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It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

Joan Liang’s life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan for California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Through all this she wrestles with one persistent question: Will she ever truly feel satisfied?

Mark L. Brooks hits a homer with this first novel if you love family dynamics, how each member plays on each other with the good, the bad, the most ugly, and how they can arrive victorious. Laying Autumn’s Dust is a novel told in three first-person voices. Donny, the father—you can feel sorry for him at first—is a man repressed, with a low moral compass, who can’t seem to rise above his worst instincts and doesn’t seem to care. He spreads his wounding to wife Abigail, who isn’t perfect but gives an unfortunate life her best shot.

Habits are easier to make than they are to break. Especially when they are for someone you love. It all started with a promise to my dying mother. A promise to keep my family together and take care of them. Then came finding my brother getting his you know what kicked in high school, all because he owed someone money. More than a decade later and I was wondering, how would this end? Would I eventually pay the ultimate price to settle his debts? I might have been a sucker for helping my brother, but that didn't mean I was a pushover. So when his hot bookie tried to con more money out of me.....

Since Bailey Rae Rigby’s adoptive aunt Winnie passed, Bent Oak, South Carolina, doesn’t have much of a hold on her anymore. So it seems. Bailey Rae aims to settle the small estate and, armed with her aunt’s inspiring personal cookbook, buy a food truck with an ocean view in Myrtle Beach. Everything goes awry when a distraught young mother arrives in town clutching a copy of that same cookbook. Embedded inside is a code that promises a safe place in Bent Oak for desperate women on the run. For Bailey Rae it opens up a world of questions.

Tucson, Arizona is a place for runaways. Everyone you meet here came from somewhere else and has a story about what they left behind. Blood & Water tells these stories in five alternating first-person narratives: a young mother named Ally, the deliberately childless Tim and Sara, single dad David with a college-bound daughter and David's little sister, Delilah, who shows up on his doorstep with a secret. This novel is about family, in its various manifestations: the one you're born into, the one you choose and the one you create.

Ebey’s End is a small town on an island off the Pacific coast, reachable only by ferry (assuming the gods are with you and it’s not a Tuesday). It’s a comfortable, familiar (but okay, fine, sometimes lonely) life for its resident grocer Anita Odom. That is, until fourteen-year-old July shows up on her doorstep. Taking in the recently orphaned daughter of an estranged cousin had not been on Anita’s to-do list. In fact, it’s a terrible idea. Anita is ill-suited, ill-prepared, and absolutely certain the entire enterprise will end in disaster—for both of them.

Beatrice Nilsson is what some might call “feisty” (those who love her) and others “combative” (those who don’t). But no matter what you call her, she’s a good lawyer and an even better friend. So when the marriage of her two closest pals ends in divorce, Bea picks a side and storms the office of attorney Nathan Asher to tell him exactly what he can do with his alimony petition. Unfortunately, what should end with a few choice words soon spirals into uncharted territory when Nate shows up at her NYU Law office a few days later as a newly-minted adjunct professor—and her new colleague.

When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it sent shockwaves through the tight-knit community. How could one of their own do such a thing? Especially when his own little girl was the same age – and the victim's best friend. Kathryn and her family left under the cloak of darkness one night, unable to bear the shame, and the anger of their neighbours. She hardly remembers that time. Now, she suffers the consequences of living under an assumed name, always looking over her shoulder.

Sex. Money. Murder. Drama. Housewives… And homeless animals! All run amok in the affluent suburb of New Wellington! Tish McLean has been left high and dry, both financially and emotionally, by Brian, her husband of over 20 years. To make matters worse, Brian is about to marry the social chameleon Susan, Tish's one close unattached friend. As Tish struggles to realize her dream of opening a shelter for homeless animals—and her love with a very married veterinarian who has big problems of his own—she strips away the cubic zirconium studded underbelly of country club society.

After a mental breakdown costs him his job in New York, a young man returns to Cape Town with his husband, Adrian. It’s 2018. The drought is severe, and their homecoming is tinged with failure and reverse culture shock. But there is hope, too. They want to start a family by adopting a child. As the adoption gets underway, the narrator is forced to confront events from his own childhood he would rather avoid, and question whether he is capable of love and fatherhood.

CMB - diese drei Buchstaben beschäftigen die Familie Miranda seit Jahrhunderten. Die Kölner Archivarin Basiliki nimmt uralte Spuren wieder auf, in Griechenland, Italien, Algier, Jerusalem, Istanbul.

Una noche, la oportunidad de su vida se presenta en forma de un encuentro inesperado con Camilo José Cela, el legendario premio Nobel de Literatura. A lo largo de un fin de semana en la finca de Cela, entre paseos por el campo y conversaciones inolvidables, Gonzalo descubrirá el verdadero secreto de la literatura: la escritura no es cuestión de inspiración, sino de verdad y valentía. Con una mezcla de admiración y miedo, Gonzalo se atreve a mostrarle sus escritos. Lo que sigue es un desafío, una prueba de fuego que lo obligará a confrontar su mayor enemigo: su propia inseguridad.

This work tells the story of a love affair that appears sweet on the surface but hides a tragic undercurrent. The male lead is extremely indulgent toward the female lead, fulfilling all her wishes from high school through college, earning him the nickname “wife slave.” However, this excessive love suffocates the female lead, and she ultimately disappears on her wedding day through a fake death service, escaping this painful relationship. This work reveals the severe consequences of overly dependent and controlling love.

Cassandra "Cassie" Hardwick, everyone's favorite rock star's wife, is back! And this time, be prepared for family drama of epic proportions! You see, Cassie's best friend since sixth grade, the ever-fabulous Shawna, embarks on a journey to uncover her birth family. And being the supportive BFF that she is, Cassie decides to spit in a tube, too. Thinking she'll maybe discover a distant cousin who knits sweaters for cats or something equally “thrilling,” Cassie's blindsided by results that will challenge everything she thought she knew about her own identity. Meanwhile, in the Hardwick ...

PRESENTACIÓN Esta es la historia imaginaria, basada en pinceladas de biografias, de mi abuela Rebeca Salin Vazquez, y mis tías Rosalía Enriquez Salín, Margarita Arrieta Salin y Ma. Teresa Bridat Salin. Mujeres del siglo XX, de la transición entre la codependencia con los hombres, hacia la autodeterminación que pretenden las mujeres del siglo XXI. Su historia que se fuciona e inicia en un epsodio, el encuentro de la menor de mis tías, que se creía desaparecida o muerta, y que finalmente se localizó en un estado de indigencia, en su propia casa de San Luis Potosí. Quizas es una ...

From New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Bradshaw comes four complete stories about friendship and love. Rae. Sasha. Callie. Kenna. Four lifelong friends. Four women looking for love. This set includes four novellas: #1 Sweet Dreams: Rae's Story After catching her boyfriend in her bed with his secretary, Rae has serious doubts about ever finding true love. Willing to give it one more shot, she tries online dating and meets Tyler, a handsome, mysterious man who catches her attention from his first email. Everything derails on their first date when Tyler runs into an old friend who ...

All children know about the monsters. The ones under the bed, in the closet, hiding beneath the stairs... All just waiting to jump out and attack. Children do not know of their protectors, the ones who fight the monsters, who keep the children safe, until they are no longer needed. Sometimes, that lasts a lot longer than physical childhood. In a tale that combines that fantasy and nostagia of childhood with the more mature outlook of adult life, The Protector is a book that will leave you longing for more.

Aman is a writer and Ananya, the owner of her heritage hotel in Jaisalmer that she’s struggling to hold on to by paying off her debts. They are attracted to each other like the two poles of a magnet. While Aman is reticent, Ananya is vibrant and full of life. Aman is estranged from his father over the mystery shrouding his mother’s death and Ananya has lost her parents in an accident. They have both lost, but they find each other in a scenic city, which holds the secret of Aman’s mother’s identity.

Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She never wanted to be a stay-at-home parent—losing her job left her no choice. Now, between her toddlers’ demands, husband’s distance, and father’s deteriorating health, she’s pulled in every direction except her own. Something has to give. Katrina’s in the same dissatisfied boat. After flirting with a handsome stranger at a bar, she’s ready to choose pleasure over responsibility.