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München, 1923: Für die Geschwister Hermann und Hilde waren die letzten Jahre alles andere als einfach. Hermann ist in einer lieblosen Ehe mit Friederike gefangen, die eine glühende Anhängerin der immer stärker werdenden NSDAP ist. Er flüchtet sich in den Alkohol, um seine Realität für eine Weile zu vergessen. Doch dann lernt er den jungen Jazzmusiker Gordon Johnson kennen und plötzlich fühlt sich Hermann wie neugeboren. Aber seine immer stärker werdenden Gefühle für Gordnon könnten sie beide ihr Leben kosten.

Our deepest wishes are whispered in our hearts. Turns out wishes do come true but we have to be open to change.

Jessica Steele just received the worst birthday present—her husband of almost thirty years has left her without a word. Now adrift and running out of options, Jess takes her teen daughter, Glory, back to the Florida Keys. Jess hopes that fixing up her uncle's beach house will be the fresh start they both need. But she doesn't expect that her older daughters will join them—Liberty, the pediatric nurse with the seemingly perfect marriage, Anthem, the lighthearted musician who seems to be holding a surprising secret, and even one of Jess's nieces, who is looking for help only Jess can provide.

Seit zwei Jahrzehnten freut sich Rocky auf den jährlichen Ausflug ihrer Familie nach Cape Cod. Ihr rustikales Ferienhaus am Strand ist ein Ort voll schöner Erinnerungen, dessen schrullige Möbel und nicht zusammenpassende Töpfe und Pfannen sie wie alte Freunde begrüßen. Diesen Sommer, mit ihren Kindern, die erwachsen genug sind, um ohne sie Spaß zu haben, aber noch jung genug, um sie zu brauchen, und ihren Eltern, die noch leben und gesund sind, möchte Rocky am liebsten für immer bewahren. Eine kostbare Woche, in der alles im Gleichgewicht ist.

Lydia, home from Paris on New Year’s Day in a welter of hangover and humiliation, finds herself swearing off drink, drugs and sex for the next 12 months. Through her unfamiliar sobriety, she’ll see a landmark year for all the Bennet sisters, including a disruptive 40th birthday, an engagement and a funeral: and, maybe, coming to terms with the results of a run-of-the-mill run-in with a jacknifed lorry on a wet stretch of the M1…

Un maggio poco assolato. La telefonata giunge mentre Libera è in ufficio: sua madre Luigia è morta. Il ritorno al paese natio non può essere più triste. Dopo il funerale Monica, quasi per caso, ritrova una vecchia scritta incisa nella pietra e così inizia un viaggio nel passato che le svela ciò che sua madre non le ha mai rivelato. Monica mette in ordine i tasselli della vita della nonna e contemporaneamente fa luce su se stessa in un continuo scambio d'identità allo specchio. Luigia, Libera e Monica, tre donne, tre generazioni, tre storie diverse che si appartengono.

Doro hatte gehofft, mit Matthes' Hilfe endlich Licht in die Dunkelheit ihrer Familiengeschichte zu bringen. Doch dann ist er plötzlich von Helgoland verschwunden, ohne eine Nachricht zu hinterlassen. Und das, obwohl sich die beiden auch persönlich nahe gekommen waren.

When four ride-or-die friends reunite for a getaway, they’re desperate for a break, a chance to reconnect. But each is hiding a deeper reason why. Marie feels like an impostor teaching “How to Say No” seminars while her marriage has evolved into something she never said yes to. Brooke’s most heartfelt goal—motherhood—is proving out of reach. Lucy’s dream career has broken her spirit, possibly for good. And Collins feels trapped in grief by her late husband’s legacy.

In 1946, two German sisters, child refugees in a program dubbed Operation Shamrock, arrive in Ireland to live in foster care while Europe recovers from war. Nearly fifty years later, on a fateful day in a bustling Maine farmhouse, an Irish newspaper clipping threatens to unravel Faye Sullivan’s carefully constructed life with husband William and daughters Maeve and Molly, a life already on the brink of collapse.

When Catherine Moran’s long-lost brother bequeaths her a boat in Key West, she’s not sure what hurts more: his death or the decades they’ve been estranged. The fifty-seven-year-old thinks this could be the answer to her financial strain since putting their mother in a memory care facility, but when she arrives on the island, her bonanza is a bust. The boat is a dilapidated trawler supposedly once owned by Ernest Hemingway, and a handsome buddy of her brother is living onboard but refuses to jump ship.

Cuando Roman Carruthers, el hijo mayor de la familia y un genio de las finanzas, vuelve a casa tras el accidente de coche de su padre, se encuentra a su hermano pequeño, Dante, endeudado con criminales peligrosos, y a su hermana Neveah agotada de mantener unida a la familia y su negocio. Neveah, que dirige el Crematorio Carruthers en Jefferson Run, ve la muerte de cerca todos los días. Pero la mortalidad se acerca aún más a la familia cuando queda claro que el accidente que dejó a su padre en coma no fue tal, y que la imprudencia de Dante los ha puesto a todos en un verdadero peligro.

Ob ein zärtliches Wiedersehen nach Jahrzehnten, das Knistern beim Tanzabend im Seniorenclub oder eine unerwartete Begegnung beim Spaziergang im Park – dieses Hörbuch ist eine liebevolle Sammlung von romantischen Kurzgeschichten, die das Herz berühren und ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern.

Dans cette nouvelle mordante, un mari tyrannique et son épouse s’affrontent derrière les convenances. La beauté, tant célébrée qu’irrémédiablement inutile, devient l’enjeu d’un duel intime où se révèlent domination et désir d’émancipation. Avec son ironie précise et sa lucidité cruelle, Maupassant explore les pièges du mariage, la foi et le hasard, en un dialogue où chaque mot pèse. Un portrait sans fard des mœurs et un suspense psychologique tout en retenue, à écouter pour la netteté du style et l’écho troublant de ses questions.

Fiona Carlton has never needed a man to make her life complete. Until she meets charming, handsome, and sophisticated Rick. She is consumed, first by lust, then by a love for him that overwhelms her. The only problem? Rick already has a wife. But a little detail like that isn't going to stand in Fiona's way… Rick's wife, Lydia, however, is not a woman to be trifled with. She's sacrificed everything for her husband, been the perfect stay-at-home wife and mother, raised two beautiful children, built a happy home full of memories.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

There is more than one way to fight a war...An extraordinary story of grit, love and loss, based on the true history and real experiences of Australian nurses in World War 1. 'Heart-achingly raw yet filled with the beauty of the human spirit, this novel is a triumph that will linger in the heart...

Welcome to Flamford, the town sanity forgot. Edgy, sharp-tongued City burn-out Andy Chambers has been advised, for the sake of his health, to take a break from his stressful London lifestyle and get some rest. So he goes to stay with his estranged uncle, Jeff Whitaker, at his seaside home in Flamford - but, as he soon discovers, living with his relative is far from relaxing.

In An Irish Country Courtship, after less than a year, young Barry Laverty, M.B., is settling in to the village, with only a few months to go before he becomes a full partner in the practice. He's looking forward to becoming a fixture in the community, until an unexpected romantic reversal gives him second thoughts. Will he truly be happy tending to routine coughs and colds for the rest of his career? After all, even when a more challenging case comes along, like a rare tropical disease, all he can do is pass it on to a qualified specialist or big-city hospital.

From neuroscientist and bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a story of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis. After a car crash leaves a vibrant mother in her thirties with a traumatic brain disorder called “left neglect,” she learns what truly matters most in life. Sarah...

The complete BBC radio adaptations of Alexander McCall's bestselling series. Inspired by Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, 44 Scotland Street started life as a serial in The Scotsman. It was a huge hit, and was soon novelised, adapted on stage and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. Collected here are all five radio series, in which we follow the interconnected lives of the residents of adjoining flats in a tenement in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town.