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Mike Carver has spent most of his adult life sleepwalking. He goes through his marriage, his routines, and his days on autopilot, doing everything he is supposed to do and almost nothing he actually wants. When his best friend Derek dies in a COVID ICU, the shock tears open all the feelings Mike has spent years pushing down.

Jax Caldar and Luca Moretti and in a city where the streets are alive with danger and the desert rewards no one, Only one rule applies: Run IT.

Niniejszy zbiór zawiera siedem zróżnicowanych opowiadań. Pomimo iż zostały opublikowane książkowo w tym samym roku co Pociągi pod specjalnym nadzorem, ukazują inne oblicze autora, zdecydowanie bardziej bezkompromisowe. Na Sprzedam dom, w którym już nie chcę mieszkać składają się teksty stanowiące jeden z najważniejszych kluczy do zrozumienia twórczości Bohumila Hrabala oraz źródeł jej poetyckości oraz ponadczasowości.

In the heart of Shanghai, the boundary between myth and reality is breaking. Mei Lin Huang, heir to an ancient bloodline, and Jack Roth, an American professor pulled into a war he doesn’t understand, must stand against gods and monsters determined to remake the world. Blending Chinese and Greek mythology with fast-paced action and simmering tension, Mandate of Myth is a thrilling fantasy where every choice could tip the balance between survival and destruction.

TONY MORETTI IS READY FOR NEW CHALLENGES. Smart, tough, and driven to make a difference, he leaves his post as an airport firefighter and embarks on a grueling three-month wildfire stint with the U.S. Forest Service. It's only a prelude to his next stop: a position as a fire department lieutenant in Western Pennsylvania's tough, steel-forged Monongahela Valley. But the transition is far from smooth.

Quand Martin Jobard, un enfant du pays devenu haut fonctionnaire à Paris, décide de revenir briguer la mairie de son village normand et de moderniser le réseau d'eau potable, il trouve sur son chemin Maria, la joyeuse et idéaliste tenancière de l'épicerie, qui défend la source des anciens. La lutte qui s'engage va éveiller, chez les habitants, le pire comme le meilleur.

Erst war es nur ein ONS, dann nimmt er mir mein Erbe weg und dann soll ich seine Frau spielen? Ganz schon viel verlangt von diesem reichen, gutaussenden Mistkerl, dem ich nicht widerstehen kann.
Und das war noch nicht alles: Seine Familie hasst mich und ich bin von ihm schwanger! Josie steckt in der Klemme: Sie hat ihren Job verloren und ein Hotel geerbt – eine Bruchbude, die nichts als Ärger macht. Dann soll sie auch noch auf der Hochzeit ihrer Cousine Lea die Trauzeugin spielen. Danach steht ihr wirklich nicht der Sinn.

Secrets is something that you share with your best friend, someone you trust with your life. A secret can build you or kill you, destroy what you thought was so right. Tyler, young beautiful, smart, and very outgoing becomes a victim of her secrets. Trying to keep them from the two people she loved and trusted most began to tear her down. Living day to day trying not to break had become her regular routine. Everything had become too much for her to bare. Jazz watched as her little sisters life fell apart piece by piece. Not knowing what Tyler was facing, Jazz had no clue how to respond.

Editoriales embusteras, comediantes retirados y niños perdidos en el subsuelo convergen en esta novela, un caleidoscopio de personajes e hilos narrativos que van tejiendo la biografía de una ciudad. A través de fragmentos hábilmente entrelazados, moviéndose entre lo individual y lo colectivo Desafiante como un rompecabezas y ligera com una sonrisa, le devuelve a la narrativa su potencia de juego e invención.

Znikają dzieci kontrowersyjnego działacza mniejszości niemieckiej. Śledztwo przeradza się w walkę z czasem. Przed trudnym zadaniem staje ambitna policjantka Olga Olszewska. Wspierają ją bezkompromisowy były milicjant Marian Żwirski i doświadczony oficer Bernard Bednar. Każdy krok na drodze do prawdy zmusi ich do konfrontacji nie tylko z porywaczem, ale także z własnymi lękami, bolesnymi sekretami, presją mediów i uwikłanych w polityczne układy przełożonych.

Jede Geschichte spielt in der Advents- und Weihnachtszeit, erzählt in einfachen, schönen Sätzen und mit viel Atmosphäre. Du spürst Nähe, Hoffnung und die leisen Wunder, die genau dann passieren, wenn man sie am meisten braucht. Dieses Buch schenkt dir vom ersten Satz an weihnachtliche Stimmung.

Kurz vor Weihnachten erfährt Cash, dass die Bar, in der sie als Tänzerin arbeitet, verkauft werden soll und sie wittert ihre Chance. Nach Jahren will sie den Karrieresprung schaffen und das Wild Lady kaufen. Der Laden und ihre Kolleginnen liegen ihr am Herzen und alles soll so erhalten bleiben, wie es ist. Leider kommt ihr jemand zuvor: Zane Manning. Großinvestor, Weihnachtsmuffel, verboten attraktiv und zu Cashs Leidwesen ihr neuer Boss. Zwischen den beiden sprühen heftige Funken.

I’m Natasha Resnova. The miracle child. The one who lived when doctors said I wouldn’t. The one who hides behind a camera instead of facing my violent bloodline. The Resnov bratva thrives on brutality. I survive in stillness. Until one photo puts me in the path of Lachlan MacKenzie—Dodger’s star batter and son of a Scottish crime boss. Lach sees me. The broken parts. The girl behind the blood-soaked legacy. Then he appears, and everything unravels.

Tout commence par un incendie, un bébé et... un sanglier. Paris est transformé par des travaux titanesques, le cœur d’un homme est écartelé, le monde rural menacé, des femmes sortent de l’oubli, et les membres de la famille Pelletier, toujours plus proches de nous, marchent inexorablement vers leur destin. Au terme d’un effroyable dilemme moral, ce sera l’effondrement ou l’apothéose. Par bonheur, le chat Joseph veille encore.

Razor sharp between the pipes, mysterious off the ice, Malakai Petrov is the Chicago Fury’s notorious goalie. The 6’5 Russian giant is hiding an entire world behind the mask he wears on and off the ice. He thinks his secrets are buried deep enough so that no one can ever crack the ice guarding his stone heart. Until he meets a certain teammate's sister, with hypnotizing silver eyes, who’s got a knack for sticking her nose in places it doesn’t belong.

Leaving behind a nightmarish college experience, Nicole and her friend, Eric, escape their home of Bangor, Maine to start a new life in Boston. Fragile and scared, Nicole desperately seeks a new beginning to help erase her past. But there is something besides freedom waiting for her in the shadows—a drug that will make every day a nightmare. Heroin. With one taste, the love that once flowed through Nicole's veins turns into cravings. Tracks mark the passing of time, and heroin's grip gets tighter. It holds her hand through deaths and prostitution, but her addiction keeps her in the darkness.

Could you abandon someone you love, leaving them behind with absolutely no memory of the life you shared if it meant sparing their life? Could you willingly surrender yourself into the hands of the one that wants you dead, if it meant your loved one would survive? And what would you give to see them again? These are the questions The Dante Family must face in The Kindred.

Maggie, Roxanne e Candice, più o meno coetanee, lavorano in un'importante rivista di Londra e per nulla al mondo rinuncerebbero al loro rito: una volta al mese si ritrovano al Manhattan Bar dove, tra un cocktail e l'altro, si confrontano in un frizzante teatrino di chiacchiere e confidenze. Sembrano donne pienamente realizzate, così padrone di sé nel lavoro e nel privato, ma dietro le apparenze ognuna di loro recita una parte, nascondendo alle altre aspetti importanti della propria vita.

“Perfectly balancing sweetness and steam.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Stuck in the Country with You She's a good girl trying to rebuild her restaurant. He's a felon trying to rebuild…everything. Second chances have never been so sweet. For Jamilah Carver, a by-the-books...

Jason "Philly Cheese" Ruiz had it all: the talent of a five-star recruit, the arrogance of a champion running back, and a life of wealth shielded from the world. Born into a tangled legacy of college football phenomenon and Hollywood glamour, Jason's future was supposed to be bright. But beneath the surface of the Ruiz family home, a cycle of addiction and abuse—passed down from a WWII veteran grandfather to a bitter, injured father—threatened to devour him. When tragedy strikes his best friend and forces a move to the grimy streets of Philadelphia, Jason’s perfect world shatters.