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Lucy Lyman, an assistant trader for a brokerage firm, in her mid-forties, has given up on love. “Nothing ever happens in my life,” she tells her friends. That is until she begins to have the reoccurring dream that haunts her sleep; The dream where someone watches her but never shows their face. Is it a stalker or a suitor? Frustrated Lucy decides that to solve this mystery she must camp out where the dream takes place—at the library. Then maybe she’ll be able to sleep again.

Partez en road-trip avec les héroïnes de Marc Levy. Lues par Fabienne Loriaux, les aventures d'Agatha et Milly à travers les Etats-Unis sont agrémentées de musiques et d'ambiances sonores, pour vous donner toujours plus d'envies de voyages. Philadelphie, premiers jours du printemps. Milly mène une vie réglée comme du papier à musique. S'il lui arrive de rêver que le destin frappe à sa porte, elle ne s'attendait pas à ce qu'il prenne cette forme-là : Agatha, trente ans de plus qu'elle, tout juste évadée de prison, la prend en otage à bord de sa propre voiture, et lui ordonne de la conduire à l'autre bout du pays.

Antonio, an impoverished duke, meets Cate on the train to Seville, and joins her search while attempting to rescue the decaying legacy of his family. They find clues and uncover evidence that will shock the titans of art history, may destroy her prospects as an art historian, and shatter her future with Antonio.

Ein Roman aus der Reihe Abenteuer im Ausland. Carola König flieht aus einer Lebenskrise aus Deutschland in eine abgelegene Hütte in den Rocky Mountains. Dort muss sie bald erfahren, dass die endlose Weite der kanadischen Wildnis nicht nur traumhaft schön, sondern auch äußerst gefährlich ist. Nach einem Schneesturm von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten, stößt sie auf die anonyme schriftliche Beichte einer Kindsentführung.

With her husband dead and a broken foot, Wendy Haskins will be plunged deep into the ultimate test of survival. Aided by a transgender girl named Gail, they will have to traverse through one nightmare scenario after another in a desperate attempt to reach town before it is too late.

Anna dives into the dark underworld of drug lords, gangs, and killers. She quickly becomes known as the Red Bitch with a price on her head. Can she live her daytime young innocent life, and still survive her dark underworld?

Bremen, 1874. Schon als kleines Mädchen träumt Bettina Vosskamp davon, ihrem Elternhaus zu entfliehen. Ihr sehnlichster Wunsch ist es, zu ihrer Großmutter Lene nach Indien zu reisen, die dort eine Teeplantage besitzt. Als Bettina viele Jahre später "Brennys Garden" in Darjeeling erbt, ist sie entschlossen, Lenes Lebenswerk zu bewahren. Doch dort stehen ihr wirtschaftliche Nöte, ein bedrohliches Erdbeben und die Behauptung in einer harten Männerwelt bevor. Aber Bettina lässt sich nicht entmutigen – und setzt alles daran, endlich auch ihr eigenes Glück zu finden.

Una ragazza è seduta su una ruota di scorta bucata, in mezzo al nulla della campagna novarese. I suoi capelli, un tempo rosa zucchero filato, ora sono un garbuglio di colori improbabili. Pochi riconoscerebbero in lei Cloro, celebrità di internet con milioni di follower in tutto il mondo. Insieme a lei, a tentare di riparare un'auto che ha macinato migliaia di chilometri, c'è Leo, trentaquattrenne disilluso, che dalla vita non ha avuto nulla di ciò che si aspettava - e dire che non si aspettava molto.

Questo memoir, scritto nella lingua ispirata e inconfondibile di Tea Ranno, si apre con un risveglio in ospedale: Tea ha quarantacinque anni ed è appena stata operata d'urgenza per un'infezione che, partita dall'utero, è arrivata a infuocarle l'intestino, il fegato, i polmoni. Soffre di endometriosi da quando è giovanissima. Ma questa volta ne è quasi morta. L'endometriosi è una malattia cronica che colpisce molte donne. Le cause non sono ancora del tutto chiare, la diagnosi spesso è complessa e non esiste una cura definitiva.

"Kannst du mir dein Herz zeigen?"– Ausgerechnet diese Frage muss die junge Anthropologin Paula beantworten, nachdem sie im Amazonas lebensgefährlich von einer Giftspinne gebissen wird. Geschwächt trifft sie in einem fernen Urwalddorf auf das wissbegierige Mädchen Aya, die schnell zu einer wertvollen Freundin wird. Dort lernt sie auch den Stammeskönig und schließlich eine weise Schamanin kennen. In nur wenigen Tagen erkennt sie, dass tiefe Verbindungen zu anderen Menschen die größten Abenteuer von allen sind und dass diese Verbindungen nur mit offenen Herzen entstehen und wachsen können.

The stakes are the highest they've ever been when fate decides now is the time for me to start a wild phoenix chase... I'm still not sure I'm meant to be Relic Keeper but the work is never-ending. What's on the agenda now? A call for help from Phoebe that sends me and my trusty sidekicks into action. The Emberflare phoenix clan is missing a very important relic. And while the circumstances are mysterious at best and nefarious at worst, the most important thing is that we retrieve it. And this is no ordinary knick-knack. It's the Phoenix Flame itself!

Caffè in der Wüste: Giulia Caminito erzählt vom italienischen Leben in Eritrea, von einer starken, übergroßen Mutter – und von einer jungen Frau, die sich ihre Freiheit erst nach und nach erkämpft. Ein historischer Roman von herber Schönheit. Die Lombardei im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die Menschen suchen Zuflucht vor ständigen Bombenangriffen, deutsche Besatzer jagen Partisanen, das Essen wird rationiert. Die 13-jährige Giada wohnt bei ihrer Tante, einer gläubigen Faschistin, Gewalt und Entbehrung prägen den Alltag.

Unlucky in love, Julia takes a radical step and travels solo to a spiritual retreat in Kefalonia. With an agenda to avoid men, work on healing her inner rage, balance her chakras and eat lots of Greek food, the Mediterranean heat is exactly what she needs. But before she leaves the airport, Julia meets Vincent, a handsome Spanish architect, who challenges her spiky aura in more ways than one.

Elenore struggles to heal emotionally from an accident years before that killed her boyfriend and uses substances to get through. When she becomes pregnant and her current boyfriend beats her, she flees to a man who has just been biding his time, waiting to make her life a living nightmare of which she sees no way to escape.

Hochsommer auf Usedom: Sonne. Meer. Tod! Vor der Ostseeinsel Usedom wird im Fangnetz eines Kutters ein Toter gefunden. Zunächst sieht es so aus, als sei der Fischer ins Wasser gestürzt und in die Schiffsschraube geraten, doch schnell stellt sich heraus, dass er ermordet wurde.

In a world ravaged by climate change, a mysterious time travel agency known as the Program sends carefully selected Heroes back in time on missions to prevent environmental damage before it happens. Sloane Burrows secretly longs to be a Hero and restore the natural world of her childhood—a world she can envision with absolute clarity because of her superpower memory. But her father raised Sloane to believe her “freak memory” is a shameful flaw that should be hidden from the world. Sloane stuffs her dream of being a Hero and conceals her memory to the point of making herself sick.

In the murky underbelly of the Spanish criminal world, a brutal battle rages for control of the cocaine trade. Caught in the crossfire is Joseph, a boy who's deaf and haunted by a strange gift - the ability to communicate with the dead. Torn from the only life he's known, Joseph's English mother, sends him on a perilous journey along the Camino de Santiago, to her estranged father, Fish - an ex-squaddie and Chief Warder of the Tower of London, a fortress, like Fish, steeped in history and dark secrets.

O verão chegou e, com ele, a temporada de casamentos em Nantucket, uma ilha paradisíaca localizada em Massachusetts. Véus e grinaldas preenchem a praia junto com o pôr do sol no azul do mar. É nesse cenário de sonho que acontecerá o evento mais aguardado do ano: a união de Benji Winbury e Celeste Otis. E ela promete ser inesquecível, afinal a família milionária do noivo não poupou despesas para receber os convidados em sua enorme propriedade à beira-mar.

In the dawning of summer, the rugged landscape of rural Alaska sets the stage for a tale of determination and dark secrets. Headstrong Bunny O'Kelly arrives on the sprawling expanses of Buck Miller's horse ranch with the fiery ambition to make a name for herself. Against the backdrop of wild horses and unchecked wilderness, she embarks on a grueling journey to prove her worth, not just as a ranch hand, but as a woman in a world that doesn't want her.

34-year-old Willa is a successful hairstylist in Orlando with great friends, a supportive mother, and a lovely home. Everything is fine in her life, but for her, fine doesn't seem like enough. She feels caught in the clutches of the routine. Something needs to change, so she embarks on an adventure to clear her mind and learn how to live a life that is truly happy.