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A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community - Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted - and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without consequences.

The very moment that Raina Wingate learns her husband of sixteen years wants to separate, she gets a call that her father has suffered a stroke. Racing to her family’s home on Amelia Island, Florida, Raina hopes the time apart will heal her cracked marriage and that she can step into her father’s real estate business and keep it running. Her sister, Tori, a divorcee who owns a catering business in Boston, also flies in to join the others at the hospital. But an unexpected run-in with their father’s rather attractive neurologist adds a new dimension to the days and weeks ahead.

"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." —The New York Times Book Review Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over...

The slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O'Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the meagre handouts she gleans from charity. So when the childless Tysons, owners of Kendal's shoe factory, offer to adopt her son, Callum, and employ Kate as his nanny, she seizes the chance to ensure he has a better life. To be so close to her son, yet no longer be his mother, is bittersweet.

In the space of a single afternoon, Charlotte Winters's seemingly ideal life falls apart. After being let go from her job at a publishing house, she discovers her boyfriend on a date with another woman. As she reels from their subsequent breakup, she receives the shocking news that her estranged Aunt Jean has passed away. Even more surprising? Charlotte has inherited her aunt's beach house in the small coastal town of Sea Breeze Cove, Massachusetts.

Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she can’t help but feel her once-loving husband Ivor is no longer the man she married. He’s increasingly prone to drink and gambling and has become strangely secretive. Worried that Ivor’s behaviour is putting their growing family at risk, Marie decides to follow her husband. Marie learns that Ivor is spending time at a run-down house called Badgers Brook, but that’s only the beginning of it.

Singapore, 1941: Singapore City lights up with explosions as the first Japanese bombs rain down. Until now, the war has seemed a distant threat for Issey and her friends, drinking and dancing at Raffles. But with the Japanese invasion looming, Issey knows she must leave. Mysterious, handsome Alex Cartwright has sworn he will see her to safety. Cornwall, 2025: Nursing a broken heart, Lamorna flees her life in Singapore, returning to Trelenna, her Cornish family home. With ambitious plans to save and finance the crumbling house, her sister Zennor needs Lamorna’s help.

Society heiress Evelyn Brooke-Edwards is a skilled interrogator—her beauty making her a non-threat in the eyes of the prisoners. Farm girl Betty Connors may not be able to type as she claimed, but her crack analytical skills soon find her unearthing covert connections. German ex-pat Judith Stern never expected to find herself listening in to German POWs' whispered conversations, but the Nazis took her father from her, so she will do whatever it takes to help the Allies end this war.

She came home to heal. She didn’t expect to uncover a mystery—or fall for the man she couldn’t stand. Dr. Melissa Moore returns to Cocoa Beach craving peace. A place to paint. To breathe. To be alone with her memories. Instead, she finds the Honey House—her late aunt’s tiny seaside cottage—hiding more than just dust and forgotten photographs.

1963 год. Таинственный и романтичный Гонконг — сердце Азии. Более ста лет назад Дирк Струан, создавший Благородный Дом, мечтал превратить пустынный остров в процветающую колонию и оттуда управлять Азией. И теперь здесь главную роль играют финансы, торговля, судоходство и большой бизнес. В руках Иэна Данросса, нынешнего главы Благородного Дома и блестящего бизнесмена, сосредоточена огромная власть, которую он использует, чтобы спасти компанию от финансового краха.

Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district—and in their lives. WINNER OF THE CHRISTY AWARD When an impoverished school...

Ashamed of being duped by her handsome psychology professor, Josie Martin returns to Maine too proud to admit her foolishness to those closest to her. As the one-year anniversary of her father’s death approaches, she seeks solace in an old friend, Tripp Colton, and a new business venture that will prove to herself and her loved ones that she is still capable of success despite her overwhelming failure. When Josie announces she will not return to school to finish her graduate degree but wishes to remain in Camden, the entire family gets behind her idea to open and run a bed and breakfast.

Lady Joanna Harcourt and her daughter, Sarah, discover their life of luxury at Goodwill House is over. Because with Lord Harcourt away fighting, the Harcourt girls are facing financial ruin. Lady Joanna is terrified of losing their home, but for Sarah, this means her dreams of becoming a doctor are over. Headstrong Sarah isn’t one to quit! War or not, she’s determined to find a way to save her home and follow her dreams - whatever it takes.

Elizabeth Roby lives a content and privileged life in London with husband Jonathon and children, Emily and George. But with the outbreak of war, everything changes. Jonathon informs his family that they have to move from their smart London home to the riverside town of Wivenhoe and their new home Harbour House, where Jonathon will do his duty for his country as part of the Admiralty at the shipyards. But Elizabeth is devastated. How will she start a new life in a place she hardly knows, surrounded by strangers?

Lily Baker wants more from life. Working at the local cinema, she saves her pennies so she can have a chance to get ahead. After she’s attacked one night while locking up the cinema, she loses her heart to her dashing rescuer…But this lovely man is as different from her as can be. When the town is divided, pitting the wealthy elite against the poor working class folk like Lily, she finds her allegiance is torn.

Seit Jahrhunderten in Familienhand, verloren und wiedergefunden - ein Gutshaus, eine Familie und ein dramatisches Schicksal... Franziska kann es nicht glauben: Endlich ist sie wieder in ihrer Heimat auf Gut Dranitz. In den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs musste sie das herrschaftliche Anwesen im Osten verlassen. Lange gab es keinen Weg zurück. Trotzdem ließ sie die Sehnsucht nicht mehr los. Nie konnte sie die glanzvollen Zeiten vor dem Krieg vergessen, ihre Träume und Wünsche von einem Leben an der Seite ihrer großen Liebe Walter Iversen.

Rügen, 1924. Bernadette von Plesow blickt voller Stolz auf das imposante Grand Hotel ihrer Familie. Hier hat sie ihre Kinder großgezogen: den ruhigen Alexander, der einmal das Grand Hotel erben wird; Josefine, die rebellische Künstlerin, die ihren Weg noch sucht; und den umtriebigen Constantin, der bereits sein eigenes Hotel in Berlin führt. Abgesehen von ein paar Streitigkeiten mit ihrer Tochter und dem merkwürdigen Verhalten des Zimmermädchens, scheint alles in bester Ordnung zu sein.

Über ein halbes Jahrhundert lang kämpfen die Frauen der Familie Kölln – um ihre Existenz, um ihr Glück Elmshorn, 1886: Viel zu früh wird Charlotte Köllns Mann durch einen Arbeitsunfall aus dem Leben gerissen. Zeit für Trauer bleibt ihr nicht, die Kornmühle muss weiterbetrieben werden, sonst steht die Familie vor dem Ruin. Als Frau darf Charlotte weder Kredite aufnehmen noch offiziell die Geschäfte führen, doch davon lässt sie sich nicht aufhalten. Als ihr ältester Sohn die Arbeiterin Bertha heiraten will, ist Charlotte gar nicht begeistert. Sie bangt um den Status der Familie, den es zu erhalten gilt.

Ein Panorama deutscher Geschichte, eine Liebeserklärung an Sylt und eine große Liebesgeschichte - die Sylt-Saga von Bestseller-Autorin Gisa Pauly! 1959. Im kleinen Ort Riekenbüren wird Brit von allen "Fräulein Wunder" genannt. Ihre Eltern sind anständige Leute - und Brit langweilt sich zu Tode. Raus in die weite Welt will sie! Eine Klassenfahrt nach Sylt bringt endlich die ersehnte Freiheit. Sie kann nicht ahnen, dass diese Reise ihr Leben für immer verändern wird. Denn auf der Insel angekommen, verliebt sie sich unsterblich in den Hotelpagen Arne.

Rügen, 1924. Bernadette von Plesow blickt voller Stolz auf das imposante Grand Hotel ihrer Familie. Hier hat sie ihre Kinder großgezogen: den ruhigen Alexander, der einmal das Grand Hotel erben wird; Josefine, die rebellische Künstlerin, die ihren Weg noch sucht; und den umtriebigen Constantin, der bereits sein eigenes Hotel in Berlin führt. Abgesehen von ein paar Streitigkeiten mit ihrer Tochter und dem merkwürdigen Verhalten des Zimmermädchens, scheint alles in bester Ordnung zu sein.