Showing results for "Word of Life" in Genre Fiction

Starting over is never easy. Addie and Graham "Gray" Grayson should know: they are a couple on the brink. But they weren't always. Childhood friends who fell in love, they complemented each other perfectly: her sunny, gregarious outlook was an ideal foil for Gray's quiet, careful personality. But when an unexpected heartbreak sweeps them into grief, they're forced to question the fraying bonds that once held them so tightly.

Labor and delivery nurse Penelope is an expert at her job, but a complete mess when it comes to her personal life. Despite avoiding relationships in the past, now all she wants is for her boyfriend to leave his wife. But soon after he dumps her in favor of his marriage, Penelope discovers she’s pregnant. Suddenly, she doesn’t feel like such an expert anymore. What happens when women tell the truth about themselves, their desires, and the sacrifices they’re willing—or unwilling—to make?

As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She’s fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Amid the tedium of sifting through knickknacks and heirlooms, Zara also reconnects with a man she’s attracted to but whose complicated past makes romance seem impossible.

The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just as she remembers it - right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with a beautiful little boy, Henry, who has just been diagnosed with autism. Returning to this quiet New Hampshire community seems the best thing to do, for both her father and her son's sake.

Sex. Yes. She remembered that. Wasn't that the thing that happened somewhere between the talking-and-going-out-to-dinner bit and the sobbing-and-eating-too-many-biscuits bit? Still, Bella was sure she could handle some - preferably before her as yet unopened packet of condoms reached their expiry date. She must be practically a virgin again by now, all sealed over like pierced ears if you don't wear earrings for too long.

"I am always with you. I will always be here." This was the promise Ella’s mother betrayed thirty years ago when she walked into the sea, leaving her five-year-old daughter alone in the world. Ella’s been angry ever since, building up a wall to protect herself. But that all changes the day she opens a newspaper and finds those ten little words printed in a classified ad. Ella refuses to believe her mother could still be alive - that would mean she did want to live, just not with her daughter. So she throws herself into finding out exactly what happened all those years ago.

To stay sane, Andie Tilly must keep her mind on her work. Her job as a pediatric occupational therapist is the perfect distraction from the unspeakable tragedy she experienced as a child. But when she meets alternative-energy magnate Rhys Griffiths and his autistic toddler, Will, she quickly realizes her heart will never be the same. Especially when her name becomes Will's first word.

For overprotective parent Alyson Ward, any time her daughter, Lyla, is out of sight is reason to panic. So it's a big step for her when she lets Lyla attend a sleepover at her cousin's house. Comforted by the knowledge that her sister, Tricia, is the chaperone, Alyson does the one thing she never thought possible: she lets go and trusts that her daughter will be safe.

Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's world. The scientific newsletter he publishes is foundering financially, his ex-wife still relies on him for money and intimacy, and he can never seem to find the time or the wherewithal to relax. Much of Cy's stress is caused by the trouble he has with his brilliant and duplicitous son, Jack.

This short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative side of their nature, and the consequences are devastating.

As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry - particularly at a fraternity called GBC. When she wakes up one morning on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in the state of feminist activism on campus. GBC is notorious, she learns, nicknamed "Gang Bang Central" and a prominent contributor to a list of date rapists compiled by female students. Despite continuing to party there and dating one of the brothers, Karen is equally seduced by the intellectual stimulation and indomitable spirit of the Raghurst women.

Anne har nyligen avslutat en relation och vill helst bara vara ensam och slicka sina sår. Men när vännerna övertalar henne att följa med på en fest träffar hon Patrik och faller handlöst. Han charmar henne totalt och bara några veckor senare har de blivit sambos. De planerar för sin gemensamma framtid och om hur de ska bli det där lyckliga paret som klarar allt tillsammans, i nöd och lust. De skaffar två barn och utåt sett är de den perfekta familjen. Men det är något som inte stämmer med Patrik.

Grönfeltien perheen tarina huipentuu historiallisen trilogian kolmannessa osassaKristian ja Gabriel Grönfeltin sotaretki on saanut päätöksensä, ja Gabriel on vaihtanut sotilaan epävarman elämän vakavaraiseen kauppamiehen ammattiin. Vietyään Riiassa vihille varakkaan porvarisneidon, Elise Mörbitsin, on Gabriel saanut haltuunsa appensa kauppahuoneen. Onni näyttää vihdoin hymyilevän Gabrielille: perhe kasvaa ja kauppatoimet sujuvat. Silti jokin Gabrielin sydämessä haikaa takaisin Suomeen ja Porvooseen, nuoruutensa maisemiin.

Experience three novellas about the joys and trials of sisterhood.

Marie Weberin sisäpiika Greta Mikontytär pääsee hattumaakari Anna Fallinin apulaiseksi entisen emännän myytyä kauppahuoneensa ja muutettua Tukholmaan. Gretasta kehkeytyykin paitsi näppärä ompelija myös erinomainen muotisuunnittelija, joka vetää salongin täyteen porilaisrouvia. Valitettavasti sinne änkeää myös Tyskilästä Forssiksi muuttuneen kauppahuoneen uusi omistaja, leskimies Arvid Grönfors, joka on päättänyt saada Gretan uudeksi rouvakseen vaikka väkisin.

Vera och Ellen möts på charkuterifabriken på Söder i Stockholm, gifter sig med varsin bror, får barn, skiljer sig och bildar liksom en ny familj tillsammans, Vera med dottern Sasja, Ellen med sönerna Sigvard och Folke. Banden dem emellan är starka men komplicerade, det är vänskap och kärlek men också strid och hat. Genom den här familjen skildras också det dramatiska 1900-talet fram till idag. I centrum för romanen och dess huvudpersoner står frågan: Vad gör vi med våra liv?

Viisikymppinen Mia ja aviomies Markku elävät unelmaansa purku-uhan alta pelastamassaan vanhassa puutalokorttelissa. Viisi aikuista lasta ovat muuttaneet jo pois kotoa, mutta elämään tuovat väriä heidän persoonalliset vuokralaisensa: muusikon urasta haaveileva kitaristi Tolonen, esikoistaan odottavat rastatukkaiset nuoret Molla ja Piupau sekä uusimpana tulokkaana kamerunilainen Kolumbus. Kesken vuotuisen pihakirppistapahtuman vedentulo katkeaa koko korttelista ja Mian avuksi rientää satunnainen ohikulkija.

Det har varit dåligt med bokningar till hotellet Vita huset under hösten. Nina och Johanna funderar på hur de kan locka till sig gäster. När Johanna läser en artikel om hur fågelskådare släpper allt och vallfärdar till platser där ovanliga fågelarter siktats, får hon en briljant idé. Samtidigt som affärerna tar fart har Johanna fullt upp med att ta hand om sin fyraårige son, som hon dumt nog tagit ur förskoleverksamheten. Konsten att balansera jobbet med föräldraskapet visar sig vara svårare än hon trott.

Maggie and Tom, brother and sister, try to save their livelihood as their parents flounder in the face of modernization. Maggie befriends the disabled son of a family rival in an attempt to build bridges, and Tom fights hard to reclaim the family property. Having drifted apart, they are brought back together in the novel's dramatic and moving conclusion.