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When Rachel Nardelli finds out Alison Petrucci—her childhood rival—is found dead in Pleasant Pond, the same place the two girls had first said goodbye to each other back in eighth grade, the town of Waterbury is outraged by the fear of losing one of their own—the heir to Maine’s largest construction company. But it’s a little more complicated for Rachel. She saw Alison the night she died. Callous, she said something she shouldn’t have. She stirred up the past. The next morning, Alison was gone.

Once upon a time, there was a kind and honest man named Hans. He lived alone in a tiny cottage. Hans was a little man who owned a beautiful garden, where he grew flowers of all kinds and colours which were sold in the market to make some money. He enjoyed the company of another man called Hugh, a miller who used to visit Hans very often during the summer time and with whom he shared thoughts about friendship and loyalty. Hans was so devoted to Hugh that he even gifted him whole bunches of flowers from his own garden.

»Man kann nur richtig laut sein, wenn man das Leise versteht.« Arkadia will in einem Knabenchor singen, und das um jeden Preis. Atmosphärisch, tief bewegend und auf tragikomische Weise erzählt Christopher Kloeble in »Durch das Raue zu den Sternen« von der großen Liebe eines Mädchens zu ihren Eltern und der Musik. Und dem unbändigen Willen, der Welt zu beweisen, wer man sein kann, wenn man sich den Regeln der Gesellschaft nicht beugt. Arkadia Fink ist eine Heldin, die man nicht vergisst: 13 Jahre alt, musikalisch hochbegabt und mit reichlich Fantasie gesegnet.

大ヒットシリーズ『後宮の烏』著者、初の単行本!高級旅館の主人×龍王の血を引く娘風変わりな夫婦がおりなす中華退魔帖!成都(せいと)随一の高級旅館、張家楼(ちょうかろう)。

In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument, the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the gold leaf covering his body to give to the poor.

Eine Porzellanmanufaktur in Scherben. Ein im Krieg verschollener Bruder. Eine Familiendynastie zur Zeit des Wiederaufbaus. - »Sie stand jetzt in der Verantwortung. Für sich, für ihre Liebsten. Und für die Arbeiter in der Manufaktur und ihre Familien.« Selb, die Heimat des weißen Goldes, 1947: Als der Familienpatriarch Ludwig Thalmeyer überraschend verstirbt, muss Marie als älteste Tochter die traditionsreiche Porzellanmanufaktur übernehmen. Mühsam arbeitet sie sich in das Geschäft ein, wird jedoch als junges Fräulein kaum ernst genommen.

A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time.

" Fleuris là où tu es plantée. ", c'est le conseil que Christine Bolz reçoit de sa grand-mère, sa bien-aimée Oma. Mais Christine, 17 ans, domestique, sait que le monde entier l'attend au-delà de son petit village allemand. Un monde qu'elle a commencé à apercevoir grâce à la musique, aux livres et à Isaac Bauerman, le fils cultivé de la riche famille juive pour laquelle elle travaille. Pourtant, l'avenir qu'elle et Isaac rêvent de partager fait face à de plus grands défis que leur différence de niveau social.

One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned. The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.

1975. Pour échapper à sa famille toxique, la jeune Américaine Alice Burns est partie étudier à Dublin. En ce début d'hiver, le climat outre-Atlantique n'y est pas plus joyeux. Pourtant, entre la rénovation de son appartement et les soirées passées à la chaleur des pubs, Alice se fait peu à peu des amis, et trouve à tâtons sa voie. Quand le hasard place sur son chemin le lumineux Ciaran, sa balade irlandaise prend des allures de Symphonie du Nouveau Monde. C'est alors que ressurgit une veille connaissance et, avec elle, un passé qu'Alice aurait préféré oublier à jamais...

Certaines femmes sont incapables de vivre une vie ordinaire. Elle a essayé de ne pas dépasser du cadre, mais certaines femmes ne rentrent même pas dans ce cadre. Nous vivons dans un monde d'hommes et certaines femmes ne peuvent pas vivre à l'allure qu'ils nous imposent. Angleterre, 1436. Jacquetta de Luxembourg, déjà veuve à dix-neuf ans, épouse son amant Richard Woodville et retourne servir à la Cour du roi Henri VI, où elle devient une amie loyale de la reine. Fine politique, Jacquetta parvient, au fil des ans, à étendre l'influence de la famille Woodville auprès des Lancastre.

Renate Bergmann haut ab: Raus aus Berlin, rein in die vermeintliche Ruhe ins brandenburgische Spreeweide. Dort, wo Stefan, Ariane und die Kinder wohnen und der Alterswohnsitz auf Renate wartet. Kaum angekommen, gerät sie mit Bürgermeister Brummer aneinander. »Kandidieren Sie doch selbst!« muss man ihr nicht zweimal sagen. 82 Jahre hin oder her: Der Adenauer und Renate powern in diesem Alter erst richtig los. Deshalb hängt schon bald Renates Wahlplakat an jeder Dorflaterne. Ohne Raute zwar, aber mit schickem Blazer. Das Auge wählt schließlich mit!

"Bis gestern war ich noch in einem anderen Leben." Eines Morgens erwacht Toni nicht wie gewohnt neben ihrem langjährigen Freund in ihrer kleinen Altbauwohnung, weil die Dielen knarren und die Nachbarn viel zu laut sind. Nein. Zu ihrer Verwunderung befindet sie sich in einer großzügig geschnittenen Wohnung. Alles hell, ordentlich, teuer eingerichtet. Und der Blick aus dem Fenster? Seltsam vertraut. Antonia versteht: Sie ist wieder in dem Dorf ihrer Kindheit"

A man sits by his father's bedside and reports radically and gently until a final winter morning. His father was one of that generation of tragic smokers born right after the World War II in Bulgaria, who clung to the snorkels of their cigarettes. A rebel without a cause, he knew how to fail with heroic self-deprecation. The garden he created out of a barren village yard first saved him, then killed him It remains his living legacy: peonies and potatoes, roses and cherry trees - and endless stories.

This epic love story follows the engaged couple Renzo and Lucia as they navigate a perilous journey to be together amidst Spanish occupation, war, famine, and plague. Their struggle against the tyrannical Don Rodrigo, who seeks Lucia for himself, is interwoven with themes of faith, justice, power, and truth. Celebrated for its historical significance and cultural impact, the novel has inspired countless artists and remains a staple in Italian education and literature, praised by luminaries such as Giuseppe Verdi, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Pope Francis.

Girlie, a thirty-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a social-media moderation centre, flagging and removing the very worst that makes it on to the internet. She's good at it, too—dispassionate, unflinching, maybe because she learned by necessity to cauterise all her emotions when she was still a kid—so it's no surprise to anyone when the social-media company for which she works offers her a big pay rise and an office to start moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, stunning simulations of civilizations long-since dead.

London 1905, celebrated artist John Sutton paints The Quartet, unaware of the passion and betrayal his brush strokes will ignite. A century later, Mark and Abriana—ex-lovers haunted by their past—are drawn together by the image. As they trace the portrait's journey from London to Greece and war-torn Tuscany, the couple uncover a tale of love, sacrifice, and deception that mirrors their own tumultuous history. With each revelation, they're forced to confront the wounds that tore them apart and question whether healing is possible.

It is summer, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a persistent hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him as a child. His therapist, Martin, is also facing challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivia’s tenuous relationship with her biological mother – a predicament that makes Sebastian’s struggle feel uncannily close to her own.

Rika Horiuchi’s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of the Venus de Milo – in Latin – every Monday, when the museum is closed. Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job: she and Venus talk about everything. They fall in love, and (with the help of a statue of Artemis’ hunting dog) eventually break free. This fresh and original novel from the author of Diary of a Void confirms Emi Yagi as one of the most exciting Japanese writers published in English today.

Alice has everything she thought she ever wanted—the steady relationship, the well-paid job, the nice flat—until one day she collapses in the street. Burnt out by the pressures of long hours, a busy commute and the stresses of living a life that doesn't fulfil her dreams Alice returns home to Yorkshire and rediscovers her passion for astronomy. But with secrets from her past resurfacing, can she find the courage she needs to live the life she wants on our imperfect planet?