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Amy loves Flynn. Flynn loves Amy. But she can't read his mind, and he can't read hers. Heading away to her sister's wedding weekend, little do they know it's make or break. When a bolt of lightning gives them the ultimate change in perspective, they have to get through the weekend walking in each other's shoes… Literally.

Tom is a photographer and dreamer, capturing snapshots of the city around him, talking to the people on the fringes of his world, always searching for something he knows is missing but can never quite grasp. He speaks to a beggar. He saves a woman from a gang on a darkened alley. He takes his photos...but only as he develops the negatives does he see the magical, hidden world he has brushed up against in all its beauty, and menace, and danger. And deep in those negatives is the clue he needs to continue his search.

Uno studente senza nome sta per abbandonare gli studi in una prestigiosa università a Kyoto dopo due anni disastrosi: a causa di una serie di scelte sbagliate, prima fra tutte la compagnia del suo peggiore e unico amico, il teppista Ozu, si è rovinato la reputazione e la carriera accademica, al punto che la “rosea vita universitaria” che tanto sognava, ossia trovare una bella fanciulla dai capelli corvini, avere successo nello studio e avere tanti amici, sembra ormai impossibile da raggiungere. Ma il destino ha in mente per lui altri piani.

Recently widowed Venetia Hamilton Hargreaves is left with a huge house, a bank balance to match and an uneasy feeling that she's been sleepwalking through the last fifty years. Determined to live fully again, she embraces life with an enthusiasm and purpose she'd forgotten she could muster. Buying the dilapidated Phoenix Ballroom and with it a drop-in centre and spiritualist church could be seen as reckless, but Venetia's generosity, courage and kindness provide a refuge for a touching cast of damaged and lonely people who find their chosen family.

Ojos Grises es producto de un mágico encuentro entre una experiencia vital y simbolismo mítico. El infierno de la Divina Comedia sirve de trampolín para que Javier Beas se lance a componer una obra donde, paso a paso, ingresamos en la primera etapa de la vida un encuentro, a través de los otros, con nosotros mismos. El amor que impacta, y que no se sabe aún manejar enteramente, sirve de base para que los personajes sean un reflejo de lo que un símbolo se extiende hacia latitudes externas e internas a un mismo tiempo.

Londra, 1921. La giovane Opaline fugge dal matrimonio combinato a cui il fratello vuole costringerla per risolvere i problemi finanziari della famiglia. Appassionata da sempre di libri, si rifugia in un'incantevole libreria nel cuore di Parigi, la Shakespeare and Company, dove, con l'appoggio dell'eccezionale proprietaria Sylvia Beach, impara il mestiere di libraia. Quando il fratello riesce a rintracciarla, Sylvia prontamente la manda a Dublino, al numero 12 di Ha'penny Lane, presso un'antica bottega che, con talento e intuito, Opaline trasforma in una libreria specializzata in testi antichi e rari.

When seven-year-old Jedza witnesses a tragic incident involving a train and the death of his close boyhood friend in his hometown Miner’s Drift, he is convinced that his life is haunted. Now in his mid-20s, Jedza is a down-and-out electrician, moving to Harare in the hopes that he will escape the darkness and superstitions of the small town. But living in the shadowy restless atmosphere of the Avenues with its mysterious pools of water rising under musasa trees, he is tormented by the disappearance of his sister and their early encounters with ancestral spirits.

Beaten down, broken, and battle-scarred, Anastasia has been forced to bury one too many friends. Seeing yet another body lowered into the ground fractures what's left of her soul. Now, with only one goal in mind, she is willing to stop at nothing to put an end to her enemy. Even if it means sacrificing the worlds themselves. Which is precisely what will happen if she obtains the power she seeks.

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr. Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. And so, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages.

Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her dream job, about to lose her flat: Clementine Monroe is not having a good day. So when her sisters get her drunk and suggest reviving a childhood ritual called the breakup spell, she doesn’t see the harm in it. But now Clemmie has accidentally ruined a funeral, had her first one-night stand, and she’s stuck with a new job she definitely doesn’t want - spending six weeks alone with the gorgeous and very-off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott.

Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of immediately selling the land. But upon inspection, what lies beneath the dirt is much more than he can process in the throes of grief. As a biracial Black man struggling with the many facets of his identity, he’s now the owner of a former plantation passed down by the men on his white mother’s side of the family.

Voor de fans van Wij van David Nicholls, PS, I Love You van Cecilia Ahern en de film Groundhog Day. Het is maandagochtend en zoals gewoonlijk vliegt de Londense zakenvrouw Emma gehaast de deur uit. Door haar volle inbox en steeds langer wordende to-dolijst merkt ze niet dat de sfeer in huis gespannen is. Als ze na een lange dag thuiskomt en er duidelijk wordt dat ze alwéér hun jubileum is vergeten, is voor haar man Dan de maat vol. Na een knallende ruzie stormt hij naar buiten, de straat op. Emma hoort piepende remmen, een harde knal, een loeiend autoalarm.

It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin’s northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start—and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends—human, animal, and otherworldly—to realize their dreams.

For fifty years, Venetia Hargreaves’s world revolved around her husband. She built their life around his big career, with dinner on the table at six, a lovely home, and a dutiful son just as business-minded as his father. Now Venetia’s a wealthy widow left with a beautiful but empty home, an enviable bank balance, and a distinct feeling that she missed the boat. Once upon a time, she was a dance instructor who dreamed of opening her own ballroom school with a fellow teacher who won her heart. Instead, Venetia chose the safer path.

Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there’s a hideous man in the garden.

When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her backwater ways when they don’t. Weatherly’s cousin Adaire also has a gift: she’s a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident, Adaire saw something unnerving, and that’s why Weatherly believes she was murdered—never thinking for a moment that it was an accident.

Merrick Forrester doesn’t do relationships. Not anymore. After enduring multiple heartbreaks, he’s convinced that everything beautiful eventually starts to rot. So when he meets the captivating and mysterious Drue Hart, he does his best to avoid her—that is, until he discovers the secret she carries. It’s then he decides getting close to her is worth the danger to his heart.

Melanie Donavan is in love with writing, in love with the charming borrowed cottage on Swan Lake, and is accompanied by part of her beloved collection of vintage purses and designer shoes. When a surprisingly cute guy knocks on her screen door one morning, could it be romance knocking? She has heard echoes of the young musician’s singing from across the lake. Nor she’s curious to visit the camp where he is living. Is it a scout or drama camp, a spa or rehab? It turns out to be a private estate.

1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a good living fitting designer gowns and creating custom wedding dresses for the town’s elite. But beyond her needle and thread lies a deeper talent, one passed down from her mother: the gift of insight. With just a fleeting touch or brush against the skin, Bailey has sudden flashes of intuition.

In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak. Even as families are forced to sell their orchards and move away, Lil Clearwater, keeper of a secret covenant with her land, swears she never will. When her twin Sasha returns to the dwindling town in hopes of reconnecting with the girl her heart never forgot, the sisters struggle to bridge their differences and share the immense burden of protecting their home from hungry forces intent on uprooting everything they love.