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Eine Liebesgeschichte erfüllt vom Zauber der Stadt New Orleans. Als die junge Tänzerin Clara von der geheimnisvollen Windisle-Plantage am Stadtrand von New Orleans hört, ist sie sofort fasziniert. Clara stellt schnell fest, dass das alte Anwesen nicht so verlassen ist, wie alle denken. Jenseits der Mauer hört sie die Stimme eines Mannes. Sie gehört Jonah Chamberlain, der sich - verletzt und beladen mit Schuld - nach Windisle zurückgezogen hat und sein von Narben entstelltes Gesicht vor der Welt versteckt. Vom ersten Moment an spürt Clara eine tiefe Bindung zu ihm.

Jonas Smith ist völlig ausgebrannt. Der Leadsänger und Songwriter der erfolgreichen Rockband Hush Note braucht dringend eine kreative Pause, um Inspiration für ein neues Album zu finden. Deshalb zieht er sich in den Urlaubsort Nest Lake zurück, wo er vor fünf Jahren den schönsten Sommer seines Lebens verbracht hat. Dort hat er nicht nur all seine Hitsongs geschrieben, sondern auch Kira kennengelernt, die Frau, die ihn dazu inspiriert hat. Die beiden verband eine besondere Freundschaft, bis in einer Nacht so viel mehr daraus wurde.

A year ago, Sydney King was a successful pro tennis player with a long-term boyfriend, a plan for the future, and a shot at fulfilling all her dreams. Now, she has a cheating ex-boyfriend and a career-ending injury, and—quite frankly—things could not be going worse for her. She hopes that returning home to Stoneport, Massachusetts, will be the reset her life needs—until she finds out her ex's wedding to the woman he cheated with is the social event of the season.

Lügen, Intrigen, Machtkämpfe – und eine Liebe gegen alle Widerstände: Willkommen an der Cliffworth Academy in Wales! "Between Lies and Love" ist der erste New-Adult-Roman von Jennifer Wileys Dark-Academia-Duett Cliffworth Academy. Die Chance auf ein Stipendium, das ihre Träume erfüllen könnte: 14 College-Absolvent*innen haben einen der begehrten Plätze im Sommerprogramm der Cliffworth Academy ergattert, wunderschön gelegen in einem altehrwürdigen Gebäude aus dem 16. Jahrhundert an der Küste von Wales.

A few weeks after the failure of her business in London, Sarah was asked a question in a book she was reading. “What does money want to say to you?” She started writing a response and found words coming out of her pen that weren’t her own. They started with, “I would like to tell you to love me.” She was deeply touched, and intrigued to explore more about the source of this message. She went on to write in the same way every day for three months and ended up with a collection of surprising, funny and inspiring advice, apparently from the energy of money itself.

In her 20s, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.

Ohne Zimmer für die Nacht, mit leerem Tank und kaputtem Navi strandet Fiona in den schottischen Highlands. Da kommt ihr ein Retter in der Not gerade recht. Auch wenn er Biker ist. Und Kilt trägt. Auf dem Motorrad! Doch ist es klug, einem Fremden zu vertrauen? Weil ihr kaum etwas anderes übrigbleibt, setzt Fiona auf Risiko. Mit einem waschechten Schotten als Unterstützung könnte ihre höchst zweifelhafte Mission schließlich gelingen. Seit ihrer Kindheit sehnt sie sich danach, ihren Vater kennenzulernen. Nun sucht sie nach ihm.

Als Nova beschließt, ihr Studium abzubrechen und Work & Travel in den USA zu machen, freut sie sich auf eine aufregende Zeit – aber als Erstes landet sie ausgerechnet in der Kleinstadt Berryfield. Sie merkt jedoch schnell, dass der Ort mehr zu bieten hat, als sie dachte, was vor allem am charmanten Kletterlehrer Hudson liegt, der ihr die abenteuerliche Seite von Berryfield zeigt. Nova leidet unter Höhenangst, beschließt aber, dass sie die endlich überwinden will.

Kannst du dem Flüstern deines Herzens vertrauen, wenn du bisher immer auf deinen Verstand gehört hast? Die hochbegabte Medizinstudentin Haley Bales hat nur einen Wunsch, als sie ihr Studium beginnt: die Ausgrenzungen ihrer Highschool-Zeit hinter sich zu lassen und am St. Clair College einfach ganz sie selbst sein zu können. Doch auch dort wird sie aus ihrer Komfortzone herausgelockt, als Mateo Ortega, einer der bekanntesten Footballspieler der College-Mannschaft, ihr neuer Nachhilfeschüler wird.

As a behavioral scientist, Professor Nicole Hathaway's work strips away the foolish mystique that surrounds the human mating dance. When her academic tome is treated as a viral "love manual", her ecstatic publisher books her to appear all over the US and Europe. Worse yet, her quiet, managed life has been shattered by a series of incompetent assistants. And she's certain this Lily Smith creature isn't going to be any less a burden than the last assistant they sent her. Or the one before that. Or before that....

Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly 20 years. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings.

Amy is trapped in a nightmare with Jason, a controlling, violent husband. Then on a short cruise without him, Amy befriends Liz, a young woman traveling alone on her way to meet her birth mother for the first time. Liz looks so much like Amy that they could be sisters. When Amy regains consciousness after a terrible accident that takes the lives of many passengers, she finds that, because of a mix-up in personal effects, everyone believes she is Liz. Only she knows it is Liz who has gone missing, presumed dead.

Written with White’s signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

We all know how identities - notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion - are at the root of global conflict, but the more elusive truth is that these identities are created by conflict in the first place. In provocative, entertaining chapters, Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with engrossing historical tales and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us.

Twenty years ago, two spiritual seekers met at a workshop about conscious dying. What happened next is the extraordinary foundation for To Love and Be Loved - a life-changing program about what it means to be alive and in love. Together ever since that first day, Stephen and Ondrea Levine poured all of the wisdom, compassion, and courage they gained from their work with the suffering and grief stricken into the mystery of their own relationship.

Alice McAllister is a successful solicitor who likes a quiet, disciplined life. But when her business partner, Miranda, forces her to take a vacation at her holiday home in Portugal, the presence of Miranda's daughter, Joy, turns Alice's world upside down. Despite their age difference, Alice and Joy embark on a fiery holiday romance...until they have to return home to London. Will Alice be able to forget about Joy and what she has awakened in her? And how can she face Joy's mother without guilt after such a passionate summer fling?

For Hanna Harvey, happily ever is just the beginning . . . of a hot mess. Now mated to darkly dangerous but irresistibly seductive werewolf, Mark Abernathy, she's finding that life isn't the endless cheese and whisky fueled boinkfest she'd imagined it to be. Plagued by terrifying nightmares of a mysterious entity bent on her destruction and drowning in her new responsibilities as the alpha female of the werewolf world, she's begun to doubt that she really is the heir.

My name is Reina Ellis. Popular. Beautiful. Untouchable. Problem is, I remember none of it. His name is Asher Carson. Gorgeous. Silent. Dark. Oh, and my future husband. He has three rules for me: I’ll bow. I’ll break. I’ll pay for what I’ve done. Problem is, I don’t remember what I’ve done, but I have a clue. There was a fire. A dead girl. And I was there.

Surely Aunt Ida couldn't really have meant it what she said: "I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed!" But when Laurie and her brother Doug visit her at Idlewood, they discover that Aunt Ida may indeed have something to fear in the woods.

As the sexy, charismatic bassist for world-famous rock band Fallen Angel, whatever Killian Michaels wants, Killian Michaels gets. Or at least that was the case until the band’s gorgeous new manager, Levi Walker, shot him down after a blistering first kiss. For Levi, managing these five guys is the opportunity of a lifetime, and he’s not about to let a case of sexual desire get in his way. He’s efficient, professional, and plays by the book. But tension simmers beneath Levi’s cool exterior every time Killian’s near, and soon enough the passion boils over, consuming them both.