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Renate Bergmann hat in ihrer neuen Heimat Spreeweide alle Hände voll zu tun. Die Rentnerin hat nicht nur einen Sitz im Gemeinderat, auch an anderer Stelle ist sie gefragt. Rebecca, die Tochter von Bürgermeister Brummer, möchte ihr Café vergrößern. Sie hat aber zu wenig Platz. Brummers Cousin wiederum, der den Dorfkrug betreibt, hat zu wenige Gäste. Das und Renates Erinnerungen an ihre eigene Zeit in der Bräuteschule bringen sie auf eine Idee.

Level up your summer reading with the latest Roll for Romance romcom The summer encounter that's a critical hit… Chloe wishes real life was as exciting as her weekly roleplaying games. While all of her friends are levelling up, she’s stuck in a dead-end job and binge-watching playthroughs at...

En el 50 aniversario de su publicación, una de las novelas fundacionales de la narrativa latinoamericana, así como un hito en la afirmación de la identidad nacional y la expresión de la ambigüedad colonial de Puerto Rico que elevó el habla coloquial y la música popular a categoría...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sure, he can swat a few flies at work, catch a few at home, but can a Salary-man with a fly swatter really save a city? When the flies of San Alvera City start to grow bigger and more aggressive, the residents are annoyed, horrified, and in some cases...

In his subversively funny first novel, the bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat delivers a portrait of a haunted manchild and his messy search for love, with hilarious and insightful takes on sex, dating, food, culture, intimacy, and masculinity along the way. “Come for the satirical...

Una ciudad mítica, París. Un lugar mítico, el Grand Hotel Ritz. Un barman mítico, Frank Meier, el barman del Ritz. Todos habían degustado sus célebres cócteles: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Arletty. Pero en julio de 1940, las tropas alemanas ocupan París y sus responsables deciden hospedarse en el Ritz, como lo harán los jerarcas nazis como Göring y Goebbels cuando visiten la capital francesa.

I don’t come undone. I manage. I plan. I keep moving. I’m a Black woman. That’s what we do. But when my car dies on a Canadian roadside on the way to a romance conference, panic hits before logic can catch up. I’m the one people call when things fall apart. I don’t know what to do when...

Un quarterback estrella. Una animadora irresistible. Un niño que es un gremlin con piernas. Y un Cupido con ganas de liarla a lo bestia. Levi Carter es el príncipe de los Dallas Cowboys y está a una temporada de jugarse el contrato. No es el mejor momento para que su vida dé un vuelco y le...

My name is Madison Westin. Unless it's Christmas, in which case my official title is "Holiday Cheermistress." Nothing stops me from getting my ho-ho-ho on, not even my friends' Grinch-worthy attitude toward sparkling tinsel, twinkling lights, and tinkling bells. Hey, if Creole, Fab, and Didier...

I'm a small-town accountant, not a detective—but when my latest client ends up dead, I'm suddenly neck-deep in another murder mystery. Archibald Windsor was a sweet old man who just wanted to leave his money to charity. Too bad someone wanted him dead first. Now, I'm stuck dodging shady...

The funny, moving, and uplifting new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of Never Greener and Us Three. Grace is about to turn ninety. She doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants to heal the family rift that's been breaking her heart for decades. But...

The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she’d never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on—Kate, now a successful...

The joyful and life-affirming novel from the co-writer of Gavin and Stacey and the bestselling author of Love Untold. Because second chances come when you least expect them . . . Linda Standish has been a friend to the friendless for the past thirty-three years, in her role at the council’s...

Friends forever is a difficult promise to keep... Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school, they swore that they would always be there for each other, come what may. After the trip of a lifetime, the three girls are closer than ever. But an unexpected turn of events shakes...

Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, where family is everything and danger lurks around every corner. Assassins Anonymous isn't just a weekly recovery meeting for reformed killers—it's also a family. When Valencia receives troubling news that her brother has gone missing, she wants rush off to...

“Classic small-town, homecoming rom-com goodness! I laughed, I gasped, and I wished I could be in the front row of the community theater. You’ll want this one in your beach bag!”—Lyla Sage, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Soul Searching When four former...

Sharply witty and entertaining in equal measure, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes presents the diary of the wily Lorelei Lee, a charming yet materialistic blonde from Little Rock, Arkansas. On a mission to live a luxurious life, Lorelei travels through Europe and New York using her beauty and charisma to attract wealthy suitors, securing various gifts, jewellery and an elevated social status in the process. Although seemingly naïve to the men she pursues, Lorelei is clever and calculating, often outsmarting the company she keeps.

First serialised in Household Words in 1851, Cranford is a charming, episodic novel which has been adapted for the stage, radio and TV. Based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford where Gaskell was raised, Cranford paints a tender, witty portrait of an English village and its beloved locals. Consisting of a series of sketches, the novel recounts the lives of the kind-hearted but anxious Miss Matty Jenkins, and her sharper, opinionated sister Miss Deborah.

"It isn't every one who's been a god," said the sunburnt man. "But it's happened to me..." When the Ocean Pioneer sinks in twenty fathoms of water, she takes fifty thousand pounds of pure gold dust down with her. Desperate to strike it rich, a crew of rogue salvagers launches a secret expedition...

Il Biondo e Quello con la cravatta sono killer professionisti, e hanno gli stessi dubbi e le stesse difficoltà di ogni professionista. Questa volta sono alle prese con un contratto inedito che li pone di fronte a una questione morale: accettare l'incarico, molto ben pagato, o cedere ai loro dubbi etici? Proprio per questo, per chiedere consiglio a una collega, coinvolgono la loro «stagista» Francesca Aroldi. Parte quindi una sequenza di contrattempi, infortuni, difficoltà, piani falliti, svolte e testacoda, incidenti di percorso, problemi familiari e pistole da pulire.