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Lincoln Locke's 15-year-old life is turned upside down when he's thrust into bachelor-pad living with his father, after his parents' marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers Lincoln a new set of peers - the crème de la crème of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded - and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside his head, doesn't make life any easier; nor does Lincoln's growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn.

Главное, что есть в моем новом романе "Наполеонов обоз", это любовь - такая, какая выпадает не каждой паре, снести которую не каждому дано.

Sie sind desillusioniert und pragmatisch. Sie haben den Zynismus der Politik genauso durchschaut wie den modernen Selbstoptimierungswahn oder das kleinbürgerliche Gutmenschentum. Sie haben sich in der Welt erfolgreich eingerichtet - und sie haben keine Lust, deswegen Schuldgefühle zu haben. Zusammen mit dem Informatikgenie Babak Hamwi hat Britta Söldner eine kleine Firma aufgezogen, die beide reich gemacht hat. Hinter der Fassade ihrer unscheinbaren Büroräume aber betreiben Britta und Babak ein lukratives Geschäft mit dem Tod.

A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for...

朝は三女・朝日の喫茶店、昼は次女・まひるの讃岐うどん屋、夜は長女・夜月のスナック――朝・昼・晩で業態がガラリと変わるその店は、通称「三人屋」。

Claudia Muldoon and her sister, Jenny, live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen Street. Both parents have good jobs and the family assume they are settled for life, but then Grandpa Muldoon has a seizure and begs his son to return to Ireland. In Ireland the Muldoons flourish and the girls love the freedom of their new life, though as they grow up, disadvantages become clear. Claudia has to find work, so both sisters return to Liverpool and to their old pal Danny, who welcomes them back with delight.

" Je vous demande de vous mettre à notre place. Un instant. Rien qu'un instant. Votre enfant vient vous raconter l'humiliation, la persécution, le bannissement. C'est votre fils, votre fille, il a douze ans, elle en a huit ou quatorze. C'est la chair de votre chair, ce que vous avez de plus précieux au monde. C'est l'être que vous devez protéger, défendre, soutenir, aider à grandir. Et il vient vous avouer cela. Vous y êtes ? Vous la devinez, votre stupéfaction ? votre culpabilité ? votre douleur ? votre colère ? Ça vous envahit, pas vrai ? ça vous submerge, ça vous dépasse, ça vous anéantit.

"Domani mattina troverai un'auto sotto casa tua con un biglietto aereo per raggiungermi a Parigi. Non devi pensare a niente, ho già pensato a tutto io. Sarà un weekend indimenticabile." Luca è bravissimo nelle sorprese, ha il talento di rendere speciale ogni momento, anche le pause pranzo. È un uomo molto indipendente, però non gli piace stare da solo. Ha una storia importante alle spalle, finita non ha capito bene come ("quand'è che le cose belle poi diventano brutte?").

Dragonfly Lake is the perfect place to hide while I find myself after years of being told who to be and who to love. The whole world has an opinion, and this once, I need to drown it all out before I lose myself completely.

16-årige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevæbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og dræbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret mellem det sorte lokalmiljø, hvor hun bor, og den finere privatskole i forstaden, som hun går på. Men da nedskydningen af Khalil bliver forsidestof over hele landet, er hun nødt til at beslutte, om og hvordan hun vil råbe op, særligt da nogle af hendes venner på skolen antyder, at Khalil selv var ude om det.

Vier Geschichten, die uns lehren, aus der Vergangenheit über die Zukunft zu lernen und den Blick nach vorn zu öffnen. Was wäre, wenn du in die Vergangenheit reisen könntest? Bevor der Kaffee kalt wird erzählt die Geschichte von einem magischen Sessel in einem sehr besonderen Café in Japan. Wer sich in diesen Sessel setzt, darf in die Vergangenheit zurückreisen, aber nur solange, bis »der Kaffee kalt wird«. Das Café trägt den Namen »Funiculi Funicula« und zieht viele Menschen unwillkürlich an, weil sie das Bedürfnis verspüren, die Vergangenheit noch einmal zu durchleben.

The highly anticipated sequel to Penelope Sky’s critically acclaimed series. "I lost the only thing that matters to me. My wife. And I’m the only one to blame. I will sacrifice my life, my pride, and everything else for the woman I love. Whether she loves me or not".

En écoutant les cassettes léguées par sa tante, Agnès découvre une autre facette, surprenante, de Colette. Ces secrets de famille mèneront Agnès à renouer les fils de sa propre vie, rompus après son divorce.

Harriet Goodman, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve. When she finds herself in charge of a school full of precocious little girls, rich in everything but care, she vows to make their childhoods amongst the happiest ever spent.

Singenpoo wanted me to follow. She had written a sign the only way she could. What a relief. What a cat. Singenpoo does a disappearing act. And she might not be back.

Hester Christie has spent a blissful 18 months living in Kenya, where husband Tim is posted. But now it’s back to England to be with her two nearly grown children. She rents a house near the village of Old Quinings in England’s North Country and plans a quiet summer with the children near the inn owned by her beloved former maid Annie and her husband. But things are never quiet for long with Mrs Tim, and she must navigate curious neighbours, a dishonest landlady and a troublesome travel companion who makes an unwelcome appearance in Old Quinings.

なぜ、もっと早くに出会わなかったのだろう――九州地方に珍しく雪が降った夜、ひとりの土木作業員が、保険外交員の女性を殺害してしまう。

A NEW YEAR AT RAGLEY-ON-THE-FOREST SCHOOL... It's 1981, the time of Adam and the Ants, Rubik's Cube, the Sony Walkman and the Falklands War, as head teacher Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for another rollercoaster year. Vera, the ever-efficient chool secretary, has to...

Christoph verabredet sich in Stockholm mit der viel jüngeren Lena. Er erzählt ihr, dass er vor 20 Jahren eine Frau geliebt habe, die ihr ähnlich, ja, die ihr gleich war. Er kennt das Leben, das sie führt, und weiß, was ihr bevorsteht. So beginnt ein beispiellos wahrhaftiges Spiel der Vergangenheit mit der Gegenwart, aus dem keiner unbeschadet herausgehen wird. Peter Stamm, der große Erzähler existentieller Erfahrung, spürt einer anderen Geschichte der unerklärlichen Nähe nach, die einen von dem trennt, der man früher war.

The name of your first-born. The face of your lover. Your age. Your address... What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? When Claire starts to write her Memory Book, she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers...?