Friendship

Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop....

Hyvän mielen tarina ystävyydestä, rakkaudesta ja yhteisön voimasta. Leskeksi jääneet sisarukset Mimmi ja Vera pitävät eläkepäiviensä iloksi Tukholman...

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America....

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her....

Kesäinen hyvän mielen romaani eräästä remontista, ystävyydestä ja ennakkoluuloisista naapureista. Hieman Hallavikista pohjoiseen sijaitsee...

From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life....

Con Napoli i conti non sono mai chiusi ed Elena, scrittrice ormai affermata, torna a vivere nella città da cui era fuggita...

Carico di speranze e tensioni, arriva il vento degli anni Settanta che ogni cosa scompagina. Elena, laureata alla Normale di Pisa, pubblica un fortunato romanzo...

Sullo sfondo che prelude ai grandi cambiamenti degli anni Sessanta, Lila ed Elena si affacciano al mondo condividendo il desiderio...

Lila è scomparsa. Esagerata, come sempre, ha cancellato ogni traccia. Ed Elena, l'amica di tutta la vita, inizia a raccontare la storia...

The complete BBC radio adaptations of Alexander McCall's bestselling series....

The Socs and the Greasers are rival gangs from the opposite sides of town. The Socs’ idea of a good time is cruising around in their flash cars and beating up long-haired Greasers like Ponyboy....

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

Joanna Horton has created two unforgettable women, whose choices on the cusp of adulthood will resonate, in this riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between loyalty and desire....

Dava Shastri, one of the world's wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. A brain cancer diagnosis at the age of seventy, however, changes everything, and Dava decides to take her death—like all matters of her life—into her own hands....

In life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can happen to change the course of everything....

The Little Old Lady Strikes Back is a socially engaged, feelgood novel with a riotous plot from the author of The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules....

Molly Hopkins has happily watched all of her friends’ dreams come true on Riverside Lane. Deciding to follow her passion for baking, Molly with the help of her friends takes the plunge and opens a Tea Garden in the village hoping to make it a summer to remember....

When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it’s not the ‘good life’ she’d imagined, as three hours of digging barely yield a single straggly carrot.

Cleo, o pictoriță britanică în vârstă de 24 de ani, a lăsat în urmă Anglia și a ales să facă un masterat cât mai departe de casă, la New York, orașul care nu doarme niciodată. Aici îl cunoaște pe Frank....

On a Thursday morning in May 1961, a well-mannered twenty-one-year-old named Marlene enters the Fifth Avenue apartment of Lee Radziwill to interview for the position of housekeeper and cook. The stylish wife of London-based Prince Stanislaw Radziwill, Princess Lee is intelligent and creative...

Mellem to unge piger udvikler sig et ubrydeligt venskab, som trods store forskelle i arv og miljø hjælper dem gennem mange genvordigheder hjemme i...

Fire kvinder i 40-årsalderen - barndomsveninder - har karrieren og til dels parforholdene på plads, indtil en fortiet, pinlig episode fra fortiden...

It’s early summer on the French Riviera when Vivienne Wilson arrives for a one-woman writers’ retreat after her philandering husband informs her that their 30-year marriage is over.

"मोहसिन कुछ और पास आया और चिंगी ने भी थोड़े क़दम आगे लिए। एक तरफ़ होरमोंज का ज़ोर था और दूसरी ओर अचानक से बहुत ज़ोर की बारिश शुरू हो गई। चिंगी और चहक उठी।....

War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through hard times. The three friends find purpose in making the Silvertown library a friendly sanctuary for their deprived and devastated community. But sinister forces, from callous bureaucrats to crafty criminals, still lurk among the stacks.

Als Katherine Madigan ein bezauberndes Haus in der irischen Kleinstadt Howth erbt, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass damit auch eine kleine Bücherei verbunden ist: die Rainbow-Hearts-Library. Kate reist nach Irland, um sich ihr Erbe anzusehen und trifft auf überaus herzliche Dorfbewohner. Schnell wird ihr klar, dass der kleine Laden allseits beliebt war und dass sich das Dorf nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als dass Kate ihn wiedereröffnet. Den Grund dafür findet Kate schon bald zwischen den Seiten der Bücher: Briefe.

Isa Epley ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt und weise genug, um zu wissen, dass der Sinn des Lebens im Vergnügen liegt. Tagsüber verkauft sie mit ihrer besten Freundin Gala Klamotten an einem Straßenstand, um ihre Zwischenmiete in Brooklyn zu finanzieren.

The daughter of Irish immigrants and the son of an African slave forge their own destiny in Boston, in this compelling sequel to Shanty Gold.

Il libro ha come protagonista un giovane avvocato di successo, Luca Pertinelli, e il coro di amici (e colleghi di lavoro) che l'accompagnano "in scena". Fino a quando non arriva dall'Inghilterra la giovane Sabine, di cui Luca si innamora entrando in conflitto con il proprio ambiente, la moglie e le regole di un mondo in cui egli stesso è irrimediabilmente prigioniero. Nella seconda parte del romanzo, la scena si sposta su un'isola vacanziera dove la presenza di Sabine farà esplodere in modo drammatico le contraddizioni che dominano il circuito di sciagurati gaudenti attorno ai quali Bulgaro traccia un disegno collettivo di grande respiro.

When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before their bond of friendship gets severely tested.

Charlotte has it all: the successful career, the loving family. But, secretly, she is dangerously bored of her rigid and structured life. Bianka is a free spirit, always the life and soul. When she and Charlotte meet, it feels like fate – Bianka is exactly the person that Charlotte needs. When they escape to Ibiza for a girls’ trip, home is soon forgotten. Charlotte dives head first into a life that is looser, wilder. But the holiday soon spirals out of control with fatal consequences – someone doesn’t return home.

As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.

Ein Jahrhundert unter dem Tholus, der die Welt in Sektoren aufteilt, ist der Urteilsspruch der Exesor über die Menschheit. In diesem Augenblick endet das Leben, so wie wir es bisher kannten – es ist der Tag von Excidium Babylon. Erlebe diesen entscheidenden Moment an der Seite von Layla, Friedericke und Hugo in "Prophezeiung – Momentum" Layla kommt in der Hoffnung auf Frieden nach Europa. Allein und auf sich gestellt, trifft sie auf Friedericke, eine chaotische Egoistin, die auf der Suche nach ihrem Glück als Schauspielerin ist.

Han sido amigos inseparables durante treinta años: Christine, la discreta pintora; su marido Alex, poeta en su juventud y ahora director de escuela; el exitoso galerista de arte Zachary y su sofisticada esposa Lydia. Una apacible noche de verano, mientras escuchan música clásica en el salón de su casa en Londres, Christine y Alex reciben una llamada; es Lydia, alterada, desde el hospital: Zach acaba de morir. Un mismo sentimiento invade a los tres: han perdido al más generoso y fuerte de los cuatro, el ancla que los mantenía unidos, precisamente aquel a quien no podían permitirse perder.

On a day Abbey thought would be the best of her life – her boyfriend is surely going to propose tonight, right? – it all falls apart: he tells her he’s met someone else. And then to make things worse, she loses her job. In an act of reimagination, she splurges her wedding savings on renting an apartment in a building she’s always dreamed of living in and kits out her wardrobe to match. But when her family invites her ex – a close family friend – plus a date(!!) to her parents’ vow renewal, Abbey realizes her façade won’t be enough. There’s nothing for it but to fake one more thing – a romance.

When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested. He’s the reason she’s in here. She knows it. She remembers what he did. Clearly as anything. But there are things Shelley has forgotten too, including parts of her childhood. And as those start to come back to her, so do other memories. Ones with the power to change everything.

In the heart of Dressmakers' Alley, Madame Pauline’s sweatshop is rumoured to be a particularly unpleasant place to work. Filled with seamstresses paid a pittance who turn a blind eye to what darker activities are hidden behind locked doors. Young Winnie Brown is keen to prove her value to the Women Movement and secures a job as a seamstress to investigate the whispers of some unsavoury goings on. Her concerns are soon justified when she hears a desperate cry for help.

Maurice ist ein nostalgischer Mensch, der seine beiden Pferde liebt und aus Überzeugung vegetarisch lebt. Er verlässt nach Jahren Paris und trifft in seinem Heimatdorf in der Normandie auf sehr unterschiedliche Menschen, die alle auf ihre Weise mit dem Gut Neurville verbunden sind, dem an der Küste gelegenen Hof mit seiner weitläufigen Apfelplantage und bekannten Cidre-Produktion. Monique arbeitet im Büro des Anwesens. Maurice und sie lernen sich kennen und lieben, leben für ihre Tiere und schreiben gemeinsam Abenteuergeschichten.

Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, battles were waged, and sisters and daughters were traded as pawns in marriage. Catherine Campbell was one such young bride, betrothed to Lachlan Maclean and sent from her fine home to join him on the Isle of Mull, to bear his sons and heirs. But Lachlan proved to be nothing like the man of Catherine’s dreams, and she was forced to resign herself to enduring life with him for the sake of duty. Until the day when he threatened to take away the one thing she couldn’t sacrifice: her daughter.