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The Mysterious Kingdom, for as long as anyone could remember, was mysterious. It maintained a strict policy of isolationism. The last contact with the kingdom was during a Jousting Tournament between Jonathan the Merry, Parking-Lots flamboyant knight, and Malevolent, who was defeated in a very...

In una Blackpool stancamente turistica, teatro di scorribande criminali, i detective Declan Miller e Sara Xiu, costretti a lavorare insieme, imparano a conoscersi mentre si trovano a risolvere un caso bizzarro. Due ladri sono entrati in rotta di collisione con il temibile Wayne Cutler, ritrovandosi in possesso di una valigetta che contiene le mani mozzate di un rivale troppo intraprendente. Cutler ha commissionato l’omicidio a un killer che adesso è sulle tracce di uno dei due ladri, il quale pensa bene di consegnare la valigetta a Miller.

Die beste Freundin ist der Mensch für alle Fälle. Ihre ehemals beste Freundin Antje ist für die geschiedene Verlagsfrau Christine deshalb ein knallrotes Tuch. Ruth, Herausgeberin des Stadtmagazins, erklärt den Freundinnen ihren Plan: Wie wäre es, wenn sie Christines alte Weggefährten ausfindig machen und zu ihrem vierundvierzigsten Geburtstag einladen würden? Gesagt, getan. Mit Hilfe von Christines Geschwistern beginnt ein regelrechtes Detektivspiel.

The snow is falling and the hot chocolates are piled high with marshmallows at the Comfort Food Café, and one unexpected visitor is in for a holiday miracle… Meredith Bailey is a woman who doesn’t do emotions, doesn’t do cake, and she absolutely does not do cosy Dorset villages. But when...

Das Einzige, was in den Canyons noch heißer ist als die Sonne? Ihr Ex. Leider. Lily Wilder liebt es, Touristen durch die staubroten Canyons von Utah zu führen. Doch als eines Tages ausgerechnet ihr Ex Leo vor ihr steht, um mit Freunden an einer ihrer Treasure-Hunt-Adventures teilzunehmen, ist...

The snow is falling and the hot chocolates are piled high with marshmallows at the Comfort Food Café, and one unexpected visitor is in for a holiday miracle… Meredith Bailey is a woman who doesn’t do emotions, doesn’t do cake, and she absolutely does not do cosy Dorset villages. But when...

Come here Brodie... Sit down, Brodie; Get off the sofa, Brodie; Get in the car, Brodie; Breakfast's ready, Brodie; Shut up Brodie! I think my name is Brodie. Though, to be honest, I don't really bother about names very much. They're more of a human thing. Us dogs mostly just go by sense of smell...

"En antikvarboghandlers erindringer" er en humoristisk fortælling om antikvaren og særlingen R. Hansen og hans gøren og laden på Vesterbro. En bydel som han elsker og kender, som sin egen højre hånd og lidet gerne forlader. Bogen er en humørfyldt historie spækket med finurlige figurer og...

I "Navn ukendt" (1965), Finn Søeborgs mest gakkede roman, møder vi manden, der mirakuløst overlever et flystyrt. Da han vågner har han mistet sin hukommelse, og han hvirvles, nu identitetsløs, ind i en række absurde forviklinger, der involverer militæret, det hemmelige politi, kongen og...

Rebecca Bloomwood er journalist og ansat ved et økonomisk tidsskrift. Hun tilbringer sin arbejdstid med at fortælle andre, hvordan de skal håndtere deres finanser. Sin fritid? Den tilbringer hun med at shoppe. Og vi taler ikke blot om shopping til husbehov. Nej, Rebecca shopper i gennem! Hun...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The dust and sand painfully chaffed at her belly and thighs with every step her animal took. Sand and dust was everywhere. Of course it was always everywhere; they lived in Israel! Only the dust and the sand outnumbered the rocks, if they could be...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Adam opened his eyes. He looked around, just taking in everything. “Creation,” he said to himself. “Beautiful,” he murmured as he looked at tight rows of flowers of many shapes and colors. His attention was stolen to a part of the row of flowers...

Ausgerechnet unter einem Mistelzweig begegnet Jessica ihrem Traummann. Leider kommt ihr jemand beim Küssen zuvor und sie muss mit Tony, seinem grantigen Bruder, vorliebnehmen, der sich als ihr Pensionswirt herausstellt. Doch während der turbulenten Weihnachtstage im Bed and Breakfast verliebt sich Jessica nicht nur in die raue Schönheit der Isle of Skye, sondern auch in den gar nicht so mürrischen Tony. Zwischen nörgelnden Pensionsgästen und verkohlten Scones setzt sie alles daran, die Pension vor dem drohenden Ruin zu retten und das Herz des spröden Schotten zu erobern.

What would you do if your "mostly fine" life suddenly flipped upside down, leaving you at a crossroad you never saw coming? Enter Maddie Brown: slightly frazzled empty nester, and, thanks to a class reunion, now smack-dab in the middle of a swirling mess of old flames, family drama, and one impossible-to-ignore second chance.

The world’s most unlikely crime solving duo is back – and this time Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy and Indian hotel owner Avtar Mehta discover that family secrets are the most deadly. When the tyrannical head of one of Delhi’s richest families is found dead inside a locked room within the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What is in a name? Everything, apparently—at least to Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, two young bachelors who invent elaborate fictional personas to escape their social obligations. But when both fall head over heels—Jack for the fiercely...

„Acul și barosul” este o poveste scrisă de Ion Creangă, în care două unelte cu însușiri și întrebuințări diferite ajung să-și confrunte puterile și să-și scoată în evidență meritele. Prin dialoguri pline de umor și înțelepciune populară, povestea subliniază că...

Nod Blake, the cynical, wise-cracking private eye, is back. He's an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets; a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo that he was extinct. And thanks to his over-eager secretary, he's been dumped in the midst of murder most foul. From beyond the grave, victims are begging Blake to solve their murders. In the real world, he's flummoxed by vandals, threats to his life, wildly raucous suspects and a homicide detective happy to pin killings on him.

Ein brennender Tesla in der mecklenburgischen Provinz markiert den Nullpunkt: Roger Ross, frisch gefeuert und ohne Gepäck, flieht in das Luxusresort »Eden« und erfindet sich radikal neu. Doch das Hotel ist keine Zuflucht, sondern eine prunkvolle Endstation für die Illusionen unserer Zeit...

'Liv Little pulls you into a world where the characters feel like everyone you've ever known, loved and learned. Bitter Melon is deftly written, full of heart and human nature's complexities.' Candice Carty-Williams The hotly anticipated second novel from Liv Little, founder of gal-dem and...