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Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the new Indian dream of air-conditioned malls and high-paid jobs at multinationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station.

Sea Star is a swashbuckling historical novel that chronicles the adventures of beautiful red-haired, green-eyed Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen. The saga passionately brings to life Anne's rebellious Southern girlhood, her sensual awakening in the arms of a buccaneer, and the courageous mastery of her own ship and crew. Pamela Jekel's sparkling tale transports you to the exotic Charles Town of the precolonial South; to teeming Port Royal, Jamaica; and to the infamous pirate island of New Providence for duels, plundered treasures, and torrid love scenes on palm-fringed cays.

In the long, hot summer of 1976 Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie are camping at Wyvis Hall. They don’t ask why they are there or how they are to live; they simply scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall’s animal cemetery. But which woman? And whose child?

Like most families, they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.

Lady Hannah Simmons is a quintessential wallflower, unassuming, dowdy yet ignored by most. But underneath her plain exterior, Hannah is hiding a thrilling secret! Unbeknownst to the rest of the ton, she is Queen Victoria’s leading femme fatale, slipping unnoticed through the streets of London and listening to scandalous whispers from lords and ladies. But with daggers in her stockings and pistols in her pockets, Hannah's mission is to apprehend a deadly killer.

In ihrem ersten Erinnerungsbuch "Vater. Mutter. Kind. Kriegserklärungen" erzählt Margit Schreiner von der siebenjährigen Margit, die sich ein Dackelmädchen namens Bella erfindet, das nie von ihrer Seite weicht (das Hörbuch ist auch im derDiwan Hörbuchverlag erschienen). In "Mütter. Väter. Männer. Klassenkämpfe" besetzt ein paar Jahre später ein Maharadscha ihre Fantasien, während das Mädchen ihm als Panther zu Füßen liegt. Doch auch diese wunderbare Zeit endete irgendwann, "und ich saß an meinem Schreibtisch und löste Rechenaufgaben".

"Ich glaube, das siebte Lebensjahr des Menschen wird gnadenlos unterschätzt. Alle starren immer nur auf die Pubertät, aber die Pubertät beginnt im Grunde viel früher. Es muss sich erst einmal vieles ansammeln, bis es dann explosionsartig austritt." So furios beginnt das neue Buch von Margit Schreiner, in dem es nicht nur um die Entwicklung der Siebenjährigen geht, sondern auch um den Blick der Erwachsenen auf das Kind, das sie einmal war.

The Final Quest is an educational fiction novel created by NSDL (National Securities Depository Limited) to promote financial literacy in an engaging, story-driven format. The story follows Aryan Mehra, a young professional who inherits a mysterious quest from his late grandfather, Shiv Mehra, a retired financial planner. Each stage of Aryan’s “final quest” teaches him vital lessons about personal finance—from understanding credit scores and managing debt to saving, investing, and building financial discipline.

Jordi Viassolo consigue un trabajo de becario - temporal y mal pagado - en una agencia de detectives de Barcelona. La misión que le encargan es simple: mantener el despacho abierto durante el verano sin meterse en líos. Todo cambia cuando aparece un cliente desesperado asegurando que su mujer ha desaparecido.