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Skylar and Storm Morrison may be gorgeous twin sisters, but they are as different as night and day. Skylar is savvy and book-smart; Storm is shrewd and street-smart. But a twist of fate lands Storm in jail, where she must trade her Fendi bags and Prada boots for an orange jumpsuit and laceless white sneakers. Meanwhile, Skylar makes a name for herself by transforming the restaurant that once belonged to the twins’ late father into Legends, Philadelphia’s hottest new nightclub.

Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her - her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matinee idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking secrets could June's once-stately mansion hold?

In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees.

Lucia's father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she's been kicked out of school - again. Making her way through the world with only a book, a Zippo lighter, a pocketful of stolen licorice, a biting wit, and the striking intelligence that she tries to hide, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother and following the only rule that makes any sense to her: Don't do things you aren't proud of.

Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York's elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural heist - the theft of an entire historic Manhattan building - that stunned the city and made the front page of the New York Times in 1974.

Max is a washed-up rock star who's about to turn 40 and feeling nostalgic for his university days. All he says he wants for his birthday is to host his old friends at his house in the French countryside for a weekend of good food and reminiscing. But he has an ulterior motive: Finally ready to settle down, this is his chance to declare his undying love to his best friend, Helen.

Die angehende New Yorker Anwältin Ellen Branford reist in den abgelegenen Küstenort Beacon, um den letzten Wunsch ihrer Großmutter zu erfüllen. Dort begegnet sie dem geheimnisvollen Roy Cummings - der die Vergangenheit ihrer Großmutter besser kennt als sie selbst. Und je mehr sie darüber erfährt, desto mehr ahnt sie, dass ihr eigenes Leben noch viel größere offene Fragen birgt.

Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst met in high school but cement what they ardently believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington's idyllic Vermont campus. Graduation sees Sylvie moving to New York City, where, later in their 20s, Cassandra joins her. These early, delirious years are spent decorating their Fort Greene apartment with flea market gems, dating "artists", and trying to figure out what they're doing with their lives.

From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past—both seeking love, hope, and forgiveness.

As the Vietnam War rages overseas, four friends make a vow. For the next two weeks, they will live for each other and for each day. Then, at the end of the two weeks, they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of their friendship. Loyal Kay, our narrator, dreams of being an artist and escaping her stifling family - the stepmother and stepsister she gained after her mother's early death, and the father she no longer feels she knows. As she struggles with her weight, her schoolwork, and her longing for her mother, she feels loyalty only to her three friends.

"Wir sind wie niemand sonst, wir haben uns selbst erschaffen, die Einzigen unserer Art." Eine geheimnisvolle Explosion bildet das Herzstück dieser spannenden Geschichte, erzählt von den Kindern der Familie Cardinal: Sie haben den Schneid und die Wildheit von Helden, sie haben Angst vor nichts und niemandem. Und sie sind ganze einundzwanzig. Als der Vater in einem kanadischen Dorf ein Zinkvorkommen entdeckt, rechnet der Clan fest mit einem Anteil am Gewinn - doch eine Explosion zwingt die Geschwister zu einem Pakt des Schweigens, der zu einer Zerreißprobe für die ganze Familie wird.

As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi share the challenges and excitement of developing their various artistic talents to the fullest under Sedgwick’s caring and demanding guidance. Once best friends, they part enemies, and after graduation go their separate ways, pursuing careers and establishing lives in different corners of the world. For each of them, the arrival of an invitation to Paris to celebrate Anya Sedgwick’s 85th birthday stirs up complicated feelings.

Eine Dreiecksgeschichte unserer Tage. Drei Menschen treffen aufeinander: Ellen ist die Freundin von Tobias, sie leben zusammen in Berlin. Tobias ist ein angehender Regisseur und will einen Dokumentarfilm über die HANSEN BAND drehen. Sänger der Band ist sein Bruder Markus. Was Tobias nicht weiß: Ellen und Markus kennen sich besser, als Tobias glaubt. Als Tobias Ellen bittet, ihn zu begleiten, während er die HANSEN BAND auf ihrer Tour durch kleine Clubs in Norddeutschland filmt, löst dies bei Ellen ein großes Kribbeln aus, Vorfreude gemischt mit Angst.

Das Feuilleton-Ereignis des Jahres 2004. In einem abgetakelten Bahnhofsviertel hängt ein Mann kopfüber von einem Klettergerüst. Sein Name ist Abel Nema, und man sagt ihm nach, ein Genie zu sein. Doch was nützt das, wenn sich einmal ein Leben derart verändert hat, dass sich nichts und niemand mehr am richtigen Ort befindet - am allerwenigsten man selbst. Zuerst verschwindet der Vater spurlos, dann, nachdem Abel ihm seine Liebe erklärt hat, der Jugendfreund, und schließlich bricht in seinem Heimatland auch noch ein Bürgerkrieg aus - seitdem sitzt er im Westen fest, und immer wieder nimmt er Anlauf, Herr über sein Schicksal zu werden...

Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned 20-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead. Initially exhilarated by restoring the rustic dwellings, planting a garden, and learning the secrets of fermentation, the group is soon divided by intense romantic and sexual relationships, jealousies, slights, and suspicions.

When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn't graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations.

Georgia, Charlie, and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality. Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. Though his guilt or innocence remains uncertain, the unsettling questions raised by the case force the three friends to take a deeper look at their tangled relationship.

Eine mitreißende und berührende Geschichte von der schwierigen aber einzigartigen Liebe zwischen Mutter und Tochter. Manchmal ist die Liebe so stark, dass sie zum Gefängnis wird. So wie bei Freda und ihrer achtzehnjährigen Tochter Josy. Das mysteriöse Verschwinden ihres Vaters fesselt Josy so sehr an die Mutter, dass sie kein eigenes Leben wagt. Als sie endlich den Mut fasst und allein nach Mexiko geht, um bei einem Kinderhilfsprojekt zu arbeiten, gerät sie in den Sog einer anderen Liebe und in höchster Gefahr.

Die Ärzte machen Tessa wenig Hoffnung im Kampf gegen die Leukämie: Der 16-Jährigen bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit...

As a child, it was always Neef and her mother, Chrissy—troubled, beautiful, at the mercy of addiction and a revolving door of bad boyfriends. When Neef turns twelve, it is Neef and Chrissy and Barry, the much-older man who moves them from their derelict council estate in Leeds to a small Yorkshire town where he runs the local pub. On her first day in her new home, it becomes Neef and Danny, the boy who captures her attention planting flowers in the pub garden—and then, it is somehow always Danny.