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When it rains, it floods. Nearly homeless, failing college, harassed by a perverse boss, two pending lawsuits, and a decision that threatens to tear her away from the love of her life, Samantha Carey is beginning to lose faith in humanity, including in herself.

Lena wagt den Neuanfang an der Algarve – mit einem Mann, den sie kaum kennt. Während sie Abschied nimmt, stehen ihre Freundinnen Kristin, Nicole und Toni vor ganz eigenen Herausforderungen. Nicole versucht, ihren Gärtner loszuwerden, der sich mehr von ihr erhofft, als nur ihre Beete zu pflegen. Kristin verfällt in alte Muster, stellt ihre Arbeit wieder über alles und riskiert dabei ihre Ehe. Unterdessen sucht Toni ein neues Zuhause für ihren väterlichen Freund Horst und dessen Hündin. Am Ende ist es ausgerechnet Horst, der die Frauen inmitten von Orangenbäumen wieder zusammenführt.

Who doesn't love a luxurious holiday? But even paradise can have an off day... A funny, warm and wise insight into the joys and challenges of finding community in the most unlikely places, from the bestselling author of The Road Trip. As manager of a luxurious Kimberley resort, Nelda has a lot...

The Followers is a sharp debut that explores themes of peer pressure, girlhood, identity, social capital, and how schoolyard dynamics translate to social media. Friendship with Lacey felt like a warm hand pressing very tightly against my throat. The difficulty breathing felt better than the...

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FRENEMY FIX-UP Free-spirited yoga guru Shay Davis has only ninety days to get her workaholic former classmate Colin Anderson from work all day to namaste… All they need is a little common ground. Accountant Colin Anderson is working himself into an early grave. Shay Davis is finally living her...

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Lydia Millet’s dialogue-driven, fast-moving double novel Fair Ones follows two Brooklyn women in their forties reeling from the sudden and baffling death of their friend Claire. Fair, Mara’s account, opens in the wake of initial shock as she and Jen try to come to grips with the enigma of Claire’s killing. Ones, told from Jen’s point of view, picks up a year later as she and Mara wrestle with new relationships and old secrets. In this vibrant, funny-sad fiction of companionship and solitude, Millet dazzles with dry wit and sharp prose.

Una nonna, una madre e una figlia: le tre protagoniste hanno lo stesso nome, Ramona. È il 1894 e Ramona Jover affida al diario le speranze alla vigilia del matrimonio nella Barcellona di fine secolo. Nel 1938, sua figlia Ramona Ventura cerca il marito tra le rovine di un bombardamento, custodendo un segreto che la renderà succube per tutta la vita. Negli anni Sessanta, Ramona Claret assiste al fermento delle rivolte studentesche. Le vite di queste tre donne si intrecciano fra innamoramenti e delusioni, raccontando cosa significa vivere l'amore, la maternità e la costrizione dei ruoli sociali.

Buenos Aires, 1978. A dos años del golpe de Estado, miles de personas son recluidas en centros clandestinos de detención. Julio, joven hijo de un poderoso industrial, es uno de ellos, un «desaparecido» más. Madrid, 2000. Julio se llama ahora Jorge Luis. Durante una salida fortuita, se encuentra con Morales y despierta en él la voz de Julio, que exige venganza. Se introduce en la vida del exmilitar para destruirlo, y desarrolla hacia el hombre que debe matar un afecto que no tuvo por su propio padre.

“A propulsive, powerful novel about first love and regret.” – Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko “I gulped this down - convinced, fascinated, and moved by every page.” –Emma Donoghue, author of Room A woman is haunted by the unsettled boy who befriended her as an outcast teenager, long...

When single mum Lou moves from the chaos of Dublin to a forgotten seaside cottage in Dingle, she hopes for a calmer life for her son, Jack – a place where he can grow up surrounded by the warmth of a small community. But village life isn't without its challenges. The cottage needs work and Lou needs a job, but at least Jack quickly makes friends – including Bo, the spirited daughter of Aidan, the head chef of the restaurant where Lou eventually finds work. Aidan is serious, skilled, and a little distant, yet there's something about him Lou is drawn to.

Two best friends. One apartment. Zero chance of this going to plan. Austin and Sydney have been best friends since he moved into her shoebox apartment in New York City over a decade ago. Now in their early thirties and living with their long-term partners, their lives are finally on track...

Ky, Mick, Liz, and Rosie are still getting money—but somebody keeps sending them the bill. From broken relationships to problems they didn’t start, the cost of winning keeps climbing. Old grudges resurface, enemies lurk in the shadows, and the past refuses to let them breathe. Nobody wants to see them succeed, but they’ve never needed permission. Tested, targeted, and underestimated, they’re about to prove why they always survive… and always win.

A deeply personal and funny novel from the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award, about embracing one's own troubled self, demons and all, for readers of Percival Everett, Kevin Wilson, and Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans. Fresh out of grad school in Michigan, on the brink of despair...

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Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake's best friends and favourite werewolves, with benefits. J.J. is his lady love, an old flame from childhood who dances at one of the top ballet companies in New York. Neither of them wants to be monogamous, so what could go wrong? J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual. She plans to keep sleeping with women, because Jason can't meet that need, just like she can't meet Jason's need for rough sex and bondage. With some encouragement from a few other lovers in Anita's life she reluctantly agrees, and J.J.

Blake and Lucy were once inseparable - two girls bound by secrets, dares, and the kind of friendship that cuts deeper than blood. Until the day everything shattered. Years later, Blake's life is collapsing, and the only way to fix it is to confront the past she's tried so hard to forget. She forces herself to reach out to Lucy in a letter, a first step toward redemption. But as Blake begins to write, unsettling memories surface. Shadows she thought she'd buried twist into new shapes. And she starts to wonder: What if the strange little girl didn't stay little?

“For readers who loved Call Me By Your Name.” —Dua Lipa’s Service95 A dreamy debut novel about the summer love that changes two girls at the edge of adulthood. “In the heat and the green haze that seemed to surround us both like a physical presence, I felt intensely awake.” One...

Huit femmes embarquent pour un road-trip de deux semaines en Islande. Elles n’ont rien en commun, ou presque. Il y a Rose et Lou, le duo mère-fille; Stéphanie, célibataire sans enfant; Sarah et Chloé, les deux jeunes Parisiennes; Delphine, la cinquantenaire casanière; Carole, la prof de yoga, et Nadine, la retraitée renfrognée. Entre écarts générationnels, personnalités et visions de la vie différentes, il n’est pas toujours facile de faire groupe. Pourtant, de cascades en confidences, de marches en révélations, ce voyage pourrait les transformer.