Títulos em Vida em Família

Suffolk, 1944. American pilot Charlie’s second tour is about to draw to a close, but his heart is forever changed when he meets Kitty, a local girl. As love blooms, the pair are all too aware that every perilous mission Charlie flies may well be his last. Suffolk, 2011. When Kitty’s granddaughter and ambitious tearoom owner Amy meets American tourist and photographer Jack, she agrees to show him around in exchange for his photographic talents. The deal quickly grows into an unexpected bond – but when long-buried secrets emerge, neither of their worlds will ever be the same again.

Vânia é uma jornalista em ascensão. Recém-separada, ela se divide entre a redação de O Redentor e o cuidado com seu filho pequeno. Sua rotina muda quando, de repente, recebe a notícia de que sua mãe, Inês, tentou suicídio e sofreu uma grave lesão que a deixou em estado vegetativo. Ao rememorar Inês, Vânia se dá conta de que há muitas lacunas na história de vida de sua mãe.

Colby Mills sonhava com uma carreira musical, até que uma tragédia frustrou seus planos e ele acabou se tornando fazendeiro na Carolina do Norte. Tempos depois, ele resolve dar um intervalo nas tarefas cotidianas e vai fazer alguns shows em um bar de praia na Flórida. E lá Colby conhece uma mulher que vira seu mundo de cabeça para baixo.

Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, graças à conjugação de sorte e um investimento fortuito, Cyril Conroy entra no ramo imobiliário, criando um negócio que logo se tornará um império e levará sua família da pobreza a uma vida de opulência. Uma de suas primeiras aquisições é a Casa Holandesa, uma extravagante propriedade no subúrbio da Filadélfia. Mas o que seria apenas uma adorável surpresa para a esposa, acaba desencadeando o esfacelamento de toda a estrutura familiar.

Mariam é fruto do relacionamento proibido entre um rico comerciante e uma de suas empregadas. Rejeitada pelo pai, perde a mãe ainda na adolescência e é obrigada a se casar com um desconhecido trinta anos mais velho que ela. Já Laila, filha de um intelectual, cresceu sendo incentivada a estudar, cursar uma universidade e ter uma carreira. Porém, quando seus irmãos são enviados para lutar contra os soviéticos e sua mãe se afunda em profunda tristeza, a garota passa a enfrentar obstáculos e perceber que nem sempre seus desejos podem se tornar realidade.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.

La novela narra la historia de Tita de la Garza a manera de recetario, donde cada capítulo es una receta que relata las aventuras de la protagonista en una casa donde la tradición la obliga a quedarse a cuidar a su madre, y por lo tanto, sin poderse casar nunca.

Após um longo período de ausência, uma mulher regressa a Manaus, cidade de sua infância. Deseja encontrar Emilie, a extraordinária matriarca de uma família libanesa há muito radicada ali. Encontra a casa desfeita—como desfeitas para sempre estão as casas da infância.

What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Austen fans.

To four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other’s confidants, teachers, and family. The girls are all named Guinevere—Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win—and it is the surprise of finding another Guinevere in their midst that first brings them together. They come to The Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent by different paths, delivered by their families, each with her own complicated, heartbreaking story that she safeguards.

At the age of 29, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby’s guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she’s ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride.

Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family’s social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who’s rarely home). When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to send for her niece in one year’s time....

Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA, until one reckless night threatens to drive her out of the city. And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her. Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.

Texas, 1921. Passada a Grande Guerra, uma nova era de abundância parece surgir no horizonte. Mas, para Elsa Wolcott, considerada velha demais para se casar numa época em que o matrimônio é a única opção das mulheres, o futuro parece sombrio. Até a noite em que conhece Rafe Martinelli e decide mudar o rumo de sua vida. Com sua reputação em ruínas, ela acaba tendo que se unir a um homem que mal conhece.

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early 40s, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils.... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.

una familia disfuncional de clase media baja de la ciudad de La Plata: una casa sin hombres y llena de mujeres, todas minusválidas, con alguna deformidad física, mental o imaginaria. Una niña de doce años condenada al olvido, o incluso a un destino más cruel, sale adelante y se convierte en una pintora famosa.

Em As gêmeas, Ísis e Ágatha são separadas no nascimento. Com aparência idêntica mas vidas e personalidades diferentes, as duas se reencontram em uma festa e decidem trocar de lugar temporariamente. Cada capítulo é narrado por uma das duas, apresentando revelações sobre o passado, novos afetos e momentos decisivos para cada gêmea.

Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son. Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy. Now, fifteen years later, the daughter the family had in their grief has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother.