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Matz steht mit beiden Beinen fest im Leben. Er kennt seine Grenzen und weiß, was er will. Doch die Begegnung mit Franzi legt einen verborgenen Schalter in ihm um. Das unscheinbare Mädchen rüttelt an seinem Selbstbild und schleicht sich in sein Herz. Mitsamt den Narben, die sie auf und unter der Haut trägt. Langsam fassen beide Vertrauen. In sich selbst und die Gefühle füreinander. Doch ihre Liebe gerät unkontrollierbar aus den Fugen.

When Amelia, Sophie and Charlotte arrive in the dusty outback town of Garnet Creek during their gap year, they expect nothing more than a quick stop at the campground attached to an abandoned hotel. What they don't expect is to find themselves completely charmed by a town that's barely changed in decades. Sitting around the campfire one evening, the girls dare to dream: what if they could transform the forgotten hotel into the heart of the community again - a proper pub where locals and travellers alike could gather?

When intentions clash and assumptions unravel, love intervenes. Phoebe Whittington is in exile in Shropshire after a scandal ostracizes her from polite society. She has a plan to remedy her current plight: marry the Earl of Collumby. Full scheme ahead, she will stop at nothing to net him, not even should an irresistible solicitor get in her way. Graeme Lockwood has inherited a legal quandary, one that demands absolute discretion until details are settled. All proceeds with satisfying secrecy until a young lady arrives, declaring herself betrothed to the Earl of Collumby.

When lightning strikes Amberjack Shores during the worst storm of the season, it leaves more than just a cottage in flames. For the Dalton family and their extended clan, the road to recovery will test bonds old and new. Determined to rebuild what was lost, Tyler discovers a fishing tournament with a prize that could solve their financial troubles. The only catch? He needs a partner, and the only logical choice is Becca—who has never held a fishing rod in her life.

Julianne Baker seemingly has it all. Working for a nationally published nature and gardening magazine in Manhattan and leading a glamorous life in the Big Apple... or is she? Julianne returns to her hometown of Lilac Glen, Georgia to dig into an article on family-based nurseries and floral businesses; something she already knows plenty about after growing up surrounded by her family's floral shop and greenhouses. Going back home down south isn't something Julianne gets to do often.

Hannah Brooks returns to her hometown believing she’ll stay only a short while. What she finds instead is a place shaped by memory, quiet faith, and the love she once left behind. As familiar faces reappear and old wounds resurface, Hannah must decide whether moving forward requires leaving—or staying and choosing differently. Told with gentleness and emotional restraint, this is a story about grief, grace, and the slow work of healing. A reflective, faith-forward novel about learning to trust the light that follows even the longest night.

He had the “perfect” single’s life, filled with pleasures, void of faith, commitment, and love. Then she came along and turned his world upside down. The year is 1996; John Paul II is pope; there is a revival of faith amongst those who would come to refer to themselves as the JPII generation, with a fervour for evangelization in response to his holiness’s call to build a Civilization of Love.

Katies Leben könnte im Grunde gar nicht schöner sein. Ein Jahr lang lebt sie nun schon bei ihrem Stefano in seinem Haus hoch über dem Golf von Neapel und genießt mit ihm ihr Liebesglück. Gerade deshalb wünscht sie sich jedoch, dass auch Aurora endlich den Richtigen finden möge.

Eine Mutter und ihre Tochter, die seit einem Jahr nicht mehr miteinander gesprochen haben. Zwei beste Freundinnen, zwischen denen ein Geheimnis steht. Ein junges Paar, dessen Beziehung sich auf dem Prüfstand befindet. Diese sechs Menschen treffen Mitte Dezember in Chaspers idyllischem Chalet in den verschneiten Schweizer Bergen aufeinander, aber alle haben unterschiedliche Vorstellungen von diesem Wochenende. Doch zwischen Lichterketten, prasselndem Kaminfeuer und Schneegestöber wartet das Leben darauf, ihre Schicksale kräftig durchzuschütteln, und bald ist nichts mehr so, wie es war.

Kann es sein – ist Annes neuer und attraktiver Nachbar mit Luxuswagen wirklich einfach nur freundlich und hilfsbereit? Als ein älterer Herr sie bedroht, ahnt sie, wer Malte wirklich ist. Und auch ihre Nachbarin scheint mehr über ihn zu wissen, als sie anfangs zugibt. Anne versucht, hinter die Fassade zu schauen und damit gerät nicht nur ihre, sondern auch Maltes Welt ins Wanken. Eine Jugendliebe – man missversteht sich – der Zauberwald fackelt ab – das ganze Leben glimmt das Glutnest vor sich hin, bis es im Alter wieder entfacht wird.

Der neue Job in der Poststelle eines Hamburger Traditionsverlages ist geradezu lächerlich einfach, was perfekt für Matthis ist. Er liebt Bücher, das Leben und gute Metallkonzerte. Solange er pünktlich Feierabend machen und die Arbeit hinter sich lassen kann, ist seine Welt in Ordnung. Allerdings sitzt morgens eine Angestellte in der Teeküche, die seinen Frieden stört. Jedes Gespräch mit Lovis verläuft seltsam und gleichzeitig auf eine interessante Weise herausfordernd.

Two novels by the award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields, dramatised for BBC Radio Carol Shields was one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary authors. Often compared to Jane Austen, her deft, witty and compassionate works depicting the everyday lives of ordinary people won her numerous...

📚 An intriguing, twisting and heart-warming novel set in a bookshop that has an unexpected impact on people's lives. From the author of The Second Chance Book Club and Found in a Bookshop 📚 When the Lost for Words bookshop in York hosts an event for a new reading project, four strangers'...

Nuneaton, 1914: War is just around the corner and for Annie Lilburn and her adopted family, life will never be the same. Annie, after a difficult childhood, has never felt like she fits in, but since Levi Lilburn, the local rag and bone man, took her under his wing and she became a business woman in her own right, things have been on the up. Soon that is set to change when World War I is declared and the men of the town enlist. And as more and more casualties come in, Annie needs to step up and do her bit for the war effort.

More than a decade ago, Shannon fled her seaside hometown, escaping an unimaginable tragedy she never dared speak of again. Settling across the country, she buried her sorrow beneath the busy demands of motherhood and a successful career. But when her grown children scatter and her marriage collapses, Shannon finds herself alone, haunted by unanswered questions from her past. Impulsively, she returns to Raspberry Ridge—the idyllic village of her youth, filled with memories both sweet and devastating.

When volunteer firefighter Aiden Billings gets stuck with a flat tire in rural Kentucky, he’s not happy to have to drag his young daughter to a tire shop for the afternoon. But when the pretty receptionist glances his way, a sliver of his heart cracks open—something he hasn’t felt since his wife died five years earlier.

Pastor Mark Stevens never imagined his first Christmas in Mistletoe Meadows would involve a power outage, a church full of stranded townspeople, and falling for a woman who wants nothing to do with opening her heart again. Taking over for beloved Pastor Johnson after 40 years was intimidating enough without a natural disaster and a candlelight Christmas Eve service that threatens to become all too literal.

Lady Marianne Blackwell values her freedom and has no intention of being tied down by marriage. But when the charming and enigmatic Duke of Westford sets his sights on her, will she change her mind—or will she risk losing the only man who truly understands her?

Lady Madeline Wycliffe may be a duke’s daughter, but she’s no damsel in distress. Banished to the Wyoming frontier by her father to break her spirit, Maddie is determined to choose her own future. When she learns her brother is already en route to drag her back to England, she makes her own wild marriage gamble.

En el deslumbrante mundo de la sociedad victoriana, donde las reputaciones lo son todo y el amor es a menudo un lujo, Valentina Sinclair es una mujer adelantada a su tiempo: vivaz, independiente y decidida a vivir la vida según sus propias reglas. Pero cuando conoce al enigmático y apuesto James Windermere, el Conde de Windermere, su corazón, cuidadosamente protegido, comienza a desmoronarse.