Contemporary Family Life

August Hanson was the silent type, the kind who spoke through his actions and not his words. He possessed enough power to make me feel safe and secure. I was ready to open up and share the parts of myself I’d never shared with another, and then I got hit with a truth that changed everything. There was a slight chance he’d still want me, only he had to accept our baby, too.

Christmas may be the season of goodwill and festive cheer, but not for the poor of 1950s Liverpool. And for St Angelus Hospital in Lovely Lane, it is frantically busy. There are the old, the dying, the children and the emergencies.

The nurses, known locally as the Angels of Lovely Lane, are run off their feet. Dana, Beth, Pammy and Victoria hardly have time to catch their breath, let alone have a Christmas of their own.

Hazel McNamara is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. He screams her name - then, silence. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished. As days pass and the Gardaí investigate, Hazel's carefully...

Nach dem Tod ihrer Tante Caro erfährt Deni, dass sie einen Campingbus mit Foodtruck geerbt hat, der einzige irdische Besitz Caros, die schon lange in der Normandie lebte.Im idyllischen Apfelgarten Renauds, eines Freundes von Caro, wartet tatsächlich der Bus. Doch Bastien, Renauds Sohn, ist über Denis Erscheinen wenig erfreut. Immerhin: Sie darf vorerst bleiben. Mit gemischten Gefühlen erkundet sie den Foodtruck und entdeckt hinter einem Regal ein Foto der jungen Caro – schwanger! Deni ist fassungslos, sie wusste nie, dass ihre Tante ein Kind hatte.

Some summers don't just pass; they redefine you. It’s a season measured in a cascade of firsts: the nervous energy of a first date, the terrifying, liberating weight of a first confession, the breathtaking moment you feel truly seen by someone else. Suddenly, the simplest things become landmarks etched in your memory, the way the afternoon sun slants through the trees, the melody of a shared song on the radio. The future, once a predictable line on a map, explodes into a constellation of thrilling, uncertain paths.

A typical Mormon family: two parents, two kids. Mother and father love each other deeply. Enough that they’ve committed to stay together for eternity. A son on the brink of priesthood initiation. A daughter preparing for official membership; a covenant decision. Like any typical family anywhere, trouble brews beneath the surface. The marriage strains at the ties that bind. The boy quails beneath a looming threat. The girl despairs that she will ever qualify.

A brand new story of crushes, first love and friendship from the original Queen of Tween – Jean Ure! When Maya falls off her bike and into the arms of Jake Harper, her cousin Mattie thinks the crush that follows will be as short-lived as the rest – especially as Maya is a Year 8 nobody and...

Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer's life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she's swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all.

An entertaining and surprising ride through an India you thought you knew...

"A full, big hearted novel.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six Nestled in the suburbs of Atlanta, a family learns the funniest punchlines can hide the hardest truths in this evocative women’s fiction novel from the author of Well-Behaved Indian...

"Grace Helena Walz has taken her place among such treasured Southern novelists as Dorothea Benton and Anne Rivers Siddons." --Mary Kay Andrews, NYT bestselling author "This is a positively charming debut from a stand-out new voice. Add it to your TBR list immediately!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey...