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Keeley Rae Murdock, eine seriöse 34-jährige Innenarchitektin, will morgen ihren Verlobten heiraten. Doch der vernascht beim Probedurchlauf im Country Club kurzerhand die Trauzeugin. Und das gleich im Saal neben dem Trauzimmer! Keeley verliert die Fassung. Sie bekommt den Tobsuchtsanfall ihres Lebens: Sie verpasst der Trauzeugin einen saftigen Fausthieb ins Gesicht, wirft Gläser an die Wand, ritzt in das Auto ihres Verlobten das Wort Arschloch und wirft dem Pfarrer das Beweismaterial mitten ins Gesicht.

Liebesromane sind auch (k)eine Lösung. Noah Logan hat ein Problem: Er ist in seine beste Freundin Alexis verliebt. Und das ist ein Problem, weil... na ja, weil sie eben seine beste Freundin ist. Er will Alexis auf gar keinen Fall verlieren. Nur, wenn er ihr seine Gefühle gesteht, könnte genau das passieren. Noah hat keine Ahnung, wie es weitergehen soll. Und verzweifelte Männer tun verzweifelte Dinge. Wie sich dem Secret Book Club anzuschließen. Die Jungs aus dem Buchclub sind der Überzeugung, dass sich jede Beziehung mit Hilfe von Liebesromanen verbessern lässt.

Working women today are better educated and more well-qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence.

Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition - with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and business - Kay and Shipman go beyond admonishing women to "lean in".

I was expecting a ring on my thirtieth birthday. What I didn't see coming was my boyfriend and business partner dumping me because he couldn't bear the idea of our bland sex life for the rest of our lives. When an opportunity arises to spend my summer in Las Vegas, I stumble upon my hot new neighbor and his photography studio. We strike a simple deal. He's the teacher, and I'm his student. My lesson is learning to love the body I have. In exchange, I'm going to save his business. I have exactly one summer to unearth the most confident version of myself before I go home and return to reality.

CERHA is a fabricant, and her job is simple: keep Annalise Fletcher safe, a role she performs dutifully and without fail, as she was designed to. Neither she nor her charge expected that this routine assignment could lead to love, but when feelings begin to bloom, neither see fit to stand in their way, and the two find themselves leading a shared life where both must walk a tightrope, precariously balancing between duty, and what domestic bliss is woven into the spaces remaining. For a time, they are as close to happy as they can manage.

SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the "greenbelt," but a young woman's curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

Cece had everything—looks, brains, and money galore. Her love of life was legendary, as was her rampant fear of heights. Leaping off a building was the last thing she would ever do. When she dies that way, Eja and Deming know it was neither suicide nor an accident. Partnering to catch her killer plunges the pair into a major relationship shift. Gone is the exasperating big-brother figure from Eja’s girlhood; now she’s confronted with an irritating, irresistible grown man.

SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn't be possible. Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.

SHORT STORY: A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita's a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she's certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on...

SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected, and unwelcome, visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end. Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

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A wonderful new book is coming from Random House Children's Books.

Vom Glück, nach Hause zu kommen: Ein Sommerroman zum Genießen von Bestsellerautorin Mary Kay Andrews. Anfangs ist die investigative Journalistin Conley Hawkins gar nicht begeistert, als es sie nach Florida in ihre kleine Heimatstadt verschlägt. Doch der familieneigenen Zeitung geht es nicht gut. Conley setzt alles daran, sie mit ihrer Schwester zusammen zu retten. Im Strandhaus ihrer Großmutter lernt Conley, dass auch Regionaljournalismus Sensationen bereithält. Und dass aus alten Verletzungen neue Liebe entstehen kann.

Juliette Contzen is a lazy, good-for-nothing princess. Overshadowed by her siblings, she's left with little to do but nap, read, and occasionally cut the falling raindrops with her sword. Spotted one day by an astonished adventurer, he insists on grading Juliette's swordsmanship, then promptly has a mental breakdown at the result. Soon after, Juliette is given the news that her kingdom is on the brink of bankruptcy. At the threat of being married off, the lazy princess vows to do whatever it takes to maintain her current lifestyle.

Das Leben könnte so schön sein: Das wärmende Sonnenlicht, die historische Häuserpracht und die frische Brise vom Meer machen Savannah zum perfekten Ort - zumindest für die Antiquitätenverkäuferin Eloise Foley. Doch dann gerät sie ins Zentrum einer Mordermittlung. Jemand hat Caroline DeSantos umgebracht. Zu dumm, denn Caroline war die neue Flamme von Eloises frisch geschiedenem Ehemann. Prompt wird sie zur Hauptverdächtigen.

Damien had planned it all out. He had the support of his wealthy parents, loyal friends who shared his goals, even a high-ranked Core just waiting for him to use. One more Dungeon run and he would be set–he was finally going to take the first real step on the path to fame and fortune as a Hero. The future was so bright, he needed shades to see it. Was, in the past tense. Because Damien just died.

He knew it was a dumb stunt from the start. A midnight run through a cemetery to impress a couple of girls isn't the stuff of legend, but Alex Carlisle longs to escape the crushing mediocrity of life after high school. Then, he stumbles upon the ritual, the cultists, and two bound and bloodied women. Alex intervenes, and the ritual blows up in his face, leaving him bound to them both: Rachel and Lorelei, an angel and a succubus. 

With the third temple restored, Ruwen must now prevent an imminent invasion of the southern border. But Ruwen’s new city is in shambles. If he doesn’t quickly fortify the walls and revive an army capable of stopping his enemies, he has no chance of surviving the coming onslaught. Running out of time and facing a lack of resources, Ruwen is forced to bargain for allies and take an unwanted new class. He fears the dire situation makes these preparations pointless, and his failure will doom the entire country.

The lands of Arbonne and Gorhaut are on the verge of an all-consuming conflict. When a devious high priest of Gorhaut seizes the opportunity to wage a holy war against residents of Arbonne, an epic clash between the two cultures ensues.