Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Family Life

Teddy is a successful Los Angeles lawyer whose charm and formidable political skills have made him the leading candidate in the race to become the new U.S. senator from California. But behind the golden public persona lie some darker truths: his teenage daughter, Zoe, has barely spoken to him...

From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . . Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly...

A riveting novel of feeling and suspense in which grief and punishment become tragically intertwined. At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family--Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma--stop at a gas station...

The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home. 1940. Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl “Earwig” Gunderman is not like other boys his age. Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town and the world around him through the prism of his own unique...

Keith Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as “captivating” (USA Today), “luminous and thrilling” (Washington Post), and “wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it’s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, Angels of Destruction...

To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and...

Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it's set. From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house...

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and...

For ten 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 eleventh summer, everything changed. A...

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and...

From the bestselling author of The Carousel and Daybreak comes a stirring, timely story of adultery and its impact on the American family. Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly...

“Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel.”–The New York Times A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz’s riveting novel RESERVATION ROAD. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected...

A gripping suspense story about a woman who returns to Galveston, Texas after a personal tragedy and is irresistibly drawn into the insular world she’s struggled to leave. Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy...

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters–Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia–at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school’s beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor’s sister-in-law, mother superior...

The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere. When...

Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina’s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across from her in his Stickley chair with his glass of...

In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to...

Sie sind Zwillinge – und werden bei der Geburt getrennt. Beide Jungen wachsen auf, ohne dass sie voneinander wissen: Nat in einfachen Verhältnissen, sein Bruder Fletcher als Sohn eines der reichsten Männer Connecticuts. Doch Nat will es den Umständen zum Trotz ganz nach oben schaffen. Immer wieder kreuzen sich die Schicksalspfade der beiden Brüder. Nat erkämpft sich eine Karriere als erfolgreicher Bankier, Fletcher geht in die Politik. Beide müssen sich in Machtspielen, Liebschaften und Lebensproben bewähren.

Wirtschaftswunder, Kaufrausch, Träume in Pastell - drei Schwestern und ein Kaufhaus am Ku'damm. Berlin 1958: Farben und Formen, Augenblicke eingefangen mit Bleistift und Papier. Seit sie denken kann, will Florentine Thalheim sich ganz dem Zeichnen und der Malerei hingeben. Doch die jüngste von drei Töchtern war schon immer eine Rebellin. Zweimal ist sie durch das Abitur gefallen, mehr als eine Ausbildung zur Dekorateurin hat sie nicht vorzuweisen.

Als Rabbit Hayes stirbt, hinterlässt sie eine große Lücke im Leben aller Familienmitglieder und Freunde, für die sie immer ein Lebensmittelpunkt war. Sie müssen lernen, mit ihren Zweifeln und ihrer Hilflosigkeit, ihrer Wut und ihren neuen Aufgaben umzugehen. Mit all den Figuren, die uns in "Die letzten Tage von Rabbit Hayes" so ans Herz gewachsen sind, fiebern, leiden und lachen wir wieder mit. Mit ihren Eltern, ihren Geschwistern, ihrer besten Freundin und vor allem mit ihrer Tochter.