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Gabriella Jacobson has one goal for her freshman year of college: get Matthew Cory to fall in love with her. Luckily for Gabby, her best friend Ben attends the same college on a music scholarship. He is the perfect resource—girls love him, and he's more experienced with relationships than she is, since she's never had a boyfriend. When Gabby panics before her first date with Matt, she begs Ben to show her how to kiss. But Ben has a secret, one he's been keeping from Gabby for years. He's in love with her.

New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award–nominated comics writer Cullen Bunn presents his adult novel debut—a high-stakes hunt for a masked killer whose brutal murders may be a portent of an evil as ancient and cold as the stars themselves.

Moving into my brother's basement after graduating from college isn't the end of the world. But getting stuck working for his best friend just might be. Aside from professionally getting under my skin, Liam Brooks owns the only tattoo studio in our perfect coastal town. He also happens to be the only person within a hundred-mile radius willing to employ me despite my shining resume. The truth is, he needs me, too.

In the soul-crushing beige of an Idaho IRS office, where fluorescent lights hum endless and the radio loops forgotten hits, Elliot toils over tax forms, auditing losses that mirror his own. Trapped in a purgatory of mildew-stained carpets and petty office wars, he’s haunted by dreams he never chased, a life unlived. Amid the droning despair of coworkers reduced to shadows, each clinging to their rituals of donuts, weather reports, and futile team-building, a spark of chaos ignites, threatening to unravel the fragile order.

Brock Osprey has spent years in the rugged Alaskan wilderness, far from civilization and even farther from his past. A former Navy Seal, Brock is now the unwilling protector of Knife's Edge, a remote town with more secrets than residents. But when FBI agent Ophelia Spilazi arrives to investigate the unsolved murder of his guardian—and recent unexplained deaths in the area—Brock's carefully guarded world is thrown into chaos.

Can she learn to love again in a new home? Young widow Jasmine has sold her narrowboat to move to the picturesque village of Samphire Bay. She needs a fresh start, away from the memories of the unsolved hit-and-run which killed her husband. New neighbour Robin isn't pleased by her presence – he desperately wanted to buy her cottage, but he hasn't given up hope yet, befriending Jasmine with an agenda to persuade her to sell… As Jasmine renovates the cottage, she and Robin grow closer, until Robin finds his motives confused. Does he still want her to sell up, or are his feelings becoming real?

Perfect for fans of atmospheric backwoods horror, cryptid survival stories, and psychological horror set in the wild, this deep-water horror novel will leave you breathless and watching the shoreline long after you finish listening.

In the heart of Little Dixie, a town shrouded in secrets, the mysterious search for two boys ignites a chain of events that will expose the town's dark underbelly. As two brothers flee a terrifying past, a group of teenagers stumble upon an unsettling discovery on Mount Hartshorne, and a dedicated detective confronts a web of corruption, the lines between the seen and unseen blur, revealing a sinister force lurking beneath the surface.

Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga’s twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey, and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house.

The folks of Argus, Illinois, from the small-time dealer to the returning Vietnam vet, the townie grocery clerk and the new sheriff, all know what they want out of life, but the paths to their desires are conflicted and unclear. In a narrative with all the clarity and determination of a prophecy, Well Deserved chronicles the struggles of these four people as they come to the stark realization that their paths are not solitary, but entwined, and their very lives hinge on one shared moment.

Cuando Jeanie recibe el encargo de su querida tía Dot de llevar el Pumpkin Spice Café en el pequeño pueblo de Dream Harbor, decide aprovechar la oportunidad para empezar una nueva vida lejos de su estresante trabajo de oficina. Todos en el pueblo parecen conquistados por el buen humor de Jeanie y sus increíbles cafés de especialidad; todos excepto Logan, un granjero cascarrabias que odia los chismes y prefiere estar solo. Pero la simpatía de Jeanie y el misterio que se cierne sobre el Pumpkin Spice Café obligarán a Logan a pasar mucho tiempo con la extravagante chica de ciudad.

Die Pfarrerstochter Luise träumt davon, das Fliegen zu erlernen. Gegen alle Widerstände gelingt es ihr, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und Pilotin zu werden. Als die Nazis an die Macht kommen, muss sie die Fliegerei aufgeben und kehrt nach Franken zurück. Hier ist plötzlich alles anders: Alle schweigen, ganz egal, was passiert.

Die Buchhändlerin und überzeugte Großstädterin Josefine liebt ihren Beruf – zum Glück, für Urlaub hat sie ohnehin keine Zeit. Und ihre schönsten Ferien bei ihrer Tante Hilde in der Rhön verblassen langsam zu nostalgischen Erinnerungen – genauso wie der Gedanke an die ganz besondere Mission, mit der ihre Tante ihre Buchhandlung führte. Doch dann hinterlässt ihre Tante Josefine ein Erbe, das sie zurück in diese wunderschöne ländliche Gegend katapultiert, in der sie jemanden wiedertrifft, der ihr Herz schon als Kind berührt hat.

Ёнчжу верит, что в книгах сокрыта невероятная сила, ведь каждая прочитанная история не просто остается в памяти — она пускает корни в нашей душе. Решив жить не ради счастья в туманном будущем, а ощущая себя счастливой каждый день, Ёнчжу отказывается от прежней жизни и, следуя за своей детской мечтой, открывает книжный магазин. Незаметно ее начинает увлекать новое дело, и тихий уголок мало-помалу привлекает людей, у которых непростые жизненные истории. Среди новых знакомых и бариста Минчжун.

Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel - only married women can work there - and soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go and live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta.

Jig no para de observar el horizonte y mencionar que las montañas tienen un aspecto similar al de elefantes blancos, “La muchacha miraba la hilera de colinas. Eran blancas bajo el sol y el campo estaba pardo y seco. -Parecen elefantes blancos -dijo.”

Inselflair und Glücksgefühle: Der krönende Abschluss der Frauenroman-Reihe um die kleine Sommerküche von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Gleich drei verliebte Paare suchen in »Hochzeitsglocken auf der kleinen Insel« nach ihrem Happy End – Romantik und Sommersonne garantiert! Instagram-Star Olivia plant eine Hochzeit, die alle anderen in den Schatten stellen soll. Und das ausgerechnet auf der schottischen Insel Mure.

Worn out by poverty, Lettie Radley and her miner husband Tommy grasp at the offer of their very own smallholding - part of a Government scheme to put the unemployed back to work on the land. When she comes down to Essex to join him, it's not Tommy who greets her, but their new neighbours. Overbearing and unkempt, Jean and Adam Dell are everything that Lettie can't abide. But as Lettie settles in, she finds an unexpected joy in the rhythms of life. She's hopeful that her past, and the terrible secret Tommy has come to Foxash to escape, are far behind them. But the Dells have their own secrets.

Frankie has lived a long life and her small London flat is crammed full of art, furniture and memories. Damian, her young Irish carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers and larger-than-life characters.

After the sudden death of his father, Jordan Pearce reluctantly takes over the family’s generations-old oyster-farming business on Louisiana's Gulf Coast. He’s still adjusting to the new role when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes offshore, triggering one of the worst environmental disasters in history and throwing his hardscrabble coastal town into crisis.