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The brilliant, heart-warming debut novel from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Dummy and Man vs Toddler Frank is a miserable old curmudgeon. An agoraphobic recluse and widower whose only company is the 'ghost' of his wife, Marcie. He is estranged from friends and family and is entirely...

A heartwarming and hilarious new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of FRANK AND RED 'This might just be my feel-good read of the year . . . prepare to be transported back to the early 1980s and to lose your heart several times on the way back ' JANICE HALLETT 'Matt Coyne is a genius...

Being a professional clown was a great way to keep reality at arm's length, but now Frank Dean is heading rapidly and controversially towards the end of his life. On a turbulent filght to Switzerland, sitting between a glamorous stranger and a priest, Frank finds himself getting thrown in at the...

Life rarely stands still when you find yourself surrounded by a bunch of loveable crackpots. Certainly, that was the case for Frank and Stan. With their hugely successful "Le Mans" TT now behind them, thoughts turned to their next adventure and, inevitably, also to the topic of their own mortality.

For some boys fitting in means standing out. Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he's as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don't like brilliant, and they hate strange. What Frank longs for - aside from a father - is a friend.

It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home. In the golden age of...

Att vara Frank är inte alltid lätt. Han befinner sig mitt i livet och jobbar som kock på Berns i Stockholm. Frank är gift med Vibeke och tillsammans har de dottern Hanna. Frank och Vibeke har det bra tillsammans och det finns inte mycket att klaga på. Så ser kärleken ut: de har bestämt...

Bloomsbury presents Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, read by Kit Griffiths. The smash-hit national bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist from the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused...

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish control over the household to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in a state-owned tourist hotel. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary, a die-hard Fidelista who is sickened by the corruption he perceives all around him.

When tragedy strikes Marjette’s street, and an unexpected child shows up on the first day of school with an uncle who has all the class moms aflutter, Marjette is forced to contend with both her neighbor and her own heartache over losing the life she once thought was guaranteed.  

We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna's honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth--while he knows everything about the famous singer, his own father is a mystery. Tasked with giving a eulogy for a man he hardly knows, Danny sets out to uncover his dad’s past--an immigrant's tale of mid-twentieth-century America and the harsh realities of WWII lived in stark contrast to Frank Sinatra's famously extravagant life.

Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban Indianapolis neighborhood. He is twelve years old. Somewhere en route, he vanishes without a trace. Fourteen months later, Paul and Carol Gabriel are on the verge of abandoning all hope. Crushed by frustrating dead...

Die wilde Schönheit der Nordseeküste, ein geheimnisvolles Schiffswrack und zwei Frauen, verbunden durch das Meer. St. Peter, 1955: Tillas Welt ist das Meer. Sie will nicht heiraten, sondern tauchen. Nicht eingeengt werden, sondern die Freiheit der Wellen spüren. Dabei entdeckt sie in der Tiefe der Nordsee ein altes Schiffswrack, von dem sich die Fischer seit Generationen Legenden erzählen. In Tilla wächst der unbändige Wunsch, seine Geheimnisse zu lüften. Auf einer Nordseeinsel, 1633: Die junge Nes sucht mit ihrer Mutter in einem Beginenkonvent Zuflucht vor ihrer Vergangenheit.

Kamerke möchte einmal im Leben seine Frau betrügen, schließlich hat sie vorgelegt. Overbeck will endlich Antworten von seiner ersten großen Liebe. Turbo Krupke, der ewige Fußballplatzwart und beinahe Profi -Spieler, erhält einen mysteriösen Anruf.Was ist ein Raktenmann? Er hat das Leben genauso gut im Griff wie sich selbst, hadert nicht und vollbringt mindestens einmal die Woche Phänomenales.

Förster hat mit Fußball nichts am Hut. Trotzdem willigt er ein, seinem Freund Fränge beim Training einer Bochumer Jugendfußballmannschaft zu helfen. Schließlich geht es darum, Fränges Beziehung zu seinem Sohn Alex zu kitten. Pädagogische Unterstützung erhalten sie von dem Lehrer Brocki. Doch die drei erkennen schnell, dass es beim Fußball manchmal um mehr geht als ums Toreschießen.

In this audiobook Growing Up Poor in a Frank Lloyd Wright Home, The author discusses how a family tragedy turns from bad to worse; or so it seemed. A poor family moves into a home that quickly proves that "all that glitters aint gold." Was this really the plan of Frank Lloyd Wright; America's most famous and respected architect or God's Divine providence? This is truly an exhilarating story.

Christian Knight ist bekannt als der Sonnenschein der Familie, an dem einfach alles abzuprallen scheint. Dabei ahnt niemand, mit welcher Gewalt die Dunkelheit versucht, ihn für immer zu umgeben. Selbst Christian will es nicht wahrhaben und spielt sein Spiel weiter, bis ausgerechnet seine neue Haushälterin hinter sein Geheimnis kommt. Er versucht, sie mit leidenschaftlichem Zwang zum Schweigen zu bringen, aber Brooke ist keine Frau, die schweigt.

Kess, kurzweilig, komisch und mit tiefen Gefühlen. Das neue Hörbuch der Erfolgsautorin Jo Berger. Meine Freundin meint, ich hätte ein verlässliches Talent, die falschen Männer magisch anzuziehen. Liebe ist offenbar nicht mein Ding. Ansonsten geht's mir prima. Bis auf ein paar Kleinigkeiten: Ich habe nie genug Geld, zu kräftige Schenkel, zwei verrückte, beste Freundinnen. Und ein delikates Problem. Bridget nennt es Sahara im Schritt. Aber pst, nicht weitersagen. Sie meint, mein Ödland würde nur durch den richtigen Kerl wieder zur Oase werden. Ich meine, ich krieg das auch ohne in den Griff.

Marco, da Genova, s'imbarca alla volta di Buenos Aires per raggiungere sua madre, emigrata in Argentina per lavoro. La madre, ammalata, rifiuta di farsi curare; nel frattempo Marco compie un viaggio lungo e apparentemente senza speranza, sulle tracce dei vari spostamenti della famiglia presso cui sua madre è a servizio; da Buenos Aires Marco si sposta verso l'interno fino ai piedi delle Ande.