Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Genre Fiction

In the little village of Whistling, with its butterscotch cottages and rolling green hills, snow is beginning to fall. Christmas is coming, and Emma Halloway is on her way home. When twenty-eight-year-old food writer Emma Halloway gets dumped then knocked off her bike, she’s broken in more ways than one, and returns to her family’s cosy cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. Emma hasn’t been back in some time, running from her crazy relatives and her childhood sweetheart, Jack Allen.

At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed by the gender and class confines of her time.

A family secret. A new romance. And a summer she will never forget. When Caroline left Lake Summers thirty years ago, she thought she’d never return to the place where she lost her parents. But when she finds out that the town’s lily garden lovingly built by her mother is going to be destroyed, she knows fate is calling. Dropping everything at her office in Chicago, she knows she is the only person who can save the garden. Caroline and her daughter Lee are welcomed home by the warm smile of her mother’s best friend Maxine, and piles of pancakes at her cozy little restaurant in town.

Surpass all odds, break the chains, defeat a God... Heracles’ trials are far from over. Carrying the weight of the heavens, accompanied only by his most loyal friend, Iolaus, he will do anything to atone for his crimes. But all is not as it seems. Gods and men alike plot against him... First Heracles must obtain the girdle of the Amazonian Queen, Hippolyta, steal cattle from the monstrous Geryon, and take apples from the Garden of Hesperides.

Germain est un bon bougre mal dégrossi qui n'a pas eu la vie facile. Négligé par sa mère, père aux abonnés absents, brisé par l'école, il vit maintenant dans une caravane, cultive des légumes et sculpte des figurines en bois. Parfois, il va au parc pour compter les pigeons et c'est là qu'un jour, il rencontre la charmante octogénaire Margueritte, qui partage sa fascination. Cette rencontre changera leur vie.

Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts findet ein Hobbyforscher in dem gigantischen Höhlensystem Hölloch bei Schwyz einen geheimnisvoll vibrierenden Stein. Er nimmt ihn mit, aber der Fund bleibt nicht lange in seinem Besitz. Der Stein wird vererbt, verschenkt und verkauft, reist dabei durch ganz Deutschland und quer durch das 20. Jahrhundert. In der irririerenden Faszination, die von ihm ausgeht, verknüpfen sich die (fast immer tragisch endenden) Lebensgeschichten seiner wechselnden Besitzer.

Narcís Presas, a prop dels seixanta anys, s’ha retirat a un casalot enmig del bosc amb la intenció de matar Amanieu de Palol, el protagonista de la sèrie de novel•la històrica que l’ha convertit en un escriptor d’èxit. Abans que ho enllesteixi es presenta a la casa una amant de vint anys enrere amb una oferta sorprenent: serà la seva esclava. Per sempre. Però la incapacitat de l’escriptor per comprendre els sentiments de la seva filla, enamorada d’un il•lusionista, i per afrontar la vida, la naturalesa i tot allò que l’envolta, el fa dubtar ...

Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision from Freya, he widens the gulf between them.

Iris Caldwell and Nell Ryland were never meant to be friends. From two very different backgrounds, one the heir to the Caldwell estate, the other a humble vicar's daughter. Both have their secrets, both have their pasts, but they each find solace with one another and soon their futures become irrevocably intertwined. Until May Day 1912, a day that haunts Missensham. The day two girls disappeared. The day the girls were murdered. Now, many years later, old footage has emerged which shows that Iris Caldwell may not have died on that spring morning.

Nell’s going back to school... but now she’s learning lessons of the heart. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy that will delight fans of Milly Johnson, Holly Martin and Heidi Swain Reception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she did until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. The roof’s full of holes, the back door’s hanging off and there’s a sheep in the front room...

La potenza narrativa di Silvia Avallone torna con una storia di condanna e salvezza, scandagliando le profondità di una storia d'amore tra due solitudini che sa farsi portatrice di una promessa, seppur remota, di redenzione. Un romanzo potente e umano che riafferma come la luce più pura possa crescere anche al centro di un abisso di disperazione. Il giorno in cui Bruno assiste al misterioso arrivo di Emilia nel borgo della piccola comunità montana di Sassaia non sa ancora che quell'evento è destinato a stravolgere, di lì a poco, la sua esistenza.

Es ist Jahre her, dass Anna ihren Ex-Mann Leo zuletzt gesehen hat. Nun begegnet sie ihm zufällig in Prag wieder. Anna ist in der Stadt, um etwas über Craft Bier zu lernen, und hat ein Zimmer im Zentrum angemietet. Doch sie muss die gemütliche Dachwohnung ausgerechnet mit Leo teilen – ihrem neuen Mitbewohner. Und es kommt noch schlimmer: Auch Leo wird die nächsten Wochen an einer Weiterbildung und einem Brauerei-Wettbewerb teilnehmen. Sie sind also Konkurrenten! Ausgeschlossen, dass längst vergessene Gefühle zwischen ihnen erwachen.

Escape to the Highland Coral Beach - where broken hearts can be healed. Beatrice Halliday needs a break from life. Booking a trip to the Highlands on a whim, Beatrice hopes learning Gaelic in a beautiful Scottish village might help heal her grief after losing her baby, her husband and her much-loved job in the space of months. But Port Willow Bay isn't exactly as the website promised. Instead of learning a new language, she's booked in to learn the ancient skill of willow weaving, her hotel room is Princess and the Pea themed (with a stack of mattresses for her bed!) and worse still, her tutor is Atholl Fergusson, the grumpy landlord of the hotel where Beatrice is staying.

This uplifting debut novel from Cornwall based writer, Liz Hurley, is sure to put a smile on your face. Ariana Byrne knows how to survive. After becoming a guardian to her four little sisters after their parents died when she was only eighteen, she had to grow up quickly. Now shes in her twenties, stuck in a loveless marriage to Greg, trying to make ends meet for her young twins, William and Leo.

Glamouröse Familiensaga: Liebe, Gewalt und Intrigen. 1912: Die Bauerstochter Sofie Brix rettet die Reederei-Erbin Anna Nieland aus einem brennenden Strandhotel. Zwei Jahre später erhält sie das Angebot, bei Annas wohlhabender Hamburger Familie eine Stellung als Gesellschafterin anzutreten. Für Sofie geht ein Traum in Erfüllung - auch wenn ihr anfangs die Ablehnung mancher Mitglieder der Familie und des Personals entgegen schlägt. Dann bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus: Die Männer werden eingezogen. Sofie und Annas Schwester Edith engagieren sich als Krankenschwestern auf einem Lazarettschiff.

In einer atemberaubenden Beichte bekennt im Amsterdamer Hafenviertel Jean-Baptiste Clamence, ehemals angesehener Anwalt, der sich stets für einen Wohltäter der Menschen gehalten hat, Selbstgefälligkeit und Opportunismus als Triebfedern seines einstigen Rechtsbewusstseins. Als er eines Nachts eine Frau auf einer Brücke stehen sah, im Begriff, in den Fluss zu springen, hat er sie nicht daran gehindert.

'Tis the season for finding love... and the perfect book! With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive... Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he’s nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix. When Alexandra Robinson winds up stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that’s waiting for her at home is a cheater boyfriend and the memories of her parents.

Three generations. One summer that will change everything. Jenna has returned to the sunny shores of Lake Summers, tucked under the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, with her daughter Sophie to care for her aging mother, Sweet. Recently divorced, Jenna finds comfort in lazy afternoons along the water and long nights watching Sweet tell Sophie stories about her long-lost loves. When she meets Sweet’s new next-door neighbor, Troy, she recognizes him instantly as the boy with whom she shared her first kiss.

What if we're all just searching for something? Anna Stewart is lost. After barely surviving a car accident as a teenager, Anna is scared of settling. Flitting between jobs, boyfriends and homes whenever she gets bored, she has no idea what the future holds. Then her brother Brodie, minister of Glendale, suggests she moves to the beautiful Scottish village, lining up a housekeeper job for her at Glendale Hall. Out of options, Anna agrees to take the job just for the summer.

Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor Drusilla focused on finding a supposedly priceless but famously missing manuscript, there is hardly anyone left to steer the ship. Young Mortimer Blackley, assistant editor, charts the descent of the House in his logbook as it lurches from one failure to the next.