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Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell. 

When Emmanuelle Peroni’s father - and mayor of her town - asks her to help rehab Cooper Endicott’s image, she’s horrified. Cooper drives her crazy in every way possible. But he’s also her father’s protégé, and she can’t say no to him without him finding out the reason why: Cooper and her have a messy past. So Emmanuelle reluctantly launches her father’s grand plan to get this Casanova someone to settle down with and help him lose his Lothario reputation.

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by BAFTA winning actress Joanna Scanlan. From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. “I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter." —Reese Witherspoon Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder...

Desde su insólita infancia y a lo largo de su estrambótica carrera, la vida de las gemelas es una sucesión de episodios grotescos: entre identidades equivocadas, novios prestados, rivalidades acérrimas y fiestas que culminan en incendios, el mundo de Dora y Nora, poblado por una legión de personajes improbables, es un lugar que no admite reglas y en el que reina la despreocupación suprema. Es 23 de abril, fecha de nacimiento de Shakespeare, y las gemelas Dora y Nora Chance, actrices y coristas de segunda fila, se disponen a celebrar sus setenta y cinco años.

Nina Findlay, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle that Nina's depended on becomes unstable. The life she's known begins to unravel, and odd things begin to happen which those around her insist are all in her mind. Can Nina be sure of the truth?

Der Tik-Tok-Erfolg als Hörbuch! Als größter Fan romantischer Komödien lebt Liz Buxbaum wie die Hauptdarstellerin in einem Liebesfilm. Aber das Wichtigste fehlt noch: ihr Mr Right für den Abschlussball. Da taucht ihr Kindheits-Crush Michael Young auf, und das Happy End scheint in greifbarer Nähe. Blöd nur, dass Michael sie immer noch als niedliche und verschrobene »kleine Liz« sieht. Damit sich das ändert, schließt sie einen Pakt mit ihrem nervtötenden Nachbarn Wes Bennett. An der Seite des bei allen anderen beliebten Bad Boys öffnen sich nun mal Türen.

Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five-year-old Katie. Nina's almost an adult, after all. And if Nina sometimes wakes up with little memory of what happened the night before, then her friends are all too happy to fill in the blanks. Nina's drunken exploits are the stuff of college legend. But then one dark Sunday morning, even her friends can't help piece together Saturday night.

After dumping her boyfriend, Sadie can't help but say yes when she's invited to visit an island just off the coast of Fiji. The island is exactly what Sadie imagined: paradise. Beautiful sunsets, gorgeous white beaches and with no wifi, Sadie can finally try to escape her past. But she quickly discovers that there's more to the island than meets the eye. Why are only women able to visit? Why is a section of the island off limits? And why does no one seem to want - or be able - to leave? As Sadie begins to question everything, she starts to uncover a dark secret that lurks in this haven.

Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage to an uncaring husband - an artillery sergeant major named Lothar. On a day trip to Paris, Marianne decides to leap off the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. While recovering in hospital, Marianne comes across a painting of the tiny port town of Kerdruc in Brittany and decides to try her luck on the coast. In Kerdruc, Marianne meets a host of colourful characters who all gravitate around the restaurant of Ar Mor (The Sea).

Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart. Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots. I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to 13 years ago. If you have any knowledge of Olivia Shaw's whereabouts or any relevant information, please contact.... 

Sisters-in-law Kate, Heather, and Olivia are all hiding something. It's not easy being part of the high-achieving Fox family: the expectations and demands of their husbands and children; the jealousies and rivalries; and the endless Sunday lunches. So when mysterious Sasha enters their lives, bloodied from a painful divorce, buried frustrations rush to the surface. Three sisters-in-law. One devastating divorcee. Whose husband is about to play with fire?

After selling her successful bakery back in New York, Parker Powell decides to visit her best friend, Charlotte, in Hope Lake, Pennsylvania, to figure out her next steps. As she acquaints herself with the people in town, she begins to wonder why she ever loved city life in the first place. Between the Golden Girls the response from the town to her sweet treats, and Nick Arthur, the ever-charming local owner of a landscaping business she spent time with during her last visit, Parker finds a community of cheerleaders who encourage her to get her baking mojo back. 

Charlotte Bishop is out of options in New York City. Fired, broke, and blacklisted by her former boss, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Hope Lake, Pennsylvania, to lick her wounds. Although she’s expecting to find a miserable place with nothing to do, she is pleasantly surprised to discover it is bustling and thriving. 

As a single mother, Annie has an especially close relationship with her son, Ben. They have always been together. Just the two of them. So, when Ben brings home his mysterious beautiful new wife, Daisy, immediately Annie doesn’t trust her. Who is this woman who has taken her son away from her? And what is she hiding? She’ll protect him with her life....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe. 18 year old Lizzie Vogel finds herself a new job in a dentist's surgery after answering a classified advert in the Leicester Mercury for a 'mature lady with a strong interest in dental issues'. Working for an...

Die 19-jährige Kriegswaise Charlotte hingegen träumt von einem aufregenden Leben jenseits ihrer schlecht bezahlten Arbeit in der Großnäherei. Vera, die schillernde, skandalumwitterte Besitzerin des Midnight, nimmt Charlotte unter ihre Fittiche, und gemeinsam verhelfen sie dem Nachtclub zu neuem Glanz. Doch bald schon legt sich ein Schatten über Charlottes Glück, denn Vera ist in dunkle Machenschaften verwickelt.

PIĘKNA OPOWIEŚĆ O ŻYCIU W CIENIU WOJNY, O ZNISZCZONYCH MARZENIACH I O MIŁOŚCI, KTÓRA ZWYCIĘŻA WSZYSTKO. W 1937 roku Iza i Janek zakochują się w sobie. Niestety niedługo potem wybucha wojna, która sprawia, że ich plany obracają się w gruzy. Janek angażuje się w walki powietrzne i traci kontakt z ukochaną. Tymczasem los nie oszczędza Izy. Kobieta wraz z małą córeczką zostaje zmuszona do podjęcia decyzji, która na zawsze zaważy na jej przyszłości. Próbuje przy tym żyć nadzieją, że gdy skończy się wojna, Janek wróci i uratuje ją z rąk oprawcy. Nie wie jednak, że stawką jest nie tylko ich miłość, ale i życie.

When opera singer Dawn Woodward has an onstage flameout, all she wants is to be left alone. She’s soon faced with other complications the day her husband announces her estranged brother-in-law, Tariq, is undergoing cancer treatment and moving in, his temperamental parrot in tow. To make matters worse, though she can’t whistle herself, she has been tasked with teaching arias to an outspoken group of devoted siffleurs who call themselves the Warblers.

Die perfektionistische Cassi führt in Stockholm ein Restaurant, aber dann ist plötzlich Schluss: Burnout. Cassi erkennt, dass sie so nicht weitermachen kann und fasst einen spontanen Entschluss: Sie kauft eine Waldhütte und verlässt die Stadt. Doch dummerweise geht im nahegelegenen Dorf bald das Gerücht um, sie wäre eine erfahrene Selbsthilfe-Guru. Immer mehr ihrer neuen Nachbarn stehen vor ihrer Tür.