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Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure. Eleanor and Rupert had made an admirable life together - Eleanor with her sly wit and generosity, Rupert with his ambition and English charm.

Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father—a mystery that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman.

Eve Lattimore’s family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the dangers of the outside world.

On the morning after Harry Cline’s funeral, a rare ice storm hits the town of Wesleyan, Georgia. The community wakes up to find its controversial statue of Confederate general Henry Benning destroyed—and not by the weather. Half the town had wanted to remove the statue; the other half had wanted to preserve it. Now that the matter has been taken out of their hands, the town’s long-simmering tensions are laid bare. When the Moon Turns Blue is a timely novel about family, friendship, and what can happen when we discover that we don’t particularly like the people we love.

Eine herzzerreißende Entscheidung - zwischen deiner Liebe und deiner Familie. Der 25-jährige Colby bewirtschaftet eine Farm in North Carolina. Bei einem Urlaub lernt er die Sängerin Morgan kennen. Sie verbringen eine wunderschöne Zeit miteinander – und wissen doch, dass sie bald in kaum miteinander vereinbare Welten zurückkehren müssen. Zeitgleich flüchtet eine Frau namens Beverly vor ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann. Gemeinsam mit ihrem kleinen Sohn reist sie quer durch Amerika. Schließlich findet sie Unterschlupf in einem heruntergekommenen Haus in der Provinz.

As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, life for the core members of the company seems to be falling into disarray. Their trusted director has just retired, and theater manager Thaddeus Deerforth—staring down forty and sensing a rift growing slowly between himself and his wife, Gina—dreads the arrival of an imperious, inscrutable visiting director. Claudette, struggling to make ends meet, is getting frequent calls from her ex-boyfriend—and also the narcissistic, lecherous television actor who has been recruited to play King Lear in their fall production.

Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life.

For 10 summers, the Seton family - all three generations - met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the 11th summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family - and the convictions that just may pull it apart.

Informed by real-life events, from Japanese incarceration to the Vietnam War and modern-day immigrant detention, Kevin Nguyen’s novel gives us a version of reality only a few degrees away from our own. Moving and finely attuned to both the brutalities and mundanities of racism, Mỹ Documents is a strangely funny and touching portrait of American ambition, fear, and family. The story of the Nguyens is one of resilience and how we return to one another, and to ourselves, after tragedy.

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship. Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out takes us to the margins and the centers of real people's lives, exploring the changes that love and loss create.

Once inseparable, Berlin teenagers Ilse Fischer and Renate Bauer find their friendship ripped apart by their nation’s abrupt swing into fascism. Ilse, a so-called Aryan, throws her lot in with the Nazi Party, while Renate sees her once-secure world dismantled by Adolf Hitler's race laws and then shattered by a shocking betrayal. Decades later, that same betrayal will upend the life of Ilse's daughter, Ava, as she discovers long-buried truths about her mother's past.

Ein ergreifender Roman mit Schauplatz Indien über die Bejahung des Lebens, die Akzeptanz der eigenen Umstände und die innere Freiheit, das anzunehmen, was das Leben einem schenkt. Hamburg 1999: Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter reist Paula nach Rajasthan, wo sie als Kind einige Jahre gelebt hat. Dort lernte sie damals die Familie Khandal kennen, bei der sie, anders als in ihrer Familie, Wärme und Geborgenheit erfahren hat. Doch Paulas Mutter und Gesa Khandal beendeten die Freundschaft plötzlich.

Ein ergreifender Roman mit Schauplatz Indien über die Bejahung des Lebens, die Akzeptanz der eigenen Umstände und die innere Freiheit, das anzunehmen, was das Leben einem schenkt. Hamburg 1999: Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter reist Paula nach Rajasthan, wo sie als Kind einige Jahre gelebt hat. Dort lernte sie damals die Familie Khandal kennen, bei der sie, anders als in ihrer Familie, Wärme und Geborgenheit erfahren hat. Doch Paulas Mutter und Gesa Khandal beendeten die Freundschaft plötzlich.

Ein berührendes Buch über Einsamkeit, Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit und über die große Frage, wie gut man sich und diejenigen, die man liebt, wirklich ...

Teil 2 der Coastlines-Reihe: Die Schwestern Harmony und Hope haben alles zusammen durchgestanden. Doch nun ist Hope schwerkrank und Harmony muss lernen, allein ihr Glück zu finden. Harmony lebt als Journalistin in Phoenix. Die Liebe hat sie nach einigen Enttäuschungen aufgegeben. Stattdessen konzentriert sie sich ganz auf ihren Beruf und auf ihre ältere Schwester Hope, die seit drei Jahren vergeblich gegen Leukämie ankämpft. Hopes größter Wunsch ist es, ihre letzten Wochen auf Key West zu verbringen – ihrem liebsten Ort auf Erden.

Eine mächtige Familie. Dramatische Verwicklungen. Ein Haus, das mehr als ein Geheimnis birgt. Augsburg, 1916. Die Tuchvilla, der Wohnsitz der Industriellenfamilie Melzer, ist in ein Lazarett verwandelt worden. Die Töchter des Hauses pflegen gemeinsam mit dem Personal die Verwundeten, während Marie, Paul Melzers junge Frau, die Leitung der Tuchfabrik übernommen hat. Da erreichen sie traurige Nachrichten: Ihr Schwager ist an der Front gefallen, ihr Ehemann in Kriegsgefangenschaft geraten.

Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk. Collin's art captivates passersby with its vibrant colors and intricate lines - until the moment he wipes it all away. Nothing in Collin's life is meant to last. Then he meets Nina....

In the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway, set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success, then getting lost in the middle of their lives.

On an evening like any other, 9-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.

In the five years since Julia last visited her aunt and uncle’s home in Malibu, her life has been turned upside down by her daughter’s death. She expects to find nothing more than peace and solitude as she house-sits with only her dog, Bonnie, for company. But she finds herself drawn to the handsome man who oversees the lemon orchard. Roberto expertly tends the trees, using the money to support his extended Mexican family. What connection could these two people share? The answer comes as Roberto reveals the heartbreaking story of his own loss – a pain Julia knows all too well, but for one striking difference: Roberto’s daughter was lost but never found. And despite the odds he cannot bear to give up hope.