Résultats Éditeur "Beacon Audiobooks" dans Fiction femmes

An engaging and intelligent woman seeking to end her unsatisfying marriage to a US congressman, an acclaimed sports writer facing a major professional crisis, and an effervescent and quick-witted major-league ball-player's wife dealing with a predominant fear of her own, find comfort and resolution of their personal problems which touches the heart, titillates the funny bone, and reflects on the debilitating effects of guilt, and the need for personal freedom.

Pianist Penelope Dixon at age 28 is finally stepping out of her father's shadow to embark on a solo career with the Seattle Symphony. How will an unexpected reunion with her first love from 10 years ago play into those plans? Sebastian Mauer, once famed performer, now reclusive composer, foolishly pushed aside his love for Penelope, thinking it was for her own good. Can he redeem himself and show her they are meant to be together?

It's summer 1957, and when 14-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing—along with one of her late mother's hidden scrapbooks—Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be.

Marissa Raffaelo-Moretta is used to shouldering the burden. As the middle child, she’s played the mediator role for longer than she cares to admit. As a mother, she’s taken on the exhausting task of primary caregiver. And as a daughter and nurse practitioner, she’s spent her adult life being responsible for her parents’ physical and mental health. When her stubborn and impulsive father, Frank, falls and refuses to stay at rehab, she and her brothers bring him home, and Marissa upends her life.

Set in modern-day Tokyo, The Butterfly Café tells the story of American Jessie Yamada. When her emotionally abusive husband suddenly dies in a traffic accident, she is overcome with guilt because while making plans to leave him, she had often thought how much easier it would be for her if he were dead. Those feelings quickly shift to shock and anger after discovering her entire marriage had been built upon secrets and lies.

Revelations of long-buried family secrets land her in the middle of a fight between Jams, her beloved grandmother, and her mother, Janis. After years of demanding Jams tell her the name of the father she never knew, Janis sets out to find his identity on her own. Before Claire can help, a woman from one of her firm's focus groups is murdered, and her teenage daughter appears, determined to find justice. With help from Jams, the three set out to discover who's responsible and find themselves facing down one of Claire's most obnoxious and dangerous clients.

Jayla can't catch her breath. The unexpected news of an unwanted pregnancy has come at the worst possible time, especially as rumors swirl of her reproductive rights soon being taken away. Straddling employment at both pro-life and pro-choice centers, Jayla is forced to conceal her pregnancy, slowly drowning in rising deceptions and life-or-death decisions as time threatens to steal her choice from her. Blending real-life stories with compelling fiction, Holding Someday chronicles life in the shadow of Roe v. Wade's overturning with implications that resonate into the future.

Vanessa thought she found her soulmate in August. Mind-bending sex. Soul-baring conversations. Safety and acceptance and being seen. Perhaps too perfect? Yes. August is married to his college sweetheart, Cassidy. When Vanessa gets pregnant, August manipulates Vanessa into getting an abortion with promises of a future together, but dumps her soon after. Vanessa plots her revenge, kidnapping August’s baby, Daisy, from her nursery.

At 36-years-old, Casey Scott appears to have it all: a booming career as a civil rights litigator, a loving husband, and two sweet young children. But she also has epilepsy, and her worsening seizures threaten to destroy the life she toiled to build. When her doctor says she is likely to die if her seizures are not controlled, Casey is at a crossroads: will she choose her career and lifelong aspirations, or her family and health?

Abby passed away, leaving her granddaughter Krista to discover a family secret hidden for six decades; a secret of passion so strong it would change all of their lives and forever change what they thought they knew about the family matriarch. Yet, knowing the truth and deciding what to do with that knowledge are two different things. As her own love affair with a childhood friend is just beginning to blossom, Krista is faced with accepting what she learned about the grandmother she loved and needing to share her newfound knowledge with the rest of the family.

2003. The War on Terror rocks the world, but Kelly McGowan dreams only of the exciting adventures ahead with her fiancé Matt, a new Army lieutenant from West Point. When Matt deploys to Iraq, reality hits. Kelly, coping with her loneliness, questions if their love will endure. Matt returns from war aloof and sullen, forcing Kelly to deal with her emotions - and a secret from his past that could destroy their future.

Growing up in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, a city torn by racial violence, Lizzy O'Meara could have obeyed her mother's orders to stick to her own kind. Instead, she secretly joins the fight against slavery with her Black friend. When she meets Thomas Britton, a handsome Quaker, she knows she has found the love of her life. But nine months later, everything falls apart when Lizzy gives birth and is accused of murdering her newborn baby. The only thing she remembers about the night of the birth is a midwife holding the child's lifeless body and screaming that Lizzy murdered her baby.