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“Unpredictable, fantastic. . . . It takes a charged narrative, like Dickens achieves, and as Dalton does too, to reach the heart and the brain. . . . To tell you more would spoil this complicated and surprising story. You should read it.”—Sydney Morning Herald Bighearted, gritty, magical...

This wickedly fun debut is a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction.

Charlotte Godowski was used to the horrified stares she received from strangers. She'd learned to accept her facial deformity, until one cruel incident compelled her to have the surgery that changed her life forever. Charlotte Godfrey is beautiful beyond compare. In Hollywood, where such beauty is power, her rise is meteoric. Charlotte Godowski and Charlotte Godfrey are two sides of the same women – a woman who can trust no one with her secret.

Am liebsten geht sie ihm aus dem Weg - und ist plötzlich gezwungen, zwei Wochen die vielleicht intensivste Zeit ihres Lebens mit ihm zu verbringen. Unwiderstehliche Enemies-to-Lovers-Romance, knisterndes Fake-Dating und Coaching-Setting im malerischen Málaga. Fee Heinfeld hat alles auf das exklusive Coachingprogramm in Málaga gesetzt, um endlich ihre Bindungsprobleme zu überwinden. Doch ein folgenschwerer Anmeldefehler zwingt sie dazu, sich einen Fake-Freund zu suchen – und ausgerechnet der unverschämt arrogante und unerträglich gut aussehende Kollege Aurelian Miller bietet sich an.

What happens when an innocent schoolgirl is desperate to escape her country during the fall of Saigon? What could cause her to have second thoughts and want to stay behind? How does she finally resolve herself to leaving? What are the chances of this girl being rescued and airlifted toward a new life in America? Mimi and Her Mirror, by Uyen Nicole Duong, creates a poetic blend of memoir and fiction in this richly told novel of courage and heartbreak, hopelessness and redemption.

Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who...

Here are four unforgettable stories by Yann Martel, the New York Times best-selling author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the 20th century.