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Et si les mots d’autrefois avaient le pouvoir de changer le présent ? Au lycée, Hannah avait craqué pour Paul, mais elle a étouffé ses sentiments naissants pour laisser place à une amitié sincère et solide. Dix-sept ans plus tard, leur relation est ce qui compte le plus pour la jeune...

Quand elle le rencontre, Rose – et la lettre – ne sont pas les bienvenues. Rose fait tout pour convaincre Scott de l'accompagner pour faire la lumière sur un douloureux secret familial. Mais ni l'un ni l'autre ne pouvaient se douter qu'ils trouveraient l'amour sur un chemin aussi chaotique.

Finding Hester explores the untold story of Hester Leggatt, a woman who helped trick the Nazis, and is a fascinating read for fans of West End musical Operation Mincemeat and anyone with an interest in women’s war stories Operation Mincemeat is one of the stranger tales to come out of the...

Cuando la inminente e incomprensible adultez amenaza con despojarla de su magia y sus tristezas, una niña, respaldada por sus leales amigos imaginarios, deberá aferrarse a la rebeldía de la fantasía infantil para demostrar que crecer no tiene por qué significar renunciar a lo asombroso...

La maggior parte delle scuole aspira all'eccellenza. Ma non la Calder Academy. Rifugio dei reietti, di chi infrange le regole o perde il controllo, la scuola è l'incubo a occhi aperti di ogni creatura sovrannaturale. E lo sa bene Clementine, che è intrappolata sull'isola dove sorge l'accademia e non ha alcuna possibilità di scappare. Ogni diciassettenne pensa che la madre sia una tiranna, ma la sua è proprio la temibile preside della scuola, e Clementine sa di essere un bersaglio facile. Per questo evita per quanto possibile sia le situazioni pericolose che i suoi coetanei, bravissimi a seminare il caos.

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

When Kate Cleary’s son, Jake, dies at his elite liberal arts college, she refuses to believe it was the suicide it appeared to be. Something sinister is at play, and Kate becomes determined to retrace Jake’s steps during his final days. Descending into a spiral of obsession that threatens her grip on reality, Kate falls farther into a dangerous mystery even as she gets closer to the terrifying truth that Jake himself wanted to keep hidden.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

Nutzen Sie Xing und LinkedIn, um im Beruf weiterzukommen? Ja? Sind Sie sich sicher, alle Möglichkeiten dieser Netzwerke richtig zu nutzen? Nein? Dann hilft Ihnen dieses Buch. Stephan Koß und Constanze Wolff erklären Ihnen, was professionelles Netzwerken überhaupt ist und wie Sie das...

Über Unternehmerinnen im 18. Jahrhundert weiß man so gut wie nichts. Die Unbeirrbare erzählt die Geschichte einer Frau im Frankreich jener Zeit in einer Ära politischer Umstürze, in der Frauen weitgehend rechtlos und im öffentlichen Leben unsichtbar waren. In dieser Atmosphäre wächst...

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's fucked her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife.

At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back.

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. 

A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt. This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.

The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism.

Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the 20th century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. 

Tom and Nedith have been married for 30 years, but their marriage is one of convenience and finances. Their 22-year-old son, Peter, has recently split from his wife after less than a year. Three more couples are experiencing the throes of middle-class disaffection. Times are changing, the generation gap is widening, and the stage is set for a stormy weekend for these five couples.

Once everything went down the hill, Muriel had no other choice but to reconsider his choices. His brothers, the ones he thought he could always believe, turned out to be people he didn’t know anymore, the government was now in the hands of a man willing to test every limit of the country for the sake of control and power, and the woman he loved - or thought he did - was…

Der Bestseller zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum komplett überarbeitet, aktualisiert und neu eingelesen. Alle Regierungen, alle Staatschefs unterliegen den Zwängen ...

Felina ist total aus dem Häuschen, denn ihre erste Hexenprüfung steht an: Sie darf ein Praktikum in Patina Grünspans Versand für Scherzartikel, Glücksbringer und Hexenutensilien aller Art absolvieren! Wenn sie ihre Aufgaben meistert, bekommt sie ihren eigenen spitzen Hut und wird ganz offiziell in den Hexenzirkel aufgenommen. Im Versandhaus kommt Felina aus dem Staunen nicht heraus, als sie magischen Angestellten wie der schlangenköpfigen Kundenberaterin Medusa begegnet. Doch dann passiert Felina ein Missgeschick mit einem Zauberspiegel, und Chaos bricht aus.