Kaui Hart Hemmings

A Novel

The Descendants

While their parents deal with a scandal, sixteen-year-old Annie and her brother, Jay, spend winter break with an aunt and uncle they barely remember, uncovering family secrets.

Testimony from Your Perfect Girl

"When Mele Bart told her boyfriend Bobby she was pregnant with his child, he stunned her with an announcement of his own: he was engaged to someone else. Fast forward two years: Mele's daughter is a toddler, and Bobby and his fiancaee want Ellie to be the flower girl at their wedding. Mele, who also has agreed to attend the nuptials, knows she can't continue obsessing about Bobby and his cheese making, Napa-residing fiancaee. She needs something to do. So she answers a questionnaire provided by the San Francisco Mommy Club in elaborate and shocking detail and decides to enter their cookbook writing contest"--Amazon.com.

How to Party With an Infant

Seventeen-year-old Lea Lane must navigate a complex web of friendships and relationships after she and her mother move into the guest cottage of the fabulously wealthy West family in Honolulu.

Juniors

"The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed bestseller THE DESCENDANTS ("Audaciously comic" -The New Yorker), a novel about a mother grieving her son's death in a Colorado resort town who is faced with another shock-the appearance of a strange girl carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably. "--

Breckenridge, Colorado. Three months ago, Sarah St. John's son, Cully, died in an avalanche. Her father, a retiree, tries to distract her; her best friend offers life advice by venting details of her own messy divorce. Even Cully's father reemerges, stirring old emotions and confusion. Trying to face her grief alone, Sarah is surprised when a strange girl arrives on her doorstep. Unexpected and unexplained, she bears a secret from Cully that could change all of their lives forever.

The possibilities

Overwhelmed by her son Cully's avalanche-related death, single mother Sarah St. John struggles through the well-meant advice of loved ones before a young woman appears on her doorstep, claiming that she is carrying Cully's child. By the best-selling author of The Descendants.

The Possibilities

In a series of tales featuring complex upper-class Hawaiian families, a single mother discovers an adult magazine in her son's room, a man struggles to understand his wife's abandonment, and a son is disillusioned by his father.

House of Thieves

Lea Lane has lived in between all her life. Part Hawaiian, part Mainlander. Perpetual new girl at school. Hanging in the shadow of her actress mother’s spotlight. And now: new resident of the prominent West family’s guest cottage. Bracing herself for the embarrassment of being her classmates’ latest charity case, Lea is surprised when she starts becoming friends with Will and Whitney West instead—or in the case of gorgeous, unattainable Will, possibly even more than friends. And despite their differences, Whitney and Lea have a lot in common: both are navigating a tangled web of relationships, past disappointments and future hopes. As things heat up with Will, and her friendship with Whitney deepens, Lea has to decide how much she's willing to change in order to fit into their world. Lea Lane has lived in between all her life. But it isn’t until her junior year that she learns how to do it on her own terms.

"The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed bestseller THE DESCENDANTS ("Audaciously comic" -The New Yorker), a novel about a mother grieving her son's death in a Colorado resort town who is faced with another shock-the appearance of a strange girl carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably. "--

A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed. His two daughters - Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a teenage recovering drug addict - are out of control; his thrill-seeking, high-maintenance wife, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident and will soon be taken off life support. Suddenly, the King family must come to terms with this tragedy - and with the shameful sense of freedom that comes with it. As Matt gathers Joanie's friends and family to say their final goodbyes, a difficult situation is made worse by the discovery that one person hasn't been told - the man with whom Joanie has been having an affair.

Paradiso amaro

"Los zmienia życie rodziny Matta Kinga, spadkobiercy wielkiej fortuny na Hawajach. Kiedy po wypadku jego żona zapada w śpiączkę, musi nagle zająć się wychowaniem swoich córek. Zajęty do tej pory swoimi sprawami, Matt staje przed bardzo trudnym zadaniem. Siedemnastoletnia Alex odkrywa uroki bycia niegrzeczną dziewczynką, a dziesięcioletnia Scotty planuje pójść w ślady starszej siostry. Mało tego, znają sekret matki, którego odkrycie jeszcze bardziej skomplikuje życie Matta. Jak w rajskiej scenerii Hawajów - gdzie nawet w szpitalu można kupić pocztówki z surferami - przeżyć rodzinny dramat? Jak wyobrazić sobie popalającego trawkę chłopaka w roli zięcia? Jak zostać prawdziwym ojcem? Młoda pisarka z Hawajów Spadkobiercami podbiła serce krytyki i czytelników. „San Francisco Chronicle” uznało ją za jedną z najlepszych książek roku, czytelniczki amerykańskiej edycji „Elle” doceniły swoją nagrodą, a w prywatnym rankingu najlepszych rzeczy roku Sofia Coppola umieściła Spadkobierców na pierwszym miejscu. "

Spadkobiercy

Matthew King stamt af van de Hawaïaanse koninklijke familie. Hij leidt een gelukkig leven, totdat zijn charismatische vrouw Joannie in coma raakt. Binnen enkele weken zal ze van de beademing worden gehaald. Voor het eerst staat Matthew er met zijn beide dochters alleen voor. De betweterige Scottie van tien schreeuwt om aandacht en oudste dochter Alex van zeventien is exmodel en ex-drugsgebruiker. Matthew heeft geen flauw idee hoe hij met deze twee moet omgaan. Dan blijkt dat Joannie al maanden een affaire had met de man die waarschijnlijk haar enige echte liefde was.Matthew dwingt zichzelf om te onderzoeken wat hij zijn vrouw verschuldigd is. Samen met zijn dochters besluit hij op pad te gaan, op zoek naar de minnaar van zijn vrouw. Het wordt een memorabele reis, vol pijnlijke inzichten, verrassingen en onverwachte humor.

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