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A Christy Award winner, New York Times best-selling author Beverly Lewis enthralls millions with her inspiring tales of Amish life. Now engaged to hardworking Silas Good, Rose Kauffman struggles with her feelings for longtime friend Nick Franco, who left the Amish community under a cloud of suspicion. Meanwhile, Rose’s older sister has returned to her parents’ farm, hoping to re-establish her place among the People and to retain custody of her daughter.

Ein wohlsituierter New Yorker Geschäftsmann stürzt urplötzlich in eine mentale Krise. Um zu gesunden, so spürt er, muss er seinen von grauem Erfolg geprägten Alltag hinter sich lassen, und kurzerhand tritt er eine Schiffsreise an. Kaum auf See, stellt sich die erhoffte Erleichterung tatsächlich ein, doch dann... macht er einen einzigen falschen Schritt und landet mitten im Pazifik, während sein Schiff sich immer weiter von ihm entfernt.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom - a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris' distant fringes. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant workers working at the great abattoirs of Vaugiraud, who, like them, had grown used to the smell of blood in the air. But when one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, the quiet simplicities of their lives are changed forever

Marianne kommer till skolsköterskeexpeditionen där hon ska vara elev, men ingen är där och möter henne. När en förlossning sedan drar igång mitt på skolgården får Marianne rycka in i skolsköterskans frånvaro. Dessutom fastnar en elev i ventilationssystemet och Marianne förstår att det inte kommer att bli en lugn arbetsplats. Och var har egentligen skolsköterskan tagit vägen? Tur att skolläkaren Lennart finns och håller något slags ordning. Bakom den framgångsrika pseudonymen Elisabet och Per Reymers står författar- och översättarparet Ann och Örjan Björkhem.