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The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child.

My husband and I have moved back into my childhood home: a pretty stone cottage by the sea. Our two kids love the huge garden and the views are breathtaking. The renovations will probably cost twice what they said, but I know it'll be amazing in the end. I'm baking a cake when the builder calls me over. 'We've found something.' 'What do you mean?' 'Bones,' he says. 'You've got bones buried at the bottom of your garden.'

Beth dreams of putting down roots and finding a place to belong, and with a steady job in Townsville, she's on her way to achieving that dream. But when the cute little cottage she's rented for the past four years is put on the market, the stability she's always craved is threatened. News of a life-changing inheritance takes her across the country to a small town in Western Australia, where she discovers that the rundown old house her aunt left her might just be her saving grace. With plans to sell it, she hires Noah, a farmer-slash-wannabe-renovator, to help fix it up.

Cinnamon Beach is a multicultural tragicomedy, told from three female perspectives, in which an American writer living in Japan returns to South Carolina to scatter the ashes of her brother while trying to maintain the "perfect-family" facade she created from afar, and support her Indian American sister-in-law who wants a future which might upset everyone. Sparks fly at an impromptu book-signing when the author reconnects with her college friend, now a famous African American country music star, and her daughter who is deaf finds ways to communicate with a secret first-love.

Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley's betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby, and suspicious of her sister's intentions, Mary seeks a refuge. But Lord Byron's villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself.

It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage.

Former child star Michaela Turner is ready for her next big role—she just doesn't know what it is yet. As someone whose days were once filled with bright lights, never-ending rehearsals, and adoring fans from around the world, Michaela now struggles to define herself beyond the glitz and glamour of her past. She tries hard to stay out of the tabloids, but fading into the background isn't quite as easy as it sounds. Not when her manipulative momager, Caroline, is dead set on launching her daughter's big comeback, no matter how many old wounds it tears open.

Sakura is the story of a family who is happy, until it isn’t. Skipping back and forth in time, it begins when the narrator, Kaoru, receives a letter from his estranged father announcing he will be home in Osaka for New Year’s. The letter spurs Kaoru to go back to his childhood home, and though he is apprehensive at returning, his spirits are unexpectedly lifted when he is greeted by Sakura, the family dog.

At the start of summer, billionaire couple Francis and Lila Cameron set off on their private luxury sailboat to celebrate the high school graduation of their two beloved children. Three weeks later, the Camerons have not been heard from, the captain hasn't responded to radio calls, and the sailboat is found floating off the coast of Florida. Empty.

Beth dreams of putting down roots and finding a place to belong, and with a steady job in Townsville, she's on her way to achieving that dream. But when the cute little cottage she's rented for the past four years is put on the market, the stability she's always craved is threatened. News of a life-changing inheritance takes her across the country to a small town in Western Australia, where she discovers that the rundown old house her aunt left her might just be her saving grace.

Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global anti-natalist movement. For one month each year he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia of radical equality and scientific dedication in Antarctica. They are concluding the Anarctos Project: a seed vault in an isolated, secret location. It is a biodiversity insurance policy against humanity’s devastating effects on the rapidly warming planet.

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1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers from around the world, and the haunt of locals looking for a bargain. It is also the target of the most vicious censor in American history—Anthony Comstock. And home to three sisters who vow to stop him.

After a childhood spent combing the dive bars of Sarsaparilla Falls to collect her fun-loving momma, Cordelia West now enjoys a simple, respectable life in Dallas. Then one phone call from the hometown she’s spent years trying to forget throws it into chaos. Cordelia's great-aunt Penelope has passed away, naming Cordelia the sole heir to the Chickadee Motel.

Nach dieser Sache befindet sich Anna, die Heldin des Romans, in einem Sanatorium. Dort trifft sie auf Marija, die ständig Monologe über ihre tote Mutter hält, auf Elif, die sich jeden Tag ein neues Märchen ausdenkt, und auf Katharina, die Bundeswehr-Soldatin, die jede Nacht Rotwein mit Wodka trinkt. Und dann ist da noch Pepik, der blasse Flamingo aus dem Kurpark, dem Anna von ihrer Emigration erzählt, von der Zeit, als ihre Mutter aufhörte, ihr unsichtbare Kreise auf die Wange zu zeichnen, und der Vater sich kaum noch blicken ließ.

Die Vergangenheit unserer Mütter, die Zukunft unserer Töchter: der neue große Roman von Bestsellerautorin Miriam Georg (Elbleuchten). Laura hat ihre Großmutter Änne oft von dem Gefühl des Sommers in Schlesien erzählen gehört. Über die Menschen in ihrer Vergangenheit jedoch wollte Änne nie sprechen. Als ihre Großmutter schwer erkrankt, scheint es Laura auf einmal zu spät für all die Fragen, die jahrzehntelang unausgesprochen geblieben sind. Dann macht sie eine Entdeckung, die ein ganz neues Licht auf das Leben der Frau wirft, die ihr so vertraut war.

Susanne Fröhlich ist eine begnadete Interpretin ihrer eigenen Romane. Der 13. humorvolle Roman um die Kult-Heldin Andrea Schnidt ist wie ein Treffen mit lieben Freunden, die uns jedes Mal mit den lustigsten Geschichten unterhalten. Über 60 und Andrea Schnidt muss einmal wieder selbst aktiv werden in Sachen Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen. Ihre Idee – »Old Romance«-Liebesgeschichten für die Generation Ü50. Die könnte ein wenig Hoffnung sehr gut brauchen, findet Andrea und einen Verlag findet sie auch.

In the summer of 1985, the entire country is poised for the biggest music event in history – Live Aid. The residents of Delmont Close are preparing for a neighbourhood barbecue to celebrate this historic moment, but someone uninvited is watching them closely, getting ready to make their move. But who are they watching, and why?

The morning after a family wedding, Siobhan and Grace, her best friend of thirty years, go to the pool-house to wake up their twenty-five-year-old daughters, who are also best friends. Only they open the door and the room is empty - the girls have vanished without a trace. They search the house, the grounds, but neither girl can be found. Then Siobhan and Grace discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Something that suggests one of their daughters is going to kill the other. And that’s before they find out what really happened late last night.

Après dix ans passés derrière les barreaux, Riley Materson revient à Riverton, sa ville natale. Il a l'intention d'aider Sheldon, son frère, qui a pris la direction des Droks suite au décès de leur paternel. Toutefois, Riley ne s'attendait pas à devenir leur chef, comme l'avait exigé son père. Lui qui désirait justement écarter Sheldon et Hayden de ce milieu dangereux où règnent les trafics d'armes, de drogue et la violence ; il va devoir revoir ses résolutions.