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1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister who's moved to New York. Though her marriage with David, an anesthesiologist, isn't what is used to be, nothing can quite prepare her for Zoey, the $8,000 AI sex doll that David has secretly purchased and stuffed away in the garage. At first, Zoey sparks an uncharacteristically strong violence in Dolores, whose entire life is suddenly cast in doubt.

A favor for a new friend leads to an unexpected awakening for Alon Pherigo—the generally deferential, mostly contented owner and operator of an antiques and collectibles store located in San Francisco. Recommended to fans of slow burns, community living, or a smattering of romance. No Artificial Intelligence technologies were utilized in the creating of this work.

From rural Mississippi in the Jim Crow era through the transformative 1970s, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a mother’s sacrifice, relentless ambition, and against-all-odds success. But the one dream she can’t stop chasing may cost her everything....

In book 17 of the series, Tess and the entire gang who work and volunteer at the local wild and domestic animal rescue and rehabilitation facility, are up in arms when they find out that the annual fireworks show has been moved to a small lake nestled in the center of a large meadow not all that far from the shelter. Tess tries to explain how setting off explosives of any sort near the shelter will stress out all the animals in their care. She argues that the firework display should be moved back to the larger lake south of town where it has always been held.

Uno studente senza nome sta per abbandonare gli studi in una prestigiosa università a Kyoto dopo due anni disastrosi: a causa di una serie di scelte sbagliate, prima fra tutte la compagnia del suo peggiore e unico amico, il teppista Ozu, si è rovinato la reputazione e la carriera accademica, al punto che la “rosea vita universitaria” che tanto sognava, ossia trovare una bella fanciulla dai capelli corvini, avere successo nello studio e avere tanti amici, sembra ormai impossibile da raggiungere. Ma il destino ha in mente per lui altri piani.

Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of his wife, his child and his faith when he is reluctantly thrust into the position of chaplain at a large public hospital. Shortly after arriving, he meets Hugo, a hospital scientist and a man almost as lost as Marick himself, who is working in a forgotten lab, deep in the subterranean realms of the hospital. Hugo is convinced that the bacteria he uses for protein production have—unbelievably—begun to produce gold. Is it alchemy, evolution, a hoax or even ... possibly ... a miracle?

Weil das Leben begrenzt ist. Und weil es darauf ankommt, wie wir unseren Moment gestalten. Anna liebt ihr Leben. Ihren Mann, ihre beiden Teenager und ihre beste Freundin. Ihr Job ist okay und eigentlich gibt es nichts, über dass sie sich beschweren darf. Als sie das vierte Mal 39 wird, fehlt dennoch etwas in ihrem Leben. In der Fußgängerzone trifft sie auf die 23-jährige Straßenmusikerin Grace. Gezogen von Grace' Stimme lässt sich Anna dazu überreden, mit ihr zu singen.

Van Heartstopper-auteur Alice Oseman nu nog een herkenbaar coming-of-age verhaal! Frances heeft haar hele leven gewijd aan school: ze is klassenoudste en haalt uitstekende cijfers. Haar enige hobby die niet aan school gerelateerd is, is fan art tekenen voor haar favoriete podcast. Als ze op een dag door de maker van die podcast wordt benaderd, blijkt ze hem tot haar verrassing te kennen: Aled Last woont tegenover haar.

Волны считаются самой необычной и экспериментальной работой Вирджинии Вулф, стирающей грани между прозой и поэзией. В серии связанных между собой монологов рассказываются пронзительные личные истории шести друзей, перемежаемые захватывающими описаниями морского побережья. Богатый поэтический язык романа максимально точно отображает внутреннюю жизнь героев: их стремления, успехи, сожаления и разочарования. Каждый по отдельности и все вместе они задаются вопросом о важности прошлого и настоящего и о смысле самой жизни.

A Sokcho, petite ville portuaire proche de la Corée du Nord, une jeune Franco-coréenne qui n'est jamais allée en Europe rencontre un auteur de bande dessinée venu chercher l'inspiration depuis sa Normandie natale. C'est l'hiver, le froid ralentit tout, les poissons peuvent être venimeux, les corps douloureux, les malentendus suspendus, et l'encre coule sur le papier, implacable : un lien fragile se noue entre ces deux êtres aux cultures si différentes.

Sweep around your own front door before sweeping around someone else's is a proverb that best friends Kierre, LaTavia, and India live by. They are willing to put their lives on the line for each other, but sharing their inner demons is out of the question. Join these three woman as they discover themselves, and the true meaning of not only friendship, but pure, uncorrupted sisterhood that only transparency brings.

Abbie Finch loves her job. Unfortunately, her boss doesn’t love her. When she finds herself unexpectedly unemployed, Abbie realises that she’s let all her friendships fall by the wayside and has no one to turn to. Lost and lonely, Abbie decides to leave her comfort zone and join the neighbourhood café’s community table.

In the bustling world of Dublin's advertising scene, Kitty O’Sullivan, a copywriter, feels an unexplainable void in her life that she can't quite pinpoint. Her five-year relationship with Dave is stagnant, her creative juices have dried up and she’s even entertaining thoughts of marriage as a cure-all! Something’s missing from her life but she can’t work out exactly what it is…When Dave decides to take time out from ‘them’, Kitty finds herself momentarily liberated to explore life and have some fun. She and best friend Shazza are corralled into joining a five-aside football team.

No one is more surprised than Meredith when she’s bequeathed a cottage by a great aunt she’d never heard of. She hopes, briefly, that the inheritance could be the answer to her financial problems. But when she arrives in Suffolk, she is shocked to discover a man is already living there. A young gardener, who claims he was also bequeathed half of Butterfly Cottage. As the pair try to unravel their complicated situation, they unearth a decades old mystery involving Clara, the garden, and a stack of letters left unread for over 50 years.

Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.

È il 1978 e la situazione, agli occhi di Marina, appare assai confusa. Gli ideali e le speranze del decennio precedente hanno perso i colori luminosi con cui dipingevano il futuro e, grigi e opachi, si stanno trasformando in violenza, morte, scontri fatti di fumogeni e manganelli. E anche la sua vita familiare sembra incupita dalla stessa mancanza di luce. La madre si è trasferita a Monterotondo, che nonostante i pochi chilometri dalla capitale a Marina appare un mondo scialbo e molto distante da lei. Così resta a Roma, con suo padre.

When her family is struck by a terrible tragedy, Sarah Nightingale is forced to go into service at Grey Friars House as an under-nursery-maid. Although the situation wasn’t of her making Sarah thrives there, but life for her younger brother Alfie is not as easy. Desperate to avoid being sent to the workhouse, Alfie runs away to London to seek his fortune. But young and inexperienced with the dangerous streets of London, Alfie is tricked and sold to work as a slave on a coal barge. Sarah misses her brother terribly but knows she must find a way to survive if she ever wants them to be reunited.

Recently widowed Venetia Hamilton Hargreaves is left with a huge house, a bank balance to match and an uneasy feeling that she's been sleepwalking through the last fifty years. Determined to live fully again, she embraces life with an enthusiasm and purpose she'd forgotten she could muster. Buying the dilapidated Phoenix Ballroom and with it a drop-in centre and spiritualist church could be seen as reckless, but Venetia's generosity, courage and kindness provide a refuge for a touching cast of damaged and lonely people who find their chosen family.

Sarah Nightingale is a strong young woman who keeps her head high and faces every new adversity with courage. So when Daniel Cooper, a happily married man with three children, offers her a position taking care of his children and poorly wife, she jumps at the chance. Perhaps life is finally looking up for Sarah? Meanwhile, Sarah’s brother Alfie is also prospering in London after escaping his life of servitude. But when a personal tragedy strikes, Alfie decides to leave London and go home to look for his sister.