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From birth, twins Cath and Rob are inseparable. When their mother dies, their bond deepens as their father hastily remarries a woman with a volatile temper whose sole focus is her own baby – Oliver – who arrives nine months later. When, aged 48, Rob tragically dies, Cath’s world begins to crumble. Her grief compounded further by Oliver’s out-of-the-blue decision to attend Rob’s funeral, opening old wounds after three decades of estrangement.

Minou Blancart erhält kurz vor ihrer Abreise nach Süd-Frankreich ein Bündel Briefe ihrer verstorbenen Schwester Lilly und eine Eintrittskarte zur Gemäldeausstellung Les Aimants im Pariser Musée dʼOrsay. Lillys Zeilen führen Minou in die schicksalsreiche Vergangenheit ihrer Schwester und zu einem flirrenden Sommer mit Monsieur Inconnu... Nachdem Minou die Briefe gelesen hat, ist für sie nichts mehr wie vorher. Sie steht vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Nun ist sie es, die einen Brief schreibt und ihn unter einem Stein auf Lillys Grab legt.

Un mattino Vedina Maria dos Santos si sveglia e accanto a sé trova solo uno spazio vuoto e freddo: per l’ennesima volta suo marito ha preferito dormire altrove. È l’inizio di una giornata difficile, come molte del resto, ma oggi è diverso. Oggi Vedina compirà un gesto sconsiderato, un gesto indicibile. Come può la vita averla portata a tanto?

Ein melancholischer Wind weht durch die Straßen von San Francisco, aber die Familie hält zusammen. Das San Francisco der Achtzigerjahre ist im Wandel. Eine Epidemie verändert das Leben in der Stadt, die Clubszene und gerade die queeren Viertel. Mittendrin stecken Mary Ann und Brian tief in ihrer Familienplanung, Michael Tolliver ist in Trauer, und Anna Madrigal vermisst ihre Tochter. Unterdessen bereitet sich ganz San Francisco auf majestätischen Besuch vor: Queen Elizabeth II. besichtigt die Stadt an der Bucht.

"Über die Verstrickungen von Vergangenheit, Erbe und Verantwortung: Als der Egomane Philip Brooke stirbt, kommen seine Kinder Frannie, Milo und Isa für fünf Tage auf dem gewaltigen Familienanwesen in Sussex zusammen. Haupterbin Frannie hat hier vor Jahren die Führung übernommen. Sie will die Ländereien renaturieren und für ihre siebenjährige Tochter eine Zukunft schaffen. Doch der unstete Milo hat andere Pläne - und den Segen seines Vaters dafür. Isa kämpft gegen innere Dämonen, sie hat die Tochter von Philips langjähriger Geliebter zur Beerdigung eingeladen.

Timmendorfer Strand, 1951. Zusammen mit ihrer Tante Julia führt Gerda Grabens das Hotel Villa Sommerwind, obwohl sie viel lieber Ärztin werden würde. Die Nachkriegszeit stellt die Frauen immer wieder vor große Aufgaben, und Gerda leidet sehr darunter, dass das Schicksal ihrer Eltern nach wie vor ungewiss ist. Zwar könnte Henning Ahrens etwas über ihre Mutter wissen, immerhin hat er vor ein paar Jahren einen Brief von ihr überbracht. Allerdings macht das Hotel der Ahrens_ der Villa gehörig Konkurrenz. Hennings Familie ist strikt dagegen, dass die beiden jungen Leute sich miteinander abgeben.

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible.

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by. The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories—dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.

With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father’s first child—haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final, disturbing days together—seeks comfort in a series of unhealthy romances.

An infant is left on the doorstep of Saint Michael's Orphanage in the winter of 1936 with only an engraved medallion to mark his identity. Marvin Saint Michael grows up under the watchful gaze of the nuns and priests, yet his upbringing is anything but loving. Marvin learns from an early age to keep his mouth shut, to obey, and to refrain from questioning the authority figures that surround him. For when one disobeys, severe repercussions are handed out . . .

When legendary Sheriff Burton Steel summoned his son Buddy home from LAPD Homicide, a reluctant Buddy agreed. Burton is debilitated by ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. While Buddy is to cover his back, not an assignment he wants, the clincher is it's his last chance to connect with his proud, overbearing parent. What Buddy didn't expect was to encounter crime in Freedom, a privileged coastal community a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, as vicious and challenging as that of the city.

Five generations of Sadie Duncan’s descendants claimed the beautiful Wild Hill as their home, each generation of witches stronger than the last. Then, in the aftermath of a tragedy, the last of the Duncans, prophesised to be the most powerful of their kind, abandoned Wild Hill forever. Brigid moved to California and turned her gift into fame and fortune. Her sister Phoebe settled on a ranch in Texas, where women visit in secret for her tonics, and Phoebe’s daughter, Sybil, became a famous chef.

Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom’s and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500 …

Reuben thought he’d spend the rest of his life with Beth, until she broke his heart six months ago. He’s not even remotely over her, so he’s devastated to hear she’s getting married—this weekend. Now he’s faced with the ultimate question: what should he do on the day of the wedding? Grieve? Disrupt the ceremony? Or do everything in his power to pretend it’s not happening? Enlisting the help of his friends, Reuben is all set to mark the occasion with distraction on a grand scale: Ferraris, champagne, and a VIP box at the races.

Our bright narrator is a college senior quietly dreaming of becoming a writer when she meets Sam and Yash, best friends and the golden boys of the English Department. Top-of-the-class Honors students, they live at the stately home of a favorite professor on sabbatical and can banter about Joyce and Fitzgerald like a game of rapid-fire tennis. The two nickname her Jordan and invite her into their magnetic world where her college experience is forever altered. As graduation approaches, the lines between love and friendship blur, and Jordan finds herself caught in a life-changing triangle.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures—the keepsakes, figurines, and mementos that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift from her father, is lost. Two years later, Alice answers a phone call from a stranger and runs away to New York, trying to forget her last golden summer at the orchard on the banks of the Hudson.

In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps one apprehensive eye on the sky above as she tends the pharmacy of traditional medicine that belonged to her great grandfather. She has few customers, and even fewer visitors: her older sister Dong Ji, her last living relative, works at a wellness parlor across town for those who can afford it—which, during these strange and difficult days, is not many.

Radclyffe, New York, is an idyllic upstate town, nestled in the hills and complete with artisanal bakeries, pottery studios, and hidden swimming holes. Ruth and her wife, Wyn, are living the dream (or Wyn’s dream, at least) with their four children on their small farm, which is also the bucolic gathering place for their circle of friends. It’s a sweet life, but there’s a secret at its center, one that not even Ruth’s best friend, Caroline, knows.

When Cath moves to a rural Northumberland village to escape her husband’s betrayal and a life that no longer feels her own, she’s determined to embrace a fresh start. But the quiet charm of her new surroundings seems only to magnify the loneliness of being on her own for the first time. On a whim, Cath suggests starting a supper club, transforming her garden shed into a cosy, twinkling haven where neighbours can gather. What begins as an effort to ease her solitude becomes something far greater – a circle of friends, each bringing their own stories, struggles, and laughter.

O vaso preferido era exibido com orgulho em um lugar de destaque na casa. Todos que entravam lá tinham que o ver. Os familiares e vizinhos o admiravam muito, pois o objeto de decoração representava muito bem os seus valores e tradições. Mas será que o belo e o feio são iguais para todo mundo? O vaso preferido da casa narra, a partir de uma peça de cerâmica, a história de uma família e o processo de transformação do seu entendimento quanto à superficialidade das coisas ao nosso redor.