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On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or, rather, a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read.

Harare, Zimbabwe, 2011. This is a story of five marriages and one gun. A British couple wonder at the unknowable city beyond their guarded compound while they build walls between themselves. An American begins to suspect his new home is having an insidious effect on his 'African queen' and their young daughter. An enthusiastic young intellectual follows his wife and his dreams to the city and finds only disillusion. An intelligence officer loses a crucial piece of evidence.

Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile's occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion. She became convinced she was telepathic, in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized, medicated, and released in a kind of trance.

Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer is drawn into the lives of his guests and the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting chronicles of the hotel's characters, he ultimately returns to writing once again. The result is this novel in 80 distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and islanders confronting each other and their fates in the rooms of the seedy hotel.

Faced with performing an emergency conversion, the rabbi must bring his celebrated tenacity and intuition to bear on a different kind of problem. Joan Abernathy has asked Rabbi Small to convert her so she can marry a Jew. The couple’s quandary prompts him to delve deep into the philosophy and history of Judaism. As he answers their difficult questions, Rabbi Small realizes it is not Joan whom he must convert.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire - smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake.

Lisa Scottoline, internationally best-selling author of Keep Quiet, returns with Every Fifteen Minutes, the compulsive tale of a doctor whose life is being unravelled from the outside in.... Dr Eric Parrish is the chief of a highly regarded psychiatric unit near Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife, he is doing his best to be a single parent to his seven-year-old daughter, Hannah. But when Eric takes on a new patient, his entire world begins to crumble.

Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two - Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man. Now back in print, God's Pocket is the powerful first novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.

This story follows the life of a man from the age of three to the age of 70. It is a story of love and tragedy. It is the quest of a man searching for love. The death of his mother, when he was three years old, and the absence of his father for the first seven years of his life, sets the stage for the choices he makes throughout his life. The story begins in the late 40s, early 50s, and progresses to present day.

Von Sehnsucht, Sinn und Sinnlichkeit: ein intensiver, poetischer Roman von Bestseller-Autorin Nina George über die Liebe und das Leben vor der beeindruckenden Kulisse der bretonischen Küste. Die angesehene Pariser Verhaltensbiologin Claire sehnt sich immer verzweifelter danach, zu spüren, dass sie noch lebt und nicht nur funktioniert. Die junge Julie wartet auf etwas, das sie innerlich in Brand steckt – auf des Lebens Rausch, auf Farben, Mut und Leidenschaft. Ein Sommer in der Bretagne, am Ende der Welt, führt die beiden unterschiedlichen Frauen zusammen.

Das Leben besteht aus der Summe stündlicher Entscheidungen. Doch welche sind richtig? Welche führen zu Glück, Liebe, Freundschaft – welche zu Verzweiflung und Einsamkeit? Mit dieser existenziellen Frage ringen die Verlegerin Eddie, der Kriegsreporter Henri und der hochsensible Teenager Sam, als Henri nach einem Unfall ins Koma fällt. "Verdammt, Henri, was hast du dir dabei gedacht? Du hast mich benutzt, du hast mich zurückgewiesen.

Sommer, Sonne und große Gefühle. Ein Sommer voller Abenteuer erwartet die Heldinnen dieser Geschichten - sei es vor der malerischen Kulisse des Gardasees oder der Bretagne, auf Usedom oder Föhr, in Grasse, Hamburg oder an vielen anderen Sehnsuchtsorten. Bekannte deutsche Autorinnen und Autoren wie Gabriella Engelmann, Jean Bagnol, Nina George, Iny Lorentz, Marie Matisek und Gisa Pauly, erzählen von Sonne und Urlaub, von Liebe, Hoffnung und Enttäuschungen. Mal ernst, mal heiter, in lauten und leisen Tönen, doch immer stimmungsvoll!

Dexter meets Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce in this snarky black comedy that follows Eris as she toys with people's lives. When 25-year-old Eris gets fired from her minimum-wage job, she stumbles on her friend's startup which outsources bad news to people. But will she manage to keep her friendships intact when she finds out she's very good at delivering breakups, when demand is really picking up, and when the recipients don't take to the news too kindly?

Kevin Ross, a brilliant surgeon, and his family are kidnapped and taken, along with other families, to an island. Their home is luxurious and the remote location is idyllic. Kevin is given a laboratory in which he can concentrate on his research on a serum that will allow human beings to utilize more of their brain and allow them to improve their lives. The inhabitants are, however, subjected to continuous surveillance by guards or cameras that record everything, including intimate moments in their own homes. Communication with others is not allowed.

With a pimp for a daddy and a professional booster for a mother, a life of crime was the family business, so Tara had no choice but to major and graduate with a degree in hustling. At the age of nine, Tara had learned every lesson her true-to-the-game parents ever taught her. By 18, she had found her niche: boosting the best merchandise from the best boutiques in the city and flipping it on the streets for cash - keeping the very best pieces for herself, of course. Tara became known as one of the baddest boosters on the East Coast, second only to her mother.

Fuchs 8 war immer schon neugierig und ein bisschen anders als die anderen Füchse seiner Gruppe. So hat er die menschliche Sprache gelernt, weil er sich gern in den Büschen vor den Häusern versteckte und zuhörte, wenn die Menschen ihren Kindern Gutenachtgeschichten vorlasen. Die Macht der Worte und Geschichten befeuert seine Neugier auf diese Wesen, bis Gefahr droht: Der Bau eines riesigen Einkaufszentrums zerstört den Wald, in dem die Füchse leben, und sie finden kaum noch Nahrung. Dem stets belächelten Tagträumer Fuchs 8 bleibt nur eines.