Titres dans Vie de famille

Gage Calaway has run the Calaway Report with the help of Sydney for three years. But his obsessive behavior and the need for perfection make him hard to work with. Though Gage seems not to notice, Sydney is smart, creative, funny, and quite attractive. If she hadn’t been in love with him since the day she walked into the office, she would’ve quit long ago. When Gage is approached about becoming mayor of Calaway Crossing, he’s the first to admit he’s socially challenged. But Sydney convinces him to run, offering to help him with his social skills.

Running the town's only ice cream shop—The Latest Scoop—she should be the most popular person in town, at least every day that the sun's shining. But, in spite of growing up in Starr's Fall, Zoe has reached the age of twenty-eight without letting anyone deeply into her life. When she gets home to realise Sophie and Dan are in fact also her new neighbors, she knows she has to make nice. That is, until fourteen-year-old Sophie comes into her store, and tries to steal something.

When Dana and Nigel got married, they had such promise. After sixteen years, the cracks are showing. Dana is a burned-out ER nurse, and Nigel is a recently unemployed stay-at-home dad whose professional identity is disappearing. Questioning the directions their lives have taken, Dana and Nigel are each granted a wish from a mysterious stranger. For one week they can escape the pressure of their lives in favor of ones in which they never married.

When Bess Rollins’s parents die in a tragic accident, she is forced to abandon her dream job overseas. After three years away, she returns to her family’s estate in the Finger Lakes, a veritable monument to her brilliant late grandmother, and a reminder of the wreckage Bess left behind. There’s the guilt over leaving her younger twin siblings, Casey and Caleb, and she struggles to rebuild a bond that may be irrevocably broken. Amid the grief, resentment still looms toward her reckless and self-indulgent mother and father.

Set amongst the fault-prone landscape of Northern California, The Pale Flesh of Wood is a lyrical debut set in the twentieth century and told through a multigenerational braided narrative of the Hawkins’ family, examining the rippling effects of trauma and perceived fault after a loved one’s suicide following his service in World War II.

Young Betty Cantrel is just 14-years-old when she reluctantly leaves her troubled family home to take up a position as companion to Frances Crawley, the ailing daughter of Eben and Mary Crawley. As her friendship grows with Frances, Betty accompanies her to London, where she glimpses another world – a world full of art, music, and freedom, and she begins to dream of a different kind of life.

Lilly-Bob loves her home by the River Thames in the heart of London. Throughout her childhood, it echoed with music and her father’s love, and for seventy years it’s been her sanctuary through a life well lived. These days, the familiar walls and treasured memories keep loneliness at bay. But for months she’s been ignoring letters from a building developer, and now a compulsory purchase scheme threatens to take her home by force. Seventeen-year-old Lilly-Bob didn’t fear change, but present-day Lilly refuses to let go.

Twin sisters Jocelyn and Maddy Marx grew up in a tight-knit family on Cape Cod, but they couldn’t be more different. Jocelyn, laid-back and dreamy, still lives in their hometown as a Realtor. Maddy, intense and ambitious, left for New York after college and never looked back. Until the summer they turn thirty-one. After a dramatic fall from grace in her career, a pregnant Maddy returns to the Cape with her husband and announces she’s back for good.

After years of dreams deferred, Josie Ballard’s life is about to change. She and her husband are off to Sorrento for a summer adventure, but on the eve of their departure, Josie discovers his infidelity. Devastated, she leaves her faithless husband, heading for the sun-drenched Italian coast. Alone, future unknown.

Dos hermanas. Un país dividido. Un amor imposible. Estefanía y Selina,. hijas de una familia acomodada de Oviedo, viven sus días entre las imágenes religiosas del taller familiar y los. sueños de un matrimonio ideal. Pero en la Asturias de los años treinta,. el amor nunca es solo amor: es clase, es política, es destino. Fani se enamora de un guardia civil. Lina, de un joven minero comprometido con la lucha obrera. Entre el incienso y la dinamita,. sus elecciones marcarán el rumbo de sus vidas y el de toda una familia.

Haas en Harriët is ’n hartroerende roman oor onvolmaakte ouerskap. Twee ma’s probeer hul bes doen vir hul kinders, maar albei maak foute, en die wêreld daar buite is soms ongenaakbaar.

Nach einer bitteren Enttäuschung bleibt Emery nichts anderes übrig, als ihr Großstadtleben in Vancouver hinter sich zu lassen und in ihre Heimat zurückzukehren, auf die malerische Insel Summerset Island vor der Küste Kanadas. Die Insel scheint unverändert, doch unter der ruhigen Oberfläche brodelt die Vergangenheit. Dort endete vor sieben Jahren eine Bootsparty in einer Katastrophe. Niemand spricht über das Unglück, auch Cole, Emerys heimliche große Liebe nicht. In all der Zeit konnte sie ihn nicht vergessen und auch jetzt lässt er ihr Herz wieder höherschlagen.

Lena, ambitna architektka, przyjeżdża na pogrzeb babci do Rachowic. Tutaj poznaje Pawła, który porzuciwszy miejskie życie, osiadł na wsi. Mężczyzna zauroczony Leną postanawia pomóc jej w remoncie rodzinnego domu. Kiedy znajdują na strychu stary pamiętnik i plik listów, ruszają w przeszłość śladem zagadkowej Róży… To piękna historia odzyskiwania siebie poprzez godzenie się z przeszłością i bliskimi ludźmi, których już nie ma.

Jadwiga Majewska pnie się po szczeblach kariery i zostaje dyrektorem ośrodka pomocy społecznej. Wtedy szczęście się od niej odwraca. Zawiść ludzka i zmowa załogi oraz postępujący mobbing pracowników, a zwłaszcza Remigiusza Osińskiego, którego zaloty odrzuca, skłaniają Jadwigę do coraz częstszego zaglądania do kieliszka. Jadwiga zamiast pod pociąg trafia na ulicę i wraz z innymi bezdomnymi wiedzie dość spokojny żywot, ukrywając się przez dekadę przed najbliższymi, a przede wszystkim przed policją i wymiarem sprawiedliwości.

A gripping and twisty new psychological thriller about every mother’s worst nightmare. Perfect for fans of Sue Watson, S.E. Lynes and Freida McFadden. Natasha was plunged into every parent’s ultimate nightmare when her son was taken from hospital shortly after his birth. Worse still, in the...

A gripping, emotional listen from Amanda Brookfield...

After a tumultuous few months, Tess Alexander is ready to welcome her first guests to The Garden Retreat, a beautiful lodge in the grounds of Hollyhocks Cottage. With her daughter Hannah home from her travels in Australia and her mother, Marjorie, acting out of character, Tess has to juggle many demands on her attention. Even her flourishing relationship with dashing Rob Templeton is put to the test when he faces an emotional dilemma from his past and Barney, her beloved beagle, has her at her wits end.

Die Saga über eine Hamburger Arztfamilie, die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruht. Vom Bestsellerautor Wolf Serno. Das Schicksal einer Familie: Hamburg, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eigentlich soll Vicki zur Haiden in Lübeck das Lehrerinnenseminar besuchen, doch sie hält die Enge dort nicht aus. Heimlich kehrt sie nach Hamburg zurück – ausgerechnet als in den ärmeren Vierteln die Cholera ausbricht. Mit dem jungen, am Krankenhaus in Ungnade gefallenen Arzt Johannes Dreyer tut sie alles, um den Erkrankten zu helfen. Bis ihr Vater, der Chefarzt am Neuen Krankenhaus Eppendorf, ihr plötzlich gegenübersteht.

Trevor Benson ha ereditato dal nonno, recentemente scomparso, una casa nel North Carolina, ed è proprio lì che decide di trasferirsi temporaneamente. Rimasto gravemente ferito in Afghanistan, ha infatti dovuto abbandonare la professione di chirurgo e trovare una nuova strada. Due incontri inattesi giungono a sorprenderlo: quello con Callie, una ragazzina inquieta e sfuggente che sa qualcosa sulle circostanze misteriose della morte di suo nonno; e quello con Natalie, una poliziotta per la quale Trevor sente nascere un sentimento profondo.

I thought moving to this quiet cul-de-sac was the fresh start my husband and I needed, escaping the noise of our cramped flat in Hounslow. I left India and all that was familiar for a new life with him in England. But my husband works all hours, leaving me alone in a house that doesn’t feel like a home. Our neighbours notice the bruises on my arms. They draw the obvious conclusions. They seem kind, but they’re hiding something. I just can’t shake the feeling that someone is always watching me . . . waiting. My husband’s working late. Again. That’s when I see it.