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I trust no one. I thrive with control and I've learned to be ruthless and coldhearted. A love life? I'm not interested. But I still have desires. That's where Dahlia came in; my treasure. She had never been a submissive before and I was eager to train her. When I saw her on stage at the auction, dressed in gold, I knew I had to have her. She's mine for an entire month. I own her. But one lie changed everything.

She thought this was a game. She thought she could walk away. She thought wrong. I've lived a cold, unforgiving life. I've seen things, I've done things, that would break a man. If they didn't kill him first. With my past behind me, I have nothing. No way to atone for my sins and nothing to lift me from the depths of despair I've come from. And no one to give me the control that I so desperately desire.

Claire Gracen's life is picture perfect. Her career as a marketing director is on the brink of being legendary, and her marriage to her high school sweetheart has never been stronger. No, wait. It has. It used to be amazing and fulfilling, but one day Claire realizes that she's been living a lie and her best friend and husband have committed the ultimate betrayal. Broken and depressed, Claire is in need of something new - new city, new job, new friends.

「深紅よりもっと鮮やかな朱赤」と描写される“ポンペイアンレッド”の椅子をモチーフにした幻想譚。
小雨の降る四月、還暦の誕生日を一週間後に控えた語り手の女性のところに、家具店からお探しの商品が漸く見つかったと、電話が入る。360度回転し、リクライニングを倒すと180度水平になる本革製の椅子。最も難しい条件が色の指定で、どうしてもポンペイアンレッドでなければならなかった。強く輝き、その強烈さゆえ座る人間を体内から崩壊させるような赤い椅子に、「私」はこの先の人生を託す意気込みなのだ。生憎、現物はなかったものの、革素材と写真を確かめ、即決で購入を決めた。
椅子が届いて数日後、すっかり満足した「私」のところに、一通のダイレクトメールが届く……。時空を超えて官能の世界へと誘う怪しげな赤がとりわけ印象に残る佳編。　

Meus sertões de você conta a trajetória da rendeira Isabel, uma mulher simples que, após a morte da mãe, é atravessada por encontros inesperados, despedidas e outras formas de amar. Mas nesses novos caminhos ela se depara com uma outra busca ainda mais importante: sobre sua verdadeira origem e identidade.

Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. After all, she has her three best girlfriends and two cats to keep her company at night and her high-powered job at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra to occupy her day - isn't that enough? But when fate takes Libby to work in Paris at the Musée du Quai Branly, she's suddenly thrown out of her comfort zone and into a city full of culture, fashion and love. 

Sophie ist eine absolute Stadtpflanze, doch ihr Leben in Hamburg läuft eher schlecht als recht. Als sie dann auch noch vom Tod ihrer lieben Tante Dotti erfährt, zieht es ihr den Boden unter den Füßen weg. Aber Dotti hatte einen Plan für sie - und so findet sich Sophie kurze Zeit später in Wümmerscheid-Sollensbach wieder, einem idyllischen, wenn auch verschlafenen kleinen Ort zwischen Rhein und Mosel. Dort steht sie überrascht vor ihrem Erbe: ein renovierungsbedürftiges, altes Mühlengebäude mit einem Café im Erdgeschoss.

Don't be fooled by the uniform. There's badge around my neck, but I'm just a dirty cop with a revenge fantasy. Jasmine was a beauty in the photo, the girl who belongs to a man I hate. The plan was simple: Find her, get laid, come home. Then she became more than a fantasy. Hell, she's the girl of my dreams. I don't want to take her back, I want her home with me. Except Jasmine won't leave, and I won't leave her. It would be perfect, if it weren't for Richard. Her ex. The FBI agent. We were destined to hate each other, and now he knows I stole his girl.

Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her. Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-50s, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing 80-something mother.

He’s a thrice-divorced late-night talk-show host. She's an unmarried folklorist obsessed with mermaids. He lives for the present. She lives in the past. Both are leery of commitment. Neither has ever known lasting love. But when Tom Avery and Fay McLeod meet, it's love - or at least lust - at first sight. And then fate starts to throw them curveballs.

Ethan West is giving his girlfriend Mira something special for her birthday: her never-before-explored fantasy. He's recruited one of his cop friends to join them for a romantic weekend. But the three of them cross boundries they never expected.

It'd take the impossible to hurt Connor Cobalt, even for a moment. At 26 his narcissistic tendencies have made room for the people he loves. And he loves Rose. But when his love is threatened, when his greatest dreams with her are compromised. What is the cost then?

She's old enough to be his mother. Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her graying hair and her dowdy New Jersey housewife style. Make that ex-housewife: Now that her husband's gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a whole new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie, a hip New York City artist, transform her on New Year's Eve. Soon, thanks to the wonders of hair dye and tight jeans, Alice looks really young, as one night in a Manhattan bar confirms.

C'è un giorno, un giorno soltanto, in cui in condizioni particolari è possibile rivedere i propri cari defunti. Dicono che qualcuno è pure in grado di sentirli e parlar loro. Che sia possibile per Satsuki, che non riesce in alcun modo a scordare il ragazzo perduto, e Hiiragi, che per ricordare Yumiko ne indossa tutti i giorni la divisa alla marinara?

Margherita Dolcevita è una ragazzina allegra, intelligente e appena sovrappeso, con un cuore che di tanto in tanto perde un colpo. Vive con la famiglia fra città e campagna. Un giorno, davanti alla sua casa, spunta, come un fungo, un cubo di vetro nero circondato da un asettico giardino sintetico e da una palizzata di siepi. Sono arrivati i signori Del Bene, i portatori del "nuovo", della beatitudine del consumo. Amici o corruttori? La famiglia di Margherita cade in una sorta di oscuro incantesimo, nessuno rimane immune.

A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and 40 years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their gradual coming to terms with the emotional gaps in their lives.

Laurie Juneau, trente-sept ans, designer cuisiniste et mère de famille, mène la parfaite vie rangée dont plusieurs jeunes femmes rêvent. Pourtant, entre Louis-Philippe et elle, tout n’est pas aussi rose qu’elle le prétend devant ses amies. Sortant tout juste d’une dépression majeure, Laurie essaie tant bien que mal de raviver la flamme dans son couple, mais le fossé qui s’est insidieusement creusé entre son conjoint et elle au fil des ans semble trop profond pour qu’elle puisse y parvenir.

29-year-old Paul Donnelly has been many things in his life. Son of addicts, high school dropout, tattooist, the shameless bodyguard to Beckett Cobalt, the “bodyguard camp counselor” to the rookies of SFO, Loren Hale’s nemesis, and Xander’s wise one. But nothing means as much without Luna Hale. The sci-fi-loving writer. A weirdo. Sister to his client. The only one he’s fallen for.

Excêntrico, insensível, grosseiro, mal-educado. Esses eram uns dos muitos adjetivos que usavam para me descrever, contudo poucos me conheciam de verdade. Nascido em uma família abastada, dona de uma enorme companhia aérea, sempre estive à sombra do meu irmão mais velho, porém eu não me importava, pois, ao contrário do Maxwell, que gostava dos holofotes, eu preferia me manter afastado do restante do mundo.

De retour d’un court séjour en Écosse, Claire voit sa vie chamboulée par des questionnements qui ne lui ressemblent pas. Voir son amie si amoureuse lui fait redouter ses choix de vie. Et si elle avait abordé la sienne de la mauvaise manière ?