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Als Mikage ihre Großmutter verliert, ist sie vollkommen allein in der großen Wohnung. Nur in der Küche, wo das Brummen des Kühlschranks sie in den Schlaf wiegt, kommt sie zur Ruhe. Aus ihrer Einsamkeit holt sie Yuichi. Er schlägt ihr vor, zu ihm und seiner Mutter zu ziehen. Es entwickelt sich eine merkwürdige Wohngemeinschaft. Denn Eriko, die wunderschöne "Mutter" Yuichis, hat eine schillernde Vergangenheit.

For decades — in China and in San Francisco — Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths — not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl.

"Non c'è posto al mondo che io ami di più della cucina". Così comincia il romanzo di Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen. Le cucine, nuovissime e luccicanti o vecchie e vissute, riempiono i sogni della protagonista Mikage, rimasta sola al mondo dopo la morte della nonna, e rappresentano il calore di una famiglia sempre desiderata. Ma la famiglia si può non solo scegliere, ma anche inventare. Così il padre del giovane amico Yuichi può diventare o rivelarsi madre e Mikage può eleggerli come propria famiglia, in un crescendo tragicomico di ambiguità.

Christmas at the Davenports’ house was always about one thing: food! But when sisters Ella and Maddy were split up, Ella to live in London with their Dad, and Maddy staying in Greece with their Mum, mince pies lost their magic. Now, a cheating husband has thrown Ella a curved snowball…and...

Kitchen Chinese, Ann Mah’s funny and poignant first novel about a young Chinese-American woman who travels to Beijing to discover food, family, and herself is a delight—complete with mouth-watering descriptions of Asian culinary delicacies, from Peking duck and Mongolian hot pot to the...

With an exciting new life in Paris, Clemmie Hamilton isn't looking forward to heading home to the picturesque but sleepy village of St Aidan, Cornwall. However, when she discovers that the cosy apartment by the sea, which her grandmother left to her, is under threat from neighbour and property developer, Charlie Hobson, Clemmie realises she can't abandon her home in its time of need. With her childhood friends encouraging her, Clemmie decides to turn the apartment into 'The Little Cornish Kitchen'.

When Gwen Starkey and her best friend, Stella Simpson, arrive in St Aidan to take on a cottage renovation, it’s the fresh start they both so desperately need. But when their new adventure begins with them unintentionally breaking into their neighbour, Ollie Lancaster’s cottage—thinking it’s their new home—and Gwen accidentally flashing the gorgeous Ollie before they flee, the life-long friends realise that life in Cornwall is going to be anything but quiet!

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Country Living Best Book of Fall * A Washington Post Best Feel-Good Book of the Year * One of the New York Times's Best Historical Fiction Novels of Fall In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and...

Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot of something good. In Atlanta, Mallory Lakes is reeling from a bad breakup. The newspaper food columnist is also bracing for major changes at work that could put her job at risk. Determined to find the perfect recipe for how to reinvent herself, she gets involved in the growing farm-to-table movement.

The last shot of world war two has been fired and a boy is born, destined for life in a beautiful fishing village in South West Cornwall. He is surrounded, there, by friends and a loving family and his is a childhood that dreams are made of. But in this village they chain up the swings on Sundays, and as he grows, he finds that puberty and its consequences are hushed up and must never be spoken of.

For years, Elza has gotten by. A divorcee out of culinary school, she started her own little restaurant in the mid-size Hungarian city of Delibab, and she's grown a decent business, cooking quality versions of Hungarian classics and serving them with a smile. But lately her smile has gotten tired. Her loveless affair with her sous-chef has become an irritation. She's getting sick of the same old dishes and the same old customers. And in these nascent years of capitalism, it will take some competition to make her see that her restaurant, and her happiness, are worth fighting for.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of...

When internet sensation ‘Cressida Cupcake’ has a soggy-bottomed TV fiasco and faces bake-off backlash, she jumps at the chance to spend some time hiding out in St Aidan, dog sitting for her brother. Picturesque Seaspray Cottage is meant to be Cressy Hobson’s port in the storm, but with her blog sponsors having fled and her book deal gone sideways, her funds are running low, and she’s forced to turn to the locals for help. Soon her quiet weeks in Cornwall are filled with chasing sheep, saving the local retirement village...and keeping vigilant guard against romance.

From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman's effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood. With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her...

In Aleppo, irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s and 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of This City unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society.

What begins as a deliciously wicked portrait of a midcentury marriage, filled with pork chops, cinnamon rolls, golden shoe string fries, and mashed potato mountains crowned with lakes of butter, quickly transforms into a food story on acid, eating its way to the heart of a loveless relationship.

تغوص الرواية بعمق فى آليات الخوف والتفكك خلال نصف قرن، كما هى رواية عن مجتمع عاش بشكل متواز مع البطش والرغبات المقتولة، عبر سيرة عائلة اكتشفت أن كل أحلامها ماتت وتحولت إلى ركام، كما تحولت جثة الأم إلى خردة يجب التخلص منها ليستمر الآخرون فى العيش.

Anne Lisbeth once rose above her station by serving as nurse to a noble child, enjoying comfort, admiration, and pride. But in doing so, she turned away from her own son, leaving him to grow up unloved, neglected, and ultimately lost to the sea. Years later, when the weight of her choices finally stirs, Anne Lisbeth is forced into a harrowing reckoning—one shaped by guilt, superstition, and the relentless voice of conscience.

Neste audiolivro terno e acolhedor, a vida de Kotoko se entrelaça sutilmente com a de outros personagens, todos lidando com o luto – um garotinho que perdeu seu primeiro amor, um velho fazendeiro que se prepara para se juntar à esposa, um jovem que perdeu a mãe e precisa aprender a seguir sem ela. Recheado de receitas de dar água na boca, Chibineko: O restaurante das memórias inesquecíveis é uma história encantadora sobre últimas chances e novos começos.

When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell 150 feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silenced - by violent death. To crack the secret of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal.