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Fasziniert beobachtet Dameon von seinem Hotelfenster aus eine bezaubernde Frau im Abendkleid. Sie wechseln Blicke, dann ist sie verschwunden. Der attraktive Bauunternehmer ist mehr als überrascht, als er die schöne Unbekannte unter ganz anderen Umständen wiedersieht – als selbstbewusste Ingenieurin, die über sein neuestes Projekt zu entscheiden hat.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR 'It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us' In March 2020 Lucy Barton's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy...

The deal is simple: the grumpy guy will pay off my debt if I find him a wife. Holden Rhodes is grouchy, unfairly hot, and has hated me for years. He's the last person I'd choose to inherit an inn with. As we renovate the inn and put his dating skills to practice, though, I see a different side...

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.

I'd spent my entire life voiceless. Ignored. Put to the side. All because I couldn't communicate with the humans that I was forced to be around. All because I wasn't surrounded by my kind. My parents subjected me to the worst type of loneliness because of their history—their hatred.

Nothing says welcome home like an irresistibly hot cowboy inviting himself into your shower. I should have kicked him out the second he barged in. He's my brother's best friend, and we're living on a ranch in the same bunkhouse for the next three weeks. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Bloomsbury presents How to Write a Rom-Com by Cristina Wolf, read by Georgina Sadler. 'Funny and delightful' - Abby Jimenez Lucy Bowen has sworn off love. After too many failed relationships, she’s over the fairytale – but working at NYC’s biggest romance publisher, Heartwarming, means she...

Vera Gallagher is chasing constant. For four years, her life was anything but normal. And the years before that she refuses to even remember. Dwelling on the past only hurts. Life is fragile, a lesson her mother taught her well. She’s determined not to waste a moment of her newfound freedom. Maybe some would consider her crush on Mateo Eden wasted time. Maybe some would call her a fool for loving a man who hasn’t once dropped a crumb of interest her way. Still, to Vera, it’s Mateo or nothing.

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

From Heather Webber, USA Today bestselling author of In the Middle of Hickory Lane, comes this enchanting audiobook. A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her...

The moving and life-affirming new novel about love, hope and second chances from the million-copy bestselling author of PS, I Love You. Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025 Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she’s...

La prima folgorante apparizione letteraria di don Camillo e Peppone, la coppia di amici/nemici più famosi della narrativa italiana, immortalati al cinema da Fernandel e Gino Cervi. Da una parte c'è don Camillo, un prete di un paesino emiliano. Alto e ben piazzato, appassionato di caccia, don Camillo tende a risolvere pragmaticamente e fisicamente questioni ingarbugliate. Dall’altra c’è Peppone, il sindaco comunista del paese, amico d’infanzia di don Camillo e compagno di scorribande giovanili ma ideologicamente l'opposto di don Camillo.

I might be the only person not obsessed with Simon Luckwood, Hollywood's hottest leading man and the newest part-time resident of my little hometown. I don’t trust the way he’s always smiling. No one smiles that much. And I’m clearly missing something, because I don’t get why the character Simon played on his weird hit TV show is so popular. But revenge is a dish best served cold, just like the dishes on the menu at the restaurant my ex stole from me.

In an immersive Southern Gothic with echoes of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, a restauranteur lured by pandemic-era incentives moves her family to a seemingly idyllic small town in Georgia, only to discover a darkness lurking beneath the Southern hospitality and sun-dappled streets.

In this heartfelt Southern love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a daring fireman rescues a single mom—and learns that falling in love is the greatest risk of all. When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels...

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.

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So, when he returns to his house, devastated and...

Anastasia Burns has always known hardship. With her father, the one person who ever truly protected her, slowly succumbing to a deadly illness, she is forced to carry the weight of his legacy as she enters Spokehaven University, the prestigious academy where every step she takes echoes his name...

I'm snowed in. With a famous hockey player. My life has been a disaster. I've lost my job, my apartment, and my direction, so when my best friend suggests a week trip up to her house in Tahoe, I jump on the chance for a change in scenery. Only, I didn't anticipate Snowmageddon. I didn't...

This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series. ** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal...