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In Shaker Heights, een rustige, progressieve plaats in Cleveland, is alles minutieus gepland. Van de lay-out van de straten tot de kleur van de huizen en de succesvolle levens van de bewoners Niemand belichaamt deze principes beter dan Elena Richardson. Totdat Mia Warren, kunstenaar en alleenstaande moeder, en haar puberdochter Pearl niet alleen een huis van de Richardsons huren, maar ook een belangrijk onderdeel van de familie worden. Wanneer vrienden van de Richardsons in een lastige voogdijzaak belanden, komen Mia en Elena lijnrecht tegenover elkaar te staan. Elena vertrouwt Mia en haar motieven niet en is vastberaden om de geheimen uit Mia's verleden op te rakelen. Maar haar obsessie komt haar duur te staan.

Juni 1977. In het universiteitsstadje Middlewood ontdekt de familie Lee dat hun dochter verdwenen is. Een paar dagen later wordt het lichaam van de zestienjarige Lydia uit het meer gevist. Verteerd door schuldgevoelens slaat haar vader een roekeloze weg in die hem zijn huwelijk kan kosten. Haar moeder Marilyn is gebroken, maar vastbesloten om een dader te vinden - tegen elke prijs. Lydia's broer is er zeker van dat hun getroebleerde buurjongen Jack iets te maken heeft met het drama. Maar het is de jongste in de familie, Hannah, die meer ziet dan iemand zich realiseert en die wel eens de enige zou kunnen zijn die weet wat er echt gebeurd is.

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the next installment in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Skylar Allen decided to move across the country for college, she thought it'd be the perfect chance to reinvent herself. But then one party changed the course of her entire freshman year. Just when she thinks she's about to drown in the foggy memories of her night spent partying at the football house, Daniel Bridges walks into her life. Lindon University's wide receiver. A total flirt. And a total threat. Because he can help her take away the memories she does remember from that night. What Skylar doesn't anticipate is the friendship she forms with the witty football player as months go on. And how easy it is to fall for him as he teaches her how to trust again...and so much more.

"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town -- and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides."--Provided by Publisher

From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the first in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. When Ivy asked her best friend to run away with her at sixteen, she knew he'd say no. He had football, an amazing family, and a happy home to go back to every day. So the night Ivy snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, she accepted she'd probably never see him again. Then they both wound up at Lindon University four years later. Ivy is barely picking up the pieces of her life when the boy whose initials she used to doodle hearts around approaches her at work. Aiden Griffith. Lindon U's star tight end. Still as attractive. Still as dedicated. With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, Ivy knows it's only a matter of time before they have to say goodbye again. But he can't seem to let her go, no matter what she says, and she doesn't think she wants him to.

It happened in stages.My father left.My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.My mother started breaking down.Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.That was when I realized Mama's eyes turned gold when she cried.So I moved in with my father and his new family--new wife, new son, new stepbrother.Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And ... loved.Somewhere along the way, I'd found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.But everything happens in stages.And nothing good ever lasts.

After Raine Copelin turns down her long-time boyfriend Caleb Anders’s marriage proposal, the two are barely speaking, barely coping as they enter graduate school at Lindon University. Caleb doesn’t understand what happened—their relationship has been picture-perfect since high school. He always imagined starting a family together, the same happily ever after his parents had. Until the day she broke his heart, he thought Raine wanted that, too.But Raine has her reasons. Her secrets. She knows she can’t give Caleb the future he wants, so she decides to let him go, no matter the price she has to pay. But when fresh tragedy sends Caleb spiraling back into Raine’s arms, the unanswered questions between them bring old feelings and new wounds to the surface. Fighting grief, lies, and fear, the two must figure out if their love ever truly ended, or if their uncertain futures might still include each other.

The gripping and extraordinarily moving new novel from the internationally bestselling Celeste Ng.

'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating' Red * One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned buckets. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now - become real neighbours. With each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, Fourteen Days is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. 'An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling... An impressive achievement' Observer 'Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)' Financial Times Includes writing from: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Meg Wolitzer and many more.

Serial na podstawie książki można oglądać na platformie Prime Video. To bezkonkurencyjny bestseller New York Timesa, uznawany za najlepszą książkę roku przez wiele prestiżowych publikacji. W 2019 roku powstał serial z Reese Witherspoon i Kerry Washington. Książka oferuje głęboki psychologiczny wgląd w potęgę macierzyństwa, siłę nastoletniej miłości oraz pułapki związane z dążeniem do perfekcji. Akcja rozgrywa się w Shaker Heights, spokojnym miasteczku na obrzeżach Cleveland, gdzie wszystko jest starannie zaplanowane. Elena Richardson, reprezentująca ducha tego miejsca, stara się przestrzegać zasad. Wkrótce w jej życiu pojawia się Mia Warren, enigmatyczna artystka i samotna matka, która wynajmuje od Richardsonów dom. Mia i jej nastoletnia córka Pearl stają się bliskie dzieciom Richardsonów, ale Mia skrywa tajemnice, które mogą zburzyć spokój społeczności. Konflikt wybucha, gdy przyjaciele Richardsonów chcą zaadoptować dziecko o chińskich korzeniach, co dzieli miasteczko i stawia Mię oraz Elenę po przeciwnych stronach. Elena, nieufna wobec Mii, jest zdeterminowana odkryć jej sekrety, co prowadzi do nieoczekiwanych konsekwencji. Książka bada tajemnice, naturę sztuki i matczyną miłość, ukazując niebezpieczeństwa związane z przekonaniem, że przestrzeganie zasad może nas ochronić przed katastrofą.