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There is nothing better than a mocha frappe on the way to the office in the morning and Sunday spent on South Beach. I'm getting closer to the big 3-0 and finding that perfect guy is getting harder and harder even though I work for a sports agency buzzing with jocks. They are married, players, or jerks.

When Christine, an idealistic young American teacher, meets and marries Hideki Yamada, an aspiring Japanese high school baseball coach, she believes that their love with be enough to sustain them as they deal with cultural differences. However, Hideki's duties, and the team of fit, obedient boys whom he begins to think of as a surrogate family, take up more and more of his time, just as Christine is struggling to manage the needs of their multiply-disabled daughter and their sensitive son. Things come to a head when their son is the victim of bullies. 

A few weeks ago, I was a nobody at Gulf Coast University. Now I'm the most popular girl on campus. All thanks to my roommate, star quarterback Casey Turner. Everybody wants a piece of me, but all I want is Casey. He's sexy and funny, with the ability to literally charm a girl's pants off. Plus, he noticed me way back when I was invisible. As I climb higher up the social ladder, all the other girls who want him are sharpening their claws. Crushing on Casey when I was a shy, invisible nerd was hard. Wanting him now that I can be knocked off this throne is even harder.

Inglaterra, 1573. Los días de la pequeña Ellyn transcurren trabajando de sol a sol en la humilde granja de su familia, paleando las heces de los animales y recibiendo los menosprecios y los golpes de su hermano Tomas. Desde que su padre quedara inválido en un accidente, y más ahora que una nueva hermanita, Agnes, ha llegado a ese mundo de miseria y privaciones, todos han de deslomarse aún más para asegurar el sustento. En esa atmósfera de brutalidad, fatiga e inmundicia, la única alegría de Ellyn es Agnes, a quien la une un vínculo muy especial.

The first time I met Caspian Spearman, we had the perfect night. The second time, I was on the arm of his biggest rival. The third night… was a string of mistakes. Don’t believe me? Let’s do a play-by-play—or mistake by mistake.

Londra, 1908. La capitale britannica si prepara ai Giochi della IV Olimpiade. Miss Ina Wood appartiene alla squadra femminile di tiro con l'arco e Monsieur Pierre Le Blon è un valente schermidore belga. Si incontrano per caso, a seguito di un piccolo incidente automobilistico e scoprono di avere in comune un certo talento per la dissimulazione: Miss Wood guida un'auto non sua e Monsieur Le Blon non è chi dice di essere. Tra schermaglie sportive e romantiche gite tra i ranuncoli, si consuma quella che pare destinata a restare una fugace avventura.

Raised on a ranch in Saskatchewan’s rugged Thickwood Hills, where the prairie transitions to forest, Willomena Swift, home from playing for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, finds a precious foal killed by a rogue stallion. The stallion’s owner, once Willo’s baseball coach, now chairs the committee heading up the new cooperative pasture—a pasture that is set to swallow her family lease, where she grew up, learned to love and understand horses, and dreamed of returning to raise them.

This tiny dancer doesn't think I'm boyfriend material. I used to think that too. I've been a beast on the field and in the bedroom, but now I'm going to prove that I can be a man for her…and for our surprise baby… See, I had a bad attitude my whole life and that's why my college coach sent me to take ballet lessons as punishment. The real punishment? Being taught to plié by a beautiful ballerina who refused to date me. Two years later, when we're both professionals, I get a second chance to show her what Big D's all about.

Un luogo comune recita che a calcio, basket o tennis puoi giocare, ma nel ciclismo devi soffrire. La bicicletta è una cosa seria e ha regole severe, impietose: bisogna fare fatica, sputare sangue, arrivare al traguardo preferibilmente esanimi. Eppure, da qualche anno, sul palcoscenico mondiale delle due ruote ha fatto la sua comparsa uno strano personaggio, in grado di ribaltare i canoni. Porta barba e capelli lunghi, a volte si rasa a zero, ha l'aria rilassata anche dopo centinaia di chilometri e decine di settori in pavé, macinati masticando polvere.

Mia weiß zwei Dinge: Sie liebt ihren Sohn Sammy über alles. Und Nick Monteith ist ein treuloser Mistkerl. Leider ist der Mistkerl Sammys Vater und außerdem Kicker der Footballmannschaft, für die sie neuerdings das Catering übernimmt. Trotz allem hat Nick immer noch eine unwiderstehliche Anziehungskraft auf sie. Aber sie ist nach San Antonio gezogen, weil es das Beste für ihren Sohn ist... nicht um alte Gefühle aufleben zu lassen! Nick weiß, wie er ein Field Goal schießt, doch wie er mit Mia umgehen soll? Keinen blassen Schimmer.

Winning is important but this is championship quarterback Chase Layne's last chance for glory. All he wants for his final season is to win the Superbowl. But dreams of ending his career on a high will be sacked if his soon to be ex-wife has her way. She and her new boyfriend have plans to ruin Chase in a media smear. Avery Banks knows all about being played, and she's tired of being the loser. All she needs is a big score. Then she gets the dream job pretending to be a star football player's girlfriend. Easy, right? Except her sister sees an even bigger payoff: blackmailing him.

Katherine Adams never thought she'd end up in a small town in Texas, but when things start to go south, it's the perfect place to escape to. Emmett Santiago never imagined he'd fall so quickly, but one glance at Kate and he's a goner. Moving in with Katherine's aunt her junior year of high school is the safest choice for her sister, and Katherine plans to do everything she can to make Bluebonnet their home. That most definitely doesn't include flirting with a certain boy, no matter how charming his smile is. Katherine might not believe in love, but Emmett is determined to win her over.

There are a few things Nolan Ouellet has come to accept about himself. One: that his future with the NHL was irrevocably destroyed, thanks to his reckless actions as a teenager destroying his knee. Two: that he will never fall in love because the very idea of it sends his skin crawling. Three: he will bed as many NHL players as humanly possible before he retires his game. And four: he will never apologize for who he is and what he wants. Then two men come barreling into his life and turn everything he knows upside down.

Vor neun Jahren habe ich Winton den Rücken gekehrt. Nie wieder wollte ich einen Fuß in die Kleinstadt setzen. Doch nun bin ich gezwungen, zurückzukehren... Nach einem feuchtfröhlichen Abend mit meinen Spielern erhalte ich einen Anruf, der mit einem Schlag mein Leben verändert. Grandpa ist gestorben und ich soll seine Ranch übernehmen. Bevor ich jedoch mein Erbe antreten darf, gilt es, eine To-do-Liste zu erfüllen. Ausgerechnet Natalie Frost, Gramps unverschämt attraktive Anwältin, soll mir dabei zur Seite stehen.

Brooklyn's Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever for Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can't stay. His saving grace is handball, his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and abandoned by trusted elders, family, and friends. Even as Zev never fully escapes from the guilt of his choices, he sets course across the United States to discover where loyalty really lies and what it means.

Abigail. I'm invisible on campus. A girl nobody would look at twice. Broke, but desperate to break out of my shell, I've agreed to take in a roommate. A girl named Casey. Except, turns out Casey isn't a girl at all. He's the hottest guy I've ever seen. Casey. At Gulf Coast University, there are winners and, well, everyone else. I'm a winner. Star quarterback. Ladies' man. I can have any girl I want. Almost any girl. My shy, nerdy roommate is not only not my type, but she's off limits as well. Sleeping with Abigail would screw up this whole living arrangement.

"Ich will mir nichts mehr vorschreiben lassen! Ich will nur eines: tanzen!" Die junge Hobbymusikerin Emily trifft in einem Ferienresort auf den unnahbaren Profitänzer Dannie, der händeringend nach einer Tanzpartnerin für einen großen Show-Auftritt sucht. Emily scheint seine einzige Option zu sein. Sie ist vom Tanzen fasziniert und außerdem bildhübsch. Allerdings hat sie nie zuvor professionell getanzt.

That gorgeous and somewhat odd neighbor who has been causing me grief is creating another type of feeling within me. And once that spark is lit, Tillie displays a faith in me that for the first time since the crash I desperately want to believe. Now it’s time for me to step up and become the man—no, a better man than I once was.

A boy with football aspirations goes to law school and plays in the NFL. Then he coaches.

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