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Samantha Fisher never thought filming a music documentary of the up-and-coming rock band, Indigo King, would turn into a personal nightmare. But Matt Sturridge, the hot and mysterious drummer, seems to have made driving Samantha crazy his sole mission in life.

Amanda Beth Luker has spent her whole life desperately looking for someone who can show her the way out of her trailer park Florida town. And then, finally, help arrives - in the form of Tom Davis, a successful lawyer with political aspirations who grew up just a few towns over from Amanda. But it's his wife, Lindsay, who really captures Amanda's imagination. Strong, smart, and determined, she gives Amanda something she's never had: a role model.

Eine Beerdigung führt 2016 den Rostocker Kay und seine Clique aus Schulzeiten wieder zusammen. Erinnerungen werden wach: an die unbeschwerte Jugend Anfang der 80er Jahre, aber auch an geplatzte Träume und die Enge des DDR-Systems. Die acht Freunde galten als unzertrennlich, vertrauen einander zutiefst – bis der erste aus der Clique wegen versuchter Republikflucht verhaftet wird.

Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to heroin. His mum has kicked him out of home in a last-ditch move to help him get straight, and he wanders the streets of South Melbourne, living on his wits and sleeping rough–all the while chasing drugs, dreams and love. Desperate to fund his addiction, Aaron climbs into the car of The Man, a distinguished elderly gentleman willing to pay for a certain kind of relationship.

Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married to his late wife, Lily. Grief has hollowed him… until he sees a woman with his wife’s inimitable beauty on the streets of Manhattan. He whisks her up to his towering penthouse, protectively under guard, nestling her in dark opulence where Lily’s memory is a possessive beguiling force.

Lange trauerte Kane um seine geliebte Lily. Da taucht sie plötzlich wieder auf. Ist es ein Wunder? Oder ist es Wahnsinn? Seit sechs Jahren ist der steinreiche Witwer Kane Black gefangen in der Trauer um seine tödlich verunglückte Frau Lily. In seinem exklusiven Penthouse in Manhattan führt er ein luxuriöses, aber einsames Leben, das durchdrungen ist von der Sehnsucht nach ihr. Da taucht sie plötzlich wieder auf – kann es sein, dass sie den mysteriösen Bootsunfall damals überlebt hat? Seine Familie hat da so seine Zweifel. Gemeinsam führen sie das milliardenschwere Kosmetikimperium Baharan.

During World War II many escape-line organizations contributed to the Allied cause by funneling hundreds of servicemen out of occupied Europe. As the Germans tightened their noose, the risk of discovery only grew for the servicemen who needed safe passage across the Pyrenees. In early 1944 two important escape-line organizations operated in southwestern France, handing over many fugitives to French passeur Jean-Louis Bazerque. Along with several of his successful missions, his only failure as a passeur is recounted in gripping detail in So Close to Freedom.

This is a book celebrating the incredible, awesome, special individual within each of us. It's also a book for anyone who has ever mismatched her shoes or trimmed her own bangs when a professional might have been a better choice or added too much soap to the washer and watched it overflow.

Growing up Derek Evans was a good student and athlete in a middle-class suburban area in southeastern Pennsylvania. The future looked bright for Derek. Then everything changed. After months of not feeling right and several doctors' visits, Derek was diagnosed with a disorder called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (P.O.T.S.). Derek managed to keep his illness a secret from almost everyone, in fear of being judged and not understood, but now has found a passion to let the truth out about his illness. It is time to bring awareness.

Antonia is ready for her life to start. A young woman from a small town in southern Italy, she wants to pursue her long-held dream of writing a novel. But when she moves to Milan and meets the alluring and charismatic Vittorio, he upends her world and changes her priorities. Their whirlwind relationship is as thrilling as it is painful: he doesn't share Antonia's faith in love and can't reciprocate her feelings.

In this novel for middle graders, thirteen-year-old Quinn and her friends try to adjust to life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Follow the life of Zane Pierce, a man with a strong admiration for the stars who suddenly finds his dreams haunted by a beautiful woman named Amaris. As he continues to see Amaris, Zane soon finds himself consumed by his dreams and the world they surround him with. Dreams soon turn to reality, and Zane discovers he is a part of a much bigger picture than he could have ever imagined.

Set in the 1990s in San Francisco. June is a single mom raising her son Brooklyn in the heart of the Mission district. His grandmother Beverley, who has dementia, kidnaps him one day after-school. She hires two dangerous men to help her. Beverley kidnaps Brooklyn because she is playing out an event from her past. Now June and her ex-husband Stuart are thrust into the role of amateur detective. Will they be able to find Brooklyn before something bad happens to him?

Read by the author. How well do you know the Holy Spirit? How clearly do you hear His voice? How real is He in your everyday life? Bestselling author and creator of the Midnight Mom Devotional community Becky Thompson invites you into a closer relationship with the Holy Spirit by scripturally...

It’s a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back… and he’s got helpers. As The Pretender’s disciples perpetrate their sick homages – stretching police and FBI dangerously thin – Taylor tries desperately to prepare for their inevitable showdown. And she must do it alone. To be close to her is to be in mortal danger, and she won’t risk losing anyone she loves.

Traumatized by her final case as a psychologist, Stella only feels truly safe hidden away in the isolated house she shares with her husband, Max. Then Blue appears in the middle of a snow-storm, begging to be let in. As secrets and lies gradually seep out of the young girl, Stella’s tightly controlled world begins to unravel.

When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk a bad end. Despite their warnings, Teddy is desperate to see what really hides behind the doors of his shop. Ada moved to Rye with her young son to escape a damaged childhood but she’s lonely and ostracised by the community.

"This book feels like a real conversation. When we enter Retta's world we are at the best party and in the hands of a gracious, self-perceptive, and deeply hilarious host." — Amy Poehler This program is read by the author. In this hilarious audiobook essay collection, Parks and Recreation star...

God wants you to know, feel, and believe in his love and presence in your life each and every day—so don't put him off any longer!

In The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I), sportswriter Tom Callahan brings to life the most fascinating - and often least understood - figures in the world of sports. This is the ultimate collection of Callahan’s sports profiles, with subjects ranging from Muhammad Ali to Pete Rose, and Joe Montana to Michael Jordan. Based on decades of sports reporting as well as featuring material original to this book, The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I) takes athletes we thought we knew and reveals how wrong we often are. This is a rare and surprising work of reportage that will appeal to sports fans and non–sports fans alike.