Inhalt: A text is gone at the brush of a fingertip, like a nuclear bomb or Exocet missile. Dating rule number 1: do not text when drunk. Bridget Jones is back! Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 386 S. Standort: Zoa Fie ISBN: 978-0-224-09106-0
Inhalt: Rachel Jenner turned her back for a moment. Now her eight-year-old son Ben is missing. But what really happened that fateful afternoon? Caught between her personal tragedy and a public who have turned against her, there is nobody left who Rachel can trust. But can the nation trust Rachel? The clock is ticking to find Ben alive. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Großbritannien, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 464 S. Standort: Zoa Mac ISBN: 978-0-349-40637-4
Inhalt: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker whose unbelievably successful career in private equity made him one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. While the mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in the world of public relations and believes herself deserving of every square inch of her multimillion-dollar penthouse and imaginary carrara marble pedestal, learns about moonshine and dangerous liaisons. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman, Kanada, USA Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 386 S. Standort: Zoa Ben ISBN: 978-0-06-239082-0
Inhalt: By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Kriminalroman Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 237 S. Standort: Zoa Leo ISBN: 978-0-434-02303-5
Inhalt: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked "the Battle-Axe" anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 364 S. Standort: Zoa Reid ISBN: 978-0-593-50095-8
Inhalt: Seventeen-year-old Isolde, a Lady Abbess, is trapped in a nunnery to prevent her from claiming her rich inheritance. As the nuns in her care are driven mad by strange visions, Luca is sent to investigate and all the evidence points to Isolde's criminal guilt. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Historischer Roman Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 260 S. Standort: Zoa Gre ISBN: 978-0-85707-731-8
Inhalt: It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Kanada, USA Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 444 S. Standort: Zoa See ISBN: 978-1-4088-6665-8
Inhalt: Helen McNeil is a vet in a small rural Australian town. While taking evasive action from a dull girl at a party one night she falls over--and fails to recognize--national sports hero, Mark Tipene. For some mysterious reason Helen never really grasps, Mark finds this charming and the chemistry between them skyrockets, aided by a glass of wine or six. Still suffering the after-effects of the wine, Helen is both horrified and delighted when Mark appears the next day at the front counter of the vet clinic to ask her out. Her coworkers are just the first of many friends, family, and acquaintances to be agog at the identity of her date. Love soon blossoms between the two, but when Helen finds out that she is pregnant, things start to get seriously complicated. . . Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 360 S. Standort: Zoa Haw ISBN: 978-1-76011-134-2
Inhalt: The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between. But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits . . . Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman, Großbritannien, Irland Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 327 S. Standort: Zoa Tro ISBN: 978-1-5098-2345-1
Inhalt: A famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guest house in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Schlagworte:Afrika, Englischsprachige Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 367 S. Standort: Zoa Mey ISBN: 978-1-4447-2377-9
Inhalt: Don't Trust This Book Don't Trust These People Don't Trust Yourself And whatever you do, DON'T give away that ending...'Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession' Harlan Coben Louise Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job. But all that changes when she meets...David Young, successful and charming - Louise cannot believe a man like him would look at her twice let alone be attracted to her. But that all comes to a grinding halt when she meets his wife...Adele Beautiful, elegant and sweet - Louise's new friend seems perfect in every way. As she becomes obsessed by this flawless couple, entangled in the intricate web of their marriage, they each, in turn, reach out to her. But only when she gets to know them both does she begin to see the cracks...Is David really is the man she thought she knew and is Adele as vulnerable as she appears? Just what terrible secrets are they both hiding and how far will they go to keep them? 'Fully realized characters, peerless writing, a tank of a plot that sustains the suspense right to the end, and a whammy of a finale. It takes a lot to catch me out, but this one did. It'll get you too...' Joanne Harris Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Kanada, USA Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 322 S. Standort: Zoa Pat ISBN: 978-0-06-256320-0
Inhalt: Altlanta 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the city's police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 398 S. Standort: Zoa Sla ISBN: 978-0-8041-7956-0
Inhalt: Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destination of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart-and who helps Annie fix up her rental cottage by the sea; Mellie, the reclusive, prickly landlord Annie is determined to befriend; and Britt, a teenager with a terrible secret. But it is Keaton to whom Annie feels most drawn. His quiet, peaceful nature offers her both comfort and reprieve from her grief, and the two begin to grow closer. Then events threaten to undo the idyll Annie has come to enjoy. And when the opportunity of a lifetime lands in her lap, she is torn between the excitement of a new journey toward success and the safe and secure arms of the haven and the man she's come to call home. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman, Kanada, USA Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 386 S. Standort: Zoa Mac ISBN: 978-1-78475-874-5
Inhalt: Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life's boxes. She's married to a successful surgeon and has just taken an indefinite career break to raise her adorable toddler. A picture-perfect life. Meet Winnie: Ava's old college roommate. Once awkward, quiet and apparently academically challenged, she left Stanford in a shroud of scandal. But now, she is charismatic, wealthy and has returned to town dripping in designer accessories. An actual perfect life. When the two women bump into one another at a local coffee shop, it seems like fate has intervened: Winnie's new-found success is courtesy of a shady business and she needs a favour; Ava is realising she is not built for the stay-at-home life. But what starts as one favour turns into two, then three, and soon Ava is in far deeper than she ever imagined. Now Ava has to make the ultimate decision: cut and run, or risk it all? Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 274 S. Standort: Zoa Chen ISBN: 978-0-00-848447-7
Inhalt: When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should, and should not, marry. Schlagworte:Asien, Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman, Kanada, USA Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 527 S. Standort: Zoa Kwa ISBN: 978-0-8041-7158-8
Inhalt: When Mac Sullivan-famous thriller writer and Shannon's new beau-first moved to Lighthouse Cove, California, he bought the historic lighthouse mansion that the town is named after. Mac needs help cleaning up the place, and Shannon is more than happy to get her handywoman hands on the run-down Victorian. But during demolition, a grisly discovery is made among the debris-the bones of a teenage girl who went missing fifteen years ago. Locals had always assumed Lily Brogan ran away from her difficult life, but it seems her troubles followed her to the grave. If Shannon has any chance of getting her renovation back on track, she'll need to tackle the cold case. But with new suspects coming out of the woodwork every day, she'll have to be careful to pry the right secrets and clues from the poor girl's problematic past. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Kanada, Kriminalroman, USA Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 320 S. Standort: Zoa Car ISBN: 978-0-451-46921-2
Inhalt: Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for her - a day of wonder. However hard life gets, all Tom wants to do is make every moment magical for her.Now, as Hannah begins to spread her wings, the theatre comes under threat of closure and the two could lose one another. But maybe, just maybe, one final day of magic might just save them both. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Großbritannien, Irland Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 468 S. Standort: Stu ISBN: 978-0-7515-6331-3
Inhalt: Some will wait a lifetime to take their revenge...A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed and another man's fury. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Kriminalroman Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 407 S. Standort: Zoa Jam ISBN: 978-0-230-76055-4
Inhalt: London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms - and Detective Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets him a riddle. How does a man walk into a dead-end alley and never come out? How does he disappear? And then reappear - to snatch a girl, to dump a body beneath a London skyscraper, to send Belsey a package of human hair. The answer lies underground, where the secrets degenerating beneath the city's sickly glitter are about to see the light of day. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 327 S. Standort: Zoa Har ISBN: 978-0-224-09123-7
Inhalt: What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than twenty years she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one, and gives us a ringside seat at the seismic political events of the last decade. A professional partner and loyal spouse, Swire has strong political opinions herself - sometimes more 'No, Minister' than 'Yes'. She detonates the stereotype of the dutiful wife. From shenanigans in Budleigh Salterton to state banquets at Buckingham Palace, gun-toting terrorist busters in pizza restaurants to dinners in Downing Street sitting next to Boris Johnson, Devon hedges to partying with City hedgies, she observes the great and the not-so-great at the closest of quarters. The results are painfully revealing and often hilariously funny. Here are the friendships and the fall-outs, the general elections and the leadership contests, the scandals and the rivalries. Swire showed up, shored up and rarely shut up. She also wrote it all down. Schlagworte:Biographie, Englischsprachige Literatur Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 507 S. Standort: Zoa Swir ISBN: 978-1-4087-1340-2
Inhalt: After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 495 S. Standort: Zoa Cor ISBN: 978-1-84744-532-2
Inhalt: Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life. Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than... fine? Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman, Großbritannien, Irland Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 383 S. Standort: Zoa Hon ISBN: 978-0-00-817211-4
Inhalt: Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, Emma. 'It's comfort reading at its most soothing' Independent Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything. Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. As she gets her fledgling design business off the ground, there is plenty to delight her in the buzzing little village of Highbury. At the helm of her own dinner parties and instructing her new little protegee, Harriet Smith, Emma reigns forth. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence, her old friend and inscrutable neighbour George Knightley - this time has Emma finally met her match? You don't have to be in London to go to parties, find amusement or make trouble. Not if you're Emma, the very big fish in the rather small pond. But for a young woman who knows everything, Emma has a lot to learn about herself. Ever alive to the uproarious nuances of human behaviour, and both the pleasures and pitfalls of village life, beloved author Alexander McCall Smith's Emma is the busybody we all know and love, and a true modern delight. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 361 S. Standort: Zoa Mc C ISBN: 978-0-00-755386-0
Inhalt: t's been a year since Evvie Drake's husband died, but she still can't leave the house. Her best friend Andy thinks it's because she's grieving, and she does nothing to make him think otherwise. Dean Tenney was once a sports star. Now he's a former sports star who has lost his ability to throw a ball better than anyone else, and he can't even explain why. When Dean moves into the apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's dead husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's failed career. Schlagworte:Englischsprachige Literatur, Frauenroman Systematik: Zoa Umfang: 289 S. Standort: Zoa Holm ISBN: 978-1-4736-7927-6
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