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Brought to you by Penguin. Bridget Jones is mad about the boy – the gloriously funny and heartwarming million-copy bestseller, now a major film starring Renée Zellweger. What do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s 30th? Is it morally wrong to...

Perry Street hates school. She hates her peers - most of them anyway - and she hates her classes. All she wants to do is finish her senior year, graduate, and find a place that will give her a full scholarship so that she doesn’t have to be stuck here forever. That’s her goal, anyway. Then she walks into first period, on her first day of her senior year, and sits down. Seconds later, he walks in and changes every single plan she’s ever made. It isn’t long before Perry starts to fall for the bad boy who doesn’t care who he does and doesn’t impress.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer _______________________________________________________ Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues...

Is being voted "most likely to: never have their first kiss" by the popular crowd at school the end of the world? Probably not, but I’m still not convinced. Is choosing my best friend’s twin brother as my first kiss the best choice? Ha, not in the slightest. But when he walks into his kitchen after midnight shirtless, inspiration strikes.

GYM. TAN. MERMAN. Welcome to the Jersey Shore, where the men are hot, the sun is sizzling, and the boardwalk’s seen it all…until now. After years of living on the Shore, Hannah Bell is sure two things are true: The family B&B is her future. Men like Xander—mysterious, charming, and...

Eindelijk! Vanaf Valentijnsdag 2025 in de bioscoop te zien! Veertien jaar nadat ze Mark Darcy heeft ontmoet gebeurt er nog van alles in het leven Bridget. Maar ondanks de nieuwe uitdagingen van online daten, alleenstaand ouderschap, veranderende kledingmaten en verbijsterend complexe apparatuur, is ze nog steeds dezelfde onbedwingbare en innemende persoon die we ons allemaal herinneren van de eerdere boeken (en films!).

From the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club comes another fast, funny, soulful, and sexy novel about friendship and love amid Latinas. It's a jungle out there -- in Los Angeles, that is, where the tangle of freeways and ingrained insincerity can make a girl feel very alone, no matter how...

While I was off pitching in the big leagues, my family was back in the small town of Sweetwater, Texas, running the family ranch. Then tragedy hit and I discovered there were secrets that my family kept, problems they hid. I went home, left behind the money, women, and fame. I took over the ranch, took care of my grandmother, and took over hiding the secrets. Then she came to town. A smart-mouthed, clumsy, too-smart-and-too-pretty good city girl hiding out to write a book, in the cottage my grandmother rented her without my permission, and she sees too much. She knows too much.

Wie konntest du mir das antun? Wie konntest du dich nur in mich verlieben? Glaubst du an das Schicksal? Ich auch nicht, bis ich Ethan Carnahan kennenlerne. Trotz seiner unzähligen Frauengeschichten hilft mir dieser gut aussehende Kerl, mich in meinem neuen Leben zurechtzufinden, und ist DER perfekte beste Freund. Ein Kuss scheint alles zu verändern und endlich wage ich es, ihm zu gestehen, dass ich mich in ihn verliebt habe. Dann knallt er mir die Wahrheit vor die Brust, so hart und fest, dass ich glaube, ich muss sterben.