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Zwei Menschen. Ein Vierbeiner. Das Liebesglück. Irina hat der Liebe abgeschworen, seit ihre Jugendliebe Lars sie vor Jahren tief enttäuscht hat. Nun ist Lars kurz vor Weihnachten in ihre Stadt zurückgekehrt, und sie möchte eigentlich nichts anderes, als ihm aus dem Weg zu gehen. Doch ausgerechnet mit ihm zusammen muss sie nun an einem neuen Auftrag für ihren Familienbetrieb arbeiten. Prompt kommen sie sich dabei doch wieder näher. Aber Irina hat Angst. Wie soll sie Lars jemals wieder vertrauen? Nicht einmal Nick, der pfiffige Schäferhundmischling, kann zwischen ihnen vermitteln.

Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt: She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery. He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy. She hates his guts. He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.) But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.

Ich muss die Spielschulden meines verstorbenen Vaters begleichen. Doch der Mann, dem das Geld zusteht, ist mein neuer Boss und er will mein Geld nicht. Er will mich... Dann der Super Gau: Ich bin von ihm schwanger und er heiratet seine Ex. Was jetzt? Brittanys Vater hat nicht nur eine trauernde Frau, sondern auch einen Haufen Spielschulden bei den falschen Leuten hinterlassen. Diese Leute wollen nun ihr Geld! Brittany weiß nicht weiter. Daher fliegt sie Hals über Kopf nach Vegas, um mit dem Schuldnern zu reden. Doch sie wird versetzt und trifft stattdessen auf den geheimnisvollen und attraktiven Daniel Moore.

Während einer Anti-Terror-Ermittlung in Los Angeles fliegt die Tarnung des CIA-Agenten Michael Cavenaugh auf. Er gerät in eine Explosion und wird schwer verletzt. Als er wieder zur Besinnung kommt, sieht er sich einem unerwarteten Problem gegenüber: Kein Ausweis, keine Sozialversicherungsnummer, kein Bankkonto, kein Job. Jemand hat systematisch seine Identität ausgelöscht. Doch wer hat das getan und warum? Um Antworten zu finden, muss Michael sich nicht nur ausgerechnet mit den Menschen verbünden, denen er schon vor Jahren den Rücken gekehrt hat, sondern sich auch den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit stellen.

Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home city of Avignon, spends time with her father and twin sister, gathers herbs in the surrounding woods, and dreams of the freedom to pursue her calling without fear.

It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought.

Der Anfang von etwas Wunderschönem. Versprich mir Morgen ist der erste New-Adult-Roman der gefühlvoll-romantischen Berlin-in-Love-Dilogie um große Träume, Freundschaft und erste Liebe von Bestseller-Autorin Anne Lück. Als Alica am Wohnheim ihrer Krankenpflegeschule in Berlin eintrifft, schlägt ihr das Herz bis zum Hals. Sie hat ihr bisheriges Leben und ihre wohlhabenden Eltern in München zurückgelassen, um eine Ausbildung als Krankenpflegerin in Berlin anzufangen.

At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.

Die Gartenarchitektin Evie Clark reist kurz vor Weihnachten ins schottische Dorf Bonny Bridge, um einen historischen Schlosspark zu begutachten. Die barocke Anlage wieder herrichten zu dürfen, ist ihr größter Traum und wäre ein Meilenstein in ihrer Karriere. Als dem wortkargen Bestsellerautor Connor MacLean kurz vor seiner Lesung eine streitlustige junge Frau vor die Füße fällt, rechnet er nicht damit, sie auf dem Familienanwesen in den Highlands wiederzusehen. Was mit einem Missverständnis beginnt, könnte das romantischste Yule-Fest ihres Lebens werden...

The Nightbirds were once their city’s best-kept secret, but now the secret’s out. What’s more, they can do feats of magic no one has seen in centuries. They’re like the Fyrebirds of old: the powerful women who once moved mountains, parted seas, and led armies. Some say that when four join together, they become a force that shakes the earth and sends magic rippling through it. It does seem as if something has awoken in Eudea, but the four girls responsible don’t want the world to know the full extent of what they can do—at least not yet.

Parisian Claire has been working hard to become a Michelin-starred chef one day, but ever since the heady time she spent in the company of socialites Gina and Margot, her dream has been to own a Dior gown. This seemed like a far-off fantasy, until the eccentric and wealthy Madame Vaughn, who lives above Claire’s family brasserie, abruptly leaves Paris, asking Claire to mind her apartment. More bafflingly, Madame Vaughn also makes Claire a very special gift: a stunning Dior gown.

Fifteen years have passed since the demons were destroyed. Heroes have become legend, and those that remain live in their shadows. Olive, Princess of Hollow, has her entire life planned out—a steady march toward succession. But the more her mother writes the script, the more Olive rails against playing the parts she is assigned. Darin is the son of the man people say saved the world. Everyone expects greatness from Darin, but the only thing he’s ever been great at is hiding. But now it’s time to fight the darkness.

Emily had hoped for some peace in the wake of the war. A chance to sit down, relax, and come to terms with everything that happened over the last year. But it was not to be. The post-war world is in chaos, with mundane revolutionary factions clashing with magical supremacists, kings fighting to maintain what remains of their power, magitech changing the world, and shadowy forces preparing themselves to take advantage of the coming conflict… all unaware of a growing threat rising from the long-forgotten past.

Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon,” law student Valérie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux fifty years earlier, children who somehow managed to escape deportation and certain death in the German concentration camps. She soon discovers that their rescue was no unexplainable miracle.

The last person Griffin Shipley expects to find stuck in a ditch on his Vermont country road is his ex-hookup. Five years ago, they’d shared a couple of steamy nights together. But that was a lifetime ago. At 27, Griff is now the accidental patriarch of his family farm. Even his enormous shoulders feel the strain of supporting his mother, three siblings, and a dotty grandfather. He doesn’t have time for the sorority girl who’s shown up expecting to buy his harvest at half price.

Incisiva y frontal, Saskia Niño de Rivera se adentra en el inframundo del abuso sexual infantil y el proceder de los victimarios, señala por qué no se denuncian estos delitos y advierte sobre el comercio sexual de niñas y mujeres utilizadas como mercancía. Para definir la esencia de pederastas, pedófilos y abusadores recurre a la opinión de expertas en psicotrauma y salud mental, quienes a su vez revelan cómo el daño lacera los sentimientos de los afectados.

While the high-profile murder of a young country singer turns Nashville inside out, danger lurks in the woods beyond the city’s border. There was a witness to the terrible crime, a college student who stumbled onto the scene. When the girl goes missing, the police don’t know if she’s run for cover or been taken…or if something more sinister is happening. The truth will shatter Taylor’s career and bring her face to face with a deadly assassin who wants nothing more than to finish what they started.

In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth? In the intervening years, “Marm” Mandelbaum had become the country’s most notorious “fence”—a receiver of stolen goods—and a criminal mastermind.

Goldschmidt verweeft een aangrijpend familieverhaal met de geschiedenis van moedige vrouwelijke pioniers in de vliegkunst. Noa erft bij het overlijden van haar vader een kist met papieren. Het zijn verhalen over vliegeniersters die in de begintijd van de luchtvaart wereldwijd in wankele vliegtuigjes stapten om records te breken. Rosy Rose bijvoorbeeld, de eerste Amerikaanse zwarte pilote, en de jonge vrouwen in het Sovjetleger die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Kukuruzniks in het donker leerden vliegen. En er zijn brieven van een jonge moeder aan haar verongelukte echtgenoot.

It's 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel's life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel's antithesis: sleeps late, wakes late, walks loudly through the house and touches things she shouldn't. In response Isabel develops a fury-fuelled obsession.