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Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player, becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany, New York, political boss' son.

In this first book of an all-new Deryni trilogy, New York Times best-selling author Katherine Kurtz takes listeners back in time - before King Kelson's bride...before King Kelson's birth... when the magical Deryni blood was sought by the most powerful men and women in the kingdom of Gwynedd. Back when a man named Donal ruled over all.

In her hands, the young wit'ch Elena holds the awesome energies of blood magick - and more. For the fate of all Alasea hinges on her recovery of the Blood Diary, a potent talisman forged five hundred years ago, then locked away behind wards too strong for any mage to break. But only with the secrets recorded in its pages can Elena defeat the evil magicks of the Dark Lord.

On a fateful night five centuries ago, three mages made a desperate last stand, sacrificing everything to preserve the only hope of goodness in the beautiful, doomed land of Alasea. Now, on the anniversary of that ominous night, a girl-child ripens into the heritage of lost power. But before she can even comprehend her terrible new gift, the Dark Lord dispatches his winged monsters to capture her and bring him the embryonic magic she embodies.

Only a mistress of blood magick can stand against the foul minions and all-corrupting evil of the Dark Lord. But Elena is not yet the mistress of her magick. Protected by an ageless warrior and a band of renegades, she quests for a lost city where prophecies speak of a mystic tome that holds the key to the Dark Lord's defeat. But if the Dark Lord finds her first, Elena will become his most fearsome weapon.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

Australie, 1921. Viola et Duncan Summer font partie d'une troupe de comédiens ambulants quand naît Catriona. Très tôt, leur fillette montre d'étonnantes prédispositions pour le chant et entame une carrière dans les villes et villages de l'outback. Mais un premier drame survient. La grande dépression sévit, la troupe se sépare et Duncan meurt accidentellement. Catriona est âgée de 11 ans quand sa mère et elle sont prises sous l'aile protectrice de Francis Kane.

Na'ama and Udi Newman have many of the trappings of an idyllic shared existence. A couple since they were schoolchildren, they have grown together like vines and settled into a routine of calm domesticity along with their young daughter, Noga. But in a scene worthy of Kafka, the quiet rhythms of their family life suddenly screech to a halt when Udi wakes up one morning to find that he is unable to move his legs.

The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.

Laissez-vous gagner par cette famille fantaisiste digne d'Almodóvar. Réunion de famille impromptue dans un café. Fernando, sa mère, Amalia, ses deux sœurs, Emma et Silvia. Tous espèrent un coup de téléphone qui tarde à arriver. L'attente, fébrile, est ponctuée de scènes savoureuses, de quiproquos et de malentendus. Les vérités cachées ou à demi dites s'égrènent sans fin. Et on rit aux larmes de cette comédie familiale plus profonde qu'il n'y paraît.

Margo weiß, was sie will: eine anspruchsvolle Arbeit und Verantwortung. Als sie Helene bei Photo-Werner trifft, hat diese schon viel riskiert. Sie ist im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg zwischen die Fronten geraten. Mit ihr taucht Alard von Sedlitz in Stendal auf, ein charismatischer junger Schlesier, in den sich beide verlieben. Sie werden durch Krieg und Verfolgung getrennt. Margo verliert auf der Flucht 1945 ihr Kind und beinahe ihr Leben. Mit Henri, dem der Krieg alle Illusionen geraubt hat, baut sie sich eine neue Existenz in Westdeutschland auf. Helene, die Buchenwald überlebt hat, wird in Ostberlin von der Stasi zur "Botschafterin des Friedens" ausgebildet.

C'est formidable le téléphone portable, mais ça ne sert pas uniquement à annoncer de bonnes nouvelles. Ce jour-là, lorsqu'il sonne dans l'atelier de Babou, elle ne se doute pas que le ciel va lui tomber sur la tête. Serait-elle, comme son Pacha d'époux semble le penser, une mère et une grand-mère accaparante ? Mais comment dire non à un enfant qui crie à l'aide ? Et ne vaut-il pas mieux être trop présent plutôt qu'aux abonnés absents ?

This addictive John Jakes adventure blends the Kents’ ruthless push for an empire with murderous betrayal and the Civil War’s life-altering culmination. With the Civil War reaching its gory climax, the divided Kent family is pushed to the edge of complete destruction. With the advent of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad, the Kents continue to fight for their foothold among America’s wealthy founding families. While their private, insular war rages, young Jeremiah Kent is tempted by a calculating Southern belle into a trap of deceit, lust, and murder.

Une nuit, alors qu'elle rentre chez elle, Samantha Watkins, jeune bibliothécaire au quotidien morne et insipide, va voir sa vie prendre un virage à 180 degrés de par sa rencontre avec un "ange"... Loin des gardiens du paradis, l'homme qui la choisit pour devenir son assistante et mettre sa vie en danger dans l'enquête sur les étranges disparitions de la région, est un vampire de cinq cents ans, dont la fonction principale est de veiller au maintien du secret de l'existence de son espèce.

Le sacrifice de Samantha Watkins pour son ange gardien n'aura pas été vain puisqu'ils survivent tous les deux ; à quelques petites choses près... Outre la difficulté de s'adapter à sa nouvelle condition dans un monde vampirique qui n'accepte pas la faiblesse, Sam doit aussi prendre en compte le danger qu'elle encoure si les Grands découvrent ses origines, ainsi que la menace, plus mystérieuse, dont lui a parlé Léthalée au sujet de l'avenir de ses enfants.

Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something bad. Very bad. Now, years later, she’s living a good life. She works as a local newspaper reporter and lives with her saintly boyfriend, Jonathan. She has no reason to think her guilty past will ever catch up with her... until Nick walks back into her life. And suddenly, what’s good and bad aren’t so clear to Sarah anymore.

How did the families who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they are today? As much a penetrating social history as it is engaging fiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whose Scottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textile business during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on to seize prominent positions in the country's top schools and Manhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family members across the generations recount their stories, illuminating lives steeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy.

One thousand years ago, chaos loosed itself upon Japan, upending an era in which the arts flourished. At the dawn of 250 years of civil war, in the opulent court of Lord Norimasa, the beautiful but cruel poet Lady Utsu wages war with men's hearts and holds the fearsome lord and his devoted samurai Matsuhito in her thrall. As the two men raze Japan's landscape in futile battles for unity, Utsu falls for Matsuhito even as Lord Norimasa continues to love her.

Die Fortsetzung und der Abschluss der großen Ostpreußen Saga von Bestsellerautorin Ulrike Renk. Nach Ende des Krieges besetzen die Sowjetischen Truppen das Land. Viele Gutsfamilien verlassen ihre Heimat und ziehen in den Westen. Auch Gebhards Brüder und seine Mutter. Er jedoch kann sich einfach nicht dazu entschließen, das Land seiner Väter zu verlassen. Dann wird er denunziert und verhaftet. Frederike droht das gleiche Schicksal. In letzter Sekunde flieht sie mit ihren Kindern in den Westen. Doch auch dort kann sie nicht bleiben. Ihre einzige Chance ist es, nach Schweden zu emigrieren - aber wird ihr ein Neuanfang gelingen?

King and country. No matter the cost. With the backing of his uncle, General Penrod Ballantyne, young Leon Courtney joins the King's Rifles of Nairobi. When he becomes discouraged by the dishonesty of army life, his uncle recruits him for a special mission - spying on the Germans in East Africa, whom the General suspects are preparing for the Kaiser's war. Posing as a professional game hunter, Leon is tasked with gathering information on one of his clients, wealthy industrialist Otto Von Meerbach.