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Meaningful, moving and magical - the classic best-selling love story. Everyone needs a guardian angel.... Some 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.

The thoughtful and unique new novel from the phenomenally popular author. Journalist Kitty Logan’s career is being destroyed by scandal - and now she faces losing the woman who guided and taught her everything she knew. At her terminally ill friend’s bedside, Kitty asks - what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance’s office: a list of one hundred names. There is no synopsis, nothing to explain what the story is or who these people are.

Como estrellas en los cielos oscuros sobre la pequeña isla donde creció, las pecas se esparcen por los brazos de Allegra Bird, un vínculo con su amado padre; a su madre no la conoce. En una búsqueda para encontrar lo único que le falta, comienza una nueva y audaz vida en Dublín. Pero ella ha dejado mucho atrás. Entonces, cuando un extraño le dice que es la suma de las cinco personas con las que pasa más tiempo, de repente ya no busca a una sola persona. Ella está buscando a cinco.

Life is in two parts: who you were before you met her and who you are after. A documentary crew discover a mysterious young woman living alone in the mountains of West Cork. Strikingly beautiful, she has an extraordinary talent for mimicry, like the famous Australian lyrebird. The crew, fascinated, make her the subject of their story and bestow the nickname upon her. When they leave, they take Lyrebird with them back to the city.

Extremely successful executive Lou Suffern is always overstretched, immune to the holiday spirit that delights everyone around him. The classic workaholic who never has a moment to spare, he is always multitasking while shortchanging his devoted wife and their adorable children. And ever since he started competing for a big promotion, he has barely seen his family at all. One frigid morning, in an uncharacteristic burst of generosity, he buys a cup of coffee for Gabe, a homeless man huddled outside his office building.

Das Leben strahlt in unendlich vielen Farben. Gold ist die Farbe der Unschuld, Grün steht für Stabilität und ein bestimmtes Blau für Traurigkeit. Schon als Kind entdeckt Alice, dass sie den Gemütszustand anderer Menschen als Farbe sehen kann. Die Auren verraten Alice, ob ihr Gegenüber die Wahrheit sagt oder lügt, glücklich ist oder heimlich den Tränen nah. Ihr eigenes Leben in die Farben des Glücks zu tauchen, scheint dagegen unendlich schwer. Ausgerechnet die Natur liefert der Großstadtpflanze, die bisher jeden Kaktus kleingekriegt hat, einen ersten Hinweis.

From naughty children to rebellious teenagers, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But just as they're discovering the joys of teenage nights on the town and dating disasters, they're separated. Alex's family moves from Dublin to America, and Alex goes with them. For good. Rosie's lost without him. But on the eve of her departure to join Alex in Boston, Rosie gets news that will change her life forever and keep her at home in Ireland.

Original, honest and thought-provoking, Roar is Cecelia Ahern's unforgettable story collection. With her trademark honesty, Cecelia Ahern gives us 30 linked stories, all titled 'The Woman Who...', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous, moving, surreal and poignant, the stories capture the moments the characters are overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, frustration, intimidation, exhaustion - the private moments when they feel the need to roar.

A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author Jasmine loves two things: her sister and her work. And when her work is taken away she has no idea who she is. Matt loves two things: his family and the booze. Without them, he hits rock bottom. One New Year's Eve, two people's paths collide. Both have time on their hands; both are at a crossroads. But as the year unfolds, through moonlit nights and suburban days, an unlikely friendship slowly starts to blossom.

Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured - all her freedoms gone. Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with the complicated, powerfully attractive Carrick, the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret - one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground.

Die junge Journalistin Kitty Logan ist am Tiefpunkt: Durch einen schweren Fehler hat sie fast das Leben eines Menschen zerstört...

Lying on Lucy Silchester’s carpet one day when she returns from work is a gold envelope. Inside is an invitation – to a meeting with Life. Her life. It turns out she's been ignoring it and it needs to meet with her face to face. It sounds peculiar, but Lucy’s read about this in a magazine. Anyway, she can’t make the date: she’s much too busy despising her job, skipping out on her friends friends and avoiding her family. But Lucy’s life isn’t what it seems. Some of the choices she’s made – and stories she’s told – aren’t what they seem either

"Quand on trouve l'âme sœur, on croit que le bonheur durera toujours." C'est ce que pensait Holly jusqu'à ce que son Gerry ne meure d'une terrible maladie. À trente ans, Holly se retrouve seule, démunie, sans espoir. Mais Gerry lui réserve une ultime surprise. Il lui a laissé dix lettres qui forment une "liste" de choses à accomplir pour réapprendre à vivre. Par-delà la mort, Gerry lui adresse un message d'amour et de courage : elle doit apprendre à être heureuse sans lui, malgré le lien fort qui les unissait.

Sometimes fate just can't stop meddling. Best friends since forever, Rosie and Alex have shared their hopes, dreams, awkward moments - and firsts. But their bond is threatened when Alex's family move to America. They stay in touch, but misunderstandings, circumstances and sheer bad luck seem to be conspiring to keep them apart. Can they gamble everything - even their friendship - on true love?

Empathetic and highly sensitive, Alice reads other people’s moods in a heartbeat—she sees both the worst and the best in everyone without them having to say a word. But growing up, Alice’s gift marks her out as disruptive, an oddity. She and her brothers live in dread of their mother’s unpredictable temper, of whether there will be food in the house, or bills paid. And despite her being desperate to find her own way in the world, she is instead pulled tighter into the embrace of the family she feels so ambivalent about—a family even Alice can’t always see the best in.

A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author. She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love - with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate - but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him life is worth living.

Sandy Shortt has been obsessed about where missing things and people end up ever since the disappearance of a childhood friend 20 years ago. It has even motivated her to become a private investigator, attempting to track down missing loved ones and giving devastated families hope. So when she finds herself one of the missing, stuck in a strange place with people who vanished into thin air years ago, she wonders if she has found the answer to one of life's greatest mysteries.

Elizabeth's sister Saoirse is a red-haired whirlwind, always leaving behind pieces that Elizabeth struggles to pick up. One of those pieces is Saoirse's six-year-old son, Luke, a quiet, contemplative boy. When Luke is playing in Elizabeth's garden one day, and witnessing the latest scene between his mother and his aunt, a friend named Ivan walks into his life. This unexpected and rather mysterious friend will change Luke - but will have an even greater impact on Elizabeth.

Als Fergus einen Schlaganfall hat, vergisst er fast alles aus seinem Leben. Da findet seine Tochter Sabrina seine Glasmurmelsammlung, von der er ihr nie etwas erzählt hat. In der Sammlung fehlen wertvolle Stücke, und Sabrina macht sich auf die Suche nach ihnen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Fergus noch viel mehr Geheimnisse hatte, und alle scheinen sie mit den schillernden Kugeln verbunden zu sein. Doch wenn ihr Vater nicht der Mann ist, für den sie ihn gehalten hat - wer ist Sabrina dann eigentlich selbst?

Die junge Laura lebt im Verborgenen im Westen Irlands. Niemand weiß, dass sie eine ganz besondere Fähigkeit besitzt: Sie kann jede menschliche Stimme, alle Tiere und jedes Geräusch der Welt nachahmen. Als der Toningenieur Solomon Laura begegnet, fühlt er sich sofort magisch von ihr angezogen. Doch auch Solomons Lebensgefährtin, die Regisseurin Bo, ist fasziniert: Sie möchte einen Film über die geheimnisvolle Außenseiterin drehen.