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Travelling from the UK to Nashville, Tennessee, for a week of honky-tonks, karaoke and cowboys, is definitely not Claire Buchan's idea of a good time. But she can't avoid her sister's hen party. Then she meets Rafe Castello, a handsome, roguish cowboy, who seems to have far more to him than meets the eye. Can Claire keep the holiday mantra of 'what happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville' or are some things are too difficult to leave behind?

Your Soul Mate is out there! Let a past life lead the way…Rachael Jones is a 'past-life regressionist' and hopes to help her clients find their ‘Soul Mates’ through reconnecting them with their past lives. But when Rachael regresses her best friend, Susie Morris, she is haunted by events of her past life. So when Susie meets George Silbury, she is completely unprepared for the intense mutual attraction. Can George help Susie overcome her hauntings or will history repeat itself?

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.

Neither Jon nor Alice feels like they are getting enough and the frustration is tangible. If the other can’t help then who can? Best friends? Colleagues? The corner shop/kebab house owner? Fighting for the remote are Jon and Alice, a twenty-something couple living together in London. Alice enjoys socialising; Jon hates meeting people. While Alice is climbing her career ladder, Jon is quite content on the bottom rung of his.

A comedy of ambition, dreams, blackmail and daytime TV… Bella’s career as a TV presenter is ‘on hold’. To fill her days, she sits in a coffee shop and obsesses about a wedding dress in the neighbouring shop. Her luck changes when she gets the call from her old boss to present a pilot for a new food and chat show. But her revived TV career is short-lived when one of the celebrity guests threatens to steal the show…

As a dark evening draws in, the lives of three women are changed forever. The worlds they have been living in, the people they thought they knew - in an instant it all changes. But when everything seems to shatter around them, could three little words be enough to help put the pieces back together again?

I remember when we used to have a life and not just a "Lovefilm" account" Jon and Alice’s latest dinner party attempt results in some guests glad to get away. Alice is nostalgic for the past, but realises some things have always been the same.

When Anna Hunt takes a break from her job to live in Peru, none of her friends take her seriously. With a love of stilettos, chocolate, and Sauvignon Blanc, how will she manage in a developing country? Anna's quest takes her from the wilderness of the Amazon jungle, to a passionate affair with Maximo Morales, a seductive and charismatic shaman who offers her the opportunity to become his apprentice…

Brighton, May 1940. A time of tension and change. Geoffrey Beaumont becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp on the edge of town, his son Philip is gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton his English HQ, and his wife Evelyn meets Otto Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish painter imprisoned in the camp. As love collides with fear, the power of art with the forces of war, the lives of Evelyn, Otto, and Geoffrey are changed irrevocably.

For the thousands of people who struggle with poor literacy, words can be scary things. Worlds Beyond Words is a selection of inspirational real life stories from people who have improved their lives through better literacy. From successful businessmen and sports stars, redundant factory workers and refugees, their stories offer the key for others to unlock new worlds.

Ten years ago, Kat McCall left her home town in Louisiana after being accused of murdering her sister. Now, despite the fact there are those in the town who are still convinced of her guilt, she has returned, determined to unearth the real killer. With the help of police officer Luke Tanner, Kat starts to get to the truth about who really killed her sister, but there are plenty of people who don't like her digging up secrets from the past.... Utterly gripping and compulsively readable, Don't Look Back is the sensational new thriller from internationally best-selling author Erica Spindler.

A bitter round of Pictionary ends in a drink-to-the-vomit drinking game after Alice claims she can beat Jon at anything. The rug of Alice and Jon’s host gets in the firing line, rekindling rivalries from the past as well as the present. Jon declares he is not a loser and embarks on a mission to prove it by any means possible.

The Future Mother-in-Law Predicament: "Why did we have to let her in? Could we not have just posted her a duvet through the letter-box?" Alice’s Mum comes to stay and Jon is not happy. A house-proud woman with a bosom as pronounced as her carefully annunciated consonants, she cleans, criticises, pokes and potters until not even Alice can take it anymore, forcing her to call on reinforcements with equally masterful diction.

Finding it hard to meet Mr. Right? Try looking for Mr. Wrong instead.... After 11 years of coupled-up domesticity, Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. When she discovers that Martin, her supposedly reliable Mr. Right, is a distinctly unreliable cheater, she’s forced to consider the possibility that everything she knows about relationships is wrong. In an effort to reinvigorate her love life, she sets herself a mission to date as many unsuitable men as possible.

El diario íntimo de Ignacia Antonia, la estrella de Tik Tok con 6 millones de seguidores. "Cuando empecé este diario tenía clara una cosa: iba a contarlo todo. Mis momentos divertidos, pero también los tristes. Lo bueno y lo malo que me pasara. ¡Y así lo hice! Nunca imaginé la cantidad de sorpresas que me tenía preparada la vida. Ahora, después de varias páginas manchadas con lágrimas y con sonrisas, solo puedo estar segura de que ningún sueño es demasiado grande si se lo desea con ganas. Gracias por acompañarme en este camino."

Det är julafton och släkten är samlad, Felicia och Jonas, deras fyraåriga dotter och deras föräldrar. Mat och skratt, julklappar. De älskar sin familj, såklart, men Felicia och Jonas tänker på något annat. Att det var länge sedan de var ensamma, alltför länge sedan. Som den största julklappen av dem alla får de av farmor en barnfri julaftonskväll och så fort huset töms på folk kastar de sig över varandra. Det blir en fröjdefull, men inte alltför helig, julaftonsnatt.

"Rum 503, precis som första gången. Samma dörr kommer att öppnas. Min knutna hand närmar sig dörrspegeln i massivt trä. Vågar jag knacka? Jag vet ju vad som finns där bakom och det gör mig nervös. Nervös för att träffa Honom.". Hans ögon är iskalla, han talar inte mycket och är alltid stiligt klädd och sammansatt. Alice är hans motsats. Hon blir nervös inför varje möte med honom, och har svårt att dölja sina känslor och begär.

Die angesehene Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Elisabeth Ambrose entwickelte ein Gateway, das es möglich macht, andere Zeitlinien zu erforschen und mit diesen in Kontakt zu treten. Doch nicht alles läuft wie geplant: nach Inbetriebnahme erscheinen unkontrolliert Personen aus anderen Zeitlinien in der Hiesigen - die sogenannten Anomalien. Das gut versteckte Anomalia ist eine Zufluchtsstätte dieser Gestrandeten und beheimatet nach und nach Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft. Doch jede vielschichtige Gesellschaft birgt etliche Konflikte.

Die angesehene Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Elisabeth Ambrose entwickelte ein Gateway, das es möglich macht, andere Zeitlinien zu erforschen und mit diesen in Kontakt zu treten. Doch nicht alles läuft wie geplant: nach Inbetriebnahme erscheinen unkontrolliert Personen aus anderen Zeitlinien in der Hiesigen - die sogenannten Anomalien. Das gut versteckte Anomalia ist eine Zufluchtsstätte dieser Gestrandeten und beheimatet nach und nach Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft. Doch jede vielschichtige Gesellschaft birgt etliche Konflikte.

Während die Suche nach den spurlos verschwundenen Jugendlichen in der Green-Valley Zeitlinie weiter andauert, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse in Anomalia. Die feierliche Seebestattung von Erik Gunnarson soll die aufgeheizte Stimmung mildern, jedoch schwört sein Sohn, der aufstrebende Stammesführer der Novo Ariald, den gewaltsamen Tod seines Vaters zu rächen. Er ist der festen Überzeugung, Elisabeth Ambrose sei verantwortlich und müsse dafür büßen.