nog steeds in het stadje waar ze is opgegroeid. Hoewel ze van haar kinderen en man houdt, wordt April geteisterd door de toenemende twijfel dat ze niet aan de verwachtingen van haar moeder heeft voldaan. Maar op een dag gebeurt er iets vreselijks en onverwachts waarna April de waarheid over haar eigen leven onder ogen moet zien. Dan pas ontdekt ze wat er echt toe doet.

Working in service as a cook in a big house, Rose dreams of running her own teashop one day. But her life takes a dark turn, when her family fall prey to an unscrupulous family member and her mother, a milliner, falls into debt. As Rose takes charge of her younger, wilder sister their lives are thrown into turmoil when tragedy strikes. Is Rose’s dream of a better life destined to remain just that, or will her love for her family bring better days?

Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes out at the Cornish Sea, she begins to long for more. Zach Trevelyan is not where he expected to be. His surfing career in tatters following an injury, he finds himself in St Ives without a home, a job, or a path ahead. When Merryn discovers an abandoned piano, it evokes long-lost memories of someone who left her life without a word – her much-loved stepfather.

It’s 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman’s husband died. Raising two kids, she’s finally emerging from her cocoon of grief. Not yet a butterfly, but she’s anxious to spread her wings. Then one day her mother-in-law, Ruth, shows up on her doorstep with five suitcases, expecting a room of her own with a suitable mattress. Abrasive and stuck in her ways yet well meaning, Mother Ruth arrives without warning to help with the children. How can Barbara say no to a woman who is not only a widow herself but also a grieving mother?

1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.

Eine berührende Geschichte über Hoffnung und zweite Chancen von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Catherine Ryan Hyde Bei einem Einsatz nach einem Tornado lernt die Ärztin Maggie die Teenager Jean und Rose kennen und schließt die stillen Mädchen schnell ins Herz. Als sich herausstellt, dass der Sturm sie zu Waisen gemacht hat, würde Maggie die beiden am liebsten sofort mit zu sich nach Hause nehmen. Doch ihre eigenen Töchter, Willa und Gemma, sind alles andere als begeistert, als sie schließlich ihr privilegiertes Leben in Kalifornien teilen müssen.

England im Jahr 1840. Zwei Jahrzehnte sind vergangen, seit Cassandra Austen von ihrer geliebten Schwester Jane Abschied nehmen musste, und noch immer vergeht kein Tag, an dem sie sich nicht um das Andenken der berühmten Schriftstellerin sorgt. Als sie das Haus ihrer gemeinsamen Freundin Eliza Fowle besucht, stößt sie auf einen verborgenen Schatz: Janes Briefe.

Ein furchtbarer Verlust, ein letztes Versprechen und zwei ergreifende Liebesgeschichten Versprich mir, dass du tanzt ist eine Achterbahnfahrt der ganz großen Gefühle von Bestseller-Autorin Dani Atkins, der Meisterin der tief berührenden Liebesromane mit ungewöhnlichen Twists. Es ist der erste Hochzeitstag, den Lily ohne ihren geliebten Adam verbringen muss. Sie sitzt im Garten ihrer Eltern und sieht Adams Hund zu, der durch die Äste eines gefällten alten Baumes tobt.

Secret Storm by Antonio N Sherman is a captivating tale of a young woman named Secret Storm, who is the daughter of the lead singer of the once-popular boy group Urban Key Notes. Her life is a blend of rhythm and heartache as she navigates her way through the music industry, achieving significant success at a young age. Secret Storm's journey is marked by her determination to avoid the pitfalls that sabotaged her father's career. She surrounds herself with a strong management team and entourage, known as "The Storm Troopers" and "The Eye of The Storm," respectively.

Es gibt keinen Weg, der nicht irgendwann nach Hause führt Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wird mitten in Deutschland ein kleiner Junge gefunden, der nichts über sich selbst und seine Herkunft weiß. Sein Alter wird geschätzt, er bekommt den Namen Hartmut und wächst in einem katholischen Kinderheim auf, in dem viel Ordnung und noch mehr Zucht herrscht. Dort lernt er die etwas ältere Kriegswaise Margret kennen, die ihn schon im Heim zu beschützen versucht. Die beiden werden zu einer unverzichtbaren Stütze füreinander und beschließen, sich nie wieder loszulassen.

Written in the tradition of her other works, this stunning anthology of short stories features narratives of great emotional depth, nuance and complexity. Exploring social class, family dynamics and failed romances, these stories offer powerful meditations on the profundity of everyday life.

Anthony Patch, a young yet unambitious graduate from Harvard University, moves to New York and soon meets fellow socialite and flapper, Gloria Gilbert. Infatuated by her beauty, Anthony soon proposes to Gloria, and the pair embark on a doomed whirlwind romance. Their marriage is combative and tense; Anthony expects Gloria to be more domesticated while Gloria expects Anthony to fund her extravagant lifestyle.

2019: Lucy erwacht aus einem Albtraum und findet ihre Hände an der Kehle ihres Ex. Entsetzt flieht sie zu ihrer Schwester Jess an die australische Küste, doch diese ist verschwunden. Während Lucy auf ihre Rückkehr wartet, erfährt sie von seltsamen Ereignissen in der Kleinstadt: Männer sind verschwunden, ein Baby wurde in einer Höhle gefunden, und Seeleute hören Frauenstimmen auf den Wellen.

Zum Zeitpunkt ihres Todes hat die Presse viel über Ingrid Olssen geschrieben: Sie war eine weltberühmte Künstlerin. Sie war eine furchtbare Mutter für ihre Töchter Mattie und Nora. Und ihr Vermächtnis würde für immer weiterleben. Doch es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass die Welt jemals eine weitere Ingrid Olssen-Ausstellung sehen wird – ihr letzter Wunsch war, ihre Asche in den Canyon und ihre Bilder ins Meer zu werfen. Mattie und Nora wuchsen unter den Augen der Öffentlichkeit auf und leben völlig unterschiedliche Leben.

Alexander verliert seine Gesundheit, seine Würde und seinen Wohlstand und als auch noch tief verborgene Geheimnisse ans Licht kommen, wendet sich sogar Claudia von ihm ab. Einsam und gebrochen versucht er, die Trümmer seines Lebens neu zu ordnen. Dabei trifft er Nina, die wie er alles verloren hat.