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Lu and her friends are all hitting 50 and have no intention of learning to knit. Feisty and fabulous, this foursome is determined to grow old disgracefully. Join them on their journey across the desert and across the years to their home town and a school reunion, in this audio drama from the international best-selling author of The Bride Stripped Bare.

Exiled for twenty-eight years, Annalise Pride is returning to Much Wenlock, regardless of how unwelcome she is. Kept from her daughter and her family home, Annalise has built a rather lucrative career away from the chitter chatter and idle gossip of small town life. Accused of a crime she did not commit, she is keen to claim back what was cruelly taken from her all those years ago. But her daughter Tamysn has already left. Driven into hiding in the Scottish highlands, Tamsyn has fallen in with an unsavoury crowd.

Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, "Marmee". With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain attempts to cut a fashionable figure in "society", and the artistic ambitions of the youngest sister Amy, it has never lost its extraordinary power to move and delight.

Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.

His dependency, vodka. Her dependency, him. When Kat Torrington discovers the depth of her husband Eric's secret drinking problem, she finds herself at a crossroads. Married three years with her first child on the way, Kat sees a fork in the road of her life: Should she stay or go? Over the next three years, as the couple faces alcoholism and recovery with equal parts determination and failure, Kat considers her options. Some choices are heart-wrenching, others empowering, but all life- changing. Meanwhile, Kat's dream of a happy- ever-after hangs in the balance.

Dans ce quatrième tome du cycle Femmes de guerre , Cristelle Ledroit prête sa voix - toujours avec beaucoup d'émotion et une grande justesse - à un incroyable récit tiré de l'histoire vraie de femmes courageuses, ayant combattu lors de l'Insurrection de Varsovie. Anna Stuart est une romancière britannique. Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs romans qui se déroulent pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ainsi que des sagas médiévales. Ses livres, devenus des best-sellers, sont traduits dans une dizaine de langues.

A story about a boy who dreamed of rock and roll. A story about a girl who dreamed about a boy. An epic, all-consuming love story about betrayal, loss and learning, that spans over 20 years. This is the story of us: "I was just 11 years old, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt I was staring into the eyes of the boy I was going to love forever." An edgy coming-of-age love story that breaks all the rules and transcends the decades.

Without any warning, Justin Kowalski drives his vehicle across a line of traffic and through the front wall of Cafe 64, killing himself and three other people—and taking the reasons for this shocking act to the grave. Unable to locate any evidence of criminal behaviour or mental illness in Justin's past, and with no one left to prosecute, the police have no choice but to label it "an isolated incident".

Weird Women, edited by award-winning anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger, collects some of the finest tales of terror by authors as legendary as Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, alongside works of writers who were the best sellers and critical favorites of their time - Marie Corelli, Ellen Glasgow, Charlotte Riddell - and lesser known authors who are deserving of contemporary recognition.

Vanessa, bien qu'ayant grandi à Montréal, trouve son véritable refuge au cœur de la forêt. Abandonnant sa carrière de biologiste, elle se consacre à sa passion pour la peinture animalière. Pourtant, les relations humaines s'avèrent plus complexes que le monde animal qu'elle connaît si bien. Dans ce roman empreint de nature, Vanessa découvre que l'espoir et la joie se cachent souvent là où on les attend le moins. "Le vol silencieux de la chouette" célèbre les petits bonheurs de la vie, nous invitant à suivre Vanessa dans sa quête de sens et de beauté.

As single mother Leah struggles to get her children ready one morning, the doorbell rings. Standing on the doorstep of their terraced house in Whitley Bay is a well-dressed stranger, Clio, who feels an emotional tie to the house that she can’t explain.

Flint Hopkins finds the perfect tenant to rent the space above his Minneapolis-based law office. All the t's are crossed and i's dotted on Ellen's application. Her references are good. And she's easy on the eyes. Until... Flint discovers Ellen Rodgers plays music. Bongos, guitars, singing - not Beethoven administered through noise-cancelling headphones. The cut-throat attorney serves up an eviction notice to the bubbly, constantly humming redhead who's too sexy for her own good. But luck is on Ellen's side when Flint's autistic son, Harrison, takes an instant liking to her.

This is the story of four women. Soleil St. James, Dawn Anthony, Ebony Jones, and Dr. Jonelle "Johnnie" Edwards all live, work, and love in Jacksonville, Florida. The women from four different backgrounds are bonded when their worlds collide after one event, both tragic and triumphant, brings them together and tests them in ways they've never imagined.

A Quick Reads story from the bestselling author of The Fall and The Intruders! Two Neighbours. Two Secrets. One chance at survival. Running from her past, Meena hopes to find peace in her new home. But her neighbour, Ada, is a mystery. Meena can’t shake the feeling that something about Ada is...

Can she stop messing it up before she hits fifty? Millie is old enough to know better. Just don’t tell her that. At forty-nine, her life is in freefall. Everyone around her seems to have it all figured out—meanwhile, she’s stuck in a job she hates and back living with her mum. Avoiding...

In her life, there have only been three lovers. But Leslie doesn’t lament the meager number, she only truly mourns the second one. In her youthful arrogance, she turned him away, thinking there would be many more chances. Now, she lives two lives—one in the present, and another plagued by bittersweet memories of the past. But maybe, even now, it will be possible to reconcile the two.

Can two people who have never met make a marriage work? Popular dating site Sociality thinks so, and is marrying London lad Adam to California girl Jessica to prove it. What better way to show that your 'love algorithms' work than to put two complete strangers together in an expensive publicity stunt? But, as livewire Jess and lazybones Adam quickly discover, just because a computer says you're the perfect match, it doesn't make it so!

"Three Women - Drei Frauen" ist der Text der Stunde über weibliche Sexualität zwischen Lust und Macht, anziehend und verstörend, vielschichtig, gewaltig und schön. Alles, was Lina will, ist, dass sie jemand begehrt. Wie ist sie in diese Ehe geraten, mit zwei Kindern und einem Mann, der sie nicht einmal mehr auf den Mund küsst? Alles, was Maggie will, ist, dass sie jemand versteht. Wie konnte sie sich auf ihren Lehrer einlassen? Und warum scheinen alle nicht ihn, sondern sie dafür zu hassen? Alles, was Sloane will, ist, dass sie jemand bewundert.

Joann’s working at reception, but not planning to stay long; she’s “just paying bills” while figuring out a career. Soon, however, the hotel world draws her in, aglow with love affairs, late-night confessions, and friendships forged in quiet spaces between phone calls and cigarette breaks. Then there’s him. One of Joann’s favorite teammates is always watching out for her amid the ever-looming uncertainty. Something’s happening between them, but do they really have a chance? Everyone’s trying to get somewhere else.

Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes räumt Christien Brinkgreve das gemeinsame Haus um. Was wie eine äußere Routine erscheint, stößt bei ihr eine innere Bewegung an: Eine Frau blickt zurück–auf ihr Leben, ihre Ehe, ihre Rolle in der Familie und in der Welt. Was bleibt von den gemeinsamen Jahrzehnten? Wer war sie in der Beziehung, wer ist sie ohne sie? Und wie kann es sein, dass sie sich als selbstbestimmte Frau zwischen Liebe und fremden Erwartungen verloren hat?