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Ein schicksalhaftes Geheimnis und eine romantische Liebe im Schatten des Loreley-Felsens. 1842 in Bacharach: Die Schiffertochter Lisette und der Gastwirtsohn Manuel glauben, dass sie füreinander bestimmt sind, ​stoßen jedoch auf Widerstände. Als Manuel wegen seiner Lehre bei der Kölner Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft nach London geht, beginnt Lissi nach der Geschichte ihrer Mutter Julie zu forschen, die angeblich einst von der Loreley stürzte. Genau dort ereignet sich nun ein schweres Schiffsunglück. Lissi wird beschuldigt, es verursacht zu haben.

My name is Katherine Parr. I’m thirty-one years old – already twice widowed. I love a man I can’t have. I’m to wed a man no one would want. He has cast aside two wives and watched another die in childbirth. Two more have had their heads struck from their bodies, on his order. What will become of me as Henry VIII’s sixth wife? I will have the king’s ear. With that comes power. But power means danger in the Tudor court.

The epic follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Sword Catcher, from Cassandra Clare

On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead. That's how Tess’s mother killed Soren’s parents. Maybe for this reason alone, Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a skeld, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland, to run from the windswept island, from her family and friends

Jim spent his summers exploring his grandfather's farm on the Round Mountain. This summer was different. Jim and his cousins make an important discovery and, in doing so, add a new twist to the storied history of Central Texas. The discovery may endanger their lives, but may also prove to be the richest find in the annals of Lone Star treasure hunting. Or maybe not.

In the rugged wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, twelve-year-old Leif's world is shattered when his father dies in a tragic logging accident. But as Leif struggles to bring his father's body out of the dense forest, he is burdened with a devastating truth that will change everything.

Occlusion, a modern sea story explores the complex relationship of a young man coming of age, a captain, a lover and the first woman with whom he learns intimacy. Henry a student readying a small sailboat to navigate his way to England to meet his college lover, meets an old sea captain. A relationship evolves which, in ways unfathomable will change his life.

Für Dalia ist die Gärtnerei ihrer Großeltern ihr Zuhause. Hier in Cornwall ist sie aufgewachsen, gemeinsam mit ihren vier Cousinen hat sie viele Sommer zwischen den leuchtenden Blumenfeldern verbracht. Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Großmutter Rose kommen die inzwischen erwachsenen Cousinen im Herrenhaus der Gärtnerei zusammen und machen eine Entdeckung, die für Dalia alles verändert: ein Brief ihres vermeintlich unbekannten Vaters.

Veertien jaar lang heeft Jude Farraday de behoeften van haar kinderen boven die van zichzelf gesteld. Haar tweeling, Mia en Zach, zijn slimme en gelukkige tieners. Wanneer Lexi Baill naar hun kleine, hechte gemeenschap verhuist, is niemand gastvrijer dan Jude. Lexi, een voormalig pleegkind met een duister verleden, wordt al snel Mia's beste vriendin. Dan wordt Zach verliefd op Lexi en worden de drie onafscheidelijk. Alles gaat goed – tot het laatste jaar van de middelbare school. Plotseling voelt niets meer veilig.

È il 1978 e la situazione, agli occhi di Marina, appare assai confusa. Gli ideali e le speranze del decennio precedente hanno perso i colori luminosi con cui dipingevano il futuro e, grigi e opachi, si stanno trasformando in violenza, morte, scontri fatti di fumogeni e manganelli. E anche la sua vita familiare sembra incupita dalla stessa mancanza di luce. La madre si è trasferita a Monterotondo, che nonostante i pochi chilometri dalla capitale a Marina appare un mondo scialbo e molto distante da lei. Così resta a Roma, con suo padre.

Kel Saren, body double to Conor, crown prince of the dazzling city of Castellane, is caught between two worlds. In order to protect his beloved prince, Kel must find the culprits responsible for a massacre at the royal palace—and the only clues are held by the Ragpicker King, the notorious criminal who rules Castellane’s underworld. The trail Kel follows leads back to the Hill, where among decadent nobles and glittering parties a dark conspiracy to destroy the royal family has taken hold—a conspiracy headed up by the monstrous Artal Gremont, the man engaged to marry the woman Kel adores.

When Mayer (nee Marty) Belkin fled small-town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago, he thought he'd left his wasted youth behind. Now he's a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world. But his mother's untimely death brings a shocking revelation: Mayer and his ne'er-do-well twin brother David aren't, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayer's only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim?

La vie d'Alice Lambert est en vrac. Après avoir quitté son mari, sa maison et tous ses repères, elle se voit obligée de s'installer à Paris chez son père, avec qui elle est en conflit depuis toujours. À l'aube de ses cinquante ans, elle doit réinventer sa vie et repartir à zéro, mais ce nouveau défi lui semble insurmontable… Par les fenêtres de ce grand appartement désert, elle voit le monde tourner sans elle et revisite son passé entre deux verres de whisky.

Teagan O'Reilly has one goal upon graduation to be accepted into Emerald Isle University's Science Research Internship and spend the summer in Ireland competing for a spot in the university's coveted research program. When her acceptance letter finally arrives, Teagan is more determined than ever to win a spot into the program. She's prepared for everything until she learns her partner is none other than Finn Connolly, her first love and the boy who broke her heart.

Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silently tolerates office politics and the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy. Forever only one misplaced email away from career catastrophe, she effectively becomes a master of the silent eye-roll and the tactical coffee run. But all her efforts to endure her superiors and the semi-hostile work environment they create are upended when a new intern, Gyuok Lee, arrives.

Life is meant to be an adventure rich in love & laughter. Eight very different little girls going off on adventures that most children can only dream and imagine. Be it traveling to another world straight out of an RPG game or a Fantasy anime. Or becoming superheroes, protecting their home while struggling to find the balance of a college student. Or going off to discover the urban tales that had been passed down for generations.

All Scott wanted to was to blend in...to observed quietly from the shadows...to be one of the middle school crowd, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape his destiny and the voice of his recently deceased father reminding him, "No one should ever have to stand alone." So, when he stumbled across three larger boys torturing a wiry little boy named Paul, Scott's pet peeve of bullying and his overwhelming sense of justice thrust him into the heart of the conflict.

The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our narrator is only a lonely little girl living in southeast England, who doesn’t understand the world the way other children seem to. So when a late-night TV special introduces her to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript—an ancient tome written in an indecipherable language—Little Alien experiences something she hasn’t before: hope. Could there be others like her, who also feel like they’re from another planet? Convinced the Voynich Manuscript holds the answers she needs, Little Alien turns to the place she feels at peace: the library.

Gregori Vailean is living the dream: A supportive-albeit-unorthodox family… A beautiful, brilliant, and brutal girlfriend… And, after graduating at the top of his class from the prestigious Stryker’s Academy, the life he’s worked his entire life for. So when he starts to catch glimpses of trouble beyond the veil of his perfect life—a mother who suffers in her sleep, a father who’s haunted by his past, and a wayward brother with a dangerous secret—Gregori knows that he has what it takes to save the day. What he doesn’t have, however, is a clue…