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A hilarious and romantic standalone novel from the bestselling author of the I Heart series, Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: Boyfriend – Flat - Great job. NOT on the list: Being dumped - Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list – The Single Girl’s To-Do List.

On the eve of his 36th birthday, author Mike Gayle picked up a pen and contemplated his life. He is nowhere near being an adult - even though his tenth wedding anniversary is looming and his second child due shortly. Appalled by this lack of maturity, Mike draws up a to-do list containing every item he's been meaning to do but keeps putting off.

In their twilight years, two 80-something sisters, Esther and Minnie are coaxed from their easy chairs and their comfort zone of carpet slippers, crochet hooks, jigsaws, and rummage sales to fulfill the dying wish of a dear friend. They go on to undertake a road trip of sorts in Esther's beloved classic Trafalgar blue Morris Traveller, affectionately known as "Vivien". The trip, however, is no minor errand to return late library books. Theirs was to be an epic undertaking from Lodon's Whitechapel to Raipur, deep in the heart of the Indian Subcontinent.

Like any married couple, Allie and Tony have had their fair share of heartache. But when Tony's actions force Allie and her young sons out of their home, things take a turn for the worse. Without her husband around, Allie must cope with two inquisitive children - as well as the reappearance of her estranged father. So when her eldest Mark befriends next-door neighbour Jeremy, Allie's glad he's found a distraction. The trouble is that Mark believes Jeremy is Santa Claus and that he can put the family back together.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

"Im Osten regiert das Verbrechen, im Zentrum die Gaunerei, im Norden das Elend, im Westen die Unzucht und in allen Himmelsrichtungen wohnt der Untergang", schrieb Kästner 1931 über die Metropole Berlin. Tatsächlich war Kästners Großstadterfahrung deutlich positiver und bunter. Als rasender Reporter, Nachtschwärmer und Frauenliebling war er zuverlässig immer dort anzutreffen, wo etwas los war, ob im Theater, in Tanzlokalen oder bei Ringkampf-Veranstaltungen.

Es va morir durant laterratge, explica ella al principi daquesta misteriosa novel.la. Un avi extremeny i una jove holandesa shan trobat en un avió que va de Barcelona a Amsterdam. Shan assegut a la mateixa fila i han conversat una mica. En sortir de lavió, ella sendú cap a casa una capsa que el seu company de viatge volia ensenyar al seu fill gran. Ell va emigrar a Holanda als anys seixanta per treballar-hi, es va casar amb una artista holandesa i van tenir tres fills.

Jonathan Kepler wants to climb Spoon Mountain with his grown son and daughter on his sixty-fifth birthday in three weeks. The kids, Ben and Miranda, think he’s crazy. For starters, Spoon Mountain is almost the tallest alpine peak in New Mexico. Jonathan’s health is terrible. Still reeling from his third, nearly fatal, divorce, he has a rotten heart, serious asthma, and a fed-up girlfriend who is about to drop him like a bad habit.