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Calvin M. Bennett knows how to walk into a room and make it behave. He’s built a life on control—sharp suits, sharper arguments, outcomes he can predict. Then he walks away. In New Orleans, he becomes Cal: a man with a trumpet he hasn’t touched in years, a knife roll he doesn’t fully trust himself to open, and a job in Miss Jo’s kitchen—an old-school neighborhood restaurant where the food is real, the standards are higher than the pay, and nobody is impressed by who you used to be. Cal wants to stay quiet. Cook. Learn. Start over without performing for anyone.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 'A classic of Italian gay fiction . . . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief' NEW YORK TIMES 'Beautiful and poignant' THE TIMES 'A stunning novel...

Get ready to meet the toughest, deadliest, and most calculated players in Manchester's murky underworld... HE'S GOT EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL. You don't know Craig Malton. Hopefully you never will - until you need his help, help that the police can't give you. As well as running a respectable...

When Pippa comes across a young man standing on the edge of a deserted bridge, little does she know her next phone call will be part of a chain of events that will reverberate through the lives of 13 people she will never meet.

Last Call is a story of redemption. It follows the life of Tommy Boyle, an addict whose life has spiralled to a low bottom and seems to have lost all meaning. The story is told by a third party unrelated to the events within the novel. He is a man named Joe who receives what is to be the last in a series of calls Tommy Boyle is making from a pay phone to members of his family. Joe was never meant to be the recipient of the call but the call would impact him forever.

A widow, Camille Young, wants nothing more but to have someone to call her own; with the right man of course. Just when she thinks she found him in Greg Langston–a smart, sexy, and brilliant attorney–who is very married and expecting his first child with his wife Michelle, their future gets put on hold. When things don’t go Camille's way as she hoped, the pain of her past resurfaces.

What if you got a second chance with your first love? What happens when you meet your teenage heart-throb - when you're both all grown up? When Cassie was fifteen, all she wanted was to marry Jesse Franklin, the bassist from her favourite band, Franko. Now she's single, in her late twenties and wondering what happened to that teenage dream. A chance encounter on Facebook soon leads to a transatlantic hookup, and soon, Jesse and Cassie are having a long-distance love affair spanning five thousand miles.

Ein hinreißender italienischer Liebesroman... der Lust auf Urlaub, Liebe und Sommer macht ... Julia reist von Hamburg nach Rom, um endlich einmal den Urlaub zu genießen, den sie möchte. Ihre Scheidung liegt schon drei Jahre zurück und nun fühlt sie sich bereit für ein neues Leben. Ihr Sohn Sebastian schließt sich ihr an, doch von ihm kriegt sie nicht viel zu sehen, denn er gestaltet seine eigenen Ferien. Also verbringt Julia ihre Zeit mit Bruno, dem Vermieter ihres Ferienhauses.