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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LOCUS AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL NEBULA AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL LONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO GLASS BELL AWARD WINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As...

The Sunday Times bestseller is back, with his biggest adventure yet. The perfect read for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob. As the residents of Edgar Road know, Alfie is no ordinary cat. Since his arrival in the street, he's made every house his home, helping this group of neighbours to become...

Leonie Dysart había estado trabajando en el extranjero desde que rompió su compromiso con el guapo constructor inmobiliario Jonah Savage. Pero echaba de menos a su numerosa y vivaz familia y su acogedora casa de campo, Friars Wood, en las afueras de Pennington. Leonie regresó para celebrar el...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. George and Anne: A Story of Forgiveness Can one act of forgiveness heal eighteen years of regret? George and Anne Benson built a life centered on faith, family, and unconditional love. But when a stroke changes his father’s life, their only son...

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Winner of the Kirkus fiction prize ‘You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I created...

Bwoke is a collection of five stories about love, identity, and the fragile space between perception and truth. Spanning continents and generations, its characters are flawed, searching, and unforgettable—each confronting the stories they tell themselves and the histories they inherit. A frugal Canadian family stretches beyond its means for an all-inclusive vacation, discovering that real wealth lies in connection, not appearances.

Join Mango Monkey on his exciting adventures in the big city, where he visits his Uncle Billy and his family. Leaving his home, the Jungle, for a short vacation. Mango Monkey sees how different everything is in the city from the Jungle and he got to play with his cousins, Titi and Tito. Mango...

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one...

Oregon, 1925. Like his semi-reclusive parents, ten-year-old George Graham doesn’t have friends, preferring to live inside the safe and predictable world of his books. This all changes when his classmate Louise Pearson, new to town, befriends him. Curious about his family’s secrets, and with plenty of her own, the pair become an irrepressible, inseparable team, bantering and bickering their way through what turns out to be an unforgettable summer.

“A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home. It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America...

Bestseller-Autorin Nina George kehrt zurück auf das Bücherschiff und erzählt eine bewegende, bezaubernde und kluge Geschichte über Freundschaft, das Lesen und alle Facetten der Liebe. Monsieur Perdu ist mit seinem Bücherschiff Lulu wieder in Paris. In seiner »Pharmacie Littéraire«, der Literarischen Apotheke, folgt der leidenschaftliche Buchhändler seiner Berufung: Menschen und Bücher zusammenzubringen, damit jede Maladie von Herz und Seele mit der richtigen Geschichte geheilt werden kann. Unterstützt wird Perdu bei dieser unendlichen Aufgabe von der jungen Pauline Lahbibi.

Lost Pigeons follows the lives of two brothers, Chris and Michael, growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s. One brother goes off to war, while the other goes into sales. The soldier comes back and finds luck winning the lottery, falling in love, and getting married. Luck, however, suddenly turns its back on him as he finds himself irreparably damaged in his personal life and the tours of duty, leading him to ultimately devise his own end.

Von Sehnsucht, Sinn und Sinnlichkeit: ein intensiver, poetischer Roman von Bestseller-Autorin Nina George über die Liebe und das Leben vor der beeindruckenden Kulisse der bretonischen Küste. Die angesehene Pariser Verhaltensbiologin Claire sehnt sich immer verzweifelter danach, zu spüren, dass sie noch lebt und nicht nur funktioniert. Die junge Julie wartet auf etwas, das sie innerlich in Brand steckt – auf des Lebens Rausch, auf Farben, Mut und Leidenschaft. Ein Sommer in der Bretagne, am Ende der Welt, führt die beiden unterschiedlichen Frauen zusammen.

Manhattan domestic violence counselor Zoe Anderson is going on the most important vacation of her life. Her Cinderella dreams shattered three years ago, leaving her a scarred widow, inside and out. In an attempt to bury her demons, Zoe sets out for picturesque Lake George to claim the treasured family cottage she recently inherited - a place where she found happiness before. Her therapist's advice: reboot, restore to an earlier time. What she finds is a rundown shack.