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Calvin M. Bennett spent years making rooms obey him. Then he walked away from the suits, the arguments, and the life he could no longer stand. In New Orleans, he becomes simply Cal—a man with a trumpet he hasn't touched in years, a knife roll he barely trusts himself to open, and a place in Miss Jo's demanding neighborhood kitchen. He intends to keep his head down, learn the food, and disappear into the work. But Miss Jo sees too much, June asks the questions he has been avoiding, and a city built on music refuses to let him stay silent.

'Holy hell, this book was intenseit kept me on edge the whole time. I absolutely LOVED this book.' Reader Review 'Ben, I need you. Help me.' 'PLEASE HELP ME!' 'It was an accidentbut there's so much blood' In a frantic late-night phone call, Ben learns his wife, Mia, has killed a man. And she...

When Pippa comes across a young man standing on the edge of a deserted bridge, little does she know her next phone call will be part of a chain of events that will reverberate through the lives of 13 people she will never meet.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 'A classic of Italian gay fiction . . . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief' NEW YORK TIMES 'Beautiful and poignant' THE TIMES 'A stunning novel...

Out of all the divas at New Day Temple of Faith, Unique has to be the most colorful one - she and her mother, Lorain, that is. Never one to hold her tongue in the name of keepin' it real, it's no surprise that Unique has not been saved all her life. It's safe to say that Lorain wasn't born on the church pew either. Let the church folk tell it, the apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree when it comes to Unique.

Calvin M. Bennett came to New Orleans to disappear. Now the city knows his name—and Jazz Fest is about to make it impossible to hide. Nine days before the festival, Cal is dividing his time between Miss Jo’s kitchen and a street band that formed without anyone admitting it. Then someone from his former firm arrives with an offer: return with real authority, fewer clients, and the kind of money that can buy a quiet life. New Orleans has other plans.

Ein hinreißender italienischer Liebesroman... der Lust auf Urlaub, Liebe und Sommer macht ... Julia reist von Hamburg nach Rom, um endlich einmal den Urlaub zu genießen, den sie möchte. Ihre Scheidung liegt schon drei Jahre zurück und nun fühlt sie sich bereit für ein neues Leben. Ihr Sohn Sebastian schließt sich ihr an, doch von ihm kriegt sie nicht viel zu sehen, denn er gestaltet seine eigenen Ferien. Also verbringt Julia ihre Zeit mit Bruno, dem Vermieter ihres Ferienhauses.

Valery Clark reist nach Rom, um ein Praktikum in einem kleinen Verlag anzutreten, das ihr Vater ihr vermittelt hat. Bereits am ersten Tag gerät sie mit Leandro Mariani aneinander, ohne zu wissen, wen sie vor sich hat. Doch der dominante Mann regt sie nicht nur auf, sondern erregt auch ihre Gefühle. Von ihrem Mut und Selbstbewusstsein beeindruckt, gibt Leandro ihr ein Skript zur Prüfung. Da es in Valerys Augen nicht besonders gut abschneidet, bittet Leandro sie, mit dem Autor dieses Skript zu überarbeiten.

Last Call is a story of redemption. It follows the life of Tommy Boyle, an addict whose life has spiralled to a low bottom and seems to have lost all meaning. The story is told by a third party unrelated to the events within the novel. He is a man named Joe who receives what is to be the last in a series of calls Tommy Boyle is making from a pay phone to members of his family. Joe was never meant to be the recipient of the call but the call would impact him forever.

What if you got a second chance with your first love? What happens when you meet your teenage heart-throb - when you're both all grown up? When Cassie was fifteen, all she wanted was to marry Jesse Franklin, the bassist from her favourite band, Franko. Now she's single, in her late twenties and wondering what happened to that teenage dream. A chance encounter on Facebook soon leads to a transatlantic hookup, and soon, Jesse and Cassie are having a long-distance love affair spanning five thousand miles.

Get ready to meet the toughest, deadliest, and most calculated players in Manchester's murky underworld... HE'S GOT EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL. You don't know Craig Malton. Hopefully you never will - until you need his help, help that the police can't give you. As well as running a respectable...

Erica Hutchinson has enough on her plate and longs for a quiet life. As an overworked barista and single mother, it’s already a daily struggle to hide the fact she’s secretly a witch and werewolf. But, things are about to get a lot more complicated. After a run-in with a killer last year, Erica has caught the attention of the nastier elements of Glasgow’s occult underworld. She’s now on the radar of the city’s newest serial killer - a masked man invading women’s dreams and hanging them in their sleep.

A widow, Camille Young, wants nothing more but to have someone to call her own; with the right man of course. Just when she thinks she found him in Greg Langston–a smart, sexy, and brilliant attorney–who is very married and expecting his first child with his wife Michelle, their future gets put on hold. When things don’t go Camille's way as she hoped, the pain of her past resurfaces.

La calle aborda las andanzas de un grupo de jóvenes periodistas mexicanos de finales de los años noventa que trabajan en los dos diarios con mayor prestigio (y rivalidad) en su ciudad, a la vez que enfrentan los primeros desafíos de la vida adulta: sobrevivir, relacionarse, madurar. Cuando un...

La calle aborda las andanzas de un grupo de jóvenes periodistas mexicanos de finales de los años noventa que trabajan en los dos diarios con mayor prestigio (y rivalidad) en su ciudad, a la vez que enfrentan los primeros desafíos de la vida adulta: sobrevivir, relacionarse, madurar. Cuando un...

La calle aborda las andanzas de un grupo de jóvenes periodistas mexicanos de finales de los años noventa que trabajan en los dos diarios con mayor prestigio (y rivalidad) en su ciudad, a la vez que enfrentan los primeros desafíos de la vida adulta: sobrevivir, relacionarse, madurar. Cuando un...

Brought to you by Penguin. York, 1988. Dr Tom Frith is beginning his first term as a tutor at the University of Eboracum. After teaching primary school children for several years, he's sure shaping the minds of young adults will be a welcome change. But that's before considering the pressures...