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Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice normal relationship...and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and someone who has never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. He’s perfect boyfriend material.

Alex Claremont-Diaz is handsome, charismatic, a genius--pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House ever since his mother first became President of the United States. There’s only one problem. When the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between Alex and Prince Henry, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.

At a countryside hotel, guests watch an amateur play. One of the actors, Antoinette de Courcy, is infatuated with Hester Cawthorn, a reserved and alluring woman. Dennis Blackwood, a gifted composer, is intrigued by Antoinette, sensing that they are alike. He meets Alan, and the two are instantly attracted to each other. Unlike Antoinette’s determined pursuit of Hester, Dennis wholly represses his sexuality.

Exeter, 1925. Della Wilde has set aside her dream of moving to Paris to study at the renowned Le Cordon Bleu, choosing instead to support her family torn apart by war. By night, she works at the prestigious Ambrose Café, serving the city's elite - she feels utterly invisible. Until a chance encounter with rebellious Alice Winters, the daughter of a powerful MP, upends Della's world. Alice is a woman caught between duty and desire. She secretly yearns to be an artist but is expected to marry a respectable suitor and raise a family.

Nicht nur für Hannah ist Zeit relativ. Ganz besonders in ihrem zweiten faszinierenden Zeitreise-Abenteuer. Drei Frauen begegnen sich in drei spannenden Geschichten, durch die Jahrzehnte getrennt, auf wundersame Weise. Für Hannah ist es nicht der erste Ausflug in die Vergangenheit, aber mit der RAF hatte sie es bisher noch nicht zu tun. „Gras“ hat sie auch noch nie geraucht, und sie kommt aus dem Staunen nicht heraus. Eine geheimnisvolle alte Dame macht sie darauf aufmerksam, dass sie im Jahr 1972 ihre beste Freundin retten muss.

Tania’s love life is a series of false starts, until she meets Mara—a captivating friend who feels like more. When Tania asks Mara to help her lose her virginity, boundaries blur, and desires ignite. As passion and vulnerability collide, the two must decide if their bond can survive the risks of crossing the line from friendship to something more.

Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples—Tillie and Ruth, and their best friends, James and Ernesto—trying to navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they are in just by being who they are. The novel jumps between the twenties and thirties and the early nineties and a young woman named Thea. Thea is dealing with the onset of her grandmother's dementia, and discovers secrets hidden away that her grandmother never intended for her to uncover.

When you’re on the run from the mob, the last thing you should do is fall in love…Indy’s become an expert at surviving. He’s survived being a mobster’s lover. He’s survived a brutal attack on his life. He’s survived being on the run, on his own, his heart firmly closed. After all, who could want him? Until he meets former army medic Noah and his friends-with-benefits Josh. Noah and Josh take him into their home after Indy gets hurt, and he discovers they’re as broken and damaged as he is. Indy finds himself opening up to them, first with his body, then with his heart.

Liam is excited with his first semester at college, but nowhere near as stirred up as he is on his first day with the cross-country ski team! The coach is one of the most handsome men he has ever seen, blond-haired, blue eyed, and athletic. But right away, Liam notices something different about the ski coach. Something in the way he scans the crowd of excited freshman that are eager to make the team. It is almost as if Coach is looking for something, trying to see that spark of interest that he craves

A year has passed since Sam Phillips found love again. No longer willing to waste another moment on loneliness, and with life running as smoothly as it could be, neither she nor Luciana were prepared for what was to come. Work and relationships were more than enough to handle—and at times, too much—so why did the universe throw more than necessary at them? One call will change everything—the potential for their lives to fall apart staring them both in the face. Chaos and devastation will threaten to ruin everything they’ve built, but Sam and Luciana refuse to be beaten.

I’d never hidden the type of guy I was to anyone. Geeky, nerdy and unashamed of the presence I brought to a room. It was meant to be only one night. Hot, steamy and passionate… Where the geek actually got the unattainable god. Except he changed the rules and decided that he wanted more. I never expected when I jumped at the opportunity of my dream career that he’d be there. It was as if the stars had aligned up in the sky and were giving me a sign. But am I truly enough for this… for him even?

Después de 13 años de una sólida vida como pareja, solo una cosa parece ensombrecer su relación: cada día Jimmy está más convencido de que tienen que convertirse en padres. La idea es adoptar un bebé que complete la felicidad de la pareja. El problema es que para la gente como Mauricio y como Jimmy no será tan fácil formar una familia.

En esta historia hay gente de todo tipo. Está, por ejemplo, Mauricio quien es un joven mexicano que llega a Miami para forjarse un futuro. Él es guapo, sensible y sueña con convertirse en un gran fotógrafo. Pero también está Jimmy, quien es profesor universitario, un apasionado de la política y del acontecer actual y alguien que sueña con algún día poder convertirse en padre de familia.

Mae and Ari are not your average power couple. Their love story started when they met at Leeds University. Back when Mae, whilst never short of a date and confident about who she is at her core, needed Ari's bright light to help her grow into herself. Ari, having run from New York following an undisclosed scandal and battling his own demons, held onto Mae as his grounding anchor. Though they quickly become inseparable, their inimitable bond must survive guilt, secrets, growing up and, ultimately, love in all its complex and fluid forms.

In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel’s life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori—a kind, lonely Japanese immigrant. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library, desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry. As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures and opposing geniuses.

A mind-expanding literary debut composed of memory, music and imagination. A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain. No memories beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment. No directions, as written words have long since been forbidden. No parents - just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them.

Die amerikanische Professorin Kathryn Dunn tritt ihre neue Stelle als Institutsleiterin an einer deutschen Universität an. Schon am ersten Tag lernt sie ihre Assistentin Nicolle Vonneun kennen: groß, blond, athletisch und - äußerst effizient. Höflichkeitsfloskeln, soziale Interaktionen, Gefühle, alles irrelevant. Magisch angezogen von der nordischen Schönheit versucht Kathryn professionelle Distanz zu wahren, doch letztlich ist Widerstand zwecklos.

Als Kunststudentin in notorischer Geldnot nimmt Anna den Job als Aktmodell bei ihrer Professorin an. Von Sitzung zu Sitzung gewöhnt sie sich immer mehr sowohl an die Nacktheit als auch an die raue Kälte, die ihr die schroffe Malerin stets entgegenbringt. Doch eines Tages verlangt die Professorin etwas, das eine Grenze sprengt - aber gleichzeitig den Beginn einer ungewöhnlichen Beziehung markiert.

Behind the Throne begins K. B. Wagers's action-packed science fiction adventure, with a heroine as rebellious as Han Solo, as savvy as Leia, and as skilled as Rey. Hail Bristol has made a name for herself as one of the most fearsome gunrunners in the galaxy. But she can't escape her past forever: Twenty years ago, she was a runaway princess of the Indranan Empire. Now, her mother's people have finally come to bring her home.