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Is your husband so horrible that you’d ask your best friend to kill him? Penny: I know my husband has cheated on me. But I can’t believe what I just found in the bedside drawer. Are my children safe... ? Lisa: The first time he did it was on our wedding anniversary. He broke down in tears afterwards. That’s the thing about Simon. He’s always sorry... until the next time. Holly: My husband is useless. He just loafs around the house all day and spends my money. But now I think he’s done something far worse.

In sports, everybody loves redemption stories, the underdog who no one believes in but through sheer hard work wins it all. But no one tells the stories of the players who work hard and don’t make it. In pro football, 53 guys get on the roster. Ten make it to the practice squad. And then there’s the 64th Man - that’s Billy Logan (Cena), who seems to always be one spot from glory.

From the get go, the feuding beach neighbors are at war, especially when Romeo mistakes Juliet for the hot stripper his friends have ordered for the night. And then, when she gets the movie star arrested by mistake? Well, things go crazy nuclear! But when Juliet causes Romeo to lose his memory and he mistakenly believes she's his wife, she has to move in with the bad boy until he gets well.

Allt Linnéa önskade var en lugn jul med sin mamma, sin snart hemkomne pojkvän Zacharias och givetvis katten Bellman. Men det visar sig vara svårt när växthotellet hon drev i somras – som hon trodde gått i vinteride – våldgästas av stressade orkidéer och blommor i allt annat än smakfulla julfärger. Resten av Linnéas liv börjar också ställa till det mitt i julruschen. Borta i Los Angeles råkar Zacharias ut för en olycka och mammans alzheimer utvecklar sig snabbare än förväntat.

Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce. Her mother is estranged, her father is ill, her brother and stepbrother are emotionally distant and growing restless, and all the while, her tight-lipped and depressed husband is pressing her to have a baby. Full of barbed dialogue and macabre, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics and the awkward social dances performed daily, this novel depicts those who feel permanently out of place.

Matthias und Anna wollen endlich heiraten. Um Annas geschiedene Eltern wieder zusammenzubringen, sollen diese die Hochzeit organisieren. Dumm nur, dass ihr Vater und ihre Mutter völlig unterschiedliche Vorstellungen von einer perfekten Hochzeit haben. Doch auch die Eltern von Matthias tragen nicht dazu bei, die Situation zu entspannen. Während seine Mutter davon überzeugt ist, dass die Verlobte von Matthias nur erfunden ist, hat sein Vater noch nie ein Heimspiel seines Fußballclubs verpasst. Weil ein solches ausgerechnet am Tag der Hochzeit stattfindet, weigert er sich zu kommen.

She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.

Nur einmal will ich unvergessen bleiben. Drei Wochen auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff. Stattdessen bekam ich Matthew. Er war der Erste, der mich wirklich sah. Matthew ist die beste Erinnerung, die ich habe. Drei Wochen raus aus meinem Leben als CEO. Stattdessen bekam ich Reed. Er trieb mich an meine Grenzen, bis wir in Gefahr gerieten und ich lernen musste, was es bedeutet, jemanden bedingungslos beschützen zu wollen.

Sharp, dramatic, and full of insider dish, SOPHIA OF SILICON VALLEY is one woman’s story of a career storming the corridors of geek power and living in the shadow of its outrageous cast of maestros. During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that...

Arch-Brutalist Sir Lucien founded his architectural practice on a commitment to brutalist concrete in all its forms. But fashion has been a cruel mistress, and four decades later things are not going well for Sir Lucien and his loyal(ish) employees. With no money and no commissions, times are tough – but it’s onwards and upwards (and upwards again) for the staff, as they go all out to win new contracts, deal with nightmare clients and fight to get their ambitious projects past the planners.

The gift of a lifetime? Anna Browne is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. Her day job as a receptionist in bustling London isn't exactly her dream, yet she has everything she wants. But someone thinks Anna Browne deserves more.... A parcel addressed to Anna Browne arrives. She has no idea who has sent it. Inside she finds a beautiful gift - one that is designed to be seen.

Bill.... "Man, she's smoking hot and so adorable! There's just something about her that attracts me like gravity. Okay, yeah...maybe I shouldn't be blackmailing her into pretending to be my fiancée to fool my stubborn, moneybags father but she's perfect! And my plan is perfect too! What can go wrong?"

Alle Vögel sind schon tot – vier Hobby-Ornithologen ermitteln in ihrem ersten Fall am Chiemsee. Harald, Katja, Thilo und Sabine sind Vogelbeobachter. Oder Birder, wie es in Fachkreisen heißt. Jeden Sonntag treffen sie sich in aller Herrgottsfrühe auf dem Beobachtungsturm im Grabenstätter Moos am Chiemsee, um ihrem Hobby nachzugehen und ein seltenes gefiedertes Exemplar vors Fernglas zu bekommen. So auch an diesem Sonntag, als sie das Nest eines brütenden Braunkehlchens entdecken. Nur dass sich unweit entfernt ein weniger schöner Anblick bietet.

When 40-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief: her mother, Molly, her brother, Davey, her daughter, Juliet, her sister, Grace, and her best friend, Marjorie. They all have to learn how to cope with their grief, but despite fighting individual battles, they are drawn together by their love for Rabbit, and their love for each other. Laugh, cry and shout with joy for the colourful, unruly Hayes family as they battle with the loss of their beloved Rabbit, who in her own crazy way taught each of them how to live and goes on showing them how to love.

When new preschool parent Justine discovers that the man who broke her heart back in grad school is a dad in her daughter's class, she tells herself she's immune to the superficial charms of the ex she calls "the crapwizard". But when his presence opens a time tunnel of potent memories from her life before motherhood, she must find a way to defuse her old attraction to him before it undermines her marriage.

Die Omma ist eine Ruhrpottikone. Sie war mal Wirtschafterin im Puff, bis sie den brutalen Zuhälter nicht mehr ertragen konnte und ihn kurzerhand mit einer Flasche Korn erschlagen hat. Als die Mitzi, ehemalige Prostituierte und enge Vertraute der Omma, plötzlich stirbt, bricht die Omma alle Zelte in Essen ab und zieht zu ihrer Enkelin Bianca. Nach Berlin-Kreuzberg. Bianca wundert sich sehr, dass die vitale Mitzi plötzlich tot sein soll und die Omma ihr geliebtes Essen verlässt.

Tori Jones is the light of her small town. Sweet but full of grit, she's always the first one to help. Just once please, she'd like a quiet weekend to herself. Too bad her Nana has a big problem. Nana Estelle loves her cigarettes, whiskey, and big hair, but most of all, she loves Tori. Too bad her boyfriend has run off with her money and she needs Tori to track the crook down. Savage Monroe solves problems with his fists, although baseball bats work just fine too! Living in Vegas, he rides with a gang, looking for his next big score. Too bad for Tori that his "next big score" is her.

Die Omma ist eine Ruhrpottikone. Sie war mal Wirtschafterin im Puff, bis sie den brutalen Zuhälter nicht mehr ertragen konnte und ihn kurzerhand mit einer Flasche Korn erschlagen hat. Als die Mitzi, ehemalige Prostituierte und enge Vertraute der Omma, plötzlich stirbt, bricht die Omma alle Zelte in Essen ab und zieht zu ihrer Enkelin Bianca. Nach Berlin-Kreuzberg. Bianca wundert sich sehr, dass die vitale Mitzi plötzlich tot sein soll und die Omma ihr geliebtes Essen verlässt.

Lucy tries so hard to be good. She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up. Dating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle.

Anna Basener liest exklusiv eine unveröffentlichte Szene aus ihrem Roman "Als die Omma den Huren noch Taubensuppe kochte".