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To, co miało być ratunkiem, rozdzieliło je na długie lata.
Czego trzeba, aby nasze rachunki były wyrównane?
Tak Paula zaczęła kolejny list do matki, ale kartkę jak zwykle zmięła i wyrzuciła. Do koperty, jak co miesiąc od 16 lat, włożyła czek z wypisaną kwotą i wysłała go na adres skrzynki pocztowej. Innego kontaktu z matką nie miała. Pieniądze z konta zostawały podjęte za każdym razem. Wysyłany czek był jak przepraszam bez jakiegokolwiek dziękuję czy wybaczam.
Tamtego dnia czek wrócił. W kopercie Paula znalazła też krótki pożegnalny list od matki zakończony słowami: Oczywiście nie chcę, żebyś tu przyjeżdżała. Słowa miały ranić po raz ostatni albo były przewrotnym zaproszeniem: Przyjedź, potrzebuję Cię.
Niedługo później na progu drzwi Pauli pojawia się nieznajomy mężczyzna, który twierdzi, że jest jej bratem.
Co takiego wydarzyło się przed 16 laty, że na długie lata rozdzieliło matkę i córkę? Jak bardzo dwie kobiety muszą się zranić, by ostatecznie sobie przebaczyć?
Inna niż wszystkie to wzruszająca historia miłości matki i córki - miłości, która bywa niezmiernie trudna, ale przetrwa najcięższą próbę.

Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't.
'Wonderful - suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' LEE CHILD
'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' CLARE MACKINTOSH
It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't.
But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighbourhood, knows exactly what that is.
Roux promises she will go away - if Amy plays by her rules.
But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner.

A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past--and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.

For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene's door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene's break with her former hometown is forced to an end. At the same time, Burr, her long-time boyfriend, has raised an ultimatum: introduce him to her family or consider him gone. Arlene loves him dearly but knows her lily white (not to mention deeply racist) Southern Baptist family will not understand her relationship with an African American boyfriend. Reluctantly, Arlene bows to the…

The author of Gods in Alabama returns with this heartwarming #1 Book Sense Pick about a young Southern woman caught between a decades-old family feud that is escalating and threatening to expose family secrets.

Все начиналось как простая игра… Лучшие подруги собираются на заседании литературного клуба для молодых мам. Их новая соседка предлагает сыграть в забавную игру — "расскажи о своем самом плохом поступке". Пара бокалов вина — и литературные посиделки превращаются в исповедь, а впечатления от книг сменяются шокирующими признаниями… Только вот в прошлом Эми Уэйн действительно совершила то, что не должна была. И теперь отчаянно боится, что правда всплывет наружу. Что, если новая соседка знает больше, чем кажется? Что, если вся игра была затеяна только ради Эми?

Каждые пятнадцать лет в жизни семейства Слоукэм происходят серьезные события. В пятнадцать лет Вирджиния по прозвищу Босс родила Лизу, спустя еще пятнадцать лет Лиза тоже родила дочь, а еще через пятнадцать Мози, младшая из Слоукэмов, стала свидетелем того, как во дворе их дома нашли могилу, где покоился сундучок с детскими костями. Мози решает выяснить, кто и почему устроил из их уютного двора кладбище. Открытия, которые она сделает, могут разрушить жизни всех трех женщин. Но ее сорокапятилетняя бабушка готова на все, чтобы защитить дочь и внучку от жутких тайн прошлого…

Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty. Coming from a family with a literal skeleton in their closet, she's developed this talent all her life, whether helping her willful mother to smooth over the reality of her family's ugly past, or elevating humble scraps of unwanted fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts.

Her sister Thalia, an impoverished "Actress" with a capital A, is her opposite, and prides herself in exposing the lurid truth lurking behind life's everyday niceties. And while Laurel's life was neatly on track, a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in lovely suburban Victorianna, everything she holds dear is thrown into question the night she is visited by an apparition in her bedroom. The ghost appears to be her 14-year-old neighbor Molly Dufresne, and when Laurel follows this ghost , she finds the real Molly floating lifeless in her swimming pool. While the community writes the tragedy off as a suicide, Laurel can't. Reluctantly enlisting Thalia's aid, Laurel sets out on a life-altering investigation that triggers startling revelations about her own guarded past, the truth about her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.

Richer and more rewarding than any story from Joshilyn Jackson, THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.

With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of Gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.

Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.

It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She's having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old's life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel's marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she's been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.

Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother's affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she's pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she's got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie's been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family's freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.