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Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

Vivienne's perfect life is a façade, and she at last wants out. She needs a divorce fast. Helen's nightly glass of wine has become a bottle or two, and her drinking is threatening her marriage. Clara feels she must lie to her husband to save her sanity and reach towards some freedom. Miriam, wanting to change her life, does so in the most dramatic way possible...

In the third book in Alice Bell’s Grave Expectations series, Alex has managed to convince Claire, Sophie and Basher that they should incorporate as a private investigation company. They investigate a suspicious death at a pro-wrestling company, with help from the ghost of the deceased.

Mason DuPont isn’t exactly thriving. His once-distant mother is slipping into dementia, his creative spark is long buried, and peace feels like a foreign concept. Then he stumbles into a neighborhood poker group—where the bets are low, but the stakes are real. Between absurd game variations, relentless teasing, and midnight heart-to-hearts, Mason finds more than distraction; he finds a tribe. And when a group member falls seriously ill, those friendships force Mason to confront old scars and rediscover parts of himself he thought were long gone.

Chris and Andy Fairley couldn’t be more opposite—Chris, an uptight, ever-pessimist, and Andy, a go-with-the-flow hopeful. Their glory days seemed long behind them since their moderate success as a folk-rock duo and their relationship with each other fizzled out in the mid-1980s. But when their hit song is unexpectedly chosen for a Japanese car commercial, the men are given one last shot to revive their fame and friendship. They embark on a tour across Japan, but soon find their venues are far from glamorous.

"Rüm hart, klaar kimang" – Weites Herz, klarer Horizont. Dieses Gefühl überkommt einen, wenn man auf Amrum über Europas breitesten Strand blickt und der Wind das Meer bis in die Seele trägt. Für die junge Hamburgerin Enja Martens könnte dieser Horizont nicht trüber sein: Ein schockierendes Ereignis reißt sie völlig aus der Bahn und stellt ihr Leben auf den Kopf. Ihre Freundinnen Julika und Antonia wollen sie nicht allein lassen und überreden sie zu einer spontanen Reise, um Abstand zu gewinnen und neue Kraft zu schöpfen.

Two decades have passed since Callie Kingman begrudgingly followed her husband, Thomas, across the country in pursuit of his career at the expense of her own. Today, Callie is an empty nester with no job prospects, a declining mother, and a spouse who announces his intention to leave her—in Sacramento, the dullest city in America. His parting potshot: “It’s not me, it’s you.”

En un pequeño pueblo a orillas del Mississippi, Tom Sawyer sueña con tesoros escondidos, piratas y escapadas. Travieso, ingenioso y con un corazón valiente, Tom se lanza a la aventura junto a su inseparable amigo Huckleberry Finn. Juntos descubrirán cuevas misteriosas, secretos ocultos y el valor que se esconde detrás de la amistad verdadera. Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es un clásico inolvidable que mezcla humor, emoción y una mirada entrañable a la infancia, donde cada día es una posibilidad para vivir algo extraordinario. Ideal para espíritus libres y soñadores de todas las edades.

Candy, 21, startet gerade als internationales Supermodel durch. Tammy, 29, feiert Erfolge als TV-Produzentin. In New York macht sich die älteste Schwester Sabrina, 34, einen Namen als Anwältin, während Annie, 26, in Florenz für die Kunst lebt. Am 4. Juli treffen sie wie immer bei ihren Eltern in Connecticut zusammen. In diesem Jahr trifft die Familie jedoch ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag, der alles für immer verändert. Die Schwestern lassen ihre getrennten Leben hinter sich und ziehen zusammen, um gemeinsam zu heilen und füreinander da zu sein.

Seit sie ein kleines Mädchen war, liebt Iris Cooper nichts so sehr wie das Singen. Mit zwölf Jahren beginnt sie, mit ihrem Vater von Stadt zu Stadt, von Bühne zu Bühne zu ziehen. Das Leben mit ihm ist nicht einfach, doch auch nachdem sie sich befreien kann, kommt sie nicht zur Ruhe: Ihr neuer Manager nutzt sie gnadenlos aus.

It's 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working for Hollywood producer Lawrence Merrill. She quickly becomes absorbed in VistaGlen Studios's biggest project: a movie about Kitty Ridley, the legendary stage actress who disappeared from the public eye in 1895. The movie will be the making of Belinda Vail, a beautiful ingenue who is hungry for a breakout role—and also happens to be Mr. Merrill's love interest. But the real Miss Ridley has other ideas.

In the aftermath of the Halloween homecoming massacre, the town of Newport struggles to recover from the terror unleashed by Jessica Black. But as the survivors come to terms with their losses, a new breed of horror lurks just beneath the surface, threatening to plunge them back into chaos. Fifteen-year-old Howie grapples with the grief of losing his friends, haunted by memories of that fateful night. Cory is tormented by disturbing visions and violent urges that threaten to consume him. Meanwhile, Bethany finds herself ensnared in a fatal web of deceit as dark forces conspire against her.

Jake is an effortless young man whose best friend is the gremlin he accidentally wrote into existence when he was a little boy. Now, when he saves a mermaid from a reef off the coast of beautiful Laguna, California, he’s not sure if he brought her into existence through his dreams or why it is that she came into his life.

Canción de Navidad narra la transformación de Ebenezer Scrooge, un avaro hombre de negocios. En la víspera de Navidad, Scrooge recibe la visita de tres espíritus: los Fantasmas de las Navidades Pasadas, Presentes y Futuras. Estos viajes sobrenaturales lo llevan a través de sus propias experiencias de vida, mostrándole la alegría y el sufrimiento que su tacañería ha causado a otros.

A girl with a broken heart. A man dealing with loss. When an accident brings these childhood sweethearts together, will they find love? When a fire rips through her world, Holly finds her rescuer to be none other than Mitch, the guy she’s not seen for fifteen years. He makes her a business proposition, but can she learn to trust? Heartbroken Mitch travels across the country to Somerset to oversee the running of his Uncle’s farm, but is he really running away from himself? Neither can deny their attraction for each other. But is such an intense relationship ideal between two broken people?

Una chica sentada en un banco. El día despunta y los estragos de la fiesta de ayer aún se palpan en el ambiente. El tránsito de los que van a trabajar se mezcla con el de los que vuelven a casa arrastrando la borrachera bajo los portales. De camino hacia la parada del autobús, Tallie se detiene de golpe en el bulevar. Le ha parecido reconocer a su amiga Miriam sentada en el banco con el pelo revuelto y la cara desfigurada por ríos de rímel. Solo unos días antes, los jóvenes apuraban las vacaciones en la piscina, felices y despreocupados.

Iona, courrier du cœur dans un magazine féminin, n'aurait jamais songé à enfreindre la Règle no2 de l'Usager du Train de Banlieue (" ne jamais adresser la parole à son voisin ") si " Macho-Stylé de Surbiton " n'avait manqué de s'étouffer lors de leur trajet matinal. Cet évènement inattendu aura-t-il le pouvoir de changer la vie des passagers du train de 8h05 ?

En rejoignant le Club senior local, Daphné comptait juste se faire des amis et enfin échapper à sa solitude forcée. Arthur cherchait un dérivatif à sa cleptomanie et un endroit chaud où manger à l'oeil. Lydia tentait de reprendre les rênes de sa vie.

Two of J M Synge’s remarkable plays and an exploration of the man, his work and his life on the Aran Islands J M Synge was one of the giants of Irish theatre, and a leading dramatist of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Together with W B Yeats and others, he co-founded Dublin’s famous Abbey...

Brothers James and Innes Lowrie return home to their wives and families after the war, Innes working for a shipbuilder and James returning to sea and the family's fishing business. Sister Bethany Pate and Innes have sons and heirs to go into the family business, but James does not. Innes takes in orphaned Etta Mulholland, adding to his already large family. In 1931, as the new generation take the helm and pursue various careers in Buckie’s fishing industry, some are content to take on the roles their parents have chosen for them, while others rail against these strictures.