検索キーワード： 著者 "Aimée" すべてのカテゴリー

Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Mutter werden die zwölfjährigen Zwillinge Zac und Lu zu ihren Großeltern nach England geschickt. Dort entdecken sie hinter einem Torbogen eine Welt voller Fabelwesen. Was sie nicht wissen: Wer diesen Fabelzoo betritt, wird mit dem Fluch des Phönix belegt. Er muss für immer hinter den Toren der Fabelwelt bleiben. Nur wenn der Verfluchte bereit ist, alles für den Phönix zu riskieren, kann er in sein normales Leben zurückkehren. 

Kitty Doe hat die Wahl: entweder ein Leben als III, in dem alle auf sie herabsehen und sie nur niedere Arbeiten verrichten darf, oder ein Leben als VII, in dem sie Mitglied der einflussreichen Hart-Familie wäre und von allen bewundert würde. Dafür muss sie aber in die Rolle von Lila Hart schlüpfen, der Nichte des Premierministers. Kitty zögert nicht lange, weil sie auf eine bessere Zukunft für sich und ihren Freund Benji hofft. Doch sie gerät mitten in ein gefährliches Intrigenspiel. Wer hat die echte Lila Hart auf dem Gewissen?

Le père de Fauve se révèle là où le magnétisme rencontre la dureté. Il attire pour mieux anéantir, fait des enfants pour les abandonner, n'avance que pour jouir. Jusqu'à ce que la maladie frappe. Se sachant condamné par un cancer, il retourne vers son unique fille pour en faire sa dernière femme, son plus important projet. Fauve devra grandir avec l'angoisse du deuil, les fins du monde qui s'enchaînent et l'ambiguïté d'un amour aussi vaste que corrompu.

By day, Rocky Jacobs is a private investigator. By night, he produces Sinister in Savannah, a true-crime podcast, with his two best friends. Is Tess Hamilton pretty poison or just unlucky in love? That's the question the trio of trouble will try to uncover. Tess, a woman accused of killing her three husbands, has been tried and convicted in the media, something Rocky knows all too well. When their investigation turns up nothing but dead ends, Rocky will keep digging.

By day, Felix Franklin is an investigative journalist. By night, he produces Sinister in Savannah, an investigative podcast, with his two best friends. Felix's life revolves around three principles: fortune favors the bold, honesty is everything, and love is for schmucks. The podcast is back to investigate allegations that a local businessman is dabbling in money laundering. On the surface, everything about Cameron Spencer, aka the Auto King, appears to be perfect. The trio of trouble quickly learns all that glitters is not gold. 

By day, Jonah St. John is a criminal analyst for the Georgia Bureau of Investigations. By night, he produces Sinister in Savannah, an investigative podcast, with his two best friends. When the Sinister in Savannah team delves into the 38-year-old murder of a drag queen, they quickly discover that the story doesn't end with the alleged killer's confession in 1995. Continuing the investigation could have fatal consequences for Jonah and everyone he holds dear, including Avery Bradford, a man whose warmth and sunshine infuses Jonah's battered soul.

Set in India's remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute four-year-old who vanishes on the eve of Japanese Occupation. Little Ty's parents, Shep and Claire, will go to any lengths to rescue him, but neither is prepared for the brutal and soul-changing odyssey that awaits them.

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are ready to begin their lives together in a small town in upstate New York. Whilst Annie spends most of her time alone, Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his home office, tending to the egos of his mostly female clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in the ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn't satisfy her in bed. Who could resist eavesdropping?

Wanting to distance himself from his toxic parents, Trent Love moved to the quaint town of Blissville to begin a new life. What he finds is blazing chemistry with a hunky fireman who breathes new life into him. Fearing they're too different, Tucker attempts to extinguish the spark between them before it can ignite. How could a simple man like him compete with Trent's life of wealth and privilege? Knowing you shouldn't want something doesn't make it go away, and Tucker's desire for Trent continues to smolder.

Romeo Bradly and Julius Shepherd moved to Blissville for the same reason: a fresh start. Romeo was looking for a school district where he could make a real impact in the lives of students and faculty, and Julius was eager to teach one of his passions to the best and brightest. But the sleepy little town offered them much more than they'd bargained for - quirky people, unlikely friendships, and an all-consuming attraction that turns them inside out.

Memphis Sullivan thought he was coming to Blissville to help his cousin out, but instead, he gained three meddlesome females, a tribe, and a permanent home. More than a year later, he owns a popular comic book and vinyl record store and doesn't think his life could get any better. That all changes when the star of his favorite television show and bad-boy fantasies rides into town and spices up his vanilla world. 

At the cafe Milo Miracle co-owns with his twin sister, coffee and pastries are served up along with his unique blend of sass and snark. Milo knows that small-town life often means that every day is the same as the one before, and excitement can only be found in the gossip that travels faster than the speed of light. When the Adonis who broke his heart returns home after a 12-year absence, Milo unhappily finds himself at the center of Blissville's favorite pastime.

Charlie Savoy was once Hollywood’s hottest A-lister. Now, 10 years later, she’s pushing 40, exiled from the film world and back at the summer Shakespeare theater in the Berkshires that launched her career - and where her old flame, Nick, is the artistic director. It’s not exactly her first choice. But as parts are cast and rehearsals begin, Charlie is surprised to find herself getting her groove back, bonding with celebrity actors, forging unexpected new friendships and even reigniting her spark with Nick.

Ambri and Henry have been best friends forever. They've been through the highs and lows of life with each other by their sides. Together, they can face it all. Until one night destroys everything. Two years after he stepped out of it, Henry walks back into Ambri's life, and she's more than a little shocked. But as old friends fall into even older habits, they need to decide whether they can forget the past and embrace their future.

A runaway bride. A handsome stranger. Two pasts to put behind them. From the best-selling author of The Lucky Dress comes a story about love, finding yourself and living your dreams. Parker is ready to marry the man of her dreams. But he isn't ready to marry her. When she's dumped moments before walking down the aisle, she didn't expect to run into the arms of a handsome stranger.

On the night her mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter. Next to the couch on which she’s sleeping, there is a lamp that catches her eye, its shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see.   

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).

One evening, thirtysomething writer Aimée Lutkin found herself at a dinner party surrounded by couples. When the conversation turned to her love life, Lutkin stated simply, “I don’t really know if I’m going to date anyone ever again. Some people are just alone forever.” Her friends rushed to assure her that love comes when you least expect it and to make recommendations for new dating apps.

Mona Gray was 10 when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the difficult and wonderful facts of life keep intruding. She finds herself drawn to the new science teacher, who has an unnerving way of seeing through her intricately built façade.

Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.