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Jane Peters is an adrift 20-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves into the high-stakes world of being the Other Woman: a role she has the right advice for, but not the smarts to follow through on. What starts out as a drunken mistake quickly unravels as Jane discovers that sex and power go hand in hand and that it's hard to keep your head when you've become someone else's dirty little secret. And soon, her friendships, her sanity and even her life are put into jeopardy.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...

It's senior year, and Maeve and her friends are practicing and strengthening their mystical powers, while Maeve's new relationship with Roe is exhilarating. But as Roe's rock star dreams start to take shape, and Fiona and Lily make plans for faraway colleges, Maeve, who struggles in school, worries about life without them—will she be selling incense here in Kilbeg, Ireland, until she's 50?

After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette's Catholic school. But when Maeve's ex-best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn't at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.

With the return of the Housekeeper on the cards, Maeve must find out everything she can about the vengeful tarot spirit in order to finally defeat her. Crossing over into a parallel dimension inside the old school building, she explores the history of the Housekeeper—and spends too long in a world and a mind not her own. With the Children of Brigid closing in once more, and Maeve's friend group now fractured across Ireland, can they hope to ultimately save the town—and Maeve—from the grip of a power greater than they ever imagined?

For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words for a certain kind of woman. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood. Words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.

Charlie's career as a filmmaker is on standby, she hasn't had a girlfriend in forever, her best friend is sickeningly successful (and being awkward since that night) and her dad is dying of cancer. So the invitation from Cork Film Festival comes like a sign - a chance to explore the Irish homeland she's never seen. But this isn't just any search for long-lost ancestry: Charlie's father is the sole survivor of a tragic accident that killed every other child on the small island where he grew up, and Charlie's one achievement is the film she made that tells his story.

Las sagaces lecturas del tarot de Maeve la convierten en la comidilla del colegio, hasta que una compañera de clase saca una carta escalofriante y desconocida... Y después desaparece.

Vier Teens. Vier übersinnliche Gaben. Eine große Gefahr. Spannende Urban Fantasy voll düsterer Überraschungen. Seit Maeve, Roe und Fiona mithilfe der Tarotkarten die verschwundene Lily zurückgeholt haben, ist vieles anders. Nicht mehr nur Maeve verfügt über eine Gabe. Auch die anderen drei haben jetzt magische Fähigkeiten, die sie im Laufe des Sommers immer besser beherrschen. Und das ist auch nötig. Denn die Kinder Brigids, die christliche Organisation mit der übersinnlichen Agenda, gewinnen an Einfluss. Mit ihren reaktionären Ideen unterwandern sie Maeves Schule.

Faszinierend, übersinnlich, unheimlich - diese Tarotkarten öffnen die Tür in eine dunkle Welt. Maeve Chambers ist eine Idiotin – zumindest verglichen mit ihrer Familie voller Genies. Und weil sie ihre Kindheitsfreundin Lily vergrault hat. Erst als sie im Schulkeller ein Tarotkartenspiel findet, zeigt sich ihr wahres Talent. Denn quasi über Nacht macht sie den Mädchen aus ihrer Klasse beängstigend genaue Vorhersagen. Dann verschwindet Lily, nachdem Maeve ihr ungefragt die Karten legt. Schnell wird klar, dass übernatürliche Kräfte im Spiel sind.

Rachel es una universitaria irlandesa que trabaja en una librería para pagarse la carrera. Allí conoce a un chico de su edad, James; no tardarán mucho en hacerse íntimos amigos y animarse a compartir un piso tan barato como destartalado. Ambos buscan abrirse camino en la Irlanda de la Gran Recesión mientras gestionan sus caóticas vidas: James está harto de que la gente piense que no quiere salir del armario y Rachel fantasea sin parar con el doctor Byrne, un profesor casado al que intenta seducir con un arriesgado plan de imprevisibles resultados.

Una novel·la mordaç i brillant que captura l’energia dels vint anys i el caos de les primeres vegades."Si mai has estimat la persona equivocada, o la persona correcta en el moment equivocat... En resum, si mai has estat jove, t’encantarà El factor Rachel tant com a mi." - Gabrielle Zevin, autora de Demà, i demà i demà.La Rachel és al darrer curs de la Universitat, treballa en una llibreria i viu amb el seu millor amic, en James, en una casa que cau a trossos.

Der große Bestsellerroman aus Irland – warmherzig, witzig und wahnsinnig authentisch schreibt Caroline O’Donoghue über das Lebensgefühl der Millennials in Cork. Eine außergewöhnliche Geschichte über Freundschaft, die Suche nach sich selbst und den Rausch der ersten Beziehungen. Als die junge Studentin Rachel während ihres Nebenjobs im Buchladen auf James trifft, ist es Freundschaft auf den ersten Blick. Der temperamentvolle James lädt Rachel sofort ein, seine Mitbewohnerin zu werden.