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One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately...

In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-­off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her more, but Mary’s mother is too prickly and proud. So Mary goes to work, comes home, takes care of her family, and wonders if there’ll ever be more to life.

Mary McAllister, skamferet af et slag fra sin afdøde, voldelige mand, lider af en svær angstneurose og har tilbragt næsten 60 år isoleret i det såkaldte "Marmorpalæ", med udsigt over byen Mill River i Vermont. Hendes forbindelse til omverdenen består udelukkende af posten, medierne, en aldrende præst med hang til at stjæle skeer, og et soveværelsesvindue med udsigt over byen under hende. De fleste beboere i Mill River betragter 'Marmorpalæet's indehaver som ejendommelig, men dog som en fast del af deres samfund.

GRUPPEN handler om otte unge kvinders liv i 1930'ernes USA. Efter studietiden på Vassar College mødes "gruppen" i New York i anledning af en af kvindernes bryllup, og syv år senere samles den igen til samme kvindes begravelse. Kvinderne er fulde af gåpåmod, de vil leve et uafhaengigt liv og realisere sig selv på deres egne praemisser.

Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks to lonely old folks playing the slot machines, and her nights trying to escape her bitter past. When she befriends Sarah, a young Native American woman who is hired to cook in the casino coffee shop, her life begins to change. Maggie finds herself falling in love with a memory-haunted Vietnam veteran and warily begins to hope that together they can find peace.

The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, and choose careers and husbands against the backdrop of 1930s New York.

Kusinerna Christy och Charles är på semester i Beirut när de kommer till att tänka på att deras faster Harriet också är där. Hon är släktens original, har konverterat till islam och bor i en gammal rövarborg uppe i bergen i Libanon. Hon lever ensam och tillbakadragen med en livläkare och tre tjänare. Kusinerna bestämmer sig för att besöka henne men känner sig inte det minsta välkomna hos fastern. Hon döljer något, men vad? Mary Stewart (1916-2014) var en brittisk romanförfattare som bland annat skrivit om trollkarlen Merlin, samt deckare och romantiska romaner.

Ireland 1944: a German plane crashes, shattering a young family. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie try to start afresh. The story moves from 1940s Ireland to post-war England, Malta, and London in the 1960s and '70s. A tale of survival, self-discovery, and falling in love.

In historic York, Ella seems to have the perfect life. She's a published author, her bookshop is thriving, she's married to the man of her dreams and they've started a family of their own. But Ella is struggling. Motherhood isn't quite everything she imagined it to be, and she's worried that there may be cracks in her marriage. On the other side of the Atlantic, despite endless blue skies and a stream of eager customers in her vintage dress shop, Ella's mother Fabia finds that life in San Diego is not enough for her....

The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is...

Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife. On the threshold she gives him a black eye and retires straight to bed where she remains, apart from the occasional malevolent outburst, for the rest of her life.

For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with two men. To Ned she was a perfect wife, mother of his son, and elegant hostess of Slepe. To Mylo, Rose was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his erratic and impassionate calls throughout 50 years of tactful duplicity. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.

The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and, except for a 1924 silent film based on it, was virtually unknown - having been eclipsed by Shelley's more popular works - until a scholarly revival in the 1960s. It contains semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

A traveller on a train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself

Als die Gleesons und die Stanhopes in dieselbe Nachbarschaft ziehen, scheinen die Weichen für ein freundschaftliches Miteinander gestellt. Lena Gleeson fühlt sich in der neuen Gegend ein wenig einsam und versucht mit Anne Stanhope Freundschaft zu schließen. Doch deren kühle, distanzierte Art verhindert jeden Kontakt. Erst ihre Kinder bringen die Gleesons und die Stanhopes wieder miteinander in Verbindung. Lenas jüngste Tochter Kate und Annes einziger Sohn Peter sind von Anfang an unzertrennlich. Aber ihre aufkeimende Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als eine Tragödie beide Familien für lange Zeit auseinanderreißt.

A naïve, recently divorced Canadian woman travels to San Jose in Mexico, where she is embraced by a party-loving group of expatriates who, fortified by margaritas, whirl from sexual encounters to experiments in the occult. But Claire, fascinated by the Mexicans and their joyful high spirits, falls in love with the country, and with the vibrant and mercurial Lolo, the man who represents for her the soul of Mexico.

Bob Carew er en festlig, om end uansvarlig mand med talent for damer og væddeløb. På sit dødsleje beder han sin datter Poppy arrangere en passende festlig afsked hos Furnivals Fornemme Begravelser. Efter hans død opdager Poppy – til sin store overraskelse – at han har efterladt hende en anseelig sum penge og et brev, hvori der står: Poppy, min skat, 1. Lån aldrig nogen noget, giv i stedet for. 2. Gift dig aldrig, medmindre du er helt sikker på, at du ikke kan leve uden fyren. 3. Vær ikke bange for at spille på outsidere. Kærlig hilsen Far Og det giver den ubeslutsomme pige noget at tænke over.

Da Libby McKenzie mister sin far, føler hun sig fortabt. Hendes nye arbejde som bryllupsfotograf er derfor en kærkommen distraktion. Da hun bliver hyret til at fotografere et bryllup ved den historiske Woodmont-ejendom, griber hun straks chancen for nye eventyr. Libby er betaget af stedet og især det gamle drivhus. Da bygningerne skal gennemgå en større renovation, bliver Libby tilknyttet projektet – hun skal fotodokumentere det arbejde, som den charmerende håndværker Colton udfører.

Mary E. Mann does not flinch. In Little Brother, she leads us by the hand into a world where hunger is constant, sorrow is routine, and the arrival of a child is met with neither joy nor mourning—just another mouth, another burden, another resignation. Yet even in this bleakness, life goes on, in ways both unsettling and eerily familiar. A stark, unflinching glimpse into the realities of the forgotten, this story is as haunting as it is quietly devastating.

When Monica is offered a three-month placement in LA, she knows that for the sake of her career she must accept it - even though it means leaving behind nine-year-old Ruby, toddler Luca and her husband, Daniel. She hires Ursula as a housekeeper and nanny during her absence, although the older woman is oddly reluctant to agree to a childcare position. What is the dark secret in Ursula's past which has left her so closed off and reserved? Will her growing attachment to Ruby bring it to the surface?