Títulos em Vida em Família

Elio è un giovane sognatore, maldestro e ingenuo, ma con un talento straordinario per la pittura, che però, nel mondo contadino della Val d'Orcia di inizio Novecento, sembra solo una pericolosa mancanza di quel senso pratico che la miseria esige. Suo fratello maggiore, Cordevole, è invece un tipo pragmatico e autoritario che, ricorrendo alla violenza, proverà a plasmare Elio secondo le proprie esigenze.

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.

When Josie King left Las Vegas in the 90s, she never looked back. The daughter of gambling mogul Roy King, spirited math whiz Josie grew up on the casino floor but deliberately turned away from the family business. She’s been living a quiet life in LA as an accountant and a single mom when she finds herself summoned back to Sin City. Now, fifteen years later, her father has died unexpectedly, and Josie’s siblings are already gathered for the reading of his will...only to discover that in order to inherit they must spend three years working together at the notorious family casino, The Jackpot.

When eleven-year-old Daley Amory’s mother leaves her father, Daley is thrust into a chaotic adult world of competition, indulgence, and manipulation. Unable to place her allegiance, she gently toes the thickening line between her parents’ incompatible worlds: the increasingly liberal, socially committed realm of her mother, and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But without her mother there to keep him in line, Daley’s father’s basest impulses and quick rage are unleashed, and Daley finds herself having to choose her own survival over the father she still deeply loves.

There's a newcomer to the village of Heartcross and she's never been more in need of a friend. As the new waitress at the local bistro, The Lake House, Ella is ready to start afresh – and that could mean there's love on the horizon in the form of the gorgeous Roman, the local water taxi driver. Every day Roman is there to ferry Ella to the restaurant on the other side of the lake and every night he makes sure she gets home safe. But Roman has secrets of his own… Can the Love Heart Lane community offer Ella a chance of a new life? Or will the ghosts of her past catch up with her?

Douglas Petersen fällt aus allen Wolken, als ihm seine geliebte Ehefrau Connie eröffnet, dass sie einen Neuanfang will. Bald wird ihr Sohn Albie ausziehen, damit ist für Connie der ideale Zeitpunkt für die Trennung gekommen. Die seit langem geplante Europareise wird ihre letzte Reise zu dritt werden. Für Douglas steht fest: Er wird die gemeinsame Zeit nutzen, um seine Frau zurückzugewinnen. Eine akribische Planung soll ihm dabei helfen. Doch er hat nicht mit den vielen kleinen Katastrophen auf Reisen gerechnet.

Archie Soileau is a country boy-a baby boomer who goes to New Orleans to make his fortune. Through manipulation, lies and theft, Archie rises in the world, gaining the trophy wife, success, and wealth. Archie is the quintessential American “winner” – businessman, con-artist, patriarch and destroyer of everyone in his wake. Enter by the Narrow Gate explores an unspoken family cult that’s rampant in the American suburbs. Many listeners will recognize the Soileau family in this book and think, “This is my father. This is my mother. This is me.”

Magdalena ist Patissière und lebt ihren Traum–gerade hat sie ihr eigenes erfolgreiches Café in London eröffnet. Da erfährt sie vom überraschenden Erbe eines alten Herrenhauses und einer Orangenplantage auf Mallorca. Aber wer sollte ihr etwas vererben, noch dazu auf einer Insel, auf der sie nie war?

London, 1883: Maryanne hat endlich ihren Traum verwirklicht. Unter ihrer Leitung ist das Kensington Crown zu der beliebtesten Teestube Londons geworden und die finanziellen Sorgen gehören der Vergangenheit an. Allein die Nachricht von Edwards Vermählung trifft sie schwer. Ablenkung findet Maryanne zum Glück in ihrer Arbeit, die ihr Leben maßgeblich prägt. Doch nicht nur die Teestube, sondern auch die Freundschaft zu Robert geben ihr Halt. Als sie den Wert dieser Verbindung erkennt, scheint sich ihr auch das private Glück endlich zuzuwenden.

Gryff Morgan, a church-going Kentucky family man, hides a dark secret. Living under an assumed identity to avoid extradition to Argentina, not even his twin sons, Travis and Chase, know their comfortable lives are built on the proceeds of drug smuggling. Only his wife, Gwenna Garland—a failed singer—knows the truth of his Welsh origins.

When Maggie King turned sixty, she thought her life complete. Now she’s sixty-one, and everything has gone horribly wrong. Husband Greg has abruptly upped and left leaving Maggie bewildered. But there’s no time to question his departure because her ancient parents are all-consuming. Once fondly referred to as the Golden Oldies, they’re now the BOBs–Bad-Tempered Old Buggers. Sister Freya is never available to help, and Maggie is rapidly reaching the end of her tether. She wants her life–and husband–back.

The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the heavenly Bow Valley. Among the latter is the poacher Herbie Wishart, who arrived on a one-way ticket and has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent Washington, D.C., archaeologist. Rumours say that the findings of the secrecy-shrouded Hodgson expedition, as it comes to be known, could overturn all previous knowledge about early life forms.

Startling, spellbinding stories, in which appearances and intentions are rarely what they seem A psychic harnesses her talent for animal communication to extract a perfect revenge. A stone appears in a woman’s pocket like a charm, only to end up lodged in her partner’s throat. A...

A scalding, darkly humorous debut following an enmeshed mother-daughter duo, both best friends and enemies, and the plastic surgery addiction that warps their lives into a perilous spiral At twenty-six, Linli Feng is still trying to escape her mother Fanny’s orbit. But after three years of...

Christmas is over. And so is my marriage… Twenty years of marriage. Twenty years of ignored red flags. And one very smug ex-girlfriend. When I discovered my husband's secret double life, I had two options (well three, if you count me and my best friend with two spades and a suspicious willingness to serve hard time): 1. Stay for the kids 2.

On Christmas Eve, Edward Mortimer returns to a home empty of joy and family, where the silence hides a chilling secret. Edward, a man driven by ambition, has long neglected the simple warmth of family. He has missed moments with his young son Daniel, dismissing Christmas as a “distraction.” But tonight, his home will become a dark realm where ancient, sinister traditions come alive, drawing Edward into a night of shadows, whispers, and memories refusing to be ignored. When eerie laughter echoes outside his window and strange gifts appear by his fireplace, Edward dismisses them as a prank.

Yorkshire, 1868: June hat die wunderschönen Craven Dales verlassen, um in einer Spinnerei Geld für ihre kranke Schwester zu verdienen – auch wenn der irische Wollsortierer Franky sie am liebsten direkt zurück nach Hause schicken würde. In der Industriestadt Bradford wird Kammgarn für die ganze Welt gefertigt: Doch den Preis für den Reichtum zahlen die Arbeiterfamilien, die unter schlimmsten Bedingungen arbeiten und leben. June will nicht länger zusehen.

Sagan om Emilie är en släktkrönika fylld av hemligheter och kärleksintriger. Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga. Karen känner sig ensam i stugan med den lille sonen. Plötsligt bankar det på ytterdörren.

Oma Feline lebt allein „achtern Diek" an der Nordsee. Eines Tages beobachten die 8-jährigen Zwillinge Jonte und Jelda, wie Feline Martin füttert. Nach und nach freunden sich die Kinder mit ihr und Hajo an. Als sie erfahren, wie sehr Feline sich ein Weihnachtsfest „wie früher" wünscht und wie sehr Hajo seinen Sohn vermisst, schmieden die beiden einen Plan.

Roswitha und Vicky sind Zwillingsschwestern, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Vicky, lebensfroh und tatkräftig, ist eine erfolgreiche Geschäftsfrau, und obwohl sie erst vor Kurzem ihren Mann verloren hat, sieht sie vertrauensvoll in die Zukunft. Roswitha hat scheinbar alles, um glücklich zu sein – ein großes Haus, Familie und einen Job in der Firma ihres Mannes. Ein Schicksalsschlag führt die beiden nach langer Zeit wieder zusammen. Vicky stellt bald fest, dass ihre Schwester mit ihrem Leben unzufrieden ist.