Inhalt: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Glass and coauthor of The Forgotten Room tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind--and to the woman she always wanted to be.... Georgia Chambers has spent her life siftingthrough other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china--especially Limoges--requires her to return to the one place she swore she'd never revisit.... It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing--and unless she finds a way to heal these rifts, she will forever be living vicariously through other people's remnants. To embrace her own life--mistakes and all--she will have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets she was forced to keep..."-- Umfang: 416 S. ISBN: 978-0-698-16586-1
Inhalt: Eine dramatische Nacht und das Ende des Schweigens! In der Nacht, als ihre Mutter bei einem Segeltrip ums Leben kommt, erfahren die Schwestern Marnie und Diana auf schmerzliche Weise, dass es noch weitere Arten des Todes gibt: den der Unschuld, den der Liebe und den der Hoffnung. Die Schwestern schweigen über das, was in jener Nacht wirklich geschah. Und beide haben Geheimnisse, die sie noch als Erwachsene quälen. Doch dann wird Marnie an die Küste South Carolinas zurückgerufen. Diana und ihr Sohn hatten einen Segelunfall. Die Meerschwestern müssen das Schweigen brechen, bevor die gesamte Familie untergeht. Umfang: 345 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-04440-4
Inhalt: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems.... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail. Merilee findssome measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott. Though stubborn and irascible, Sugar sees something of herself in Merilee--something that allows her to open up about her own colorful past. Sugar's stories give Merilee a different perspective on the town and its wealthy school moms in their tennis whites and shiny SUVs, and even on her new friendship with Heather Blackford. Merilee is charmed by the glamorous young mother's seemingly perfect life and finds herself drawn into Heather's world. In a town like Sweet Apple, where sins and secrets are as likely to be found behind the walls of gated mansions as in the dark woods surrounding Merilee's house, appearance is everything. But just how dangerous that deception can be will shock all three women..."-- Umfang: 416 S. ISBN: 978-0-451-48839-8
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