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Maddy and Clark never had much - just each other, the kids, and a never-sink spirit. When Maddy enters a jingle contest and wins a trip for two to Venice and half a million dollars, they're singing for joy. But sudden change can be a mixed blessing....

Can Carrie Delaney find a man good enough to be both a father to her six-year-old, Dannie, and her own second chance at love? During a summer singles week at a Vermont ski resort, Carrie meets two men and is instantly attracted to one of them: a slick, gorgeous "Mr. Impossible". She tries earnestly to fall in love with the other, a teddy bear of a pediatric dentist and a sweet guy - but not her destiny.

Simone LeFevre wants only two things: the first is to obtain a spot amongst the world's most elite perfumers. The next is to exact revenge on the man who destroyed her family, her heritage, and her heart. When she discovers a mysterious elixir dating back to the 19th century, she knows it's the key to getting close to her greatest love - and her most bitter enemy. Nick Rutledge is determined to restore his crumbled family empire.

Their lives have all the trappings of a fairytale. He is the proud, hardworking son of Sicilian immigrants. She is a pampered southern belle. When they meet, the Rossis of San Francisco and the Posatas of New Orleans have risen to become two powerful families with roots dating back for generations. And from the moment she sees him, Catherine Posata makes up her mind to marry tall, dark, and handsome Harvard Law student Dominic Rossi.

Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime-solver extraordinaire. Francesca is no ordinary heroine. She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society. Deadly Love begins Francesca's mad escapades when the neighbors' little boy is kidnapped right out of his bed during a society ball. It is January 18, 1902. Francesca stumbles across the ransom note just as she meets New York City's newly appointed police commissioner.

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven, or so they both believed. But when Britain declared war on Germany, Barney volunteered to fight and the couple were eventually separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the same person - and neither was Amy.

Catherine Dessin, a young French girl living in Paris during the occupation, falls for an older, married German officer. The novel examines the tensions this causes within her family of patriots and resistance workers. Meanwhile Klaus, the German officer, who is Oxford educated and a professed Anglophile, faces his own moral dilemma as he comes to realise, through his love for Catherine and a tragedy in his own family, the true nature of the regime he is serving.

As the heiress to a vast fortune amassed by her millionaire father, Francesca Cahill's life should be mapped out for her: Find an eligible suitor, marry, and have children. But Francesca is an unconventional young lady who is not about to give up her knack for sleuthing - even though she was almost killed in her last outing.... Murder strikes once again in the seamy underbelly of New York's high society, exposing scandalous secrets and unleashing an intense investigation into one of the most brutal crimes the city has ever known. Francesca must join forces with Rick Bragg, New York City's Police commissioner.

Fabulous family saga of secrets held through two generations, set against the atmospheric background of the Lake District at Christmas. The year 1936 is drawing to a close. Winter grips Wetmoreland and causes a rare phenonmenon: The lakes freeze. For two local families, the Richardsons and the Grindleys, this will bring unexpected upheaval, as the frozen lake entices long-estranged siblings and children to return home for the holiday season.

Marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress.... Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer’s block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos.

Zwei Schwestern im von den Deutschen besetzten Frankreich: Während Vianne ums Überleben ihrer Familie kämpft, schließt sich die jüngere Isabelle der Résistance an und sucht die Freiheit auf dem Pfad der Nachtigall, einem geheimen Fluchtweg über die Pyrenäen. Doch wie weit darf man gehen, um zu überleben? Und wie kann man die schützen, die man liebt? In diesem epischen, kraftvollen und zutiefst berührenden Roman erzählt Kristin Hannah die Geschichte zweier Frauen, die ihr Schicksal auf ganz eigene Weise meistern.

München, 1902: Gegen alle Widerstände will die junge Gabriele Münter, genannt Ella, Malerin werden. Sie nimmt Unterricht bei Wassily Kandinsky und verliebt sich in ihn, sie wird seine Muse ebenso wie seine Gefährtin auf der Suche nach neuen Ausdrucksformen. Doch während Kandinsky schon bald als Meister der Abstraktion und Begründer des Blauen Reiters zu Weltruhm gelangt, ringt Ella zeitlebens mit ihrer Rolle als Frau in der Kunst.

The setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket.

Born a Native American but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off, knowing only that she can't stay. Hester's natural instincts for navigating the forests in colonial Pennsylvania, along with the book of medicines and remedies given to her by an aged Native American woman, allow her to survive until she gets sick from drinking river water.

Paris, 1919: Coco Chanel ist es gelungen, ein erfolgreiches Modeunternehmen aufzubauen. Doch als ihr Geliebter Boy Capel bei einem Unfall stirbt, ist sie vor Trauer wie gelähmt. Erst der Plan, ihrer Liebe zu ihm mit einem Parfüm zu gedenken, verleiht ihr neue Tatkraft. Auf ihrer Suche danach begegnet sie dem charismatischen Dimitri Romanow. Mit ihm an ihrer Seite reist Coco nach Südfrankreich, in die Wiege aller großen Düfte, und kommt schon bald dem Duft der Liebe auf die Spur. Coco Chanel - eine einzigartige Frau und eine große Liebende. Dies ist ihre Geschichte.

At the age of 19, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get married and raise children in Liverpool like her sisters.

Ich bin deine Muse, ich bin deine Liebe. Klimt war ihre erste Liebe, für Gustav Mahler wird sie zur Muse - Alma Schindler wächst inmitten der Wiener Künstlerbohème auf, ist in den Salons der schillernden Metropole zu Hause, verfolgt den Aufstieg der Secession, inspiriert und verführt. Und sie ist Künstlerin, ihre Leidenschaft gehört dem Klavierspiel, vor allem der Komposition. Bis sie Gustav Mahler trifft und sich Hals über Kopf in ihn verliebt. Gustav erwidert ihre Liebe, jedoch zu einem hohen Preis: Für ihn soll sie ihre Kunst aufgeben.

Nell'epoca buia delle leggi razziali del fascismo, la tormentosa passione di un giovane professore ebreo per la bella e indecifrabile Sonia. In verità Sonia rappresenta l'inconsapevole simbolo dell'opposto, l'immagine dorata di una famiglia ricca, altolocata, reazionaria e soprattutto ariana. Nell'impari lotta, il giovane ebreo imboccherà la strada senza ritorno del cedimento per entrare nel geloso nucleo che in realtà non lo vuole.

1978: a Roma le Brigate Rosse hanno rapito Aldo Moro, in Sicilia boss mafiosi come Gaetano Badalamenti soffocano ogni tentativo di resistenza civile, all'ombra della Madonnina le bande di Vallanzasca e Turatello fanno salire la tensione in una città già segnata dagli scontri sociali. Ma anche in questo clima la dolcevita del capoluogo lombardo, che si prepara a diventare la "Milano da bere" degli anni Ottanta, non conosce soste.

Parigi, anni Trenta. È una serata importante per Giulio: la sua band si è esibita per la prima volta al Luxure. Ma quella notte ha in serbo ben altre sorprese. Quando il locale per qualche istante si oscura, e un cerchio di luce illumina il centro del palco, Giulio resta folgorato da due grandi occhi che sfavillano nella penombra e dalla sinuosa figura che sta per stregare il pubblico.