Women Action Adventure

Avalone conta di trascorrere il primo anno nel modo più ordinario possibile, concentrandosi sugli studi, in compagnia di pochi amici selezionati. Mai si sarebbe aspettata che il fratello di Lola, la sua coinquilina, appartenesse a una famigerata gang della zona nota come The Devil’s Sons, e men che meno avrebbe immaginato di innamorarsi Clarke Taylor, il più fuori controllo e pericoloso di loro... Senza quasi sapere come, Avalone si ritrova coinvolta nelle scorribande della gang.

Lynn Van Swol still regrets the decision she made 30 years ago to place her daughter up for adoption so she could climb the highest mountains of the world. Frankie Rizzoni is the troubled biological granddaughter Lynn has never known. And Beth Mahoney is a minister's wife with terminal cancer and the only one who knows the relationship between the two. She designs a plan upon her deathbed to bring Lynn and Frankie together, but now, narrating from the afterlife, she must helplessly watch as her legacy threatens to unravel.

Hope Randall has lived a quiet life. But that peace is about to be broken. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep telling Hope she has a half-sister, her instinct is to turn him away. But Michael Flint won’t give up that easily - he believes Hope’s sister, Connie, is in serious trouble. Connie’s childhood was a world away from Hope’s comfortable upbringing - she’s endured poverty, hardship and abandonment. Connie’s future doesn’t look much brighter.

Three women, high-school friends, reunite for a Caribbean cruise on a luxury sailboat. But the smallest mistake triggers a series of devastating events. Suddenly, in a desperate fight for survival, the women battle the elements, the threat of modern-day piracy, and their own frailties. Still Summer is at once a spellbinding adventure and a story about the bonds that hold friend to friend - and how facing our own mortality tests the truth of everything we think we know.

An unexpected solar storm destroys the U.S. power grid and unravels civilization. Natasha is a student from a nomadic Siberia tribe trying to adjust to her new life in New York and fit in. But when a cataclysmic solar storm slams into the planet, everything changes. Lightning storms hammer the entire globe, burning and destroying everything they touch. The electrical grid goes down. Fires rage out of control. Cars and electronics quit working. Help isn’t coming. Time is short to flee from a now-lawless city with millions of hungry people who are becoming increasingly desperate.

Valeria Cifuentes lo tiene absolutamente todo: dinero, estatus social, un marido que la quiere y la consiente y un hijo que es lo más importante de su vida. Pero un día algo más se añade a esa inmensa lista de propiedades: un dosier con el diagnóstico de la última revisión médica que ha conseguido romper completamente el transcurso de su vida. Su marido, que no puede dedicarle todo el tiempo que le gustaría, decide derivar la función en uno de sus trabajadores más fieles y lo contrata como acompañante de Valeria casi las veinticuatro horas del día.

Living Life Sideways paints a vivid picture of the adventure of a lifetime (a year-long, worldwide sailing journey), coupled with the fight of a lifetime. It describes one sailor’s odyssey to regain her sense of self when she realizes that her peace of mind is worth more than she could have ever imagined.

The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. For Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, the only assignment tougher than exposing a conspiracy to assassinate the new president is training her new mentee, Hattie MacLaughlin, in the art of detection. The two women’s mission to save the president takes them from the granges of rural Maryland to the heart of secessionist high society, and sets them on a collision course that could alter the course of history.

Alice is a scientist who relies on method, precision and proof. But when her relationship with artist Peter Brown collapses, she is forced to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, it is time to break away.

So sehr Lisa auch plant—es kommt immer anders, als sie will. Ihre langjährige Beziehung endet kurz nach der Hochzeit, ihr neuer Nachbar ist eine Katastrophe, im Job läuft es nicht und ihre esoterische Mutter schlägt zur Bewältigung aller Probleme ein Tantra-Seminar in den Staaten vor. Kann es noch schlimmer kommen? Ja! Denn ihr Vater, bei dem sie beschäftigt ist, setzt ihr einen ekelhaften Coach vor die Nase, um den Laden wieder in Schwung zu bringen. Aber nicht nur der mischt ihr Leben auf.

Una ragazza è seduta su una ruota di scorta bucata, in mezzo al nulla della campagna novarese. I suoi capelli, un tempo rosa zucchero filato, ora sono un garbuglio di colori improbabili. Pochi riconoscerebbero in lei Cloro, celebrità di internet con milioni di follower in tutto il mondo. Insieme a lei, a tentare di riparare un'auto che ha macinato migliaia di chilometri, c'è Leo, trentaquattrenne disilluso, che dalla vita non ha avuto nulla di ciò che si aspettava - e dire che non si aspettava molto.

During the move back to Charleston, South Carolina after the death of her husband, Julia finds the name and number of a long-lost lover. With encouragement from her brother, Kevin, she agrees to try and find Adam. After a reinstatement into the FBI, Julia's adventures take her down a dangerous rabbit hole where she discovers Adam was not an artist, but a CIA agent who has been declared deceased (or is he?). She deals with multiple government agencies in the US and around the world-from Russia, Germany, Iceland, China, Italy, and the Cayman Islands as she chases romance.

But once Margaret begins to unravel the secrets of Bletchley Park, Betty finds herself thrust—untrained—into the deadly world of counter-espionage. And as the pair begin a critical game of cat and mouse with each other, the situation rapidly becomes ever more desperate. With a highly dangerous newcomer suddenly arriving on the scene, the fate of Britain's most vital war secret hangs entirely on the outcome of the two women’s deeply personal conflict. But which one of them has really been the cat, and which one the mouse?

Author of the New York Times best-selling Mrs. Murphy mysteries, Rita Mae Brown delivers the goods with The Hunt Ball, the most entertaining entry yet in her popular foxhunting series. When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer.

Human traffickers have kidnapped 10-year-old Zarah to an alien desert. Frightened for her safety and disgusted by her captors’ plans for terrorist attacks on a nearby city, Zarah escapes in the dead of night and begins a dangerous trek across the wilderness. On her flight she encounters predators and helpers, smugglers and saints, threats and kindness. Meanwhile, friends of her murdered father go all out to find her and save her.

Caffè in der Wüste: Giulia Caminito erzählt vom italienischen Leben in Eritrea, von einer starken, übergroßen Mutter – und von einer jungen Frau, die sich ihre Freiheit erst nach und nach erkämpft. Ein historischer Roman von herber Schönheit. Die Lombardei im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die Menschen suchen Zuflucht vor ständigen Bombenangriffen, deutsche Besatzer jagen Partisanen, das Essen wird rationiert. Die 13-jährige Giada wohnt bei ihrer Tante, einer gläubigen Faschistin, Gewalt und Entbehrung prägen den Alltag.

Als Paulina von ihrer älteren Freundin gebeten wird, für sie nach Wien zu fahren und ein Erbstück abzuholen, zögert sie keine Sekunde. Ihre geliebte Schneekugel mit dem Wiener Riesenrad nimmt sie mit auf die Reise. In Wien findet sie ein Tagebuch aus den Dreißigerjahren vor, in dem die tragische Geschichte der Luzie Kühn aufgezeichnet ist. Zudem entdeckt Paulina im Wohnzimmer der Familie, wo sie wohnt, exakt die gleiche Schneekugel, die sie selbst im Gepäck hat. Ihre Geschichte scheint irgendwie mit Luzies zusammenzuhängen.

Widow Sandra Harriman fights to protect a wildlife sanctuary from poachers, armed gangs, and business rivals. Sandra feels like an ant in one of these traps as she fights to protect the Wildlife Conservation Scheme left in her care for her two step-children. Nothing has equipped her for the role of widow, step-mother, and estate manager. She faces a struggle to deal with armed gangs, poachers, and a murderer on the ranch. But hardest of all is unravelling her dead husband's secrets to find out who she can trust.

The year is 1831. Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place, and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible. When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life under the tutelage of the fiercely intelligent and mysterious Rebekah Brock.

In 1971, London gang boss Annie Carter Barolli is living the New York high life with the feared Mafia godfather Constantine Barolli. Then family tragedy strikes, leaving only Annie, Constantine's sister, Gina, and his three children alive, and now they're in terrible danger. And what's worse - it signals a major shift in mafia power. Annie returns to London with her daughter, Layla, pursued by a hit man.