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Being an adult isn’t quite what Ellie Allard dreamed it would be when she was fourteen years old. Though she’s got her beautiful daughter Lottie, life-long best friends in Magda and Nadine and her trusty cat Stella, her love life is non-existent and she feels like she’s been living on auto-pilot, just grateful to be able to afford the mortgage on her pokey little flat. But this year on her birthday, the universe seems to decide it’s time to for all that to change.

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers.

Old friends Shelley, Lena and Pearl have reached their limit with the festive preparation that has always fallen to them, and five days before Christmas, they’ve booked a mini break… without their families. Up until Christmas Eve, they’ll be sipping prosecco in the Highlands while their kids wrap bacon around 100 chipolatas and their partners brave the supermarkets. It’s exactly what they need… until they’re snowed in. Facing the prospect of Christmas 500 miles from home, each woman is forced to confront her real reasons for needing to escape.

"Treetoad’s Adventure: A Tale of Courage and Friendship" is a heartwarming story about a little Native American Indian boy named Treetoad. He gets lost while exploring the forest with his father. As the sun sets, darkness falls Treetoad becomes more frightened and unsure of what to do. But, with the help of a wise old owl, Treetoad learns to trust his instincts and face his fears. Along the way, he meets many forest animals, they include a tricky raccoon and a helpful rabbit.

Timal isn't lonely. He spends long days by himself, tending to his father's animal menagerie and the animals have become his friends. However he's thrilled one day when his father asks him to take the family's prized stallion and ride down to the village. He's never before been allowed to attend the colorful Full Moon Market. Perhaps he'll meet some villagers at last, even make a human friend. He couldn't have been more wrong. Many, many years later, his soul is reborn, this time as a girl named Imogen.

Fiona is set to tie the knot with her dashing captain, Archie Somersby. But, while Fiona is busy planning her happily ever after, side-kick Kitty Lane and a group of judo-chopping suffragettes are kicking up trouble at the Piccadilly Jujitsu Club. When Kitty is found unconscious in the locker room during a high-stakes competition, Fiona must forsake her bouquets and bridal gown to investigate. Her sleuthing leads to a posh lady’s luncheon where a mysterious death crashes Fiona’s wedding plans.

When Julia Hudson is involved in a near-fatal accident, the lives of her children – nurse Flo and her twin sister, high-flying lawyer Ari – are sent into freefall. As they sit vigil by their mother’s bedside, the sisters discover that Julia, who has always preached unwavering principles and integrity, has been keeping a terrible secret. A secret that shatters everything they’ve ever believed about their family. But the twins have each other… or do they? Because Julia is not the only one keeping secrets…

Buying and relocating to the Château du Cheval in rural France has fulfilled one of Peter and Ingrid Chevalier’s lifelong ambitions. Despite never being able to trace a missing link in Peter’s French ancestry he feels he has finally come home. Now they must renovate the Château to its former glory and make it pay for itself…With money getting tight, they take the decision to sell a couple of cottages on the estate. Can the Château begin to pay for itself and be sustainable for the future?

With the wedding behind them and life in Diamond Beach taking shape, everyone in the beach house seems to be doing just fine. Claire's busy with all the last-minute details that go into opening a new business, something that brings her and Danny even closer together. For the first time in a long time, she's thinking about the future in a way she never has before. With new jobs, new opportunities, and new directions, the women of the Double Diamond beach house have come a long way since they first arrived. There's nothing but blue skies and warm waves ahead for them.

1971. Nach einer Schneiderlehre in der Stadt kehrt die 20-jährige Roberta auf den Hof ihrer Eltern in Süddeutschland zurück. Hier auf dem Land sind Feminismus, Popkultur und Miniröcke nichts, womit man sich beschäftigt. Roberta liebt die Arbeit auf dem Hof dennoch – und sie liebt Wilhelm, den Pfarrerssohn. Anders Gertrud, Wilhelms Mutter: Sie hasst das Dorfleben und das beengte Pfarrhaus und wünscht sich nichts mehr als weggehen zu können, hinaus in die Welt. Beide Frauen werden schwanger und müssen folgenschwere Entscheidungen treffen. Doch dann passiert ein tragisches Unglück...

In this first book of the series we dig into the lives of Marlo and her friends and their adventures!

Il romanzo Il faro delle anime è ambientato a Deauville, in Normandia, e racconta il viaggio interiore del protagonista alla ricerca di verità e significato esistenziale. Il cammino spirituale è accompagnato dalla musica classica, esplorando temi come amicizia, relazioni umane, vita, morte, amore e destino. Il faro di Deauville rappresenta una guida spirituale, illuminando incontri significativi con personaggi saggi. Il fedele cane Bart, compagno del protagonista, simboleggia la fedeltà e il legame uomo-animale.

Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout man to spend her life with. And Mustafa, a devoted Muslim, works as a janitor at the Temple Mount, also known as al-Aqsa, a site holy to both faiths.

Eine wunderbare Geschichte um Freundschaft, Verlust und die herzzerreißende Suche eines kleinen Jungen nach Heimat – von Bestsellerautorin Catherine Ryan Hyde.Der elfjährige Stewie Little lebt mit seinem Bruder und der großen Schwester auf einer Farm. Liebevoll kümmert er sich um die Hühner, die seine Großmutter ihm hinterlassen hat, und geht jeden Nachmittag von Tür zu Tür, um die frischen Eier zu verkaufen. Eine seiner Kundinnen ist Marilyn. Die abweisende alte Frau erinnert Stewie so sehr an die geliebte Großmutter, dass er immer wieder ihre Nähe sucht.