Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Women's Fiction

With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his 10-year marriage - or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. With nothing left to lose, Charlie takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden, blinding snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town.

From the beloved New York Times best-selling 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 is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned 12, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth.

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 her four-year-old son, George. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, a traditional gay man who has become her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart.

On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fi re on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the secrets buried over the years threaten to tear their family apart.

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.

Gillian Tillman learned all about landing a wealthy man from her globe-trotting mother, Imelda, but this second-generation gold digger has a style all her own. With big dreams of becoming a huge star, she slept her way right into the million-dollar mansion of her now-husband, star producer Brandon Russell. He not only launched Gillian's film career, but landed her the starring and Oscar-nominated role in the hit film Gold Diggers. But all that glitters may not be gold....

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 her four-year-old son, George. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, a traditional gay man who has become her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart.

The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia's friendship, as intense as any love affair, and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship. Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.

In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, 27-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has often fantasized about committing acts of bravery that would make front-page news. Now she may get her big break - though it may require plunging a few toilets. When the superintendent of her parents' Greenwich Village brownstone is led away in handcuffs, unemployed Zephyr takes over his post and unleashes her inner sleuth: discovering titillating secrets about her tenants

It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the island’s lush jungles and pristine white sand beaches. Yet three days after her arrival, she is caught in Bali’s infamous nightclub bombings, which irreparably change her life and leave her with many unanswered questions.

When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only too happy to pack up and leave the relentless Phoenix heat for the lush green quietude of Spaulding, Washington. But when you're a childless 30-something freelance writer who works at home, making new friends can be quite a challenge. Her attempts to do so lead her to enter a kooky beauty pageant - and to uncover a sinister mystery.

Widely celebrated for her debut novel, Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz once again proves herself to be a writer of remarkable depth and range. All Is Vanity probes into the mysteries of the human heart and uncovers the passions that drive ordinary people to break the rules in pursuit of their own desires.

The heralded Queen of Hip-Hop Lit presents an addictive collection of celebrated urban authors with their fingers on the pulse of the streets. Street lit’s finest female voices—Keisha Starr, Tysha, LaKesa Cox, and Monique S. Hall—deliver searing stories about women who make hard sacrifices to stay on top of their hustle and seize the power, money, and fame they can’t live without.

For university professor Mia Rose Curry, it was all academic: her course in alternative sexuality was a safe, socially acceptable way for her to talk about the things she desired most - but had never let herself experience. And while students crammed into her class to learn about fetishes, bondage, voyeurism, and much more, Mia kept her own raging desires, and her most private fantasies, carefully under wraps...until one man dared to make her secret passions a brazen reality.

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 Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would come home with the stunning news that she was getting married. Nor could anyone have guessed how that sudden announcement would soon change all their lives forever.

Wenn die Suche nach der Heimat zur Suche nach dir selbst wird. Schon immer hat Ellen sich wie eine Besucherin in ihrem eigenen Leben gefühlt. Außer einmal, als Kind, als sie mit ihrer Mutter kurz auf den Halligen lebte. Abreisen wollte sie damals nicht, doch sie hatte keine Wahl. Nun kehrt sie zurück auf dieses merkwürdig vertraute Fleckchen Marschland. Und zu Liske, die damals wie eine Schwester für sie war. Ihre Annäherung wühlt alte Konflikte wieder auf, doch Ellen lässt sich nicht entmutigen. Denn sie weiß: Dies ist ihre Seelenheimat.

Bernadette von Plesow hat schon viel durchmachen müssen, aber das letzte Jahr hat ihr fast zu viel abverlangt. Von ihrem prächtigen Hotel konnte sie alle Schäden abwenden, nicht jedoch von ihre Familie: Ihr Sohn Alexander ist tödlich verunglückt. Die Trauer lastet schwer auf ihr, besonders da sie im Unguten auseinandergegangen sind. Unterstützung erhält sie von ihrer Tochter Josephine, jedoch fällt es Bernadette nicht leicht, sich wieder mit aller Kraft dem Hotel zu widmen. Und plötzlich steht auch noch ein Mann vor der Tür, den sie nur von einer alten Fotografie kennt.

An einem Wintermorgen, an dem heftiger Schneefall die Luft Barcelonas mit tanzenden Kristallen füllte, wird Alba geboren. Sie wird Menschen verzaubern: mit der Gabe, durch ihre Koch- und Backkünste Glück zu verbreiten. Doch in den rauen Zeiten des Nachkriegsspaniens ist es für eine junge Frau nicht leicht, sich den Weg zum Glück zu erkämpfen.

Antonia, die älteste der drei Mühlenschwestern, ist der Wirbelwind der Familie. Nachdem vor vielen Jahren ihre erste Beziehung traumatisch endete, lässt sie sich nur noch auf oberflächliche Affären ein. Dafür geht sie ganz in ihrem Beruf als Hebamme auf - und neuerdings in der Aufgabe als Trauzeugin für ihre beste Freundin Anna, die in der Mühle am Sternsee eine große Hochzeit plant. Doch als Antonia erkennt, dass ausgerechnet Xander, arroganter Sohn eines skrupellosen Hoteliers, den Trauzeugen von Annas Zukünftigem gibt, möchte sie am liebsten davonrennen.

Als Fotografin um die Welt reisen! Das war immer Hannahs Traum. Und so ließ sie die Heimat hinter sich, um das Leben durch ihr Kameraobjektiv zu entdecken. Doch nun, mit Ende zwanzig, kehrt Hannah traumatisiert nach Sternmoos zurück. Ihre Welt ist nach einem tragischen Unfall in Südamerika nicht mehr dieselbe. Sie hofft, in der alten Mühle ihrer Tante Lou, bei ihren beiden Schwestern Rosa und Antonia, Trost zu finden. Doch kaum Zuhause angekommen, trifft sie auf Jakob, ihre erste große Liebe.