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After its publication in 1962, Harry M. Caudill’s acclaimed portrait of the southern Appalachian Mountains became a rallying cry for action against the poverty plaguing the region. Here Caudill explores the area’s history, from its first settlement to the Civil War, and from the rise of coal barons to the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s.

The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books - the only bookstore on Alice Island - has already lost his wife. Now his most prized possession, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances. The store itself, it seems, will be next to go. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children’s section with a note from her mother pinned to her Elmo doll: I want Maya to grow up in a place with books and among people who care about such kinds of things. I love her very much, but I can no longer take care of her.

After losing her sister in a devastating car accident, chef Quinn Weller is finally getting her life back on track. She appears to have it all: a loving family, a dream job in one of LA's hottest eateries, and a gorgeous boyfriend dying to slip an engagement ring on her finger. So why does she feel so empty, like she's looking for a missing piece she can't find?

In A Measure of Mercy by acclaimed author Lauraine Snelling, 18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund’s opportunity for formal medical study in Chicago doesn’t arrive until shortly after her heartthrob Joshua Landseer returns to Blessing, North Dakota. They agree to exchange letters while she’s in Chicago. And, for a time, love blossoms—until the letters from Joshua stop coming. Convinced he no longer loves her, Astrid makes an impetuous and heart-wrenching decision.

Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge - the discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light and obsesses a new generation. With Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind both now major Lifetime TV events, this first new addition to the Dollanganger story in nearly 30 years is a timely look at the events in the attic - from teenage Christopher’s point of view.

A Fotografia da Minha Vida com Sônia narra a história de um fotógrafo talentoso e controverso cuja vida é marcada por uma série de eventos dramáticos. Desde sua ascensão no mundo da fotografia jornalística até os desafios pessoais e profissionais que enfrenta, o protagonista busca compreensão e aceitação, encontrando apoio inesperado em Sônia. No entanto, uma tragédia inesperada abala profundamente o relacionamento deles, levando a uma reviravolta dolorosa e marcante.

Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism. Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another.

New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson tells the gripping tale of a woman running from violence and toward a quiet future. Years have passed since Amy Masters escaped the brutal Texas plains to become a schoolteacher in Oregon. But now that Comanche warrior Swift Antelope has galloped back into her life, she'll have to explore her heart for the courage to trust again.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.

Vous n'avez jamais lu un texte comme celui-là ! Une vieille dame enregistre ses derniers jours en maison de retraite et le résultat est un condensé incroyable de force vitale, de dérision, de révolte, d'attention aux autres et de foi dans la vie. Misericordia est l'un des livres les plus audacieux de la littérature portugaise actuelle.

Amelia, 27 ans, vient de vivre la deuxième tragédie de son existence. Désorientée, ses pas hasardeux la mènent dans un hôtel surprenant au cœur de la nature sauvage d'un petit pays d'Amérique latine... 1970. Une explosion a lieu dans un sous-sol, à New York, causée par une bombe artisanale. Parmi les écologistes apprentis terroristes décédés : la mère de Joan, six ans. Dans l'espoir fou de mener une vie ordinaire, la grand-mère de la fillette précipite leur départ, loin du drame, et lui fait changer de prénom : Joan s'appellera désormais Amelia.

Sie war das Model mit dem besonderen Blick. Heute lebt Carla zurückgezogen. Dabei wären ihre bernsteinfarbenen Augen perfekt für die Whiskykampagne in Monaco – das findet Lisa, die für das Werbeshooting zuständig ist und Carla zu einem Comeback überreden möchte. Carla fällt es schwer, sich wieder auf die Werbewelt einzulassen, aber ihre finanzielle Lage lässt ihr keine Wahl. Obwohl der Fotograf Tom sich große Mühe gibt, damit sie sich am Set wohlfühlt, wühlen die Aufnahmen längst verdrängte Erinnerungen auf.

ままならない人生の転機や旅立ちを誠実な筆致で描く、ウェルメイドな連作短編集。念願かなって海外旅行の添乗員になった遥。風光明媚なアイスランド、スロベニア、食べ物がおいしいパリ、北京……

Im Garten der Geister ist eine poetische und tiefgründige Erzählung, die den Leser in die magische Welt der kindlichen Vorstellungskraft entführt. Der Auto nutzt eine reiche und bildhafte Sprache, um den Garten als einen Ort voller Geheimnisse und Wunder zu beschreiben. Veronikas Interaktionen mit den Tieren und Pflanzen des Gartens sind liebevoll und mit einem Hauch von Märchenhaftigkeit dargestellt, was die Geschichte sowohl für Kinder als auch für Erwachsene ansprechend macht.

Du plus loin qu'elle s'en souvienne, Ellis a toujours trouvé refuge dans la Forêt Sauvage : un lieu magique caché derrière le massif de mûres qui borde le terrain des mobil-homes où elle a grandi. Dans cet îlot de verdure, le bruissement des feuillages et le murmure apaisant du ruisseau devenaient ses confidents les jours où sa mère buvait trop. Aussi est-ce tout naturellement qu'elle se réfugie au milieu des arbres quinze ans plus tard, accompagnée de ses jumeaux de quatre ans et de son bébé, Viola, le jour où elle découvre l'infidélité de son mari.

Read by the critically acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously.

Die Erzählfigur in "Blutbuch" identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in einem Schweizer Vorort, lebt sie nun in Zürich, ist den engen Strukturen der Herkunft entkommen und fühlt sich im nonbinären Körper und in der eigenen Sexualität wohl. Doch dann erkrankt die Großmutter an Demenz, und das Ich beginnt, sich mit der Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen.

A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political—and personal—challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before.

The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.