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Born in Boston, Stephen Bodio wandered into Magdalena, New Mexico, in the 1970s while on his way to Montana and never left. He was accompanied by Betsy Huntington, who was twenty years his senior; the couple had been inseparable from the day they met. After stumbling upon a vintage home along the highway, they settled into a country life; it was the perfect way for the two of them to make their lives together in an out-of-the-way place.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the author of All About Love! “When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the...

Роман про трагічне й щасливе кохання, яким воно може бути — і дійсно буває! — коли двоє раптом розуміють, що нічого коштовнішого й милішого за це почуття в житті не існує... і вдячно, безоглядно, цілком йому віддаються, даруючи одне одному все найкраще у собі і в себе, а надто, коли часу для спільного щастя залишилося так мало.

Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard. Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole in Grace's heart. But then Henry turns up to fix the boiler one evening, and Grace can't decide if she's hallucinating or has suddenly developed psychic powers....

Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award 'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of Rain In 1857, after two years of writing The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell fled...

When married couple Fern and Aiden have a windfall, their reactions could not be more different. While Fern is content to pay off their mortgage and build a nest egg before starting a family, her husband is set on travelling the world. Fern’s not much of a backpacker so, before she knows it, the idea of a ‘marriage gap year’ takes shape. And, as Aiden heads off to the wilds of Australia, Fern chooses the more restful Provence for her year out.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella, White Nights, was originally published in 1848. The tender narrative is an appealing blend of realism and romanticism. A daydreamer, the hero is a lonely young man in Saint Petersburg who lives in a fantasy world. After a chance encounter, he falls in love with a young woman, Nastenka, whom he meets in the same place over four nights. Sharing a sense of alienation, they exchange information on their respective backgrounds and grow fond of one another in a short time.

BBC Audio presents Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's perceptive study of middle class morals in the 19th century. Jane Austen's unlikely heroine Fanny Price is plucked from her impoverished family and brought up by wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. When two outrageous and flirtatious guests...

"Ich komme nicht von ihm los" - ist Jazman Darlings beherrschender Gedanke, wenn es um Rhys Cunningham geht. Was auch immer er anstellt, sie verzeiht ihm sein Verhalten. Als sie Paul Vig begegnet, einem guten Freund von Rhys, ist sie von seiner frechen Art zugleich berührt und abgeschreckt. Was will Paul von ihr und wird Rhys ihr vertrauen? Doch dann wird auf einmal Jaz' Vertrauen in Rhys auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

In 1992, a novel by university professor Robert James Waller was published to less than glowing reviews. Despite the critical reception, The Bridges of Madison County became a publishing phenomenon, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list and selling more than 50 million copies. Decades before, Waller had met 18-year-old Jana St. James at an Indiana University coffeehouse.

When Carrie Bradshaw in the Sex and the City movie began reading the book Love Letters of Great Men, millions of women wanted to get their hands on the book. Of course, what could be more romantic than an entire book of love letters, written by men! This edition includes love letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Napolean Bonaparte, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Oliver Cromwell, Pierre Curie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, and many more.

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Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband - and Russian high society - would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life - a mirror of Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis - Konstantine is haunted by thoughts of suicide.

Scheinbar alltägliche Umgangsformen und selbstverständliche Höflichkeitsregeln entpuppen sich oftmals als ungeahntes Hindernis auf dem Weg zum (erotischen) Ziel, denn wie sagt man so schön: Benehmen ist Glückssache. Dieses Hörbuch dient als kniggefester Ratgeber für alle Stationen und Situationen im Umgang mit dem anderen Geschlecht, von A wie Ansprechen bis Z wie Zweisamkeit.

Ob Sie persönlich zum Aberglauben neigen oder nicht: dass den Menschen der einzelnen Tierkreiszeichen bestimmte Wesensmerkmale und Gewohnheiten zu eigen sind, dass die Sterne und ihre Konstellation also Einfluss auf uns haben, lässt sich wohl ebenso wenig leugnen wie das Vergnügen, das wir daran haben, Gesetzmäßigkeiten festzustellen oder gar Leuten auf den Kopf zuzusagen, dass sie ein typischer Zwilling oder ein waschechter Löwe sind...