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L. Smyth

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Stranger. Friend. Enemy.Which version do you believe?A taut, page-turning psychological thriller from a brilliant new voice. The perfect read for fans of HE SAID/SHE SAID and GOOD ME BAD ME.When socially awkward Eva arrives at university, she’s ready to leave the past behind. But old behaviours creep in and she finds herself ostracized, spending more and more time alone, living vicariously through social media.She develops an unhealthy fixation with her glamorous and beguiling classmate Marina –...

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L. Smyth

Across a Green Ocean

Wendy Lee

Across a Green Ocean

A widow and her two grown children search for answers about the past in both America and China, in this insightful novel of an immigrant family’s journey.   After a lifetime of sacrifice, Ling’s husband has passed away. Though she has both a son and a daughter to comfort her, she has struggled to understand how they live their lives—Emily, an immigration lawyer in New York City, inexplicably refuses to have children; and Michael is unable to commit to a...

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Wendy Lee

Craving

Esther Gerritsen

Craving

AFP of 30,000 The relationship between Coco and her mother Elisabeth is troubled. Running into each other by chance, Elisabeth casually tells Coco that she is terminally ill. When Coco moves in with her mother in order to take care of her, their difficult relationship spirals out of control. Author Esther Gerritsen is one of the most established, widely read, and highly praised authors in the Netherlands For fans of Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton Author had the honor of writing the...

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Esther Gerritsen

Das Intrigenlabyrinth

Gaby Peer

Das Intrigenlabyrinth

Jens führt das perfekte Leben: Seine geliebte Celine und die drei Kinder erfüllen ihn mit Glück und auch beruflich verläuft alles nach Plan. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem Jens die angestrebte leitende Position gezwungenermaßen seiner Assistentin Charlene überlassen muss. Hasserfüllt betrinkt er sich fürchterlich und macht einen unverzeihlichen Fehler: Er vergewaltigt Joy, die beste Freundin seiner Tochter. Das Mädchen verschwindet spurlos und Jens stürzt in tiefe Verzweiflung.

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Gaby Peer

Jessi und der Fliegenpilz

Katja Pehlert

Jessi und der Fliegenpilz

Jessi fährt in den Ferien zu ihren Großeltern an die Ostsee. Dort lernt sie, gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden, einen Fliegenpilz kennen. Mit Fliegolin erleben die Kinder viele spannende Abenteuer. Ein illustriertes Buch für das Vor- und Erstlesealter.

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Katja Pehlert

Jonathan Wackelzahn

Petra Genthe

Jonathan Wackelzahn

Der fünfjährige Jonathan Wackelzahn verbringt die Sommerferien bei seinem Opa auf dem Bauernhof. Mächtig stolz ist er auf die ersten Wackelzähne! Beim Frühstück beißt er kräftig ins Marmeladenbrötchen. Und da passiert es: Die Zähnchen stecken in der Brötchenhälfte fest! Ein farbenfroh illustriertes, lustiges und interessantes Kinderbuch über Jonathan Wackelzahn – bestens zum Vorlesen oder zum Selbstlesen für Erstleser geeignet.

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Petra Genthe

Eastbound Sailing

Todd Foley

Eastbound Sailing

Meet Aiden Lawrence. He needs your help, but he doesn't know it. He needs companionship, but he doesn't want to be your friend. He doesn't know how to like himself, and he can't expose the truth of his past. You'll want to help him. Be patient with him. He's trying. Even if it pushes him to the brink of death, he'll keep trying. Aiden's a jaded young man struggling to reconcile with his past, present and future. When he goes to check up on his late...

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Todd Foley

Kenneth Chapter

S. M. LAMBERT

Kenneth Chapter

In the quiet, affluent neighborhood of Atherton, California, Charles Gill Jr., a sixteen-year-old teenager lived a comfortable life with his father until his attraction to a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks led to an act of disobedience, which caused his life to spiral out of control. Now, after making one bad decision after another, can his two best friends help to save him from himself, or will his mistakes drag them all down into a set of circumstances that they will all...

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S. M. LAMBERT

A Charmed Life

Nancy Jr. Manther

A Charmed Life

A Charmed Life is the story of a woman's life as told through the charms on her charm bracelets. It begins with the stillbirth of Annie's first child and follows her through the healing process, and the path on which that takes her. Along the way there are experiences in her life which may not be seen as "charmed", but enrich her life and the lives of those she loves. It is a story of the joy that is possible only after living through the pain that loss can...

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Nancy Jr. Manther

Ten Teen Tales

Emma Lorival

Ten Teen Tales

TEN TEEN TALES are beautiful memories from my experience as a teacher. They are lessons of life that I want to share with teachers, students and parents who wish to enrich their lives and thrive. Here you have some excerpts from the book: From CHAPTER ONE: There he was, flying through the air, three flips, he made, said an eyewitness. He felt his body dashed against the concrete of the avenue, but he cared for his vehicle so he stood up, walked … Later he exclaimed he was...

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Emma Lorival

A Family Thing

Randy Beal

A Family Thing

"Jacob. Would you be a dear and run out and bring your pregnant wife some chocolate cake? Pretty please?" Jake's wife Rachel is "in a family way" with their first child and Jake isn't quite sure what to make of the increasing demands it places on him. "Chocolate cake in the middle of the night? Really?" Despite the excitement of welcoming a newborn and the first...

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Randy Beal

Pläne sind zum Ändern da

Dorina Kasten

Pläne sind zum Ändern da

Nora steht vor den Trümmern ihrer langjährigen Ehe. Dabei hatte sie doch einen Plan! Sie stürzt sich in ihre Arbeit in der Städtischen Galerie. Wenigstens hier hält sie die Fäden in der Hand. Ganz allmählich begreift sie, dass das Leben nicht immer planbar ist und so manche Überraschung bereithält. Ein Roman, der Frauen Mut macht, einen Neuanfang zu wagen und sich noch einmal mit Haut und Haar zu verlieben.

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Dorina Kasten

Phil, der Viehdoktor

Helma Ritter

Phil, der Viehdoktor

Schon seit geraumer Zeit geht Phil eine Frage nicht mehr aus dem Kopf: Was will er einmal werden? Als er sein Interesse an der Tierwelt entdeckt, beschließen seine Eltern, ihn in den Ferien vier Wochen lang bei seiner Tante, der Tierärztin, arbeiten zu lassen. Hier erkennt Phil, wie groß seine Leidenschaft zu den Tieren ist, aber auch, wie viel Verantwortung und Anstrengung solch eine Arbeit bedeutet. Weitere Herausforderungen erwarten ihn, als er eines Tages Cora kennenlernt …

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Helma Ritter

Und keiner hat’s gemerkt

Christina Conradin

Und keiner hat’s gemerkt

Klara leidet unter Bulimie. Alle ihre Gedanken kreisen ums Essen und darum, wie sie das Essen schnell wieder loswird. Bis Max auftaucht, der schöne Junge, der sich ausgerechnet für sie interessiert. Doch was wird sein, wenn er von Klaras Geheimnis erfährt? Eine zarte Liebesgeschichte für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene – einfühlsam und offen erzählt.

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Christina Conradin

SOUTH B'S FINEST

MAKENA MAGANJO

SOUTH B'S FINEST

Nairobi in the 1990s. Three families. Their lives interweave as the find themselves living across from each other in an idyllic middle-class neighbourhood, Malaba Estate, South B. As the decade charges on, their lives begin to show similarities in the secrets they keep and the mistakes they make. Funny. Thought-provoking. Surprising. Endearing. This is a coming of age story about friendship in all of its varied shades and intrigues. It is the kind of story that you try to savour only to gallop...

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MAKENA MAGANJO

The Scent of Heather

V. J. Banis

The Scent of Heather

Maggie came with her sister Rebecca to Heather House, to recover from the drowning deaths of their two husbands. They thought a few months in the country would be wonderful therapy. But the house seems to be haunted by the ghost of its one-time owner, Heather Lambert, who (it is said) waits in the tower room for the return of her errant husband. And when Maggie discovers the portrait of Heather hidden in the cellar, the woman from the past seems to come alive for her. She sees someone just out...

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V. J. Banis

ALWAYS IS FOREVER

Margaret Hawley

ALWAYS IS FOREVER

We cannot get into this world without the help of a mother and a father. Most of us also had a first love. Who we are, how we interact with others, the person we become, are impacted by these entities. Each contributes to the creation of a permanent mark on the indescribable place deep inside us, a place referred to in poetry and song as our heart and soul. From birth to death, the warmth of love and the ache of loss emanate from that illusive place. My goal for readers of my book is that they...

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Margaret Hawley

Sweet Tormented Love

Victor Jay

Sweet Tormented Love

Mike is an eighteen-year-old high school student in 1960s Hollywood when he's picked up by Glen, who offers him money for casual sex. Mike needs the cash to take his girl to the prom, so he agrees; for him, it's just another casual encounter. But when his girl jilts him for a jock, he swears off women, leaves home, and goes into business for himself by becoming a full-time hustler of gay men. And then he encounters Glen again, and finds himself falling in love for the...

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Victor Jay

A Change of Wind

Maryl Brown

A Change of Wind

A Change of Wind/Confession of A Parental Choice's School's EX-CEO, take place in the life of Milwaukee in the earlier seventy. The story is about two brave young black independent women. Who will experience life on their own term, their adventures will take them into two past Lula left home much too soon, which led to hardship and destruction. Marilyn sacrifices her life to rear her sister's child that ventured her into and educational maze called Parental Choice School. Alone as...

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Maryl Brown

Dziewczynka z kieliszkami

Grażyna Wiśniewska

Dziewczynka z kieliszkami

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Grażyna Wiśniewska

Amadeus’ Erbenerdenkinder

Siegrid Graunke Gruel

Amadeus’ Erbenerdenkinder

Iris-Marie und Matson befinden sich auf der Schwelle zwischen Kind und Erwachsenem. Gemeinsam entdecken sie über dem See ein geheimnisvolles Leuchten, das ihnen nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen will. Was bedeutet es? Ist es etwa außerirdisch? Zusammen mit dem skurrilen Musikstudenten Jan, versuchen sie es herauszufinden und haben dabei aufregende Erlebnisse.

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Siegrid Graunke Gruel

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Gesangbuch der Freikirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten in Deutschland und der Schweiz. 694 Lieder mit ausführlichem Anhang (Meditative Texte für Andacht und Gottesdienst, 80 Seiten Kurzbiografien u. v. m.)

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Raji: Libro Uno

Charley Brindley

Raji: Libro Uno

Una niña de la India es encontrada en un granero en Virginia, EE.UU., en 1025 Diciembre, 1925. Vincent Fusilier encuentra a Raji durmiendo en el granero de sus padres. Cree que es una vagabunda y le dice que tiene que irse. Ella no entiende el inglés y no sabe dónde está. En los próximos meses, estos dos adolescentes luchan por entender el idioma y la cultura del otro.

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Charley Brindley

The Second House

V. J. Banis

The Second House

When Liza Durant is saved from drowning by Jeffrey Forrest, she little realizes how much this chance meeting will change her life. For Jeffrey is the heir both to a large business, and to the great estate that lies near it, dominated by the old manor house called La Deuxième–"The Second." Within days he proposes to the beautiful young woman; she neither accepts nor declines, but says that she'll visit him at his country home. But Jeffrey's father is killed, Jeffrey's...

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V. J. Banis

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