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The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War...

The unforgettable, heartbreaking love story from a New York Times bestselling author about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart—now an iconic motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War...

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

High up on a mountain, young Clay-Boy Spencer joins his father and eight uncles to hunt the mythical white deer. What he finds on the mountainside changes his life - and marks him for a special destiny. Years later, Clay-Boy is the first in his family to get the chance to go to college; but success as an adult is much more complicated and bittersweet than the legendary success of Clay-Boy’s childhood quest.

Long before Hank Crawford arrived in the waters of Ketchikan, his partners and compatriots were already in love with its shores. Following the final, crushing moments of World War II, Japanese officer Kiyoshi Tsurifune, Sergeant Jones Henry, and Resistance fighter Swede Scorden struggle to regain normalcy and any contact with the shimmering, fish-filled sea. Lost honor, fallen friends, their cultural identities gone in the wake of a nuclear blast - these fishermen-turned-soldiers have a long way to go till they regain the waters in which they feel most at home.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the Sunday Times bestselling author Nancy Revell. When Lucy’s estranged mother dies unexpectedly, her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she married penniless horse-trainer Danny for love, leaving her blue-blooded family’s fortune in tatters. But...

Ein hübsches Cottage an der Küste und Joberfolg als Liebes-Profilerin: Für Lovelyn könnte es gerade nicht besser laufen … Doch dann geht einer ihrer Aufträge schief: Die Hochzeit platzt – und der wütende Bräutigam steht plötzlich vor Lovelyns Tür. Ian will, dass sie ihm hilft, seine Ex-Zukünftige zurückzugewinnen. Als ob das so einfach wäre! Und warum schlägt Lovelyns Herz plötzlich Purzelbäume, sobald Ian in der Nähe ist? Als Violet nach dem Tod ihres Großvaters nach Crail zurückkehrt, spürt sie sofort wieder eine besondere Verbundenheit mit dem kleinen Küstenort.

September 1939. Young friends Maggie Shaunessy and Lizzie Taylor are heartbroken to be evacuated from their Liverpool homes to rural Yorkshire. Lizzie is sent to live with a vicar in the village of Gargrave, while Maggie finds herself delivered by chauffeur to Hawith Hall and Lady and Lord...

Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about the local community… Everything except why another family, the Reedbarrows, now live in her ancestral home, Foster's Mill. When Christopher, a man from 'down south', arrives and begins asking questions about the Mill that no one has dared to ask for generations, secrets begin to surface, and Liz may finally find the answers she's been looking for. And perhaps, at last, Liz and her father will be able to return to their family home.

Cash, Jace, and Sawyer. Three rugged cousins. One inherited California ranch. And more surprises than they ever bargained for… After months of chasing stories as an investigative journalist, Sawyer Dalton just wants to lie low at Dry Creek Ranch. But thanks to his mother, his barn loft is now home to Gina DeRose—a beautiful, scandal-shadowed celebrity chef who’s hiding from the headlines. Gina's career is hanging by a thread. Someone is stirring up sabotage. And when incriminating photos swarm the internet, even brooding—gorgeous—Sawyer is convinced she needs his help.

Set during WW2 in the Yorkshire valley of Dentdale, Secrets in the Dales is a heartfelt story of family, romance and one woman's determination in hard times. In the sleepy Yorkshire Dales, the peaceful existence of Sally’s family is shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War. With her...

Set deep in the Yorkshire Dales, Diane Allen’s A Child of the Dales is a sweeping novel of family, deceit, separation and love. Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a remote inn, Ruby Blake has been raised by the innkeeper’s wife, Martha Metcalfe, unknowing of the family searching for her...

Set between the wild fells of North Yorkshire, Canada and Liverpool, A Precious Daughter by Diane Allen is a sweeping saga novel following a family's struggles in the 19th century. When Ethan Postlethwaite, his wife Grace and their daughter Amy announce that they will be leaving the family home...

Die harten Zeiten scheinen überwunden. Der Teehandel der drei Schwestern beginnt, erste Gewinne abzuwerfen. Da steht eines Tages ein abgerissener Kriegsheimkehrer vor der Tür des Friesenhofes. Es ist Gerold, der als verschollen galt. Gesa hatte die Hoffnung, ihn je wiederzusehen, längst aufgegeben.

Berghebamme Maria hat in dem Landarzt Georg ihre große Liebe gefunden und führt gemeinsam mit ihm eine eigene Praxis. Um sich von ihrer Trauer abzulenken, beschließt sie, ein Wohnheim für verstoßene Schwangere zu gründen. Ein Unterfangen, das für große Missbilligung seitens der Dorfbewohner sorgt, denn ledige Mütter gelten als Schande.

Odilie Rutherford is known in the small Scottish town of Lauriston for two things – her beauty, and her father, Canny. As a self-made man, Canny has the wealth he dreamed of but not the status and hatches a plan to marry his daughter to local bachelor of note, the Duke of Maudesley. Yet Odilie cannot bear the thought of a life with the ill-mannered Duke, and when the annual summer fair arrives in town for three days she seizes a chance to enjoy the freedom she craves.

'Gripping, emotional and moving' -- New Idea There have been fires before, but not like this. In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live at Gibber's Creek know their land can burn. But when you love your land, you fight for it. For Jed Kelly, an even more menacing danger...

The fifth title in the sweeping Matilda Saga Hippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface. But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago...

Weihnachten in den Cotswolds – was könnte romantischer sein? Aber statt Kekse, Punsch und Christmas Carols zu genießen, muss sich Single Mum Isla mit ihrem mürrischen Nachbarn herumschlagen. Der ist nämlich gar nicht begeistert davon, dass Isla im Cottage ihrer Eltern als Tagesmutter arbeitet. Begeistertes Kinderlachen ist für ihn nichts als Lärm. Deshalb fordert er: Das Fairyland muss schließen. Doch so schnell lässt sich Isla nicht kleinkriegen. Dafür sind ihr die Kinder und die Bewohner des idyllischen Dörfchens Chanting Hills zu sehr ans Herz gewachsen.

'Gripping, emotional and moving' -- New Idea on Facing the Flame (The Matilda Saga, Book 7) A body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of the church at Gibber's Creek -- with older skeletons lying beneath it. The corpse is identified as that of Ignatius Mervyn, the man who attempted to...