Showing results for "Hearts" in Friendship

Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other beloveds show her that motherhood is more than giving birth, art is never finished, and love is not linear.

May Velasco has always wanted to be a lacrosse player, and she’s finally achieved her dream: joining her college team. But with a terrible junior season in the books, she's got to give her all to the team to keep scholarship. But then CJ "Colt" Bradley, her grade school nemesis, turned star of New Haven’s pro lacrosse team, shows up at her college to help with training. She absolutely cannot stand him, and the last thing she wants to do is take pointers from him.

After an accident involving a bonfire and an aerosol can sends Gertie to the hospital, she finds herself with nowhere to go but to Sioux Falls to live with her newly clean father. She sees it as a chance to escape the hometown drama she's caused, but it finds her all the same: parties without curfews, boys without boundaries, a compromising photo, tragedy back home . . . and her father, once again teetering on the edge of oblivion.

The first year at Chattlesbury University is coming to an end. Five students have become friends, and their lives are progressing both academically and personally. Forced to mature too soon, can Will's life ever be the same again? Crippled by personal loss, can Evelyn overcome her grief? Secrets and revelations threaten to destroy the world that Sophie knows. Can Juliette's growing love for one man overcome opposition from those around them? Ann is striving for the one thing that will fulfill her personally.

The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating-app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn’t exactly Rae’s idea of romance.

Tessa De Santis’s child-free marriage in inner-city Sydney is ordered and comfortable, and she likes it that way. When tragedy strikes and her childhood friend Skye Whittaker dies, Tess is bound to honour a promise to become foster mother to Skye’s ten-year-old daughter, Grace, throwing her life upside down. Leaving her husband and work-driven life behind, Tess travels to an isolated property where the realities of her friend’s life – and death – hit hard. The idyllic landscape and an unexpected form of therapy ease her fears, and her relationship with Grace begins to blossom.

"Da war sie wieder, diese eine Frage, die ich nie beantworten konnte: Warum tat man Dinge, auf die man eigentlich keine Lust hatte?" Als Hayley vor drei Jahren fluchtartig nach New York gezogen ist, um endlich ihr eigenes Leben zu leben, hatte sie noch Träume. Doch was ist aus ihren Plänen geworden? Erst als auch noch ihre Beziehung zu Seth von einer Sekunde auf die andere in die Brüche geht, klaut sie kurzerhand den Van ihrer vermeintlich besten Freundin Sarah und begibt sich damit auf einen spontanen Roadtrip.

In a house on the east coast, Jane faces motherhood alone. With her husband away at war, there is no one to protect her from small town suspicions and she must learn to keep her secrets to herself. Three decades later her daughter Felicity leaves their life behind for Montreal, glad to flee the unknowns that have plagued her so far. But her personal battles are nothing compared to the unrest here, where a commune in rural Quebec and a child of her own might be her saviours.

With Noah back in town, Emily is now getting to know her biological father, bringing on a fresh set of challenges and excitement as her new life with her birth parents unfolds. Gloria and Daisy's once-tight bond as mother and daughter reaches a breaking point with Daisy's wedding looming. Gloria struggles to save the fragile relationship and protect her daughter from making a tragic mistake. All the while, Vanessa and Gloria dig deep into the truth about their mother's mysterious death, uncovering shocking revelations and secrets that could change their lives forever.

When Rae Sutton’s mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can’t imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss of her marriage, she takes the house and settles back into her tiny hometown with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly Margaret, and their overweight dog. There she’s embraced by her mother’s close-knit circle of friends, the Third Thursday ladies.

Wie Sonnenschein an einem verregneten Tag. Lucy Hope ist eine echte Optimistin. Mit ihrer heiteren und aufgeschlossenen Art begegnet sie jeder dunklen Wolke mit einem Lächeln, selbst wenn es sich dabei um ihren ehemals besten Freund Cal handelt. Nachdem ein traumatisches Ereignis die beiden vor Jahren auseinandergerissen hat, wünscht sich Lucy nichts sehnlicher, als die Freundschaft zwischen ihnen wieder aufleben zu lassen. In der Hoffnung, dass die Nähe sie wieder zusammenschweißt, bewirbt sich die junge Frau kurzerhand als Aushilfe in Cals Werkstatt.