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Montréal, mars 2020. Evangéline et Mathéo ont le coeur brisé par la perte de leur bébé, né prématurément. Incapable de surmonter sa peine, Evangéline sombre dans la neurasthénie. C'est alors que Mathéo est convoqué chez un notaire : Cyriac, un mystérieux grand-oncle, lui lègue un ancien presbytère à Val Roussillon, en Abitibi. Intrigué, le jeune couple se rend sur place. La propriété reçue en héritage est superbe, sise sur un promontoire rocheux depuis 1945. En effectuant des travaux, Mathéo retrouve le journal intime du curé Augustin Davignon, l'énigmatique premier propriétaire.

All is right in Ellie Pringle Hagood’s world. Recently married to the man of her dreams and in anticipation of the big family she’s always wanted, she focuses on restoring the large home she inherited from her grandmother on Charleston’s prestigious Battery. But then, in the midst of all her happiness, comes news that throws Ellie’s life into a tailspin.

Michael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of metropolitan life. Turning to the ancient set of ethics of his Orthodox grandfather, with a modern twist, he becomes a Reform rabbi. As insecure and sexually needy as any other young male, he serves as a circuit-rider rabbi in the Ozarks, and then as a temple rabbi in the racially ugly South, in a San Francisco suburb, in a Pennsylvania college town, and, finally, in a New England community west of Boston.

Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she's not sure. She'd like to ask Dad about it, but growing up in the saddest chapter of someone else's story is difficult. She tries not to skate on the thin ice of his memories. Darren has done his best. He's studied his daughter like a seismologist on the lookout for waves and surrounded her with everything she might want - everything he can think of, at least - to be happy. What Clover wants is answers.

Samantha Sweeney has always been the glue that holds her family together, their go-to girl for love and support. When an ATV accident leaves her teenage son in a wheelchair, she loses her carefully constructed self-control. In the after-gloom of her dreaded 50th birthday and the discovery of her husband's infidelity, Jackie realizes she must reconnect with her former self to find the happiness she needs to move forward.

Bold, brash, Irish--Brodie Monaghan's been breaking hearts ever since he arrived in Maine to rebuild the family business. Still, there's one woman he just can't wow. Grace Maddox claims she's now part owner of Monaghan Shipbuilders, and she has her own dreams for the weathered dockside buildings. Tiny Blueberry Cove has a way of welcoming strangers with wide open arms, but is the sleepy coastal village ready for the fireworks these two spark? DIY is so much better with two. . .

Fixing things has always been Alex McFarland's greatest gift and keenest pleasure. But with her own life thoroughly broken, she's signed on to renovate the dilapidated Pelican Point lighthouse, hoping to reconnect with herself. The last thing she expects is to find herself falling in love - with the glorious coastline, with age-old secrets and welcome-home smiles - and with rugged Logan McCrae, the man she just might be able to build new hopes on. DIY is so much better with two.

Highliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catches—salmon, king crab, halibut, shrimp—and deliver them first to the bustling canneries of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. For these men—and for their women—the safe eight-hour day does not exist. It never will. Some fishermen get rich, many die broke. But they find a special joy in their work that can never be matched by the easier world of the landsman.

Millie Cameron is furious when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo, who has died recently. She hardly knew her aunt, and besides, she has her own career to think of.

Young, pretty, full of confidence - or so she likes to pretend - she wants nothing to do with a dull spinster aunt whom her family refuses to talk about. But when she arrives at Flo’s basement flat, Millie’s interest is awakened.

From the critically acclaimed writer, Michael Thomas Ford, comes a highly anticipated first novel that follows the intertwining lives of three men, set against the backdrop of summer-time in the breezy coastal community of Provincetown.

Ci sono momenti nella vita in cui si sente il bisogno di prendersi una pausa e ripercorrere con calma, senza le continue incombenze quotidiane, le tappe della nostra esistenza. Un viaggio che, anche nei momenti difficili e bui, ci ha portato a provare un sentimento di riconoscenza e gratitudine verso chi ha condiviso con noi il cammino, le prove, le epifanie. Così Chiara, alla soglia dei sessant’anni, approfittando dell’improvviso silenzio che avvolge la sua casa in collina, decide di scrivere tre lettere.

Giunto all’età della pensione, Hüseyin ha finalmente realizzato il suo sogno: dopo trent’anni di duro lavoro nelle fabbriche tedesche, si è comprato...

"Wir müssen nach vorn sehen. Da liegt die Zukunft." In diesem dritten Band ihrer Saga um den ostfriesischen Nordseehof erzählt Regine Kölpin - spannend, bewegend und voller norddeutscher Atmosphäre - den Abschluss einer dramatischen Emanzipationsgeschichte um drei Frauen aus drei Generationen. 1993: Eigentlich stehen Feemke alle Wege offen, jeder Beruf könnte ihrer, jedes Land ihre Heimat sein. Doch nur in der rauen Landschaft des Nordens fühlt sie sich zu Hause. Erst langsam wird ihr klar, dass bleiben manchmal genauso viel Mut kostet wie wegzugehen.

Die Unberechenbarkeit zweiter Chancen. Morgen wird alles anders oder jetzt ist auch schon egal. So leben die Bewohner des heruntergekommenen rheinischen Kurorts Villrath. Seit die lokale Heilquelle vor Jahren versiegte, stehen die Gästezimmer leer. Da fördern Bauarbeiten ein mineralhaltiges Rinnsal zutage. Was könnte den Glanz vergangener Tage zurückbringen, wenn nicht das gute alte Heilwasser? Vera, letzte Trägerin der Villrather Nixenkrone und Wirtin des "Stübchen", beschließt gegen jede Vernunft, einen alten Jugendtraum wiederzubeleben. Notfalls mit Lug und Trug.

In diesem zweiten Band ihrer Saga um den ostfriesischen Nordseehof erzählt Regine Kölpin – spannend, bewegend und voller norddeutscher Atmosphäre – eine dramatische Emanzipationsgeschichte um drei Frauen aus drei Generationen.

Texas, 1934: Seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise sind Hunderttausende arbeitslos, und in den Ebenen der Prärie herrscht Dürre - zu viel wurde gerodet, nach Missernten droht das Land von Sandstürmen davongetragen zu werden. In dieser unsicheren, gefahrvollen Zeit muss Elsa Martinelli eine schwere Entscheidung treffen: Soll sie um das Land kämpfen, das sie liebt und das die Heimat ihrer Familie ist? Oder soll sie mit ihren Kindern wie so viele andere nach Westen ziehen? Irgendwann bleibt Elsa keine Wahl mehr, doch die Flucht nach Kalifornien birgt neue Gefahren in sich.

All Jordan Manning wants is a quiet summer on the Virginia coast with her sons to recover from a near-fatal accident and an abusive relationship. Her plans to find a new direction for her future are turned upside down when she runs into the first man who ever broke her heart...and he's determined to win it back. Rob Tyler thought he'd moved on, but when fate drops a second chance with his first love right in his path, his feelings rush back stronger than ever. Rob is determined to give Jordan the future they should have had years ago, but making up for past mistakes isn't easy.

Braxton Monroe’s taking a break from teaching to do some strenuous work on a Civil War-era house, and feeling the strain in every rock-hard muscle. Good thing he has to interview massage therapists for the spa - even if it’s embarrassing to meet a job candidate in his boxers. Cora Buchanan has hands so talented - and a voice so sultry - he wants to hire her before he even lifts his head from the table. But he’s shocked to meet her outside the massage room - with her seeing-eye dog, Heidi the yellow lab.

Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones and a nice girl, not poverty, loneliness and racism. Still, he might not have found Keith Richards, but he did find the girl. Neha is dying. Lung cancer, a genetic gift from her mother and an invocation to forge a better relationship with her brother and her widowed father before it's too late. The problem is, her brother is an unfunny comedian and her idiot father is a first-generation immigrant who moved to Keighley, of all places.

On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table.