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Beth Greenwood has spent her life playing it safe. She's been a graphic designer at the same company for a decade, she dutifully meets men from the apps for dinner and sometimes casual sex, she thinks about decorating her sterile, small apartment. Her comfort and joy are her Sunday catch-ups with her sister Elspeth, whose perfect life, very different from Beth’s, has recently started to unravel. And then one day Beth meets a woman who invites her to join a secret club. It’s not knitting or books; it’s living out an experience you’ve always wanted to have.

Claire, wealthy and recently widowed, is adrift. She has access to tools to make a real difference but can't figure out where to apply them. Erica, a young outreach worker to the homeless, has grown so cynical about the broken system that she's breaking rules herself—and for that, she's about to get fired. One day, Erica finds Claire giving away gourmet sandwiches and twenty-dollar bills at a homeless encampment, and yanks her out of there with a lecture about systemic problems and feel-good solutions.

1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the counter-culture revolution that flourishes during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages of love and peace than Winnie Hartley, who has just graduated from UC Berkeley determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Salyer, it feels like her life is finally everything she wants it to be. Meanwhile, her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make California wine that rivals French.

Shannon Bell is a nobody. But she can act. So when she's accepted into one of London's most elite drama schools, it feels like her chance at a life that's far from her drab home town. There, Shannon meets Victoria: dazzling, wealthy, beautiful Victoria. The two become inseparable, Victoria the shining centre of Shannon's new world. And suddenly, Shannon is no longer a nobody. Instead, she's on the inside, part of Victoria's exclusive set of promising young somethings. They spend their days competing for roles, and their nights vying for each other's affections.

A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. Aliya has everything Ava wants-a room of her own and a publishing deal-and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of their shared history and what they meant to each other. Aliya and Ava first met in the halls of their historic campus with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Their connection was electric.

Hannah Benedikt findet sich nach einem Schlaganfall in einem Pflegeheim wieder. Sie hat Schwierigkeiten, mit der neuen Situation klarzukommen, und rettet sich oft in ihren trockenen, manchmal auch beißenden Humor. Nach und nach kann sie den Blick von ihrem eigenen Schicksal lösen und auf andere richten. Und sie entdeckt, dass das Leben auch mit eingeschränkter Beweglichkeit noch viel für sie bereit hält.

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Freya writes bestselling romance novels for a living, but off the page, she doesn’t believe in happy endings. Jake is a divorced divorce lawyer who does believe in romance ­– despite every day seeing the results of failed relationships. When a TV news segment captures their very public disagreement about modern love, the clip goes viral, and to settle the debate, they strike a deal: Jake will find Freya her perfect match, and Freya will convince Jake that romance is a fairy tale best left in fiction.

Blythe Carney is long over the disappointment of seeing her early dreams of becoming a hotelier for her family's business, the Hope Square Hotel, snatched from her. Now she owns Ivy Hill House, the most exclusive guest house on Pin Hill Island. She can't help feeling, though, that she's not living the life she was meant to. That somehow, it fell into her younger sister Rae's lap, and there wasn't a single thing she could do to stop it.

Provence, Mitte der 1980er: Während in der politisch aufgeheizten Bundesrepublik die RAF Terror verbreitet, verschlägt es die junge Hamburger Fotografin Alex auf ihrer Europa-Reise ins Lubéron-Gebirge – ebenso Mikrokosmos aus Künstlern und Intellektuellen wie Versteck für jene, die nicht gefunden werden wollen. Alex trifft auf Berühmtheiten wie Leonard Cohen, Peter Mayle und Isabelle Adjani. Aber auch auf die mysteriöse Mado, Mitglied einer Gruppe Straßenkünstler. Immer auf der Suche nach außergewöhnlichen Gesichtern, ist Alex fasziniert von Mado.

Op kerstavond strandt Nina's trein tijdens een sneeuwstorm in Amsterdam. Ze kan geen kant op want ze kent niemand in de stad en alle hotels zijn volgeboekt. Maar dan komt er hulp uit onverwachte hoek. In de volle treincoupé biedt een oudere vrouw haar en een arrogante medereiziger onderdak aan. Tot haar eigen verbazing zitten ze niet veel later in de Rosse Buurt bij deze onbekende weldoenster aan tafel. Kunnen ze de vooroordelen over elkaar loslaten en de avond een positieve wending geven? Terwijl het buiten gestaag blijft sneeuwen, ontdekt Nina dat de wonderen de wereld nog niet uit zijn.

When good friends Lyndsey and Aiden wake up married in Vegas, everything is chaos. Knowing that he needs to stay married to gain his parent's inheritance, Aiden convinces Lyndsey to join him at his home in Texas - and fake being the perfect wife to his family. But both get more than they bargained for when news of their wedding hits the press. For the sake of family and friendship, their game of playing pretend doesn't end - not even when blackmailers threaten to reveal truths about Lyndsey's past.

Es brennt. In den Wäldern und auf den Screens. Die 15-jährige Era lebt mit ihrer Mutter am Waldrand und versucht dem schleichenden Prozess der Zerstörung etwas entgegenzusetzen, indem sie das Aussterben der Vögel dokumentiert. Während Era Notizbücher führt, Zeichnungen anfertigt und all das Wissen, auf das sie Zugriff hat, zu ordnen versucht, bildet Maja eine zerstörerische Gegenkraft. Während die Turteltaube ausstirbt, verlieben die beiden sich ineinander. Als ein großflächiger Brand den Wald zerstört, verlieren auch die Mädchen einen bedeutenden Teil ihres Lebensraums.

Coretta Turner knows herself to be a successful, formidable, and very family-oriented woman. She is fiercely protective of the loved ones in her life, blood relatives and otherwise. With the massive renovation of her niece's bed-and-breakfast, Inn The Shallows, nearly complete in time for the Christmas season, Coretta's Echo Key Café will be busier than ever.

Evicted from her Istanbul mansion, an elderly aristocrat forms surprising new connections across class and culture. The last living member of a great Ottoman family, the refined yet sheltered Leyla finds herself homeless and vulnerable when her house is sold by the bank to a business tycoon and his ambitious wife. Forced out of this historic mansion on the bank of the Bosphorus, Leyla is rescued and taken in by Yusuf, the son of her family's former gardener who has become a journalist.

Now he's hounding her to give back a stupid trophy she doesn't have. To make matters worse, she's having bizarre dreams that urge her to check out the creepy attic in the B&B she's renovating with her best friend, Olivia Crawford. Leave it to Tom the Troglodyte to disturb her waking and sleeping lives by ramping up the stress as she builds a new life in Echo Key. As her ex-husband's behavior becomes increasingly unhinged, Jen is never so glad to have Theo Price, her deputy boyfriend, in her life and the support of the rest of her Fearsome Foursome friends.

Veronica Barker Peyton has come back home. This time, she's the new law in town, instead of an awkward teenager from one of Echo Key's most prominent families. With a few early wins for the sheriff's department under her belt, the promise of her career reboot is about to be fulfilled.

1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and—delightfully—some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. But as Sue's behavior and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry—for food—and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging, carries out her friend's terrible dare.

Jesse is fifteen. She loves her friends, her little brother and her parents, even when they’re arguing, which feels constant these days. But most of all, she loves playing video games. Even from her hospital bed. Alex is twenty-nine. He doesn't love a lot of things and isn’t really sure he knows how to. A virtual reality games designer, his work desk is empty except for his computer, much like his life sometimes feels. Then Jesse makes a wish. A simple one: a video experience made of her life, something to be there, just in case she isn’t.