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Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Glücklich und voller Hoffnung brechen Lore und Fridolin nach Berlin auf. Hier tritt Fridolin einen Posten in einem Bankhaus an und Lore eröffnet mit ihrer Freundin einen Modesalon. Doch bald muss sie erkennen, dass sie von den Damen der Gesellschaft geschnitten, ja dass ganz offensichtlich gegen sie intrigiert wird. Dann beginnt es auch noch in ihrer Ehe zu kriseln, denn Fridolin hat eine alte Bekannte wieder getroffen - die Besitzerin des Edelbordells Le Plaisir...

The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s...

Nell Cardross and her husband are madly in love. But they're very bad at showing it. While Nell believes her new husband, the Earl, married her out of convenience, Giles Cardross worries that his young wife is more interested in his money than his heart. And Nell's secretive and extravagant spending is becoming a problem. As she attempts to pay off her brother's never-ending gambling debts and prevent the Earl's half-sister from eloping with a potentially ruinous match, will Nell's heart of gold lead her - and her marriage - into trouble?

Nur sechs Tage lang, vom 7. bis zum frühen Morgen des 13. April 1919, währte die Bayerische Räterepublik, die auch als "Dichterrepublik" in die Geschichte einging und deren wichtigstes Sprachrohr der Anarchist Erich Mühsam war. Sechs Tage, die bis heute sozialrevolutionäre Träume von einer gesellschaftlichen Alternative zu Parlamentarismus einerseits und Parteidiktatur andererseits beflügeln.

April, May, June und July: Vier Monate voller rauschender Bälle. Vier Schwestern auf der Suche nach der großen Liebe. Die Campbell-Schwestern April, May, June und July haben nur eine Chance auf eine Mitgift: Sie müssen in der Reihenfolge ihrer Geburt heiraten. Doch April, die Älteste, hat bei ihrer letzten Ballsaison nicht nur ihr Herz, sondern auch ihren guten Ruf verloren – und schuld daran ist Nathaniel Pembroke. May will ihre Schwester unbedingt verkuppeln, während sie selbst mit Lord Richard flirtet. Doch dann kehrt Nathaniel nach London zurück und plötzlich machen erneut Gerüchte über April die Runde.

Marital strife and divorce can be your chance to profoundly transform yourself, your mindset and your relationship with a more harmonious and steady vision. While many of us may be better together, some of us can actually become better apart. What if you emerged from your divorce stronger and...

When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow - with the threat of more to come. Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organisation committed to a very different kind of Scotland. One they are prepared to kill for.

Frühjahr 1943 im besetzten Paris: Der junge deutsche Gefreite Roth arbeitet tagsüber als Dolmetscher für die deutsche Geheimpolizei, abends flaniert er in Zivilkleidern durch die Stadt. Eines Abends lernt er Chantal, die Tochter eines französischen Buchhändlers, kennen. Er ahnt nicht, dass die geheimnisvolle Chantal für die Résistance arbeitet und dass er dabei ist, sich auf eine gefährliche Liebe einzulassen...

Peru, the 1980s and 1990s: It was a cruel, bloody and terrifying era. The rebels of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), founded by philosophy professor, Abimael Guzman, slaughtered vilagers in the mountains and hung dogs from power lines, their carcasses canvases for Maoist slogans. The government responded with a corrosive mix of assasination, bribery and intrigue which brought down the rebel leader but triggered the fall of the president.

This is Bryce Courtenay's moving tribute to his son, Damon, a hemophiliac who died from medically acquired AIDS on April 1, 1991, at the age of 24. April Fool's Day is controversial, painful and heartbreaking, yet has a gentle humor. It is also life-affirming, and, above all, a testimony to the incredible regenerative strength of love: how when we confront our worst, we can become our best. This tragic yet uplifting story will change the way you think.

“The real deal.” —Kathy Reichs “The Sherlock Holmes for bones.” —Katherine Ramsland, author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. The most riveting and ambitious novel to date in Jefferson Bass’ New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series, The Inquisitor’s Key takes forensic...

Get ready for a heart-pounding ride with Downfall, the third book in the New York Times bestselling Intervention series by Terri Blackstock. In this full-length contemporary Christian suspense novel, Blackstock weaves together a gripping tale of danger, deception, and redemption. A girl with a...

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed. War changed everything . . . even their love. Bride-to-be Stella Carson cannot wait another day to marry her longtime sweetheart, Marshall Henderson. But her plans fall to pieces when she...

When a bunny is born in spring, he sees the world as green and new and full of hope. But as the seasons change, the bunny worries that the earth may be dying. In bestselling author’s Sally Lloyd-Jones’ latest book celebrating the Easter season and rebirth, nature speaks to the bunny...

A prosecutor of violent criminals. A detective on a dangerous beat. When these two pros take on an off-the-books case, the line between professional and personal becomes perilously blurred. “Wiehl’s experience as a former federal prosecutor gives the narrative an authenticity in its...

We were Army Rangers, the best of the best. And then one day, everything that we worked so hard to become was ripped away. Now, we're in some podunk town, trying to find a sense of normal among the crazy, and learn how to live again. That gets a hell of a lot harder to do when a virus spreads mercilessly across the country, killing 85 percent of the people who contract it. In the midst of the panic, we're tasked with one last rescue mission. It's just our luck that the fool we're rescuing doesn't believe that the world as we know it is actually ending.