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Claire vive a Londra, ha origini italiane, una passione per il nuoto e nessuna esperienza nelle relazioni. Tutto ciò che desidera è godersi l’ultimo anno del college e impegnarsi per essere ammessa in una squadra di nuoto universitaria. I problemi per lei cominciano quando per un compito di letteratura, la messa in scena di Romeo e Giulietta, deve fare coppia con il suo vicino di casa. Capitano della squadra di calcio della scuola, occhi verdi e sorriso beffardo, Harry è il tipico ragazzo che tutte vorrebbero ma che Claire ha sempre evitato perché è presuntuoso, scostante, istintivo.

When tragic events tear him away from his parents, 15-year-old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live with his estranged uncle, Myron. For a while, it seems his train wreck of a life is finally improving - until his girlfriend, Ashley, goes missing without a trace. Unwilling to let another person he cares about walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld, revealing a conspiracy so shocking it will leave him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.

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'WISTFUL, WARM AND IRRESISTIBLY CHARMING' Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries comes a healing and heart-warming fantasy with magic shops, rescue cats and a second chance at love. Reader reviews: 'Amazing...

Grace Boyd is in dire need of a reset after her career—and personal life—go up in flames. When her fans discover that their favorite social media influencer was a teensy bit less than truthful in some of her posts, they couldn’t unfollow her fast enough. With her reputation in shambles, Grace retreats to her hometown on the picturesque island of Shelter Beach to tend bar (and her wounds) at her family’s inn...and strategize her next move.

The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help. Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs of his own daughter. Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And the great storms of a changing climate have made literal shelter imperative.

When twenty-one-year-old builder Joe Wright meets Leo, he falls in love hard, and seemingly for ever. Mature, philosophical and intensely handsome, Leo teaches Joe an appreciation of music and literature, and, most importantly, a passion for the beautiful old buildings that are disappearing from Auckland's central city. But when Leo suddenly vanishes from his life, then drifts back again years later, Joe—now a powerful developer of heritage architecture—is unable to move on from this first affair.

Meg lives alone - a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That’s one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who’s escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it’s like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy, and her two little girls are frightened. It tells Meg all she needs to know where they’ve come from, and she’s not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she knows it’s unnecessary. They’re safe now. Then she starts to wonder about some little things.

Connie Granger has escaped the devastation of her bombed out city home. She has found work in the Women's Timber Corps, and for her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose. Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. But in the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedom. In each other they find the means to imagine their own lives anew, and to face that which each fears the most. But outside their haven, the world is ravaged by war and old certainties are crumbling.

You think you’re safe. You’re wrong. When an unusual category five hurricane threatens to devastate California, it forces five strangers to seek shelter inside a woodland bunker. But the bunker is already occupied. Community leader Pastor Quincy Gordon has built a church within the walls of the bunker that he calls Salvation. While the storm rages outside, the pastor locks the doors, trapping everyone inside. Soon the prisoners will come to wish they’d taken their chances with mother nature. Because what lurks inside the shelter is much more dangerous.

Rowan Coffey is 19 when he leaves university, a bright-burning boy come home to hide after the cruel, casual murder of a friend. Rowan had no alibi; exhausted after weeks of being under suspicion, he's looking for shelter, what's warm, familiar, and safe. But what he finds is chill. And danger. And death....

Caesar and Anders find themselves on a dangerous quest to save the only man who can bring them home. But Logan Rutherford is sought by others, and whoever reaches him first will harness the power of Arcadia. Amelia is quickly appointed Chief, yet the role comes with unforeseeable dangers. She soon realizes the town holds dark secrets connected to the Shift, but some secrets are best kept buried.

Der Verschwörungs-Thriller von Bestsellerautorin Ursula Poznanski. Die Idee war völlig verrückt und sie wären niemals darauf gekommen, wenn die Party nicht so aus dem Ruder gelaufen wäre. Aus einer Katerlaune heraus erfinden Benny und seine Freunde eine irre Geschichte über außerirdische Besucher und verbreiten sie im Internet. Gespannt wartet die Clique ab, was passiert. Zu ihrer eigenen Überraschung nehmen immer mehr Menschen die Sache für bare Münze und Bennys Versuche, alles aufzuklären, bringen ihn schon bald in Lebensgefahr.

When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides a point of departure for this captivating memoir in essays.

When police officer Fiona MacLeish stumbles upon a group of fellow hikers in dire trouble in the dramatic peaks of the Scottish Highlands, she has no choice but to help. One of the party has fallen off the path, lying below with the crisp white snow around his head starting to turn scarlet. Fiona soon learns the potential accident is actually a deliberate murder. But who would want to hurt this man and why? With visibility worsening and the snowstorm getting worse, Fiona and the group of hikers make it just in time to a nearby shelter.

When tragic events tear him away from his parents, 15-year-old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live with his estranged uncle, Myron. For a while, it seems his train wreck of a life is finally improving - until his girlfriend, Ashley, goes missing without a trace. Unwilling to let another person he...

Remi Carter has survived her fifteen minutes of fame and is putting LA in her rearview mirror. As a former reality show contestant, she’s trading staged expeditions and faked wilderness tours for real adventures. Only one fluke storm in Glacier National Park has her stranded with a handsome man, and adventure takes on a whole new meaning. Seth King is as rugged and sexy as he is annoyed to be trapped with Remi. Probably because she ghosted him at the local bar not three days ago. But she’s got her reasons for ditching him.

the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother’s year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness—and help that arrives from unexpected sources.

I came here seeking sanctuary, I never meant to fall for the broody single dad next door. I've spent my life hiding in plain sight, burying my past beneath layers of carefully constructed lies. Moving to Sparrow Falls was supposed to be a fresh start. A place to lay low. But when I end up living next door to the single dad who just happens to be one of my brother’s best friends, everything changes. Trace Colson sees too much, asks too many questions, and his protectiveness is as infuriating as it is alluring. And when danger comes calling, it’s Trace who stands between me and the darkness.

Brought to you by Penguin. The fifth book in the heart-stopping smalltown romance series from USA Today bestselling author. I came here seeking sanctuary, I never meant to fall for the broody single dad next door. I've spent my life hiding in plain sight, burying my past beneath layers of...