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By Lisa Gillis, Claudia Schoepper. 2017
Ein sexy, tätowierter, Metal-Rockstar und ein normales Mädchen aus einer Kleinstadt im Süden. Marissa hat eine Mission. Sie will ganz…
schnell über ihren betrügerischen Ex hinwegkommen. Ist ein One-Night-Stand dafür die richtige Medizin? Vielleicht. Aber ist Jack (wie war nochmal sein Nachname?) dafür der richtige? Ein One-Night-Stand mit Folgen. Ein Geheimnis, das Marissa um jeden Preis bewahren will. Ein Rockstar aus Kalifornien. Ein normales Mädchen aus den Südstaaten. Zwei Welten treffen auf einander. Haben die beiden eine Chance auf ‚mehr‘? KEIN CLIFFHANGER! Jack Who? Ist er erste Teil der Silver Strings Trilogie. Alle drei Teile handeln von Jack und Marissa. Buch 1 hat aber kein offenes Ende. Man kann die Wartezeit bis zum zweiten Buch also gut aushalten!By Prue Leith. 2013
Carrie is beautiful and untamed, a single girl with her own business and the pick of the men. Her older…
sister Poppy is an earth mother, with a successful career in the theatre and happy home life. Since they were children, Poppy has always looked out for her sister--she knows Carrie has a darker, destructive side. But she never dreams Carrie would hurt her. But Carrie can't help herself. She provides danger, excitement, great sex--all the things that had faded in Eduardo and Poppy's marriage. And in destroying her sister's peace of mind, she risks losing all those who love her.By Marc Brown. 1996
By Julia Kelly. 1969
Lucy's a misfit. She's growing up in a large family in a semi-detached house in Dublin, dreaming of being someone…
else and making her father proud. It's not looking promising.He's an internationally renowned academic, her siblings are bright achievers, but Lucy is lazy, directionless and never quite manages to succeed. Perhaps that's because she's not really trying. She hasn't got the energy to revise for exams, she can't convince herself to care about coming last and even when she goes to London and finds the perfect job, she is still destined to fail. It seems she's going nowhere--fast.But when a family crisis forces Lucy to grow up, she's going to realise that if she wants a better life, she'll have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe then her dreams will come true.By Tina Beckett. 2016
A family to heal them... After losing his little girl five years ago, Dr. Kaleb McBride has kept himself to…
himself. He can't face losing anyone ever again. Then beautiful Madeleine Grimes enters his world... Maddy's priority is her young daughter. So she's just as determined to ignore her burning attraction to Kaleb! But when stolen kisses turn into something more, Maddy wonders if she and Chloe can heal Kaleb's heart...and make the perfect family!By Elizabeth Gill. 2014
A gritty, emotional saga about tragic loss, a mysterious inheritance and one woman's determination to succeed in the male-dominated society…
of 1920s northern England.Since childhood, Lucy Charlton has dreamed of working with her father in the family solicitor's firm. But when scandal shatters her dreams and her father disowns her she finds herself on the streets, fighting for survival. Joe Hardy has returned to London after the Great War to find his life in tatters - his father is dead and his pregnant fiancée has disappeared. Then Joe learns he's unexpectedly inherited an old river house in Durham from a stranger called Margaret Lee. With nothing left for him in London, he makes arrangements to travel north and claim it. Lucy's determination has finally secured her a job as a legal secretary, campaigning for the rights of the poorest in society. As Joe arrives in her office to collect the keys to his new home, she promises to help him uncover information about his mystery benefactor. But before long, the past comes back to haunt them both, with shocking consequences.By Marcello Fois. 2009
When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realizes he…
has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when, a few years later, Michele himself looks down from a church rooftop and sees the beautiful Mercede, the quiet orphan realizes he has found the woman he will marry.So begins Marcello Fois' magisterial domestic epic of the lives and loves of the Chironi family, as they struggle through war and fascism. Deftly endowing familial horrors with mythical resonance, Fois creates a Dantesque triptych that inscribes the history of twentieth-century Sardinia onto a single misbegotten household.By Gregory Hughes. 2010
When an adventurous sister-and-brother duo become orphans, a funny and heartbreaking roadtrip to New York ensues, as the pair searches…
for their long-lost uncle.Meet the Rat: A dancing, soccer-loving, fearless ten-year-old from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Meet her older brother, Bob: Protector of the Rat, though more often than not her faithful follower, Bob is determined to build a new and better life for him and his sister in America. Of particular concern for him are his sister's mysterious fits, which keep getting more and more severe.On their adventures traveling alone from the flatlands of Winnipeg, southward across the border into America, Bob and the Rat make friends with a host of unlikely characters, including a hilarious con man and a famous rap star. As they struggle to survive in the big city, they realize that finding your uncle in New York is incredibly difficult if you have almost no information about him--even if he is rumored to be one of the city's biggest drug dealers...From the Hardcover edition.By Robyn Carr. 2010
They’ve been best friends since seventh grade. But this summer, teetering on the threshold of thirty, four women are going…
to need each other more than everCassie has sworn off men after yet another bad date though, deep down, she’s still looking for Mr. Right. A long-haired, tattooed biker is definitely not him, so there’s no harm in a few Harley rides through Sonoma. Right? Julie married her high school sweetheart too young and now wonders how her life became all about leaky faucets and checkbook balances. Maybe love isn’t enough to sustain the perfect couple.Marty’s firefighter husband takes her for granted, and with her marriage on the rocks, an old flame begins to look mighty tempting. She’s seriously thinking of crossing that line. Beth is a busy doctor trapped in a body that’s betrayed her yet again and she’s becoming a difficult patient and a secretive friend. She’s fighting for her life. Life can change in an instant…or a summer. As these four friends deal with life’s challenges, the strength of their bond will see them through.No one delves into the complexities of female friendship better than #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr.By Jaroslav Kalfar. 2017
An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discoveryOrphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents,…
Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown. But in so doing, he leaves behind his devoted wife, Lenka, whose love, he realizes too late, he has sacrificed on the altar of his ambitions. Alone in Deep Space, Jakub discovers a possibly imaginary giant alien spider, who becomes his unlikely companion. Over philosophical conversations about the nature of love, life and death, and the deliciousness of bacon, the pair form an intense and emotional bond. Will it be enough to see Jakub through a clash with secret Russian rivals and return him safely to Earth for a second chance with Lenka?Rich with warmth and suspense and surprise, Spaceman of Bohemia is an exuberant delight from start to finish. Very seldom has a novel this profound taken readers on a journey of such boundless entertainment and sheer fun.By Kathleen Lane. 2016
Front door locked, kitchen door locked, living room windows closed.Nobody in the closet, nobody under the beds.Still, Maggie is worried.…
Ever since she started middle school, she sees injustice and danger everywhere--on the news, in her textbooks, in her own neighborhood. Even her best friend seems to be changing. Maggie believes it is up to her, and only her, to make everything all right. Can she come up with a plan to keep everyone safe?The Best Worst Thing is a perceptive novel about learning the limits of what you can control, and the good--sometimes even best--things that can come of finally letting go.By David Logan. 2015
Sometimes it's a terrible loss that makes us appreciate just how good we have it. Ten-year-old Goose lives happily with…
his parents and his dog, Mutt, in their house in Manchester, England. But then his parents die in a car crash on Christmas Eve, and Goose's life is destroyed.Exactly one year later, Goose is no longer the wide-eyed, energetic innocent he used to be--now he is a streetwise kid who has been turned to petty thievery to support his increasingly addled Nan. Though her body is present, Nan's mind wanders and this only makes Goose feel even more isolated. When Mutt goes missing, Goose feels a crushing sense of loss.As Goose searches the streets of Manchester on Christmas Eve for his dog, he encounters a strange man named Anthony, who seems to know an awful lot about everyone he meets (but almost nothing at all about himself). Anthony's special skill is to help people who have lost something--and everyone's lost something, according to Anthony--to find that thing again. As they roam the streets together, they meet a wide variety of people, all of whom are searching desperately for something missing from their lives.As the mysterious Anthony proves again and again to have the power to reunite the seekers with the sought-after, Goose begins to wonder if with Anthony's help he might be able to find one of the precious things he's lost...By Kathy Cannon Wiechman. 2017
It’s 1937 and a storm is brewing over the town of Ironton, Ohio, and in the home of Pete and…
Gus Brinkmeyer. The two teenage brothers, once close, struggle with the growing differences in their relationship. Gus is the older and more cerebral brother, a romantic who falls for a girl his family does not approve of. He is also jealous of their father’s seeming favoritism toward Pete, the more practical and physical brother. Pete struggles with the loss of his brother’s friendship as Gus’s jealousy and involvement with the girl drive a wedge between the two. When the Ohio River floods their town and the brothers are separated, each must discover his own strengths to survive and ultimately heal the fracture. Celebrated historical novelist Kathy Wiechman looks into her own family’s history to create unforgettable characters caught up in a catastrophic, life-changing event. Includes an extensive author’s note outlining the history behind the story.By Abby Clements. 2012
Childhood friends Laurie and Rachel used to be inseparable--but their lives have taken very different paths since they picked up…
their A-level results together.Now thirty-five, they have all but fallen out of touch; glamorous single girl Laurie is based in London and dedicated to her career in fashion; Rachel seemingly living the family idyll in Yorkshire.But when Rachel's mother-in-law needs urgent treatment in London, and disasters at work and in her love life mean Laurie needs to flee, a house swap falls into place. Soon gentle Rachel is far from the village bake sales, braving the city's mean streets while trying to keep her marriage and family together; while Laurie attempts to work an Aga, befriend the wary village locals--and forget the man who seems intent on breaking her heart. Will their relationships survive this test? And will they make it home for Christmas?By Rosanna Ley. 2012
Set against the rugged coast of Sicily, debut novelist Rosanna Ley creates a lush multi-generational story in The Villa; an…
epic journey of love lost, family secrets, the road to self-discovery and the meaning of home and family. When Tess Angel receives a letter informing her she has inherited the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily--she is stunned. Her only link to the small beautiful island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily during World War II and has not spoken to her family, or of her life there, since. Initially resistant to Tess traveling to her home country, Flavia begins to recount her youth, told in flashbacks as she writes in a journal to Tess of her journey to independence, as well as leaving her legacy of cherished family recipes and secrets. Secrets including a lost treasure rumored to be hidden in the very Villa Tess is staying at. Told in alternating points-of-view between Tess, Flavia, and Tess' teenage daughter Ginny, dealing with her blooming sexuality and filled with questions that she longs to ask her long-absent father.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Sinéad Crowley. 2014
It was crazy really, she had never met the woman, had no idea of her real name but she thought…
of her as a friend. Or, at least, the closest thing she had to a friend in Dublin.Struggling with a new baby, Yvonne turns to netmammy, an online forum for mothers, for support. Drawn into a world of new friends, she spends increasing amounts of time online and volunteers more and more information about herself.When one of her new friends goes offline, Yvonne thinks something is wrong, but dismisses her fears. After all, does she really know this woman?But when the body of a young woman with striking similarities to Yvonne's missing friend is found, Yvonne realizes that they're all in terrifying danger. Can she persuade Sergeant Claire Boyle, herself about to go on maternity leave, to take her fears seriously?By Adele Griffin. 1998
In a house full of dark memories, two sisters try to escape the past Holland Shepard is a responsible teenager…
who spends her life trying to keep her feelings inside. Her sister Geneva is the opposite--a bundle of nerves who dreads sentimentality, but suffers so acutely from nervous disorders that a ride in an elevator is enough to send her into a fit. The girls are like summer and fall--close, yet utterly distinct--but in their parents' house, they are growing up almost as ghosts. Because this home belongs to John, Kevin, and Elizabeth--Holland and Geneva's siblings, who died before the girls were born. Burdened by grief, their parents cannot bond with the daughters who replaced their original family, and so it is left to Holland to look out for herself and her sister. When a mysterious artist comes to paint a mural in their house, the girls get a glimpse into their family's past and a chance to find themselves a place in its future. This book features a personal history by Adele Griffin including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's own collection.By Kaitlyn Sage Patterson. 2018
“Two fierce young people battle a fiery landscape and vicious foes in a race for freedom. I was glued to…
my seat!”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora PierceIn the Alskad Empire, nearly all are born with a twin, two halves to form one whole…yet some face the world alone.The singlebornA rare few are singleborn in each generation, and therefore given the right to rule by the gods and goddesses. Bo Trousillion is one of these few, born into the royal line and destined to rule. Though he has been chosen to succeed his great-aunt, Queen Runa, as the leader of the Alskad Empire, Bo has never felt equal to the grand future before him.The diminishedWhen one twin dies, the other usually follows, unable to face the world without their other half. Those who survive are considered diminished, doomed to succumb to the violent grief that inevitably destroys everyone whose twin has died.Such is the fate of Vi Abernathy, whose twin sister died in infancy. Raised by the anchorites of the temple after her family cast her off, Vi has spent her whole life scheming for a way to escape and live out what’s left of her life in peace.As their sixteenth birthdays approach, Bo and Vi face very different futures—one a life of luxury as the heir to the throne, the other years of backbreaking work as a temple servant. But a long-held secret and the fate of the empire are destined to bring them together in a way they never could have imagined.“With a splash of swoony romance and a thrilling conclusion, readers will be clamoring for the sequel.” —Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost and The Vicious Deep trilogy“Bo and Vi are fierce, complex characters, and I couldn’t devour their story fast enough!”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Ruined“This daring novel challenges the status quo beautifully.”—Natalie C. Parker, author of Beware the WildBy Alexandra Borowitz. 2018
A delightfully quirky debut about family bonds and the chaos that ensues when nature and lack of nurture collide.Emily Glass…
knows she’s neurotic. But she’s got it under control. Sort of. She dons compression socks when she flies (because, you know, deep vein thrombosis) and responds to people routinely overestimating her age with more Lifespin classes and less gluten. Thankfully, she also has David, the wonderful man she’ll soon call husband—assuming they can survive wedding week with her wildly dysfunctional family.Emily’s therapist mother, Marla, who’s been diagnosing her children since they were in diapers, sees their homecoming as the perfect opportunity for long-overdue family therapy sessions. Less enthused are Emily and her two siblings: ardently feminist older sister Lauren, who doesn’t think the wedding party should have defined gender roles, and recently divorced brother Jason, whose overzealous return to singlehood is only tempered by his puzzling friendship with David’s Renaissance Faire—enthusiast brother.As the week comes to a tumultuous head, Emily wants nothing more than to get married and get as far away from her crazy relatives as possible. But that’s easier said than done when Marla’s meddling breathes new life into old secrets. After all, the ties that bind family together may bend, but they aren’t so easily broken.Laugh-out-loud funny and endearingly raw, Family and Other Catastrophes is as entertaining as your favorite sitcom and introduces Alexandra Borowitz as an outstanding new voice in humorous fiction.The stranger who stole her heart! When paramedic Jack Halliday is saved from a flood by red-haired beauty Cassandra Clarke,…
the chemistry between them explodes. And while he'll always put his daughter, Ellie, first, Jack can't help longing to save Cass in return... Meeting single dad Jack awakens too many cravings in firefighter Cass, who's accepted that she'll never have a baby of her own. But when this man-and his adorable daughter-invite her to share their house, Cass begins to feel she's found her home!