Titres dans Vie de famille

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Ein Roman wie ein Paukenschlag! "Der Farmer ist tot, und alle wollen wissen, wer ihn getötet hat." Als Siebzehnjährige verliebt sich Beth in den schönen und klugen Gabriel. Am Ende eines leidenschaftlichen, flirrenden Sommers jedoch zerbricht ihr Glück. 13 Jahre später lebt Beth glücklich mit ihrem Mann auf einer Farm. Sie kümmern sich aufopferungsvoll um Land und Tiere und genießen ihre noch immer große Liebe. Doch dann kehrt Gabriel mit seinem Sohn Leo in das Dorf zurück und reißt alte Wunden auf. Beth hat einen Sohn verloren – damals war er so alt, wie Leo jetzt.

Thirty years ago, my father became the other half of a broken love story. A relationship he’s kept hidden for decades. Upon unearthing his secret through a series of emails in our paper’s archives, I began my search for the truth. Haunted by my father’s love story, and in my quest for answers, I never imagined I would discover a love of my own. Or that my love for Easton Crowne would be key in discovering the reason behind what split our parents up.

A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking - about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives. Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens.

The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common.

On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister, Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been.

"La storia di un grande amore e di un delitto": così l'autrice stessa definì "Dalla parte di lei". Narratrice e protagonista è Alessandra Corteggiani che in questo lungo memoriale rievoca le proprie vicende familiari e personali per raccontare - rigorosamente "dalla parte di lei" - la storia italiana degli anni a cavallo tra fascismo, resistenza e ricostruzione. Spicca in particolare il personaggio della madre, suicida per amore, di cui la figlia rifiuta di ripetere il destino.

Dans "Dix-sept ans", Éric Fottorino évoquait le fantôme qui hantait le début de son roman familial : une petite fille née trois ans après lui et aussitôt arrachée à sa mère, Lina, puis adoptée dans la clandestinité d’une institution religieuse bordelaise. "Mon enfant, ma sœur" est d’abord la quête de cette inconnue. Ce monologue sensible, long poème en prose, se transforme peu à peu en une sidérante enquête qui conduira le narrateur sur la trace de sa sœur disparue.

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Nic wants nothing more than to move on from her sister’s disappearance and the state it’s left her in. But then one day, Jules’s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into Nic’s life and offers her something she hasn’t felt in a long time: hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known.

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. Then she meets Carolyn and is soon swept up in a glamorous London lifestyle. Until it starts to go wrong.

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach, Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman, and throws them to the sea. My dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.... But the bottle is picked up by Theresa, a mother with a shattered past, who feels unaccountably drawn to this lonely man. Who are this couple? What is their story?

Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case: to investigate a notorious south London drug lord known as the Viper. But as William and his team close the net around a criminal network unlike any they have ever encountered, he is also...

Piglet is judging the contents of your shopping trolley. She is listening to what you order for lunch and is observing whether the dessert you serve is homemade or snatched from a packet. There isn't another 31-year-old that takes food more seriously. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? In just over a fortnight, she is marrying Kit. Kit and his tasteful family present an opportunity for reinvention - when she had been growing up in Derby, this life, this man had been beyond her imagination.

Obra literária obrigatória para os vestibulares UEL 2025 e UFSC 2025. Um texto épico e lírico, realista e mágico que revela, para além de sua trama, um poderoso elemento de insubordinação social. Nas profundezas do sertão baiano, as irmãs Bibiana e Belonísia encontram uma velha e misteriosa faca na mala guardada sob a cama da avó. Ocorre então um acidente. E para sempre suas vidas estarão ligadas — a ponto de uma precisar ser a voz da outra. Numa trama conduzida com maestria e com uma prosa melodiosa, o romance conta uma história de vida e morte, de combate e redenção.

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Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.

Was bedeutet Familie? Was heißt jüdisch sein? Wie umgehen mit Alter, Krankheit, Tod? Yasmina Rezas neuer Roman kreist um große Fragen. Die Geschwister Popper: Serge, verkrachtes Genie und homme à femmes, Jean, der Vermittler und Ich-Erzähler, und Nana, die verwöhnte Jüngste mit dem unpassenden spanischen Mann. Eine jüdische Familie. Nach dem Tod der Mutter entfremdet man sich immer mehr. Zu ihren Lebzeiten hat keiner die alte Frau nach der Shoah und ihren ungarischen Vorfahren gefragt. Jetzt schlägt Serges Tochter Joséphine einen Besuch in Auschwitz vor.

Der neue Band von Lucinda Riley's Schwestern-Saga - endlich löst sich das Rätsel um die 7. Schwester. Sieben Sterne umfasst das Sternbild der Plejaden, und die Schwestern d’Aplièse tragen ihre Namen. Stets war ihre siebte Schwester aber ein Rätsel für sie, denn Merope ist verschwunden, seit sie denken können. Eines Tages überbringt der Anwalt der Familie die verblüffende Nachricht, dass er eine Spur entdeckt hat: Ein Weingut in Neuseeland und die Zeichnung eines sternförmigen Rings weisen den Weg.