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Deuce Mora’s one tough cookie: a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude; fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. In Jean Heller’s first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist, Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime, you have to be tough—and you’d better be as much detective as reporter. When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicago—all six feet of her, topped with auburn curls—she’s searching for a human-interest story.

Francine and her twin brother Philip share a powerful bond in childhood that fades as they became young adults. When Philip unexpectedly becomes intensely religious, his sister decides to join his Christian youth group and soon becomes infatuated with the youth pastor. Obsessed by this transgression and what he sees as his sister's moral impropriety, Philip eventually uncovers a dark secret that threatens to shatter his faith and estranges the two siblings for decades.

Marcie Anderson is stuck in a dangerous, loveless marriage. Trapped in the woods miles away from the nearest town, a decent phone, and the family she left behind, Marcie is at the whims of her husband’s foul moods. But she’s not alone.

Foreign correspondent Christine Toomey spent years renovating her glorious, long-abandoned hill-top home in Le Marche, Italy, as a haven of rest from covering crises around the world. But in 2016, the peace and beauty of this beloved landscape were thrown into chaos when a series of powerful earthquakes struck the heart of the Apennines. Wracked with grief for a place still reverberating with seismic aftershocks, Christine set out on a journey of discovery through the history of a landscape that gave birth to so much of Western culture and civilisation.

Please Be Advised is award-winning author Christine Sneed's bright, irreverent send-up of corporate America in the 21st century. Mixing cultural critique and formal inventiveness with wicked laughs and the sort of surrealistic mysteries only a novel about the corporate world could give us, Please Be Advised tracks the decline, fall, and possible resurrection of Quest Industries, one of the world's foremost purveyors of collapsible, portable, and (occasionally) dangerous office machines.

Using the same careful and systematic exegesis that should be used for interpreting all books of the Bible, The Final Exodus brings clarity and understanding to a book that is often misinterpreted in chaotic and irresponsible ways.

Sophie Atherton knows a liar when she sees one. Perhaps because she's so skilled at deception herself. Searching for clues to a string of mysterious deaths, the secret operative for the Crown has connived her way into a phony medium's confidence. When a dashing archaeologist seeks out the charlatan's services, Sophie suspects he's after more than a long-lost heirloom. Their electric attraction storms her defenses, but loving the rakish scholar would threaten her investigation and the life she's crafted.

When the Reverend Elaine Metcalfe is inducted as the vicar of Pontvale, she hopes the job will have more to it than lending out spare sets of keys. She soon discovers there's plenty of challenges in her new home - not least the daily needs of her parishioners, which range from community theatre productions, arranging a wedding and a funeral for the same day, and local scandal over the vicar's culottes.

Sonne, Strand und Meer: Teresa liebt ihr Leben auf Mallorca. In ihrem kleinen Laden an einer Bucht verkauft sie, was sie am liebsten mag: Strandkleider und Taschen aus Blumentextilien. Als der attraktive Simon sie als Blütenköchin für ein Event auf seiner Jacht anfragt, zögert sie. Zuletzt hat sie für ihre verstorbene Mutter ein Blütengericht zubereitet. Als Teresa ausgerechnet über Simon ein aufwühlender letzter Brief ihrer Mutter erreicht, steht er ihr zur Seite und die beiden kommen sich näher. Doch ein Geheimnis lastet auf ihrer aufkeimenden Liebe.

Christine Westermann, preisgekrönte Journalistin und Bestsellerautorin, genießt mit ihren Buchempfehlungen großes Vertrauen bei einem breiten Publikum. Bücher sind aus ihrem heutigen Leben nicht wegzudenken, sie sind für sie Fenster in ein fremdes Leben. Dabei war ihr Weg zu den Büchern kein selbstverständlicher, eher ein Hindernislauf. Elegant, ehrlich und mit wunderbarer Selbstironie erzählt Christine Westermann, wie sie zu den Büchern (und Thomas Mann) fand – und begibt sich dabei auf eine fesselnde Zeitreise in ihre eigene, von Brüchen gezeichnete Familiengeschichte.

Abi Williams dreams of being a writer, but her parents and her bank account tell her she needs a real job. Stewart Vincent doesn’t like change. So when his long-time assistant quits on him right before the holidays, he dreads the process of finding someone new.

"Mon corps est une arme. Ma patience est létale." Après les terribles événements survenus sous le dôme de Kilda, le royaume de Drewid est menacé. Depuis les noces de Tristan et Nova, la guerre fait rage entre les clans picte et namnette. Guerrier redoutable de la tribu picte, Lennon lutte depuis des années contre Lyham de Brocéliande. Usé par les répercussions des actes terribles de son clan et le poids des responsabilités, il voit en une esclave de sa cour une âme qui lui ressemble, et peut-être une alliée.

In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. In addition to events at court and in parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes, we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heart—the greatest city of its time.

Thomas confronts the leader of the Unceasing in their hidden Albuquerque base and Haddie follows close behind. Detective Cooper, the coerced FBI, and the Unceasing’s thugs hunt her and her friends until no one is safe. Haddie won’t be able to return to Eugene, not until her or her dad stop the Unceasing. What waits under the hills of Coyote Canyon will shock them all and threatens to be more than Haddie can handle.

In 2001, Christine Yanke’s life was turned upside down after police raided her family’s home and arrested her Hells Angel husband. Suddenly an unemployed single mother of three boys, she had to fight to keep her home and family together. For the next three years, her husband awaited a trial that would determine their future together as a family. Blinded by an Angel is the true story of one woman’s struggle to survive mental, physical, and financial hardships.

The Spraggs, a wealthy family of Midwesterners, are visiting New York City to marry off their beautiful daughter Undine. While Undine's beauty catches the attention of several high-society men, she finds it difficult to fit in with the old-money social circles that rule New York. When she finally marries Ralph Marvell, she embraces a life full of frivolities, which eventually leads to her tumultuous demise.

Beth Andrews weiß genau, wie ihr Traummann sein sollte, leider ist dieser weit und breit nicht in Sicht. Als sie kurz vor Weihnachten auch noch ihren Job verliert und ihr Wagen in einem Schneesturm liegen bleibt, scheint sie am Tiefpunkt ihres Lebens angekommen zu sein. Gestrandet in Silver Creek ist sie auf die Hilfe von Richard angewiesen – einem Mann, der abweisend und zynisch ist und allein in einem ehemaligen Hotel haust. Mit dieser Frau, die unverhofft vor seiner Tür steht, möchte er nichts zu tun haben.

When Nar’s boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk strangers in a San Francisco bar, she realises it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother who wants Nar to settle down with a nice Armenia boy. Armed with a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked men, she convinces Nar to attend 'Explore Armenia', a month-long festival of events in the city. But it’s not the parentally-approved playboy doctor or wealthy engineer who catches her eye—it’s Erebuni, a cool and intriguing young woman.

From her attic in the Arizona mountains, 34-year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a miniature mansion - a dolls' house—which captivates thousands of readers worldwide. Myra’s stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade photographs of the Mansion rooms and swap theories about the enigmatic author. Myra herself is tethered to the Mansion by a strange magic she can’t understand—rooms that appear and disappear overnight, music that plays in its corridors.

Silver and Spot sat all alone in the big woods above the bay. Tall trees and large bushes surrounded them, and below the forest the harbor glistened. It was a gorgeous sight. But the beauty of the day was lost on the sad kittens. The day before, Mother had gone out to find food and never came back. Her babies were only six weeks old and didn't know how to hunt or take care of themselves yet. They missed the warmth of their mother. At night, the trees seemed scary, as did the bay that reflected the moon.