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PING alternates between the 1970’s Ping Pong diplomacy between the U.S. and China, and the present-day struggles of a multi-generational family weighed down by history, legacy, expectations, and secrets. Jenny, a struggling teen, wrestles with the epic table tennis legacy of her grandmother Miriam who struggles with her own issues arising from antisemitism, sexism, and manipulation. As Jenny uncovers Miriam’s role in shaping history, she confronts her own place in her family that is bound by unspoken fears and truths.

When Harriet Carmichael leaves her husband, she is determined to begin again: new home, new life, a chance to live on her own terms. A life drawing class seems harmless enough, until she finds herself drawn to Mac, the charming but elusive model. Her adult children disapprove of her every move, and when Mac—significantly younger and apparently homeless—moves in with her, their suspicions reach fever pitch. Yet there is an undeniable spark between Harriet and Mac, one that makes Harriet question what she truly wants from this new chapter.

Belle Sutton is a little lost these days. She has a stalled career, a New York apartment she can’t afford, and her sister, Lexie, is more estranged with each passing year. Belle’s one true consolation is her beloved grandmother, who’s powered through her own broken family ties with a tenacious zest for life and a passion for cooking. But when her grandmother suddenly passes away, a grieving Belle feels her only connection to the past is gone forever.

Grace Whittaker’s life is coming apart. In the wake of her mother’s death, a stalled writing career, and a slow-motion separation from her husband, Grace is more directionless than ever. But when she returns to Sea Drift, the beach town where she and her mother summered for years, Grace’s life comes together in the most unexpected ways.

In 1930s Sardinia, Allegra and her daughters maintain the tradition of the water women. As it was for the generations of Jewish mothers and daughters before her, weaving the fine threads of mollusks into golden cloth and tapestry is an honor, a duty, and a precious gift to an outside world that seems bent on turmoil. By 1942, a threat comes to their sleepy fishing village. Germany has pressed its boot on Italy. Allegra’s daughter Zaneta notices boats she’s never seen before anchored off the shore.

Six generations of Mason Family men have maintained the black stone bridge that once led to the sugarcane fields of Dieffenbach Plantation, but now leads to a barbed-wire fence separating the town of Diffenbourg, Louisiana from Caesar Oil Company’s petroleum tank farm. Warren Mason was to be the bridge’s next guardian, but his departure has left its upkeep in the hands of his ailing father who has spent his life preserving it, and his myopic older brother who would sacrifice it to settle a class action with Caesar.

Sarah and Sam have lost the very spark that brought them together. In an effort to save their marriage, they embark on an anniversary trip to the Maldives where a week at a luxury resort might remind them of why they fell in love. On the plane, they meet Krista and Kevin, a happy older, exceptionally generous couple headed to the same destination and eager to make vacation friends. They could be just the marriage mentors Sarah and Sam need.

Toscane, 1944. Als de nazi's Italië binnenvallen, doet prinses Evelina Messina er alles aan om ze een warm welkom te geven in haar landhuis Villa Rosa. Tientallen jaren later bezoekt de Amerikaanse Annie Reynolds het in verval geraakte landgoed. Als Annie het dagboek vindt van de beruchte prinses Evelina Messina, waar veel pagina's zorgvuldig uit zijn weggesneden, begint ze te twijfelen aan het negatieve beeld van Evelina dat de dorpelingen schetsen.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1968: A pesar de ciertas dudas, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón decide casarse con Peter Brennan Jr. en un arrebato de optimismo romántico. Sin embargo, no es consciente de hasta qué punto cambiará su vida cuando desarraigue a su joven familia de la isla para instalarse en el Midwest de los Estados Unidos, ni de cómo esta será la primera de muchas decepciones en su vida. En los años ochenta, viendo el aislamiento de su madre en Missouri, la hija de Rafaela, Ruth, decide abandonar la lengua, las costumbres y los recuerdos de su infancia en Puerto Rico.

Retired NASA engineer Bob Cadence thought the hardest part of his life was over—until his daughter’s sudden death left him raising his precocious five-year-old granddaughter, Amy. But when he starts encountering bizarre legal obstacles tied to Amy’s inheritance, Bob discovers something even more overwhelming: the fine print buried in everyday life. Insurance loopholes. Warranty traps. Subscription tricks. And one final voicemail from his late wife, Ella, a former programmer who may have hidden the truth inside a maze of forgotten clauses and legal jargon.

Jason Demarco is a man torn between loyalty and lust, whose forbidden affair threatens the foundation of everything he’s built. As secrets unravel and betrayal strikes at the heart of his marriage, Jason faces the consequences of choices that can't be undone. Told through the powerful voice of Jelice, his emotionally grounded and loyal wife, The Cost of Desire is a gripping tale of passion, heartbreak, fractured fatherhood, and the resilience it takes to rise above pain. In a world where love collides with deception, one woman must decide if choosing herself is worth losing everything.

In the village of Kiln Creek in the Victorian Highlands, a ghost gum falls in a storm. Tangled in its roots are the bones of a small child and the tattered remains of her clothing, including a pair of bright red sneakers. Single mum Jude Mees is in her early forties and struggling to get her business off the ground while raising her ten-year-old daughter Katie, and managing a fractious relationship with her controlling ex-husband.

What begins as a simple account of a working mother’s life gradually unfolds into a moving meditation on memory, identity, and the enduring hope for reconciliation—not only within a family but within a divided nation. Through tender recollections of her childhood friend Jin-Su, the narrator interweaves personal struggle with a longing for Korea’s peaceful reunification. The turtle becomes both symbol and soul, echoing a friend lost to history and a dream deferred.

Den humoristisk fortælling om en familie i det københavnske borgerskab i slutningen af det 19. århundrede. Benjamin Jacobsen udgav både romaner, noveller og digte.

Some summers never leave you. In this moving debut novel, set over the course of one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss, and the choices she must make to move forward. At seventeen, Ruth lost her mother to cancer, and her...

In the far reaches of the Territory of the Arctic, the Spahr family lives on a fjord accessible only by kayak and float plane, in a landscape rapidly changing as glaciers melt and sea levels rise. Their home is Jubilation House, aptly named: they are a family of free spirit and full-hearted love, descendants of the homesteaders who came to this place in a reckless scheme to civilize the Glacial Front. They live off the grid in a converted fisherman's shack, selling pickled octopus and sea crops, barely scraping by. With every day, their livelihood seems ever more precarious.

The Cross sisters have lived their entire lives on the sprawling grounds of Mercy Hill, the embattled Raleigh mental hospital run by their formidable mother. Since childhood, JJ, Caro, Mimi, and Denise have been inculcated with their mother's mission: they'll work alongside her to protect Mercy Hill from the fate of other state hospitals across the country, which are being gutted and closed, one by one.

On a train platform, five strangers unknowingly face a chilling countdown. As the clock ticks away, we fall in love with a beautiful young man who is on the verge of gambling his life away. We pity the cantankerous old woman who has fallen to the ground yet is refusing help. We look away from the child throwing a tantrum. We judge his mother, who must surely be to blame? And we are curiously compelled by the successful and damaged businessman, orbiting around them all.

A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family’s rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators It’s December 24, 1979, just before closing at...

Da den unge rigmandsdatter Lucilla stikker af hjemmefra og beder Annis om hjælp, bliver der vendt op og ned på hendes liv. Ikke nok med at han er det mest ubehøvlede menneske, Annis nogensinde har mødt, så er han også den første mand, der nogensinde har fanget hendes opmærksomhed … Fine fornemmelser af Georgette Heyer er en historisk roman fra 1972, der tager os med tilbage til Jane Austens univers af intriger, kærlighed og spændinger i Regency-periodens England.