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It started out like any other morning on the train - until I became mesmerized by the guy sitting across the aisle. He was barking at someone on his phone like he ruled the world. Who did the stuck-up suit think he was...God? Actually, he looked like a god. That was about it.

The quiet coastal community of Pippi Beach is rocked when a party of young Hollywood movie stars and influencers arrives for the summer. Like most of the locals, mum Lydia is thrilled but her teenage daughter Lily finds the Hollywood types are superficial and arrogant–especially Dorian Khan, the most famous of them all. Lily's opinion is confirmed by handsome backpacker Alex, who has quite the story about Dorian's past. On a holiday to Los Angeles, Lily stays with family friend Wilson, an ambitious player who introduces her to powerful movie producer Stacy Black.

The first time I met Nathan Wolfe, he called me pathetic. The second time, I told him exactly where he could shove it—respectfully, of course. The third time? Let's just say I got stuck with Mr. Billionaire… and forgot all my reasons to stay away. I was doing just fine avoiding the insufferable jerk who called me pathetic at my sister's wedding—until he moved back to my small town and became my brother's new business partner.

What was supposed to be a workcation turned into a fake honeymoon with a maddeningly hot stranger. He's grumpy, off-limits, and my complete opposite—polished, controlled, infuriatingly calm. Me? I'm chipped nail polish, impulsive choices, and one bad idea away from a meltdown. Somehow, we ended up stuck in a five-star bungalow for a week. And being that close to a man who looks like a Greek god? Not. Easy. So, we set rules. Then we broke every single one of them.

My billionaire boss is grumpy, gorgeous, and completely off-limits. He's also my brother's best friend...and the father of my baby. Nathan Wolfe blew into my small town like a storm, ready to snatch up my café and bulldoze everything in his path—including my sanity. I'm sure he planned it out perfectly, Step one: offer me a job I couldn't refuse. Step two: Make my life a living hell with his arrogant smirk, bossy demands, and unfairly perfect jawline. Step three? Ruin me with one reckless, toe-curling night I swore I'd forget. But then he disappeared.

Discover the seductive 'stranger' is my brother's bestie… OMG. Get stuck in a cabin and claimed by three off-limits firemen? No way. After being robbed, I flew home with my pride in a carry-on and my faithful corgi stowed in cargo. So when the passenger next to me looked like People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, I did what any heartbroken girl would do. I followed him into the tiny bathroom to forget my troubles at 30,000 feet.

Ein gecancelter Flug. Ein Hostel in Edinburgh. Zwei Fremde. Das Knistern zwischen Julie und Dan ist unmittelbar und es ist laut. Trotzdem verlieren sich die beiden aus den Augen. Als das Schicksal sie erneut zusammenführt, wollen sie nichts sehnlicher als die unwahrscheinliche Chance mit jeder Faser nutzen. Bis ein Unglück geschieht, an dem die Beziehung zu zerbrechen droht.

Becca Burnside is going to make this the year she turns her forties around, and creates a life her 16-year-old self would be proud of... A smidgen of romance wouldn’t go amiss either. And with a new job, and a blossoming friendship with handsome Conal, she’s off to a great start. Or at least, she was, until her youngest son dropped the mother of all bombshells: his girlfriend, who just happens to be the daughter of Becca’s best friend Niamh, is pregnant.

Life can be hard to navigate at times, but for Lazarus Mitchell, it’s been a constant battle. Marrying his high school sweetheart and putting his dreams on hold to help her fulfill hers, he kept pushing through life’s adversities in hopes of seeing better days. Throughout the journey, he realized that she didn’t have the tenacity he had or the wherewithal to look difficulty in the face and choose to overcome it.

Comédie romantique.Une histoire d'amour (& de dindon).Que se passe-t-il lorsque deux personnes aux caractères diamétralement opposés se retrouvent obligés de partager le même chalet ?Précisons un peu.Dans cette coloc improbable, vous trouverez : Un dindon de compagnie au caractère bien affirmé. Une excentrique.

Jola und Luise haben den Zweiten Weltkrieg überlebt und schlagen sich nun im Berlin der Nachkriegsjahre durch. Sie sind in schweren Zeiten erwachsen geworden, haben sich auseinandergelebt - und können dem Schicksal doch am besten gemeinsam voll Lebensfreude begegnen. Mit Humor und Leichtigkeit knüpft Barbara Noack an die Geschichte der Freundinnen aus "Eine Handvoll Glück" an.

Sadie doesn't have time for finding love. She's too busy as PA for famous artist Damian Banks. When she's not arranging exhibitions, she's organising his dry cleaning or dumping his never ending stream of girlfriends. But when she strikes up an unusual friendship with her desk share buddy, she finds a confidante and a new potential love interest. Problem is, they've never actually met. With Christmas just around the corner, can Sadie put herself first for a change and find what she's been looking for all along?

Lucie Marshal is absolutely furious! How did she go from being a successful wife and mother to divorced, teetering on bankruptcy, and barely speaking to her grown-up daughter? Even worse, she’s just heard that her moronic ex-husband Miles is marrying a much younger woman in an influencer-style wedding in France #blessed #theone. Lucie will absolutely NOT be going. To hell with Miles, his new teeth, new hair and new wife! She’s perfectly fine...In fact, Lucie feels lost and angry almost all of the time. Just what happened to her younger, freer wild child self, who used to live life to the full?

Tina Cahill, newly arrived from the East, is determined to get the saloon in Broken Wheel, Texas, closed for good. To that end, she pickets outside the place every afternoon. Unfortunately, so far no one has paid any attention.

Julia kehrt als alleinerziehende Mutter in ihre dänische Heimatstadt im hohen Norden zurück. Back to the roots, um ihrer dreijährigen Tochter Ida eine wunderbare Kindheit zu bieten. Im Café Waffelglück trifft sie unversehens auf ihre Jugendliebe Bent. Nie konnte sie ihn vergessen, obwohl er sie damals betrog. Augenblicklich lodern die alten Gefühle wieder auf. Selbst die ansonsten so schüchterne Ida, lässt sich schnell von seinem Charme bezaubern. Aber auch er lässt sich von der Kleinen mit den großen Kinderaugen und blonden Löckchen, nur zu gern um die Finger wickeln.

A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown. A Black man’s life, told in scenes—through every time he’s been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the ’92 riots begin. A Black Republican...

Jackie McGee is a young woman destined to become a local TV news star. Told in retrospect, Jackie takes the listener on the bumpy ride from her beginnings as a small-town TV reporter to her final revelations about big-time local TV news.

Mara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after her twenty-eighth birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon and a pile of unpaid bills. On top of that, her job, working as a receptionist at a cosmetic surgery clinic is a nightmare; her boss is a tyrant; and her friends have gotten ahead of her in the game of life. Mara realizes it's time for an identity makeover. She devises the OM List, a personal pathway to perfection inspired by her best friends, Olivia and Mitz, and her newfound love for yoga.

Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg muss sich die jung verwitwete Ivory in Kenia großen Herausforderungen stellen. Denn ihre Entscheidung für einen neuen Mann an ihrer Seite sorgt für Aufruhr in der Gesellschaft und Ablehnung seitens ihrer Familie. Dennoch ist Ivy mit ihrem Mann und ihren kleinen Töchtern auf Edgecumbe Farm glücklich. Bis eines Tages ein Fremder anreist und Anspruch auf das Anwesen erhebt. Völlig mittellos und begleitet von der tiefen Sorge um ihre älteste Tochter muss Ivy mit ihrer Familie nach Nairobi übersiedeln.

1910. Auf einer Safari in Kenia verliebt sich die junge Ivory in dieses Land und seine Tier- und Pflanzenwelt - und in den Großwildjäger Adrian Edgecumbe. Sie hofft, dass er sein blutiges Geschäft für sie aufgeben wird, doch Adrian ist Abenteurer durch und durch. Ivy ahnt bald nach der Hochzeit, dass sie nur eine Trophäe für ihn ist. Als Adrian im Krieg als vermisst gemeldet wird, nimmt Ivy die Geschicke der Farm in ihre eigene Hand. Statt der Großwildsafaris bietet sie Fotoaufnahmen und Beobachtungen von Tieren an.