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Gunnar O’Neil is a young actor on the rise, with everything going for him, until he accidentally drives his car off a cliff on his way to a party in the Hollywood Hills. Now a ghost, he must go about the process of becoming more familiar with—and coming to terms with—his new situation: Gunnar meets other ghosts (one of whom will become the best friend he ever had); he learns the rules of being a dead entity, stuck between worlds; and he eventually—after some trials and tribulations—transforms into the best version of himself he ever was.

Catch up with the beloved residents of Summer Beach in a heartwarming holiday novella of fun, sun, and seasonal shenanigans. As the winter chill sets in, escape to the enchanting shores of Summer Beach, where the spirit of Christmas is as bright and warm as the sun-soaked sands. The tight-knit community of Summer Beach comes together to celebrate. From festive beach bonfires to a seaside Christmas market, the holiday season is in full swing.

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Over the last few months, Connie's whole world has fallen apart. Her husband's run off with an older woman, the magazine she works for has gone bust and she's having to sell the family home. So when her beloved godmother, Lismay, begs her to help run the beautiful Château Villette, it couldn't come at a better time...

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Nestled at the bottom of a five-story apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground in Hinode Park. If you look to the side, standing on stubby legs, is a hippo. Its upturned eyes give it a teary look, yet for decades, its quiet power has sustained the hearts of one community. According to urban legend, if you touch the exact part of the hippo where you have an ailment or wound, you will see swift signs of recovery.

London, 1895: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women receive a mysterious invitation to an afternoon tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade of the gathering lies a secret book club—a sanctuary where they can discover freedom, sisterhood, and the courage to rewrite their stories.

Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that the chance to realize his dream has arrived. The place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but for some time now a new wind has been blowing, and the air is filled with an inexplicable energy and a desire for renewal.

Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. In this new and foreign world, families gather weekly for Shabbat dinner; parties are extravagant events at the Museum of Natural History; and the Marriage Box is a real place, a pool deck designated for teenage girls to put themselves on display for potential husbands.

Opal has two months to live. Terrified of dying alone, she makes a shocking request of her three cheeky friends: to help her die. Her plea is met with disbelief and denial. The shameless exhibitionist, the mouthy pill popper, and the lovesick beauty, each haunted by their pasts, dismiss Opal’s wish as a desperate bid for attention. Sure, friendships are easy when the champagne and money are flowing, but when helping a quirky friend could get you fifteen years behind bars, things can get prickly.

Dawn loves being a mother. No matter how Archie came into her life, or the fact he's a little different from other children, he is precious and loved. He is hers, after all. Especially because she’s never told anyone who the father of her son is. So when Dawn’s twin brother David and his wife Rebekah are struggling to have their own child, Dawn agrees to become their surrogate, as it is the one thing she can do to help.

Lola Treasure Gold can’t figure out her life. She’s broke, unemployed, and back in her childhood home, a crumbling cottage in the Hollywood Hills. Worse—unspeakably worse—one of her closest friends has just died. So nobody is more surprised than Lola when a jackpot falls in her lap: she stars in a Very Viral Video, opening a surprising path for her to become a self-help guru.

Manhattan, 2023: High up in her exclusive Upper East Side apartment, Christine Campbell, former journalist, turns on the television to watch a documentary paying homage to her Pulitzer Prize-shortlisted coverage of the unrest in 1999 in the North Caucasus. She is newly widowed, wealthy, and attempting to write a memoir celebrating her bold life and significant achievements in writing about the silencing of women during conflict.

Clinical scientist Laila has no time to date. Cooped up in a hospital lab all day, she's busy working towards her five-year plan. But when her carefully structured world starts to crumble, her friends stage an intervention – a love intervention. Their plan: remind Laila there’s more to life than work and reconnect her with the three men who stole her heart while she was studying in the States ten years ago – Austin, Edoardo and Mateo. From California to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, Laila reunites with her past and reignites passions she thought were long dormant.

High school math teacher Ezra Pavic is having a hard time. His wife left him, his son barely tolerates him, and now he's being blindsided by something he never saw coming: the emotional spin cycle of parenting a parent. His mother Irene has dementia, and it's exhausting. Caring for her is a constant source of frustration, resentment, and guilt. Lots of guilt.

Unmöglicher Abschied erzählt die Geschichte einer Freundschaft zwischen zwei Frauen und beleuchtet zugleich ein jahrzehntelang verschwiegenes Kapitel koreanischer Geschichte. Eines Morgens ruft Inseon ihre Freundin Gyeongha zu sich ins Krankenhaus von Seoul. Sie hatte einen Unfall und bittet Gyeongha, ihr Zuhause auf der Insel Jeju aufzusuchen, weil ihr kleiner weißer Vogel sterben wird, wenn ihn niemand füttert. Als Gyeongha auf der Insel ankommt, bricht ein Schneesturm herein. Der Weg zu Inseons Haus wird zu einem Überlebenskampf gegen die Kälte, die mit jedem Schritt mehr in sie eindringt.

Meggie’s in Barrington for her brother’s wedding, local Vet Angus Hamilton. After working overseas for years, she hasn’t told her family she’s not going back. And she hasn’t told them why. Max is the Locum Vet hired to help out in the lead-up to the wedding and during the honeymoon. But he doesn’t arrive alone. They each need to move on from their past. When their secrets are revealed, will it empower them, or tear them apart?

A decade later in Australia, Parvati and Björn give up on effecting meaningful restoration there. Dirk, while on his annual circuit of the north, arrives in Jokkmok for the annual Sami gathering to learn that SIRC is in crisis.

The Summer Beach House is an uplifting, wholesome seaside escape novel, a clean and charming story of second chances that will lift you up and never let you down.

The eldest of five siblings and mother of teenage Harriet, Pippa is the glue that holds the family together. When her father, rock legend Jonny Jones, asks her to 'sort out' an old family home in Hartfell, the last thing she wants is to spend hers and Harriet's summer holiday in the Yorkshire Dales. Surprises lie in wait—the house has a tenant, local vet Gil, who does not want to leave. Even as sparks fly with the handsome vet, tensions rise when Pippa's plans put his practice and the village fete under threat.