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Mitten im schwülen Pariser Sommer gibt das alte Auto von Thomas den Geist auf! Doch in der Metro, die er gezwungenermaßen nutzen muss, begegnet ihm eine bezaubernde Schönheit. Aber nicht nur sie bereitet ihm fortan schlaflose Nächte, auch die Verwüstungen in seinem Restaurant. Ella glaubt zu träumen, als ihr eines Morgens im Zug dieser großgewachsene Mann mit den faszinierend grünen Augen gegenübersteht. Was hat er mit dem Gemüse in den Taschen vor? Und warum verhält er sich so seltsam, als sie ihn näher kennenlernen will?

Der Lyoner Anwalt Gaspard Bernaux hat zwei Probleme am Hals: einen schwierigen Prozess, in dem er an der Unschuld seines Mandanten zweifelt, und das schöne Lächeln von Charlotte, der Enkelin seiner Mandantin. Charlotte Martin ist Psychologiestudentin und begeisterte Surferin. Die Einladung ihrer tot geglaubten Großmutter nach Lyon weckt ihr Misstrauen. Was will ihre Großmutter nach all den Jahren? Was verbirgt der Anwalt?

Alister Amato is rich, powerful, and feared by all who know the truth. He’s the Blood King, a mafia boss with a lust for blood and an infinite reach. Everything in me screams I should stay away. But when my Organized Crime Task Force is called to investigate the slaughter of a rival criminal syndicate, I know that isn’t an option. The way the men were killed is something I’ve only seen once before—eighteen years ago when my mother was murdered and I was orphaned. I don’t know how my mother wound up in the clutches of the mafia.

Die Nachricht vom plötzlichen Unfalltod seiner Mutter wirft François aus der Bahn und deckt Geheimnisse auf, die besser verborgen geblieben wären. Während er nach der Ursache forscht, ereilt ihn der Hilferuf seiner früheren Freundin Simone. Dabei geht es um den Verkauf eines kostbaren Gemäldes im Besitz ihrer Familie. Beim Versuch, das Rätsel ihrer Familien zu lösen, geraten sie immer tiefer in Verstrickungen, die Jahrzehnte zurückreichen und ihr beider Leben verändert. Und als wäre das nicht schon Aufregung genug, flammt ihre alte Liebe wieder auf.

Der zweite Band der großem Hotel- und Familiensaga von Bestseller-Autorin Charlotte Roth und eine große Liebesgeschichte. Odessa 1920 - 1935. Sie scheinen alles zu besitzen, von dem andere im Weltensturm der Zwanziger Jahre träumen: Nach außen hin schwelgen Oda und Belle, die Wahl-Schwestern des Grandhotel Odessa, in Schönheit, Reichtum, Glamour und Liebesglück, doch was im Innern an ihnen nagt, bekommt niemand zu sehen. In den blutigen Jahren des Bürgerkriegs gelingt es der ewig kämpfenden Oda, das Hotel als Oase fern des Alltags zu erhalten.

Das ist Kino für die Ohren! Die beliebten Hörspiel-Geschichten natürlich mit Chaschper, der Grossmueter, dem König Ratata, der Hexe Hutzelrock, der Prinzessin Silberhaar, dem Zauberer Knurrunkulus, dem Diener Schwafli u.v.a!

Caroline McAlister, college professor and lifelong skeptic, is reeling from the loss of her father and her marriage. Her once promising career has come to a standstill. When her father bequeaths the family cabin to her, it comes with a ghost who haunted her childhood. When she discovers a century-old journal in the attic, she awakens the voice of Carson Quinn. The journal reveals Carson's love for the same hollow that enthralled Caroline growing up. A little sleuthing uncovers rumors that the kind, curious boy in the journal grew up to murder his brother. 

Emma, Aiden et Gina s’apprêtent à entamer une nouvelle vie. Après le traumatisme de l'enlèvement d'Aiden puis sa réapparition, ils guérissent lentement et renouent avec une normalité fragile. Emma cherche désespérément à protéger ses enfants, mais le monde est fasciné par Aiden, l'enfant silencieux qui apprend enfin à s’exprimer avec ses propres mots.

New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers her latest pulse-pounding suspense novel, where the line between the virtual world and everyday reality blurs when it comes to murder. Eve Wilson's face was once scarred by a vicious assault. Terrified and ashamed, she escaped to the online...

This guide features interviews with 30 change-making creators—many of whom are internationally renowned—who boldly push the boundaries of fashion and beauty. Each conversation offers moments of insight, fascinating discoveries, and highlights enriching journeys that are sure to spark your creativity and inspire your personal style.

Six decades after Virginia Woolf's death, landscape designer Jo Bellamy has come to Sissinghurst Castle for two reasons: to study the celebrated White Garden created by Woolfs lover Vita Sackville-West and to recover from the terrible wound of her grandfathers unexplained suicide. In the shadow of one of England's most famous castles, Jo makes a shocking find: Woolfs last diary, its first entry dated the day after she allegedly killed herself.

Ein Schicksalsschlag verändert das Leben von Shona MacLean über Nacht: Ihre Schwester Freya, die auf der Insel Islay ein B&B führt und sich als alleinerziehende Mutter durchschlägt, hatte einen schweren Unfall. Sofort reist Shona nach Islay, um sich um die Pension und ihre Nichte Erin zu kümmern. Diese zeigt Shona eine Brosche, die sie beim Spazierengehen gefunden hat. Offensichtlicht stammt das Schmuckstück aus der Wikingerzeit. Gemeinsam beginnen Shona und Erin, die Geschichte der alten Brosche zu erforschen – unterstützt von Gavin Ramsay, dem sympathischen Inhaber einer kleinen Destillerie.

Emma Sinclair, a college sophomore struggling to make ends meet, stumbles upon a job listing for a bartender at a place called Dark Paradise. Desperate for cash, she takes the night shift without much thought, despite the bar’s ominous name and the strange aura surrounding it. When she meets her employer, the enigmatic and charismatic Lucien Graves, she realizes Dark Paradise is far from an ordinary bar.

What Maisie Knew was first published as a serial in the Chap Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later in the same year. The story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and irresponsible parents, What Maisie Knew has great contemporary relevance as an unflinching account of a wildly dysfunctional family. The book is also a masterly technical achievement by James, as it follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.

We're surrounded by food portions we've been led to believe are normal-64-ounce sodas, personal pizzas large enough to feed several people, and steaks and pastas that fill an entire plate. No wonder obesity rates in America have reached an all-time high. We eat oversize portions, gain weight...

JB runs the Adept Solutions Agency for the magickally challenged with help from his maverick team of hybrid supernaturals: Zhanna and Nikki and the psychically gifted twins Jason and Gemma. They’re resourceful, determined, and will do everything they can to solve their cases.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Iris Johansen returns with a thrilling novel of action and danger where fan favorite Eve Duncan is thrown once more into a deadly game of intrigue. It begins when Eve receives a package containing a skull - and instructions for Eve to do her work reconstructing it. When she does, a beautiful woman's face emerges. But when Eve is introduced to the dead woman's mirror image, a game is on where her twin's life hangs in the balance.

It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. But all that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiancé (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic notebooks, which may hold clues to the missing funds.

Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands.