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Cath Beckinsale is in a jam. She’s a single mum of three, with her 40th birthday in sight and a precarious hold on employment. And she can’t quite let go of her late husband Gaz, whose ashes are still in an urn on the kitchen table. To make ends meet a student lodger seems like the perfect solution – after all, what’s one more child in the house? But when Dan flies in from the US with guitar and chest hair on display, it’s immediately clear that he’s no teenager, but someone who quickly sends life in an unexpected direction.

Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she's mostly dead. She can't feel her heart beat and she's disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failing at her high-paying marketing job. Not her crush, whom she keeps humiliating herself in front of. Not her parents, whose basement suite she's stuck living in. She's hallucinating stars from all her favorite TV shows who want Brooklyn to pull herself together and face the truth about what happened to her.

Es ist purer Zufall, dass Bundeskanzler Ernst Meister die unerwartete Bekanntschaft der zehnjährigen Emma macht. Als Meister kurz darauf mit Verdacht auf Herzinfarkt ins Krankenhaus muss, bekommt er eine Karte, auf der in kindlicher Handschrift »Freitag 5« steht neben einer mit Klebestreifen aufgeklebten Murmel. Freitags um fünf wird der Kanzler dafür sorgen, dass er ein paar Minuten Zeit für Emma hat.

In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series of seven bronze panels recorded the names of the men of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War - a total of 1,460 names. In March, 1940, a group of women of varying ages and backgrounds stands in front of the memorial, ready to do its bit in this new World War....

Brought to you by Penguin. Manchester, 1944 Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy strikes, her world is turned upside down. Persephone is struggling with matters of the heart. Can she muster up the courage to tell Matt how she truly feels? Colette is...

Brought to you by Penguin. Manchester, 1943 Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted friend at work may be involved in something underhand... Persephone's romance with Matt is blossoming - but can two people from such different walks of life really make a...

A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no...

Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted. The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven for Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt, who are all navigating the struggles of being newly independent college women in a world that seems to want to keep them in the kitchen.

As seen on GMA * "Start this engrossing, mesmerizing, and loving book and you won't want to put it down." --Adam Glassman, Oprah Daily * "Spellbinding!" --Today.com Set in the direct aftermath of WWII and spanning the rest of the 20th century, Daughter of Ruins is an all-encompassing tale...

Sometimes you're so busy writing other people's stories that you lose the plot of your own. Full of heart, joy, and hope, The Summer of Yes features an unlikely female friendship, one crazy road trip, a bookish protagonist, and a slow-burn, kisses only romance. Perfect for fans of Rachel Linden...

An "intoxicating, propulsive...utterly mesmerizing" novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student (Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!) After a deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find...

In this heartfelt tale about enduring hope amid the suffering of the Great Depression, Sean Dietrich--also known as Sean of the South--weaves together a tale featuring a cast of characters ranging from a child preacher, a teenage healer, and two migrant workers who give everything they have for...

Award-winning author Elizabeth Byler Younts delivers a powerful novel of grief, friendship, and forgiveness filled with her signature lyricism and emotional depth. "Younts's powerful novel reverberates with love that crosses religious and racial boundaries to find the humanity that connects us...

Friends since kindergarten, Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine thought they'd been through everything together. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a way they've never known before. Through it all, they search for the secret to the divine taste of hummingbird...

Lorrie Hope hat zwei entzückende kleine Kinder, einen liebevollen Partner und einen Bürojob bei der Stadtverwaltung. Und oft absolut keine Ahnung, wie sie das alles unter einen Hut kriegen soll. Das Hamsterrad dreht sich unterdessen immer weiter: An diesem Freitag läuft ihr großes Projekt "Green Cities" an, eine Initiative für mehr Grünflächen in der Stadt, und sie hat eine Beförderung in Aussicht. Glaubt sie zumindest. Derweil bandelt ihre beste Freundin Alex mit der Frau von Lorries Ex an – der entscheidend am Sponsoring von "Green Cities" beteiligt ist. Das Chaos ist vorprogrammiert.

Inséparables depuis douze ans, Alix et Élodie voient leur relation basculer lors d'une soirée arrosée. Sous le charme magnétique de Déborah, Alix succombe à un coup de foudre qui bouleverse sa vie. Par amour pour cette femme, elle quitte tout. Vraiment tout. Y compris son compagnon. Le piège, peu à peu, se referme. Famille, amis assistent impuissants à son isolement. Plus d'un an après leur dernier échange, Élodie reçoit un appel inattendu qui fait resurgir le passé.

Everyone has a story. You just have to read between the lines… ‘Will make you smile, make you cry, fill you with joy and warm your heart.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ***Shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Contemporary Romantic Novel Award!*** When Elodie applies...

Was als packende Expedition in der Dschungelwelt Mikronesiens beginnt, wird zur Begegnung mit den Abgründen des Menschlichen. In ihrem Roman erkundet Hanya Yanagihara, wie Neugier in Gier umschlägt - nach Ruhm, nach Liebe - und wie weit wir dafür zu gehen bereit sind. Der junge Arzt Norton Perina kehrt mit einer unfassbaren Entdeckung von der Insel Ivu'ivu zurück: Hat er wirklich ein Mittel gegen die Sterblichkeit gefunden? Eine uralte Schildkrötenart soll die Formel des ewigen Lebens bergen.