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Ein junger Mann kehrt aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zurück in seine Heimatstadt an der Ostküste der USA. Alles ist ihm seltsam fremd - die Frau, das Elternhaus, die Mutter. Er versucht, zurück zur Normalität zu finden, doch seine Frau sieht durch seine Rückkehr in erster Linie ihre neu gewonnene Freiheit in Gefahr. Gewalt, Missgunst, Klatsch und Untreue bestimmen daraufhin nicht nur die Beziehung des Paares, sondern die gesamte Dynamik des Ortes.

Manchmal hat das Leben (und die Liebe) andere Pläne... Seit dem überraschenden Tod ihres Vaters vor drei Jahren leitet Juniper (June) McCarthy mit ihrer Mutter und ihren Schwestern Cherry Hill, die Obstfarm der Familie. Die 25-Jährige liebt die Farm im ländlichen Colorado, und sie fühlt sich verantwortlich für das Familienunternehmen, das ihrem Vater so viel bedeutet hat und in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten steckt. Deshalb hat sie damals auch ihrer großen Liebe Henry unter einem Vorwand den Laufpass gegeben, um seinen Zukunftsplänen in Wales nicht im Weg zu stehen.

"Enfant, quand je m'efforçais de m'exprimer dans un langage châtié, j'avais l'impression de me jeter dans le vide. Une de mes frayeurs imaginaires, avoir un père instituteur qui m'aurait obligée à bien parler sans arrêt en détachant les mots. On parlait avec toute la bouche. Puisque la maîtresse me "reprenait", plus tard j'ai voulu reprendre mon père, lui annoncer que "se parterrer" ou "quart moins d'onze heures" n'existaient pas.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. “The beach-read master hooks us again."—People...

Stephanie Adams is a devoted stay-at-home mother, married to a successful lawyer in northern California, in a dead marriage she stayed in for years for the sake of her children. Then, on a ski trip in Squaw Valley, her fifty-two-year-old husband dies suddenly and all bets are off.

Eine zweite Chance für die Liebe. Die neue große RomCom von Bestsellerautorin Emily Henry - voller Charme, Witz und großen Gefühlen. Harriet und Wyn sind schon seit dem College das perfekte Paar, das sagt jeder, der die beiden kennt. In Wahrheit aber hat sich das ehemalige Traumpaar schon vor sechs Monaten getrennt – nur haben sie noch niemandem davon erzählt. So kommt es, dass sie sich nun trotzdem gemeinsam in der Hütte in Maine wiederfinden, die schon seit Jahren das Ausflugsziel ihrer Clique ist.

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

The plan is simple. George and Ben have three weeks to cycle 1000 miles from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland. There's just one small problem - they have no bikes, no clothes, no food, and no money. Setting off in just a pair of Union Jack boxer shorts, they attempt to rely on the generosity of the British public for everything from food to accommodation, clothes to shoes, and bikes to beer.

Wenn Liebe nicht ins Drehbuch passt: "No Place For Us" erzählt von Blumenhändlerin Ivy und Netflix-Star Jane, von dem Mut, zu sich selbst zu stehen, und von einer Liebe, die alle Unterschiede überwinden will. Zwischen Ivy und Jane sprühen die Funken, als die junge Schauspielerin zufällig Ivys Blumenladen in Frankfurt betritt. Trotzdem verlieren sie sich nach einer durchtanzten Nacht und einem einzigen Kuss aus den Augen.

For fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Harper Bliss, a thrilling tale of two women who find each other irresistible but struggle for a second chance for love, redemption, and sanctuary when the world is against them. Jo, a driven environmental attorney based in Washington, DC, and Lauren, a spirited young woman from Britain on a journey of self-discovery, find themselves in a serendipitous encounter at a lively London pub in 1981.

As Jake Rayne travels through Idahaho in his classic '57 Thunderbird, a devastating accident is the catalyst for a journey he isn't expecting. Alone in the deep forest, with his body battered and broken, Jake calls out for help. And the help he finds changes not only his life but his whole reality.

Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.

Willkommen in der Welt des genialen Geschichtenerzählers Nick Hornby. Eine an Einfallsreichtum schwer zu überbietende Mischung...

Piper Egan landed her dream job straight out of college—working at Empire Records. But instead of discovering new talent and changing lives, like she’d hoped, her time is spent taking meeting notes and catering to spoiled celebrities. When the chance to change that finally appears, she should be thrilled. Unfortunately, Piper’s promotion involves the charming cowboy she’s spent years attempting to avoid. And flying to middle of nowhere, Texas, in a desperate attempt to talk the king of country music into returning to the stage.

In this New York Times bestselling powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated...

Et si le bonheur, l'épanouissement professionnel, la sérénité ne tenaient qu'à une chose : trouver votre juste place ? Une juste place pour être en harmonie avec les autres et avec soi-même : au travail, en amour, en famille... et aussi chez soi, financièrement, physiquement et moralement. Je vous propose d'identifier précisément les liens entre ce qui vous freine et vos épreuves, personnelles ou héritées de votre famille.

It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world - of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin – where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.

In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.

George’s strict upbringing has left him ashamed of his sexuality. In his forties now, he's yet to come out or even kiss a man - until he meets Quentin. Quentin has had enough of bad relationships with men who won't commit. Still raw from the last one, he’s not ready to try again. But George is sweet, and helping the older man get some experience might be a fun diversion.