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Asa: I come to Aspen to get away. I need to get away. My ex Christine is a true pill. She lets me know exactly why she cheated on me once again, and I just need something, anything to take this pain away. That's how this all starts with the girl I meet in Aspen. But she was never just a one off. Noni: My ex is a d--k, an epic one and despite the urge to curl up with a tub of Häagen-Dazs and a chick flick, I give into my friend pushing this Aspen trip on me. I meet a guy there. I lose myself there, and though I don't know him, I need him.

Der Bestsellererfolg aus den USA − nominiert für den Women's Fiction Prize. Reese und Amy waren ein glückliches Paar, zwei Transfrauen in New York mit dem Traum von einer Familie. Doch dann entschloss sich Amy, wieder als Mann zu leben, und die Beziehung zerbrach. Als Ames drei Jahre später seine Chefin Katrina, eine starke, unabhängige Frau, schwängert, fasst er den Plan, dieses Kind gemeinsam zu dritt aufzuziehen. Ungewöhnlich − aber machbar. Ein moderner Gesellschaftsroman, der den Nerv der Zeit trifft. Intensiv gelesen von Britta Steffenhagen.

“An illicit meeting between long-term lovers makes for a poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time…In the closing pages, O’Callaghan’s prose reaches a pitch of emotional intensity that ensures these characters will linger with you long after the book is closed...

Elio Rossi is a dream on paper. He's rich, handsome, and head of his family's multi-billion-dollar business. He's also a ruthless Mafia Don and my older brother's best friend. But even that isn't a huge issue to me. No, Elio is my nightmare because he used to be my dream man. We've been betrothed since childhood. But the night of our engagement years ago, our parents died in a tragic accident. One that I'm sure Elio's family planned.

This is a story of a girl born to LA's rich and elite. She's known simply as Baby Girl. After the sudden and tragic murder of her father, Baby Girl and her mother are forced to give up their lives and go on the run. Soon they end up living on the streets among Atlanta's homeless, where Baby Girl's mother does whatever she has to do to make sure her daughter wants for nothing. Soon they befriend Shabazz, a white, heroin-addicted scam artist who thinks he is black, and his best friend Ben Franklin, an old scholarly alcoholic that carefully analyzes everything and everyone.

Some might say that Khalil Patterson is living his best life. Kendrick Nance and Jack Dandridge are both dead, and he is now the boss. But he still has what’s left of Kojo's operation, which is being run by Shanice Hardaway, to worry about. Now that he is running things, it’s time to turn his attention and firepower to shutting her down and taking over her market.

Unerbittlicher als ihre Schwester verteidigt eine Frau wohl nur eins: ihr Baby.Nach ihrem frenetisch gefeierten, preisgekrönten Bestseller "Meine Schwester, die Serienmörderin" legt Oyinkan Braithwaite ihren zweiten Roman vor. "Das Baby ist meins" ist eine augenzwinkernde Ansage an das Patriarchat, ein spannender Einblick in die nigerianische Gesellschaft - und vor allem eine rasante Geschichte um zwei Frauen, die wie Löwinnen um das süße Baby in ihrer Mitte kämpfen. Natürlich ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste oder gar auf den Mann, der versucht herauszufinden, wem er glauben soll.

Ein junger Mann steht im Fußballstadion und zitiert Ulrike Meinhof. Dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse und am Ende liegt ein Polizist am Boden -das Blut spritzt. Paul Bakunin hat genug. Seine Freundin ist zwar ganz nett und seine Air Max-Sneakers ziemlich schön, aber Paul will einen Anschlag planen. Irgendwas muss ja endlich passieren. Zwischen linksradikalem Gedankengut und Gangsta Rap-Zitaten pendelnd erzählt "Das Nirvana Baby" von den letzten Atemzügen einer Gesellschaft, von den Widrigkeiten des Widerstands und von der (Un-)Möglichkeit, dass sich etwas ändert.

“Powered by insight and true wit.” —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion “I can’t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny...