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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests. They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

When the External Womb Programme is launched, the news is controversial. Hundreds take to the streets in protest, feeling strongly that growing a baby outside of the human body is "unnatural". But thousands more people rejoice: at last, an alternative for those who wish to have children but worry about the physical toll it may take. A chance that throwing a baby-shaped grenade into one's career path might not derail it entirely.

Alice's journey begins as all good journeys do: hitting on the sales guy at REI. After a tumultuous breakup, a quick career transition, family upheaval, and a sobriety journey that didn't fix her life quite as much as she expected it to, Alice decides that the only way to solve all her problems is to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. But as she begins preparing for the months-long quest, she realizes the answers she's seeking might not be on top of a snow-covered mountain. Especially since she just learned there was snow in California.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.

Jungmin is down on her luck. She's worked tirelessly as a screenwriter her whole life, and has finally burnt out. But after months of isolation, she realises it's time to make a change, and ventures out into the streets near Seoul. When she stumbles upon a pottery workshop, a new world opens up to her. Leaning into the joys of her craft, Jungmin’s heart is slowly warmed by the kiln’s intense heat. Everyone at the workshop has their own story to tell, and as summer ebbs to autumn, autumn to winter, winter to spring, wounds begin to heal.

When elite CIA operative David Rivers and his paramilitary team are dispatched to the heart of Africa, their mission is clear: eliminate the notorious terrorist warlord, Chijioke Mubenga, before he can unleash chaos upon the world. But fate has other plans. A streak of anti-aircraft fire lights up the night sky, turning a covert parachute jump into a nightmare descent. Stranded miles from their rendezvous point and deep within a hostile jungle, Rivers and his team are cut off, hunted, and desperate.

Forty-thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive ark ships these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of ark ships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with thousands of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining ark ships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars....

Nel profondo racconto de 'Il Prezzo di una Libertà Amara', seguiamo la vita di un uomo straordinario che affronta coraggiosamente una moltitudine di sfide. Il suo viaggio inizia in una terra misteriosa plasmata da una storia tumultuosa. Dalla sua giovinezza all'età adulta, supera prove impressionanti e affronta senza paura gli ostacoli che gli si presentano.

Special Agent Vanessa Lauton is living a lie. For the past year she’s been posing as a member of the Dominican Republic’s most powerful crime family in order to infiltrate a Caribbean terrorist organization. When her CIA contact has a heart attack, he’s replaced by U.S. Navy SEAL squad member Seth Johnson — the man Vanessa nearly married six years earlier. And suddenly the heat is on, in more ways than one.

Only twice had she set foot inside the building since the massacre. The first time had been just a month after the tragedy .. . . The second time she had returned to the scene of the crime had been two days ago when she forced herself to enter the building to check on the temporary office for the SEAL team. The counselor she had seen in the months after the shooting had encouraged her to face her fears, but now . . . Riley wasn’t sure she was ready to face them after all.

Intermezzo ist die Geschichte zweier ungleicher Brüder. Als Ivan klein war und Peter ein Teenager, standen die beiden sich nahe, später wurden sie einander immer fremder. Als sie ihren Vater verlieren, reißen alte Wunden auf. Ihre Schuldgefühle, ihre Suche nach Sinn und Nähe treiben beide Brüder zu den Frauen in ihren Leben. Doch jeder von ihnen muss einen Weg finden, eine übermächtige Aufgabe zu meistern: wirklich zu trauern. Und wirklich zu lieben.

Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He's an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he's setting foot on the strange land he has inherited for the first time. Ninni Toft, his nearest neighbour, has come to the island to mend her broken heart. With her wild spirit and irrepressible enthusiasm, she shows city-boy Jack the simple pleasures of island life – and what it means to belong. To a place. To a people. To one person in particular…

Quando è poco più che una ragazzina con la chitarra in spalla, sulla rampa di lancio della carriera che ha sempre desiderato, Erica viene costretta a una conversazione in cucina con la madre. “Devo dirti una cosa per la quale mi odierai”: questa frase fa temere a Erica che Lucia, sua madre, non sia d’accordo con il progetto di andare a vivere con l’uomo che ama, lì nel suo paese di origine dell’hinterland pugliese, ma la realtà sarà molto più sconcertante. Lucia, cinquantaquattrenne professoressa di matematica, le confessa di avere un cancro al colon.

Ein liebeskranker Erzähler reist mit seiner Tochter in das verschneite Davos. Aus dem "Familienurlaub" wird eine vergnügliche Reflexion über die Auswirkungen der Moderne, des Skifahrens und der Tuberkulosepandemie. Auch spürt er der Geschichte nach, wie aus dem bettelarmen Bergdorf das Symbol des globalen Reichtums wurde. Und wie in Thomas Manns ›Zauberberg‹ stellen sich auch ihm inmitten der Schneemassen die wirklich schwierigen Fragen: Wie müssen sich unsere Lebensweisen ändern? Welche Welt vererben wir unseren Kindern?

After two months of protective custody, bodyguard Arianna Jackson is days away from testifying at a murder trial when the unthinkable happens. Her Alaska safe house is attacked, and Arianna is forced to go on the run with United States Marshal Brody Callahan. Arianna is used to issuing orders, not taking them, but now, out in the wild, with a bounty on her head and a killer on her heels, she has only one hope of making it to testify—the handsome protector at her side.

Het zinderende slot van de Maxton Hall-serie: Geld, glamour, luxe en macht: de vier zaken die de dienst uitmaken op Maxton Hall College en vier kwaliteiten die Ruby Bell niet bezit. Maxton Hall is een van de duurste, meest gerenommeerde privéscholen van Engeland en de klassieke Maxton Hall-student is een nazaat van een eeuwenoud adellijk geslacht, van invloedrijke politici of van grootheden uit de zakenwereld, geen dood­gewoon meisje met een studiebeurs. Daarom wil Ruby het liefst zo snel mogelijk afstuderen en in de tussentijd zo min mogelijk opvallen.

Een nieuwe must-have – onvervalste romantiek van de schrijver van De wens en The Notebook. Colby Mills droomde ooit van een muzikale carrière, tot een tra­gisch ongeluk een einde maakte aan die droom. Nu runt hij een kleine boerderij in North Carolina en probeert hij zijn verleden te vergeten. Op een dag neemt hij in een opwelling een aanbod aan om nog één keer te spelen en hij vertrekt naar St. Pete Beach, Florida. Daar ontmoet hij Morgan Lee, een even getalenteerde als bevlogen musicus, en zijn wereld staat opeens volledig op zijn kop.

Fine anni Ottanta. Siamo tra i vicoli bianchi e assolati di Bari vecchia. Maria De Santis, occhi bruni e un piglio insolente che le è valso il soprannome di Malacarne, vive in un rione fatto di soprusi a cui è difficile sottrarsi. Il suo unico punto fermo, negli anni, è stato Michele, ultimogenito degli Straziota, la famiglia più in vista della malavita barese. Il loro è stato un amore potente ma impossibile. Troppo lontane le loro origini - pescatori onesti e orgogliosi da una parte, arricchiti collusi dall'altra -, troppo grande l'odio tra le due famiglie.

Als der berühmte Thriller-Autor Ethan Scardia zu Gast in mein kleines Hotel kommt, bin ich nicht darauf vorbereitet, wie attraktiv ... und ungehobelt er ist. Mit seiner mürrischen Art geht er mir ganz schön auf die Nerven, zumal sich alles in meinem kleinen Hotel um Harmonie und Entspannung dreht. Pinewood Bay ist ein malerischer Küstenort. In der Regel kommen die Leute hierher, um sich zu erholen, Ethan wegen seiner Schreibblockade. Das erklärt auch seine Laune. Natürlich kann ich nicht zulassen, dass er meinen anderen Gästen den Urlaub vermiest.