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Liz deWitt ist Spitzenköchin in einem vegetarischen Restaurant in San Francisco. Täglicher Stress und immer neue Anforderungen verderben ihr jedoch zusehends die Passion fürs Kochen. Als ihr Onkel verunglückt und die beste Freundin Ceecee ihr das Angebot macht bei ihr ins Café einzusteigen, zögert Liz keine Sekunde. Doch das Leben im idyllischen Willow Springs ist viel aufregender als erwartet, besonders als sie dort auf Joe Mariani, den neuen Chief of Police, trifft. Joe ist waschechter New Yorker und erst seit kurzem in Willow Springs.

Last Game für die sympathischen Spieler der Philadelphia Delphis: Die Neuauflage von Band 7 der erfolgreichen Sports Romance-Reihe Baseball Love! Baseball und Frauen: Das sind die Dinge, die Jake Braker liebt und versteht. Kinder gehören definitiv nicht zu seinem Feld der Expertise. Als er gerichtlich zu Sozialstunden im Kindergarten verurteilt wird, rechnet er mit einer Katastrophe. Wie sich herausstellt, sind die Bazillenschleudern aber gar nicht das Problem, sondern die nervige Erzieherin, die sich weder von seinem Aussehen noch von seinem Geld beeindrucken lässt.

We've won a multi-million-pound house in the Cotswolds. It's a dream come true. But the nightmare is just beginning. The threats start immediately. The day we move in, the woman next door comes over, with a bottle of red wine. Then I get a message congratulating me... and saying they know about what happened sixteen years ago. The mistake that ruined everything. And things are about to get even worse.

Es ist fast ein Jahr her, dass Magnolia Parks BJ Ballentine auf den Stufen des Hotels stehen ließ. Seitdem hat sich alles verändert: Magnolia führt jetzt ein Leben in New York und BJ scheint endlich losgelassen zu haben und weiterzuziehen. Doch als beide wieder in London landen und sich erneut begegnen, stellen sie sich die uralte Frage: Wie oft findet man die große Liebe, und vor allem - hatten Magnolia und BJ sie bereits gefunden? Herzschmerz in Londons High Society – Die große Liebesgeschichte um Magnolia Parks und BJ Ballantine hat Millionen Fans auf TikTok zum Weinen gebracht.

Have you ever wondered why the themes of heroism and wrath in these ancient epics still resonate thousands of years later? The Iliad and The Odyssey stand as the twin pillars of Western civilization. In this definitive collection, you are transported to the Bronze Age, where gods walked among men and the fate of nations hung on the edge of a sword.

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A Christmas reunion Could make their spirits bright Wildlife photographer Ben Thompson would do anything to give his sick grandmother the perfect Christmas. He just didn’t expect her to ask him to plan a holiday-themed book and movie series with his ex-girlfriend. Librarian Gemma Keyser...

Wenn du diese Tür nie geöffnet hättest, wäre deine Familie noch in Sicherheit ... Ein Traumhaus, das zum Albtraum wird: Die Entdeckung eines verborgenen Zimmers führt zu einem dunklen Geheimnis – und zu einer Gefahr, die niemand kommen sah. Lange haben Adam und Jess auf die Erfüllung...

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stína goes missing – her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsibil and her penpal had agreed to meet. November, 1977. Stína's disappearance remains unsolved.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.

"Home Front is Hannah's crowning achievement."—The Huffington Post In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war. All marriages have a breaking point. All...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Griffin comes an atmospheric and haunting adult debut in which a disappearance rattles a small town, forcing one woman to confront her fate and unravel the dark secrets of the past—perfect for fans of Once There Were Wolves and The Unmaking of...

One of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring” David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us. Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and...

Chicago, 1861 After years of painful separation, Justin Young finally locates his orphaned siblings—on opposite sides of the Civil War. Setting aside his budding romance, he brings his widowed sister and younger brothers home to Chicago, determined that the ties of the same blood are strong enough to bring them together despite the secrets they each carry from their pasts. But faced with his inadequacies as a provider and leader, Justin discovers that real love is the hard work of granting grace and second chances to imperfect, hurting people with whom he has nothing in common.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR USA TODAY BESTSELLER The critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that...

Die dunkle Seite der amerikanischen Seele. Eine betörende Frau lässt sich auf den Hundemann ein - kurz zuvor hatte sie ihm ihre Kätzchen anvertraut, doch was er mit denen vorhat, kann sie nicht ahnen. Eine Zwölfjährige soll vor Gericht gegen ihren alkoholkranken Vater aussagen; und plötzlich gibt es viele Wahrheiten: gute und schlechte, notwendige und schmerzliche. Ein Witwer legt sich eine Schlange zu, aber die Ratten, mit denen er sie füttern will, wachsen ihm so sehr ans Herz, dass er am Ende Dreizehnhundert von ihnen beherbergt.

At the center of Home Again is Madelaine - a brilliant cardiologist, a loving mother, a tender friend, and a woman full of self-doubt. It is also the story of her confused and angry daughter, Lina, and of the two very different men Madelaine loves: Francis, a priest searching for his faith, and Angel, a talented but cynical man with a broken heart. When tragedy suddenly brings them all together, they must learn to forgive the betrayals of the past and find the courage to love again.

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel….Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure” (People). Looking at real estate isn’t usually a...

Steve and the other survivors in the UK have rebuilt and healed after the brutal end to the reign of Richards. But removing a dictator was only the beginning.... Years after a mistake of compassion and humanity, an enemy thought long gone returns to bring down a rain of violence and terror the likes of which they have never seen before. Their society, a peaceful one of trade and cooperation, has moved on from the bloody aftermath of the collapse, but that evolution blunts their teeth to be able to combat the new threat.