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Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora’s body—the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire—when you think you might die.”

Jamie Parker stars as the Prince of Denmark in this brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast production. At the Castle of Elsinore in Denmark, the court is uneasy. The king of Denmark has recently died and the throne has been claimed by the king's brother, Claudius. Prince Hamlet, still in mourning for...

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year-old brother to a violent home. But Taukiri’s brother, Ārama, is braver than he looks, and he has a friend, and his friend has a dog, and the three of them together might just be strong enough to turn back the tide of sadness.

In the wake of Lola Messer's gruesome murder, the tranquil town of Valparaiso is thrown into turmoil. The killer slips through the cracks of justice, leaving the community shattered and fear-stricken. For the Messer family, the trauma is compounded by the task of rebuilding their lives. As they grapple with their shattered world, two young sisters face an agonizing choice: remain in the shadow of the crime or escape to forge a new beginning elsewhere.

Two weddings? Two opportunities for conflict, drama and lasting memories. Beth Wheeler has waited her whole life for a Christmas wedding, but she never envisioned it taking place on Captiva Island. Even if it makes her mother happy, without snow, jingle bells and sleigh rides, Beth’s dreams of saying “I do” under a canopy of sugar plums and mistletoe are disappearing faster than a flying reindeer.

Innsbruck, 1897: Josefa vertraut fest darauf, dass ihr Stiefvater Rupert nur ihr Bestes will, als er die Heirat mit dem wohlhabenden Geschäftsmann Berthold arrangiert. Doch bereits auf der Hochzeitsreise zeigen sich erste Risse in der Fassade ihres Ehemanns. Josefa versucht verzweifelt, ihrer Rolle als Ehefrau gerecht zu werden, doch ihr Lebenstraum ist ein anderer: Sie möchte Kunstgeschichte studieren. Berthold hat eigene Pläne für seine Frau und die Situation eskaliert dramatisch.

Cats once again prove to be the best medicine in the wonderful third book following the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. When you are lost, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul will find for you. Dr. Nikké and his clinic are always ready to offer their...

Dawn es una joven esposa y madre que siente que su vida se le escapa lentamente. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Hazel, su nueva vecina: entre ellas surge una conexión inmediata, tan luminosa como prohibida. Pero en una época que no perdona a las mujeres que se salen del guion socialmente aceptado, la felicidad tiene un precio. Cuarenta años después, Maggie, madre de dos hijos, atraviesa una crisis personal. Cuando su padre, Heron, recibe un diagnóstico terminal, el pasado irrumpe con fuerza: las verdades que le contaron sobre su madre—su silencio, su supuesto abandono—empiezan a desmoronarse.

When former Special Forces soldier turned artist Brooks Redgrave discovers he may have adult children in Europe, he leaves behind the New York art world and travels to Sancerre, France, where unexpected connections force him to confront a past he thought he’d buried.

«Казус Кукоцкого»—семейная сага Людмилы Улицкой, которая описывает жизнь семьи профессора Павла Алексеевича Кукоцкого на фоне истории Советского государства от момента его создания до середины 1960-х годов.v

Als ein Neugeborenes nachts auf ihrem Bauernhof abgelegt wird, ist Babett sicher, dass der kleine Junge der Sohn ihrer früheren Freundin Evelin ist. Nun nimmt sie das Findelkind wie ein eigenes bei sich auf. Nicht ahnend, dass sie damit nicht nur das Leben des Jungen und ihrer eigenen Tochter, sondern auch das einer jungen Frau in der dritten Generation beeinflussen wird. SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Gina Mayer verwebt in ihrem neuen großen Roman die bewegende Geschichte dreier Frauen.

Twenty-nine-year-old Ella Nilsen has never known her parents—or even how her mother died. Raised by her emotionally distant Norwegian grandmother, Hilda, Ella has long accepted that the topic of her parents is off-limits. When Hilda passes away, Ella is shocked to find that her inheritance includes a summer cottage perched above the sea in a place called Lyngør, a remote island in Norway. To sell it, she’ll have to visit the cottage and take stock of what’s there—and maybe Lyngør holds the key to her mother’s mysterious passing, if she can get the locals to talk.

When new neighbors move into a close-knit, cul-de-sac community, they are welcomed into the fold. Julianna, a nervous newlywed, does her best to fit in among the established clutch. Wearing the perfect outfit to holiday gatherings. Bringing the perfect gift to children’s birthday parties. And making the perfect appetizer for barbecues. Perfect, perfect, perfect. But her neighbors soon learn that Julianna’s perfection is an illusion, a painfully sought façade. There is darkness beneath her glossy surface for she was raised in a dangerous cult she escaped from as a teenager.

Raised in Queens, Michael straddles two vastly different paths: his mother’s unwavering moral compass and his father’s intoxicating life, where loyalty is everything and danger lurks behind every handshake. From a picture-perfect Italian wedding that spirals into a parking lot brawl to familiar road trips to prison, the story unravels in a series of cinematic moments—glamour, violence, humor, and heartbreak.

André är journalist och månskensbonde, han driver släktgården i Björkskoga utanför Ljungbydal. När hans syster vill få ut sin del av arvet blir det allt svårare att behålla gården. Jannicke är akutsjuksköterska och bor i stan, hon är på gränsen till utmattad. Räddningen blir ett vikariat på vårdcentralen i den lilla byn Ljungbydal, där är det ett lugnare tempo. Jannicke hyr undantaget på Andrés gård. När han råkar ut för en olycka får Jannicke kliva i stövlarna och hjälpa till.

When warm-hearted Hannah Barry’s father passes away, her life is turned upside down when she discovers he wasn’t her biological father, and the only family she’s ever known are not related to her at all. Now their tiny farmhouse overlooking Roone Bay feels unfamiliar and cold. So when a handsome, dark-haired stranger turns up on her doorstep, his kind eyes and shy smile are a welcome escape.

Becca Burnside finally has life heading in the right direction. She's loving her new job, writing magazine features about being a woman in her forties, her boys are happy, her romance with Conal O'Hagan is blossoming – and for once, she actually feels like she's got it together. But when Conal starts talking about the future, Becca's commitment collywobbles kick in with a vengeance.

When Caroline Alleyn inherits Wickham Grange, all she wants to do is sell up. There are bad memories there, linked to her childhood as the daughter of a single mother–and to all the other mothers she knew in that house. But her grandmother Frances’s will means that it can’t be sold without the consent of five elderly women, and they all refuse. None of them will tell her why she has to keep a house she doesn’t want. Instead, she is given a stark warning: don’t look for Lizzie Sixpence.

Nadine Schneiders Roman Das gute Leben ist eine große Mütter-Töchter-Geschichte über vier Generationen, ein Buch von Abschied, Neuanfang und der Arbeit des Lebens. Es ist Spätsommer, und im Garten sind die Trauben reif, als Christina das Haus ihrer Großmutter Anni erbt. Hier, in einem kleinen Dorf bei Nürnberg, ist sie bei Anni aufgewachsen: Anni, die Mitte der sechziger Jahre aus Rumänien nach Deutschland flieht. Zögernd verabschiedet sich Christina von Anni und ihrem Haus.

I Glade dage i Kronprinsessegade fortsætter Benjamin Jacobsen sin humoristiske fortælling om en familie i det danske borgerskab i slutningen af det 19. århundrede. Benjamin Jacobsen (1915–1990) var en dansk forfatter, der blev særlig kendt for sine humoristiske skildringer af borgerskabet.