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George Pantis is in a pickle. After walking out on his wife Rosie on Referendum night 2016 to shack up with hairdresser 'Brexit Brenda' next door, he thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he only vaguely remembers entering. Unfortunately, he's forgotten his password and can't get at his money. Which is a problem because he suddenly has to contend with lots of forceful new friends desperate to know his mother's maiden name.

Boston, 2009. Lucy has been left reeling by the death of her beloved grandfather. They had always planned to visit France together after her college graduation. Now, still aching from his loss, Lucy decides to take the trip alone. Normandy, 1937. Sixteen-year-old Elise embarks on a whirlwind romance with a young American man, which transports her from the drudgery of her everyday life caring for her mother. But neither she, nor William, is prepared for the war that will threaten to tear them apart.

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago, keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Maine, 1997. As the people of Fort Meadow Beach celebrate the Fourth of July, four-year-old Daisy Wright disappears and is never seen again. Maine, Present Day. Fired from her job and heartbroken, Peyton Winchester moves back home for the summer. Bored and aimless, she finds a renewed sense of purpose when an ad for a journalism course reminds her of a path not taken. Returning to life in her hometown brings back all kinds of memories—including Daisy's vanishing when she was a young girl herself.

Alice Stern isn't ready to turn 40. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard Stern, an eccentric novelist—but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a 16th birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood.

Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple, until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things–both because she loves her husband, and for the sake of their eight-year-old son. After a friend forwards an article about Avery, Marissa takes a chance on this maverick therapist, who lost her licence due to controversial methods. If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in ten sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. She helps people overcome everything, from anxiety to domineering parents. Her successes almost help her absorb the emptiness she feels since her husband’s death.

Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can’t buy happiness, but it’s certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist. When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence and Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy, but Billy fits the all-too-familiar sex-offender profile—white, athletic, and privileged—that makes headlines and sways juries.

It's Friday the 13th, and Diana is an ambitious young appraiser at Sotheby's in New York. She's about to go on a long-awaited holiday, where she knows Finn, her surgeon boyfriend, will propose and the next stage of her carefully planned life will begin. But it is Friday the 13th of March 2020. The new virus hits. Finn can't leave the city and suggests she goes without him. In the Galapagos, unable to get back to her real life, Diana learns about the devastation hitting the world as she hears intermittently from her boyfriend.

Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter, Skye, have always been each other's everything. The pair lives on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel's patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. What more do they need? One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and they are pushed farther to the margins.

H si fa chiamare con una lettera muta, come mute sono le vittime della storia, la stessa lettera che nella tavola periodica indica l'idrogeno, l'elemento alla base della bomba atomica. La sua storia comincia proprio il 6 agosto del 1945, quando il lancio di "Little Boy" su Hiroshima la colpisce ancora bambina e la sfigura nel profondo, lì dove risiede la storia di un corpo e la promessa di una maternità.

Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost 20 years but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay, too, embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world.

Kann man sich totstellen, um der Erschießung zu entkommen? Einen Fluch unschädlich machen, indem man die Tür verriegelt? Den Abschied vergessen und Gefühle auf Leinwand bannen? Kira erzählt ihre Familiengeschichte. Eine Geschichte von Aufbrüchen und Verwandlungen, von Krokodilen und Papierdrachen. Die junge Künstlerin Kira lebt mit Marc und dem gemeinsamen Sohn Karl in Berlin. Sie gibt Malkurse für Kinder, hat lange nicht ausgestellt, lange nichts gemalt - und zweifelt.

Pregnant and still grieving the death of her fiancé, historian Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore to its original glory the landmark hunting lodge her own great-great-grandfather built on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. With the help of her fiancé’s caring best friend, it’s sure to draw much-needed tourist revenue to Cape Hudson, a town rich in southern history. However, it’s Spring House, the caretaker’s cottage on the grounds, that holds the most intriguing history for Megan.

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring - the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.

Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective living in San Francisco. When unspeakable tragedy strikes, she turns to the Californian village of Mendocino to grieve. Seeking comfort in the chocolate-box village she grew up in, Anna instead arrives to news that a local girl has gone missing. The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of a crucial time in Anna’s childhood, when an unsolved murder changed the community forever. As past and present collide, Anna is forced to confront the darkest side of human nature.

"Le radici profonde non gelano": questo motto accompagna la vita del Casale da cinque generazioni, come l'Ulivo centenario che cresce in cortile. Emma e Guglielmo, i figli di Raimondo e Camilla, crescono immersi nella campagna, assaporando la ciclicità delle stagioni, mentre pian piano la modernità si innesta sulle tradizioni. Il futuro del Casale sembra già scritto: Guglielmo sarà l'erede della fortuna di famiglia, mentre a Emma, secondogenita e donna, non resta che trovare la propria strada.Ma quando una tragedia improvvisa si abbatte sulla famiglia, il vecchio ciclo si rompe.

En 2010, lorsqu’une tante qu’elle n’a jamais vue lui offre un voile de dentelle, la jeune et rebelle Alice, à Rio de Janeiro, ne sait qu’en faire. Cette militante féministe n’a aucune intention de se marier, et cette relique familiale semble incarner le pire de la domination patriarcale. Elle ignore pourtant que cette véritable œuvre d’art, d’une qualité exceptionnelle, raconte une histoire de violence et de lutte pour la liberté survenue cent ans plus tôt.

I MONTOYA SONO ABITUATI ai misteri della loro famiglia, e non fanno domande. Non si chiedono perché la dispensa di casa sia sempre ben rifornita, né perché la matriarca non lasci mai la valle di Quattrofiumi, neppure per le loro lauree, nozze o battesimi. E quando Orquídea Divina li invita tutti al suo funerale, affinché riscuotano la sua eredità, i Montoya sperano di svelare finalmente i segreti che lei ha gelosamente custodito per tutta la vita. Ma ancora una volta rimarranno con più interrogativi che risposte.

Beckomberga es un hospital psiquiátrico en las afueras de Estocolmo. Cuando Jimmie Darling es admitido en él, su hija, Jackie, comienza a pasar cada vez más tiempo allí. Cuando su madre se va de vacaciones al mar Negro, el hospital se convierte en el mundo de Jackie. El médico a cargo, Edvard Winterson, lleva algunas noches a Jimmie y algunos otros pacientes a grandes fiestas en la ciudad. Nada más entrar en el coche de Edvard descorchan la primera botella de champán en el asiento trasero.

Elise wächst in den 1930er Jahren in einem kleinen Dorf in der Normandie auf. Als sie William kennenlernt, einen Freund ihres Bruders, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf in den charmanten, gutaussehenden Amerikaner. Aber dann bricht der Krieg aus, und als William als Soldat nach Frankreich zurückkehrt, geschieht das Unfassbare, er kommt am Omaha Beach ums Leben. Hank, sein bester Freund, verspricht, sich um die junge Frau zu kümmern, und nimmt sie mit nach Amerika. Elise jedoch kann ihre große Liebe nicht vergessen.