Year House

Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness.

Everyone experiences grief differently after the loss of a loved one. Some people find solace in comforting quotes and warm words, while others feel a need to take action - to do something to memorialize their loss. And some benefit from both approaches. Here’s a path forward for you, no matter how you process your grief....

Es gibt tausend Gründe, warum sich Elena nicht in Brent verlieben sollte. Er ist ihr Arbeitgeber, zehn Jahre älter als sie und Vater einer Tochter. Ihre Leben passen nicht im Geringsten zusammen. Doch wenn Elena Brent im The Fix begegnet, werden ihre Knie weich. Überraschend kommt es zu einem wunderschönen Kuss. Und von da an ist Brents und Elenas Leidenschaft entfesselt.

Amanda sucht nach einer Trennung nur unverbindliche Abenteuer. Da kommt ihr der gut aussehende Derek gerade recht, den sie in der Bar The Fix kennenlernt und der beruflich um die Welt jettet. Wenn er in Austin ist, verbringen die beiden prickelnde Nächte miteinander. Aber sind sie auch bereit, echte Gefühle zuzulassen?

Für ein Familientreffen braucht Hannah dringend einen Verlobten. Matthew, der muskulöse, schweigsame Bruder ihrer Freundin, ist der perfekte Kandidat. Ein Wochenende lang mimen die beiden ein Paar - und sind wie elektrisiert voneinander. Nach einer unvergesslichen Nacht ist Matthew fest entschlossen, Hannahs Herz zu gewinnen. Wird sie sein Auftritt beim Wettbewerb um Mr. Oktober überzeugen?

Selma will ihr erfolgreiches Business verkaufen und träumt von einer großen Reise. Easton hat ehrgeizige Karrierepläne und strebt ein Amt als Richter an. Doch als die beiden sich nach zehn Jahren zum ersten Mal wiederbegegnen, stürzen sie sich in eine wilde Affäre. Wie viel sind sie bereit, für ihre Leidenschaft aufs Spiel zu setzen, und wer wird Mr. September?

Beverly, ein aufsteigender Stern in Hollywood, und der Drehbuchautor Griffin sind wie geschaffen füreinander. Sie genießen die intensiven Gefühle und den heißen Sex. Doch als sich die Kameras auf sie richten, wird Griffin mit seinen schlimmsten Ängsten konfrontiert. Schmerzhaft zerbricht die Beziehung. Bis zu dem Abend, an dem der Contest um Mr. November stattfindet.

Taylor hat mit ihrer Vergangenheit abgeschlossen. Doch als ein Stalker ihr das Leben zur Hölle macht, kommen die alten Ängste hoch. Landon, Detective und attraktiver Stammgast im The Fix, steht ihr bei. Er lässt Taylor von nun an keine Sekunde mehr aus den Augen - weder tagsüber noch nachts.

Schon vom ersten Moment an funkt es gewaltig zwischen Megan und dem millionenschweren Parker. Megan, die das Marketing für The Fix macht, will Parker für den Contest um Mr. Juni gewinnen. Doch er stellt eine Bedingung: Megan soll einen Tag und eine Nacht ganz ihm gehören. Wird Megan auf diesen heißen Deal eingehen?

When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his family joined a community soon to become the center of black life in the West. But just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people in one of the worst acts of racist violence in U.S. history. The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt the district into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived and small businesses flourished. E

On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.

How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our planet.

In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law.

If you think of our 34th president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed an atomic bomb and was the first American president not to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, "McCarthywasm".

One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide? What follows starts to feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where she teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability. Julavits begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world he’s about to enter. And what must she learn about herself in order to responsibly steer him.

Twenty stories were originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens felt at the social and economic injustices of his day. Some of the stories were written in collaboration with other authors.

The Power of Dreams tells the story of a couple, already in their 40s, who uprooted themselves from urban life to follow their dream of living in the wilderness. They settled in a remote mountain valley called Precipice Valley, part of the ancient trade route linking B.C.’s Chilcotin plateau to the Pacific Coast. These are the stories of how the two of them designed and hand-built a solar-powered, two-story post-and-beam house while learning to live off-grid and in harmony with nature.

In this third volume of her memoirs, Eleanor Roosevelt, perhaps the best-loved woman of her time, shares the experiences—private and public—of her life in the 13 years since the death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She describes in intimate detail the problems she had to solve after her husband’s death, winding up his affairs, and working out a pattern for her new life.

At age 34 Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world where you no longer need to be married? How does an independent, strong-willed feminist become someone's partner - all the time?

After John F. Kennedy's speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylor's teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president's assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next 12 months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex.