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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.

An electric, stylish—and very British—novel exploring the tensions and transgressions of relationships and sex, as one dysfunctional family gathers for a funeral After Mary’s sudden death, a fractured family reunites in a small English village for a funeral over a hot summer weekend. Patch...

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. “A culmination . . . shimmering with [Barnes’s] silky, erudite prose; beneath the suave surface is an earnest investigation into the...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, PEOPLE, AND TIME, AND HARPER'S BAZAAR "I can hardly remember the last time I read anything that brought me such pure joy.”— Ann Patchett “American Fantasy is such a fun, delicious, big-hearted book.” –Taylor Jenkins Reid...

A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America. "Mercy Hill—both the place and the people who...

A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family—steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving—from the bestselling author of Isola “A compelling, love-laced portrait of several generations of a family much like yours, mine and just about everyone’s.”—People (Most Anticipated...

“An extraordinary gift to its lucky readers: an enormously full and brilliantly structured novel whose characters come to feel as familiar—and as bottomlessly mysterious—as one's own family.” —Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist The Antidote “A testament to...

She can hop into any novel, but she just can’t stay there. Come along with the Book Witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game. “Meg Shaffer continues to surprise and delight me with each book she writes.”—Laurie...

A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano. In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a professor. In LA, Susan Byrne stars in a soap opera beloved coast to coast. Decades after she’s...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New Yorker's 24 Essential Reads of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal One of...

A terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing older, if not always up, from Andrew Martin, author of Early Work and Cool for America. This program features multicast narration. Without Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won’t leave him—despite...

A 1960s teen pop group determined to conquer the music world must contend with the cost of fame—and a ghost with a grisly past—in this riveting family story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Kids. “My favorite kind of read: epic and immersive, riding the line between...