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A wonderfully warm and heartfelt debut from a stunning new talent.Everyone needs a guardian angelSome people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, eachnote signed 'PS, I Love You'.As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family,Hollyfinds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before.Life is for living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.

Thirty Women.Thirty stories.These stories sing and cry and shout and whisper from the page. They're sharp, clever, witty - a joy to read.'Donal Ryan, international bestselling author of The Spinning HeartI am woman. Hear me roar.Have you ever imagined a different life?Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided?Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar?The women in these startlingly original stories are all of us: the women who befriend us, the women who encourage us, the women who make us brave. From The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared to The Woman Who Was Kept on the Shelf and The Woman Who Returned andExchanged her Husband, discover thirty touching, often hilarious stories and meet thirty very different women. Each discovers her strength -each realizes she holds the power to make a change.Witty, tender, surprising, these keenly observed tales speak to us all, and capture the moment when we all want to roar.

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment. But a combination of old animosities and newcoincidences brings them to suicidal deaths. This play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films

Année 1984 en Océanie. 1984 ? C'est en tout cas ce qu'il semble a Winston, qui ne saurait toutefois en jurer. Le passé a été réinventé, et les événements les plus récents sont susceptibles d'etre modifiés. Winston est lui-meme chargé de récrire lesarchives qui contredisent le présent et les promesses de Big Brother. Grƒce a une technologie de pointe, ce dernier sait tout, voit tout. Liberté est Servitude. Ignorance est Puissance. Telles sont les devises du régime. Pourtant Winston refuse de perdreespoir. Avec l'insoumise Julia, ils vont tenter d'intégrer la Fraternité, une organisation ayant pour but de renverser Big Brother. Mais celui-ci veille...

A Dog's Promise is the heart-warming and uplifting story about one dog who fulfils his promise and helps a family who needs him the most.The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. But Bailey's work on earth is far from finished, there are still so many more humans that need a dog's talent forunconditional love.There is one family in particular that needs Bailey's help, a family that is on the verge of breaking apart. But if Bailey helps this family he won't remember his previous lives, the connections he's made, and the humans he's met and loved. Bailey mustdecide whether to sacrifice everything to heal this one, desperate family.A Dog's Promise is a deeply emotional, beautifully told tale that will speak to dog lovers all over the world who wonder, could this dog have been sent to us specifically, for a reason? A Dog's Promise provides the answer to that eternal question with aresounding, and uplifting, 'Yes!'

#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a baddecision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy ofgrimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires.Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder andlies. Determined to survive, she's up against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more.

This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on hiscampaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe. Ranging across topics as diverse as the current state of British philosophy, music, religion, and illuminating what lay behind Scruton's abandonment of academia for his new life on aWiltshire farm, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy as a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.

Hopeless es una novela de amor que te dejará sin aliento

Pip Tyler doesn?t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she?s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she?ll ever have a normal life. Then she meets Andreas Wolf ?internet outlaw, charismatic provocateur, a man who deals in secrets and might just be able to help her solve the mystery of her origins.

'Barnes is a master of puzzles and plot twists' E. Lockhart, author of We Were LiarsIntrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the global bestselling The Inheritance Games. Perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson.A DEADLY GAME. A PUZZLE TO SOLVE. A FORTUNE AT STAKE.One step forward.Avery thought that solving the riddle left by billionaire Tobias Hawthorne would reveal why he left her - a complete stranger - his entire fortune.Two steps back.But as the cryptic clues tale an unexpected twist and the handsome and enigmatic Hawthorne grandsons continue to pull her in different directions, Avery can't help but wonder who she can really trust and who is just looking out for themselves.What happens when the truth just hides more secrets?Soon Avery realizes this game is no longer just about money and power. Now she's playing for her life.'Impossible to put down' BuzzfeedDON'T MISS THE FINAL GAMBIT - THE EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION TO THE INHERITANCE GAMES SERIES - COMING AUGUST 2022!

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.'Epic' Guardian'Majestic' Daily Mail'The new Game of Thrones' StylistAn enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door.Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.Across the dark sea, Tane has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep...

The author of the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we're often thrown into relationships withnothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice andnurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates tomoving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners. By living Jay Shetty's eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our partner, and the world better than we ever thoughtpossible.

Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Uprooted, this standalone fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to the Elf King is impossible to put down!The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella's village to be their Human Queen. To be chosen is seen as a mark of death bythe townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she's dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town's only healer. That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives... for her. EverythingLuella had thought she'd known about her life, and herself, was a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. Once there, she learns about a dying world that only she cansave. The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart, her home and people tug on another... but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted. A Deal with the Elf King is a complete standalone novel, inspired by the tales ofHades and Persephone, as well as Beauty and the Beast, with a happily ever after ending. It's perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon-worthy couple.

A Galaktikus Birodalom tizenkétezer éve létezik - ám egy matematikus szerint már nem sokáig. Hari Seldon minden politikai nyomás ellenére kitart amellett, hogy az általa kidolgozott új tudomány - a pszichohistória - megjósolta a civilizáció bukását. Azúj Birodalom felemelkedését megelőző zűrzavar évezredei azonban lerövidíthetők, ha létrehozzák az emberi tudás tárházát egy távoli bolygón: az Alapítványt.Isaac Asimov klasszikus regénye írók és olvasók generációinak meghatározó olvasmányélménye, ami arra a kérdésre keresi a választ, vajon a tudomány módszereivel feltérképezhetjük-e a jövőt, és képesek vagyunk-e befolyásolni azt. Az Alapítvány-trilógiaévtizedekkel a megírása után is elgondolkodtató olvasmány, aminek ott a helye minden sci-fi olvasó polcán.

An instant no. 1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of CrimeFest Best YA Crime Fiction PrizeWinner of the YA Fiction Goodreads Choice Awards

Escape with Jenny Colgan.'This uplifting story is one of Colgan's best to date' Daily Mirror'I wanted to hot-foot it to the Scottish islands' Daily Mail'With a cast of memorable characters and an uplifting storyline, Five Hundred Miles From You is one of her best novels' Sunday ExpressLissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quietvillage in Scotland.Cormac is restless. Just out of the army, he's desperately in need of distraction, and there's precious little of it in Kirrinfief. Maybe three months in London is just what he needs.As Lissa and Cormac warm to their new lives, emailing back and forth about anything and everything, finally things seem to be falling into place. But each of them feel there's still a piece missing. What - or who - could it be?

The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remainshis most beloved child. As Jack tries to make peace with his father, he begins to forge an intense bond with his sister Glory, herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past.Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.

Olive Smith es una doctoranda de tercer ano que no cree en las relaciones amorosas duraderas, pero su mejor amiga, Ahn, sí, y por eso Olive se ha metido en un lío monumental. A Ahn le gusta el exnovio de Olive, pero jamás daría el primer paso porque esuna buena amiga. A Olive no le va a resultar nada fácil convencerla de que ha pasado página, puesto que los científicos necesitan pruebas. Por eso, como cualquier mujer con un mínimo de amor propio, se deja llevar por el pánico y besa al primer hombrecon el que se encuentra para que Ahn la vea.Ese hombre es nada más y nada menos que Adam Carlsen, un joven profesor tan reputado por la calidad de su trabajo como por su imbecilidad. Así que Olive se queda de piedra cuando Carlsen accede a mantener su farsa en secreto y ser su novio falso. Sinembargo, después de que un importante congreso científico se convierta en un desastre y Adam vuelva a sorprenderla con su apoyo inquebrantable (y sus inquebrantables abdominales), su pequeno experimento se acerca peligrosamente al punto de combustión.Olive no tarda en descubrir que la única cosa más complicada que una hipótesis sobre el amor es analizar su propio corazón bajo el microscopio.

Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will bebrought in to play the Devil out of these women. Just beyond the city?s limits, pregnant Lisbet lives with her mother-in-law and husband, tending the bees that are their livelihood. And then, as the dancing plague gathers momentum, Lisbet?s sister-in-lawNethe returns from seven years? penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. It is a secret that Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, she finds herself thrust into a dangerous web of deceit andclandestine passion, but she is dancing to a dangerous tune Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by the true events of a doomed summer, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love,and women pushed to the edge.

Jack Reacher is in Key West enjoying a sort of lazy anonymity when a stranger shows up looking for him and ends up dead. Following the man's cold trail back to New York to find the people who dispatched him, Reacher is led to an alluring woman

'A riot' PANDORA SYKES'Razor-sharp' TIME'A wild ride' STYLIST'Darkly comic' GQ'Satirical and humorous' COSMOPOLITAN'Unforgettable' WOMAN & HOMEAthena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.White liesWhen Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.Dark humourBut as evidence threatens June's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.Deadly consequencesWhat happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.R.F. Kuang's book 'Yellowface' was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23R.F. Kuang's book 'Yellowface' was a #5 New York Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23R.F. Kuang's book 'Babel' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 09-01-2023.

Paris in 1968 - seething with revolutionaries and spies - sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operative. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will finds himselfin the thick of the action. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most complicated relationship in his life, with his younger brother.

She's his opposite in every way... and the greatest temptation he's ever known. Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos - and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaospersonified. With a crucial CEO vote looming and a media empire at stake, the billionaire heir can't afford the distraction she brings. Isabella is everything he shouldn't want, but with every look and every touch, he's tempted to break all his rules...and claim her as his own. *** Bold, impulsive, and full of life, Isabella Valencia has never met a party she doesn't like or a man she couldn't charm... except for Kai Young. It shouldn't matter. He's not her type - the man translates classics into Latinfor fun, and his membership at the exclusive club where she bartends means he's strictly off limits. But she can't deny that, beneath his cool exterior, is a man who could make her melt with just a touch. No matter how hard they try, they can't resistgiving into their forbidden desires. Even if it costs them everything.

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever.Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel

Egy gyermek utazásának története, aki ártatlan szemével értetlenül figyeli a felnőttek világát. Hat bolygón tett látogatás tanítja meg a kis herceget, miképpen nem szabad élni. A Földön az első kissé keserű figyelmeztetést a kígyótól kapja, amikormagányosságról panaszkodik

Amikor a NASA egy bámulatosan ritka tárgyra lel az Északi-sark jégtakarója alatt, a hibát hibára halmozó űrkutatási ügynökség végre diadalról adhat hírt, amelynek messzemenő következményei lesznek a NASA jövőjét és a közelgő elnökválasztás kimenetelétilletően.A lelet valódiságát ellenőrizendő, a Fehér Ház Rachel Sexton hírszerzési elemzőt hívja segítségül. Rachel szakértők - köztük a tudós, Michael Tolland - társaságában a sarkvidékre utazik, és valami hihetetlenre bukkan: egy tudományos csalásbizonyítékaira, egy merész bűvészmutatványra, amely, ha kiderül, az egész világot megoszthatja. Ám mielőtt figyelmeztethetnék az elnököt, Rachelt és Michaelt orvgyilkosok támadják meg. Sivár és életveszélyes vidéken kell menekülniük, és egyetlen reményüka túlélésre, ha kiderítik, ki áll a mesteri terv mögött.A megoldás mind közül a legdöbbenetesebb hazugság.Kitűnő thriller. Nagyszabású ám hihető történet, amely eszeveszett tempóban, meggyőző díszletek között bontakozik ki, a megfelelő arányban kevert szeretetreméltó és gyűlöletes résztvevők szerepeltetésével. Akció és ármány finoman megmunkált ötvözete.Publishers Weekly?

Judas Coyne, a korosodó, zaklatott múltú rocksztár él-hal a bizarr holmikért: gyűjteményében megtalálhatóak a sorozatgyilkos John Wayne Gacy rajzai, egy tizenhatodik századi paraszt meglékelt koponyája és egy sokat használt hóhérkötél. Úgyhogy, amikor azasszisztense szól neki, hogy valaki az interneten árverésre bocsátott egy kísértetet, a zenész azonnal lecsap rá.A postás a fekete, szív alakú dobozban nem csak egy halott ember öltönyét hozza ki, hanem bosszúszomjas szellemét is. A kísértet eredetileg mostohaapja volt egy fiatal lánynak, akit a rocksztár durva bánásmódja öngyilkosságba hajszolt, most pedig csakegyvalamit akar: megölni Coyne-t és mindenkit, aki segít neki.Az 1972-ben született Joe Hill népszerű, többszörös díjnyertes író, A szív alakú doboz, a Szarvak, a NOS4A2 és a Spóra című regények, valamint számos novella és képregény szerzője.A GABO Kiadónál még idén megjelenik Strange Weather című kisregényeskötete.