From the international bestselling novelist Penny Vincenzi comes SOMETHING DANGEROUS, the second novel of love, scandal and secrets in the celebrated SPOILS OF TIME trilogy.
Meet Cassandra Slick--a private investigator who knows that few pleasures in life can compare to a dry martini, a sexy blonde, and serving sweet justice on New Jersey's meanest streets.
Wie schnell manche Leben vergessen werden, und wie viele Generationen sie dennoch in den Körpern derjenigen eingeschrieben bleiben, die nach ihnen kommen, spürt Mädchen am eigenen Leib.
Jonas Hassen Khemiris brillanter zweiter Roman, ausgezeichnet mit dem Per-Olov-Enquist-Preis, ist zärtliche Vater-Sohn-Geschichte und doppelbödiges Einwandererschicksal zugleich.
Eine Erzählerin blickt zurück auf Ereignisse in London 1987: Die junge Mata, Assistentin in einem Buchverlag, verliebt sich in den smarten Bankier Heinrich.
Haunted by her troubled and violent past, Xena, the Warrior Princess, now travels the ancient world with her trusted companion, the bard Gabrielle, defending the innocent and protecting the honourable.
Au sein d'une école située dans un quartier privilégié du Bucarest des années soixante-dix, les élèves normaux côtoient la progéniture de la nomenklatura communiste.
A gorgeous literary debut about second chances, New England Book Festival prize winner The Rest of Us is an indelible love story that explores the legacy of an affair between a young student and her older professor.
Through Virginia Woolf's pioneering use of stream-of-consciousness technique and impressionistic prose, Jacob's Room captures fragments of a life that is constantly slipping away, just beyond the reach of full understanding.
The War Against Chaos is set in a dystopian version of Britain that is similar in its depiction of a grey, shabby, philistine country, to Orwell's 1984.
Die unvergessliche Reise eines trauernden Sohns zum Grab des Vaters»Sohn ohne Vater« erzählt auf mitreißende, eindringliche Weise von einem trauernden Sohn, vom Zusammenhalt einer Familie, der trügerischen Erinnerung und einer Reise in ein fremdes Land – zur Mutter und zum toten Vater.
Based on a 1858 play called "e;Red Vial"e;, Collins' "e;Jezebel's Daughter"e; is a tale of mystery, betrayal, and misguided trust revolving around Mrs.
Lambda Literary Award finalistIn Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic Peter Pan story, prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost Bois brigade and the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi who, along with the tomboy John Michael, Pan convinces to join him at Neverland.
The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics.
Our Town is the debut of a striking literary voice, one that captures the disillusion at the fringes of Hollywood as seen through a haze of drugs, alcohol, abuse, and fallen aspirations.
A masterful what-if series from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock in which global catastrophe puts a family's very survival at riskand both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration.
A wonderfully fresh novel about love and life from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick AN IDEAL HUSBANDEllen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go and live with another woman in Provence.
Jane Cockram makes her thrilling debut with this page-turning tale of psychological suspense in which a young woman whose life is in tatters flees to the safety of a family estate in England, but instead of comfort finds chilling secrets and lies.
Spanning from the islands of Sicily to the neighborhoods of New York, a tale of mothers, daughters, love, sacrificeand choicesresounding through generations.
The author's most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.
