A remarkable tale of love and loss' KATIE FFORDE 'Tender and intriguing' RACHEL HORE 'An enthralling, moving read - I loved it' HOLLY MILLER _____________ Some love stories change us for ever. For the last seven years, Mary O'Connor has waited for her first love. Every evening she arrives at Ealing Broadway station and stands with a sign which simply says: 'Come Home Jim'. Commuters might...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed 'America's Fattest Teen'. But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to see who she really is. Since her mum's death, she's been picking...

Twisted Love Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. But when he's forced to look after his best friend's sister, he starts to feel something in...

Mit dem Fahrstuhl in die Goethe-Zeit§Wer mit Bruno Preisendörfer als Zeitreisender unterwegs ist, steht z.B. am 7.11.1775 morgens um fünf in Weimar vor dem Haus eines Kammergerichtspräsidenten namens von Kalb und sieht zu, wie Goethes Kutsche über das Pflaster rollt. Er wird zwischen die Bauernkinder in die Bänke einer Dorfschule gesteckt, geht an die Universität, um Kant und Fichte zu...

From the author of the genre-breaking international TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird comes the second book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy - a hate-to-love dark romantic comedy packed with danger, chaos, and heat. 'Brynne is a master weaver of words in this dark, decadent and delicious story of serial killers, sexy spice, and sensational fun!' RuNyx, USA Today bestselling author...

Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and Maybe Someday brilliantly brings to life the story of the hilarious and charismatic Warren in this novella. When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. ...

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art...

I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it. Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.

Anna Karenina ist neben Effi Briest und Madame Bovary die wohl berühmteste Ehebrecherin der Weltliteratur. Glücklos mit einem hohen Beamten verheiratet, verfällt die bezaubernde, kluge und sanftmütige Anna dem jungen Offizier Graf Wronski in unwiderstehlicher Liebe. Eine leidenschaftliche Affäre, die sie weder vor ihrem Mann noch vor der Gesellschaft verheimlicht, nimmt ihren Lauf. Anna...

'A deliciously deadly Gothic romance' - STEPHANIE GARBER'A true pleasure from beginning to end' - JENNIFER ARMENTROUT'Decadently atmospheric' - KERRI MANISCALCOThe New York Times bestseller Adalyn Grace is back with a gorgeous, thrilling, beautifully romantic gothic fantasy - if you loved Belladonna and Foxglove, you will adore this . . .Blythe Hawthorn has never let anyone tell her what to...

When Russ and Aurora cross paths at a university party, a drinking game ends with them spending the night together. The next day, Aurora slips away before Russ learns her full name. This anonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job they had both chosen to escape Maple Hills for the summer. Given their history,...

From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE dark romance about a villain and his new obsession.I caught the attention of a monster.I didn't ask for it. Didn't even see it coming.But the moment I do, it's too late.Killian Carson is a predator wrapped in sophisticated charm.He's cold-blooded, manipulative, and savage.The worst part is that no one sees his devil side.I...

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he...

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterwards, true mastery had always...

Demon's birth begins with him looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise. In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty and addiction aren't ideas. They're as natural as the grass grows. For Demon, born on...

Eine Liebesgeschichte? - Zweifellos. Die zärtliche Zuneigung der Bauernkinder Sali und Vreneli ist voller Poesie, voller Licht und Sonne. Die Sehnsucht, die sie weckt, hat ihre Wurzel jedoch nicht in der Erfüllung. Denn von Habsucht ist die kleine Welt der Kinder bestimmt, von der Besitzgier ihrer sich auf den Tod verfeindenden Väter.

Der Bahnwärter Thiel lebt glücklich mit seiner Frau und seinem Sohn Tobias zusammen und führt seinen Dienst stets pflichtbewusst und zuverlässig aus. Als seine Frau stirbt, heiratet er die dominante und herrische Magd Lene, mit der er ein Kind bekommt. Lene misshandelt Tobias, und Thiel sieht in einer Wahnvorstellung bereits seine erste Frau mit einem blutigen Bündel über die Gleise fliehen....

Hedda Gabler to jedna z wielkich kobiecych postaci Ibsena - kobieta trawiona wielkimi ambicjami, która nie potrafi odnaleźć swojego miejsca w społeczeństwie. Henrik Ibsen konfrontuje niesprecyzowane dążenia bohaterki oraz mieszczański świat, którego ona nie potrafi i nie chce uznać za swój. Z konieczności zgodziła się na rolę żony w mieszczańskim domu, lecz pragnie czegoś więcej, za wszelką...

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine...

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James inimitable poise, is of the widest...