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Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too.

Sadie doesn't have time for finding love. She's too busy as PA for famous artist Damian Banks. When she's not arranging exhibitions, she's organising his dry cleaning or dumping his never ending stream of girlfriends. But when she strikes up an unusual friendship with her desk share buddy, she finds a confidante and a new potential love interest. Problem is, they've never actually met. With Christmas just around the corner, can Sadie put herself first for a change and find what she's been looking for all along?

Eudora Honeysett is done - with all of it. Having seen first-hand what a prolonged illness can create, the 85-year-old has no intention of leaving things to chance. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland she takes her life into her own hands. But then 10-year-old Rose arrives in a riot of colour on her doorstep. Now, as precocious Rose takes Eudora on adventures she’d never imagined, she reflects on the trying times of her past and soon finds herself wondering - is she ready for death when she’s only just experienced what it’s like to truly live?

The girls’ house has witnessed the highs and lows of their roaring twenties—raucous parties, surprising (and sometimes regrettable) hook-ups, and hellish hangovers. But as they approach thirty, their home begins to crumble around them and the faultlines in their group become harder to ignore. In the wreckage, they must decide if their friendship will survive into a new decade—or if growing up sometimes means letting go.

Can a fake relationship help her win back the one that got away? When Alice 'Murph' Murphy's beloved mother died, she promised to keep the family bakery in Graceville, Georgia afloat—even if it meant letting her high-school sweetheart and best friend, Nash Harris, go. For years, Murph has been biding her time, waiting for Nash to come home.

Mrs Mary Williams, a colonel's widow, arrives at Silchester Court with Miss Elizabeth Freemantle, who has been brought up as her sister. But Beth is actually the Duke of Silchester's cousin and he is her guardian. When the duke is called away to his estates in the North, Lord Aubrey, the duke's youngest brother, finds himself designated to oversee the London debut of both his sister, Lady Giselle, and his lively cousin, Beth. Mary is only four years older than Aubrey, but she is more worldly and well-travelled and worries that he might lead Beth astray.

Las Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain, es mucho más que una historia de viajes por el río Misisipi. Es una profunda exploración de la libertad interior, la conciencia moral y el coraje necesario para romper con las estructuras sociales impuestas. A través del personaje de Huck, Twain nos muestra el valor de cuestionar lo aprendido y escuchar la voz interna, incluso cuando esta contradice todo lo que nos han enseñado.

Seeking release from their small-town existence, two teenagers drive north on a vaguely plotted road trip. Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind. But they carry with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date.

Shanghai, with Extra Soy Sauce is a heartfelt, hilarious tale of friendship, cultural collision, and personal growth. Through every wrong turn and right moment, Ben discovers that sometimes the best classroom is the world itself—and the greatest lessons come when you’re totally out of your depth.

From Grant Ginder, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a novel of impending millennial middle age that is part love story, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of two decades bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we can run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death.

The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time. Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren’s father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won’t be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models—and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.

When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they’re bombing at a dive bar in their hometown. Since the tragic death of their manager, the band has been in a downward spiral and Theo has been dispatched to coax a new—and successful—album out of them, or else let them go. Immediately, Theo is struck by Hannah, the group’s impetuous lead singer, who’s gone off script by debuting a whole new sound, replacing their California pop with gut-wrenching rock.

Weil die Medizinstudentin Dawn ihrer schwerstkranken Tante Sterbehilfe geleistet hat, fliegt sie von der Eliteuni – und verliert den Rückhalt ihrer Familie. Vorbestraft und verschuldet sucht sie verzweifelt einen Job und eine neue Zukunft, doch niemand will sie einstellen. Bis der charismatische MMA-Kickboxer Landen ihr einen Job in seinem Trainingscenter anbietet. Unerwartet findet sie in Landens rauer Welt aus harter Arbeit und Kampfsport etwas, das ihr lange gefehlt hat: Offenheit und Vertrauen. Zwischen Dawn und Landen knistert es vom ersten Moment an.

Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honor to stop being a people pleaser and start figuring out what she wants out of life.

Wren and Thessaly collide when they land coveted jobs at a glamorous New York City boutique wine importer. Hardworking, by-the-book Wren comes from a modest background and has everything to prove, while Thessaly hails from a family of prestigious California growers—but she is plagued by self-doubt. Thrown together at work, where they’re expected to have exquisite palates, endless tolerance for alcohol and socializing, and the ability to sell, sell, sell, they regard each other with suspicion.

Yorkshire teacher Ellen Fenwick has never been abroad. But when her mother dies, this young woman finds herself taking a position as governess to an English girl in Florence in the summer of 1933. Little does Ellen realise how this girl, Juliet, and her family will claim her. For as the summer passes, Ellen falls so in love with Italy and her new home that she cannot bear to leave – even when her own hopes of love are cruelly thwarted.

‘Down among the women. What a place to be!’ So says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation – as a single mother in Fifties’ London. Yet Scarlet’s not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant – and very doomed.

Niezwykła opowieść o dwóch różnych kobietach z dwóch różnych światów… „Moja praca w liniach lotniczych to nie tylko źródło utrzymania. To styl życia, który mnie zupełnie pochłonął, pozwolił mi zbudować pewność siebie, dał ogromną satysfakcję, nauczył mnie podejmować ryzykowne decyzje niezależnie od tego, co powiedzą inni, oraz godzić się z porażkami. Pomógł mi znaleźć pomysł na siebie, odkryć nowe pasje i radzić sobie w trudnych momentach, niekoniecznie tylko na pokładzie" (ze wstępu autorki). Czy zastanawiałaś się, jak szczęśliwy musi być człowiek, gdy jego praca staje się pasją?

Where the Coffee Gets Cold is a quiet, heartfelt story about grief, connection, and the gentle ways strangers can save each other. Every evening after work, 29-year-old Liam retreats to a small café tucked in the corner of the city—not for the coffee, but for the silence, the familiar faces, and the sense of being seen without explanation.

Ecco, Cristina è proprio in uno di "quei momenti": per una diabolica serie di coincidenze nel giro di ventiquattr'ore perde il lavoro, la casa e il fidanzato. E se pure non c'è dubbio che certi fidanzati è meglio perderli che trovarli, scovarne uno decente dopo i trent'anni sembra un'impresa più disperata che ottenere un lavoro.