A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

When a tight-knit family moves from Brooklyn to Maine, their lives are upended by an event that will alter their new community forever in this bighearted, sparkling debut for fans of Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Pineapple Street, and Schitt’s Creek Hazel Blum, please report to the principal’s office. Hazel Blum. When Hazel Blum’s father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn to a middle-of-nowhere college town in Maine. With her mother, Claire, a clothing designer, and her father, Gus, an American Studies professor, Hazel and her eleven-year-old brother, Wolf, spend the summer at the town pool, where they acclimate to their new lives and connect with the town’s sprawling community. That is, until a dramatic fallout on the very first day of her senior year tips the fickle balance of idyllic Riverburg and impacts everyone in her family. Tracking through the perspectives of each member of the Blum family, this relatable fish-out-of-water story handles big issues with great empathy and humor, capturing the love that unites one unforgettable family and the essence of life in small-town Maine. Emotionally deft, authentic, and compulsively readable, Hazel Says No is a debut novel not to be missed.

This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea. Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan, has arrived in this verdant corner of Prince Edward Island only to discover that the Cuthberts—elderly Matthew and his stern sister, Marilla—want to adopt a boy, not a feisty redheaded girl. But before they can send her back, Anne—who simply must have more scope for her imagination and a real home—wins them over completely. A much-loved classic that explores all the vulnerability, expectations, and dreams of a child growing up, Anne of Green Gables is also a wonderful portrait of a time, a place, a family… and, most of all, love. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JENNIFER LEE CARELL

Ein Skandal erschüttert das Städtchen Aurora an der Ostküste der USA: 33 Jahre nachdem die zauberhafte Nola dort spurlos verschwand, taucht sie wieder auf. Als Skelett im Garten ihres einstigen Geliebten ...Dieser raffinierte, anspielungsreiche Roman liest sich wie ein Krimi und ist doch viel mehr! Es ist der Aufmacher jeder Nachrichtensendung. Im Garten des hochangesehenen Schriftstellers Harry Quebert wurde eine Leiche entdeckt. Und in einer Ledertasche direkt daneben: das Originalmanuskript des Romans, mit dem er berühmt wurde. Als sich herausstellt, dass es sich bei der Leiche um die sterblichen Überreste der vor 33 Jahren verschollenen Nola handelt und Quebert auch noch zugibt, ein Verhältnis mit ihr gehabt zu haben, ist der Skandal perfekt. Quebert wird verhaftet und des Mordes angeklagt. Der einzige, der noch zu ihm hält, ist sein ehemaliger Schüler und Freund Marcus Goldman, inzwischen selbst ein erfolgreicher Schriftsteller. Überzeugt von der Unschuld seines Mentors - und auf der Suche nach einer Inspiration für seinen nächsten Roman - fährt Goldman nach Aurora und beginnt auf eigene Faust im Fall Nola zu ermitteln ...

A princess murdered at the altar makes a deal with the god of death for vengeance and to save her people in this first in a unique romantasy trilogy from USA TODAY bestselling author Emma Hamm.Jessamine was raised to be a leader for her people, but when the land is overrun by an incurable plague, she must enter a political marriage to save them all. A union that should have brought hope only brings death as her new husband murders her at the wedding altar and seizes the throne. But her death is just the beginning. Her spirit is met by the Deathless One, a god of death yearning to return to the mortal plane, and he needs her help. The two of them make a deal—her life and the return of her kingdom in exchange for his resurrection. But the Deathless One is a known trickster, and a deal with him is one made in blood. Jessamine knows the Deathless One is a dangerous ally, but the longer they work together, the more she wants him and the less she can stay away. As their connection deepens, soon she wonders if she even wants this contract to end. Perhaps the more appealing throne is the one by his side, but she’d have to turn her back on her people to get it.

*Book one of a duet* When Ophelia Winters accepts a scholarship at a prestigious Scottish university to prove that her parents' death was the fault of Cain Green, an American aviation tycoon, her plan is simple; keep her grades up and her head down. The last thing she wants is to wind up in a mafia war or step on the toes of royalty. Her plan gets off to a rocky start when the mysterious man that almost kills her on her first day turns out to be Cain's eldest son. As far as she’s concerned, Alex Corbeau-Green is a younger version of his billionaire father. A monster hiding beneath a beautiful facade. Loneliness has been Ophelia’s only dependable companion for years, but when anonymous threats and mysterious occurrences start to haunt her time at Sorrowsong, she wonders if she really can survive there on her own. Between being paired together for a project and ending up as each other’s alibi for a murder, avoiding Alex becomes increasingly impossible. She begins to fall for the soft heart that hides beneath his hard exterior. Tormented by a malicious stalker and growing closer to Alex, Ophelia’s desperation for revenge wavers for the first time. Can she really bring herself to pull the trigger on Cain now that she knows the family it’ll split into two?__________ Dark Academic Romance - Enemies to Lovers - Slow Burn - University Setting This work is dark in places and contains several triggers throughout. Please heed the warnings before reading.

Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow--and at age forty-one, short as ever--surrounded by women who want him: women who are self-actualized, women who are smart and interesting, women who don't mind his height, women who are eager to take him for a test drive with just the swipe of an app. Toby doesn't mind being used in this way; it's a welcome change from the thirteen years he spent as a married man, the thirteen years of emotional neglect and contempt he's just endured. Anthropologically speaking, it's like nothing he ever experienced before, particularly back in the 1990s, when he first began dating and became used to swimming in the murky waters of rejection. But Toby's new life--liver specialist by day, kids every other weekend, rabid somewhat anonymous sex at night--is interrupted when his ex-wife suddenly disappears. Either on a vision quest or a nervous breakdown, Toby doesn't know--she won't answer his texts or calls. Is Toby's ex just angry, like always? Is she punishing him, yet again, for not being the bread winner she was? As he desperately searches for her while juggling his job and parenting their two unraveling children, Toby is forced to reckon with the real reasons his marriage fell apart, and to ask if the story he has been telling himself all this time is true.

A complete refreshment and uplift of a hilarious, beguiling first novel for the head and the heart.“It’s maybe six hundred times a day,” Sylvie says, and then she stops and the therapist tilts her head. “That I think about you,” Sylvie goes on, the word you said so quietly as to be barely audible. Sylvie is happy only when she is in therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist; she thinks about her every second they’re not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). In that room, Sylvie is able to talk about everything. Her true pleasures, which include hitting a piñata so the candy falls out; her thoughts about the false hope promised by eighties music; and what a dog’s inner life is really like. She’s aware she has an obsession, but whether it’s a case of extreme transference, “erotic transference,” or a lost person’s need to connect, Sylvie isn’t sure. Beyond therapy, Sylvie has what she considers to be a small a job as a veterinary nurse, companionship from her tattooist friend via text, and her little brain-damaged dog, Curtains. One day, on the beach in her seaside town, she meets Chloe, who understands Sylvie completely. Chloe becomes her friend that day and for the rest of her life. When the therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie has to imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that don’t include being adopted by the therapist). Her world has begun to open up, inching beyond the pain, confusion, and fear that have confined her, and she must decide whether she’s ready for a bravery of feeling. With a lightness of touch, irresistible charm, and a rare, warm wit, Happiness Forever is one woman’s search inside—and for—herself. In this stunning debut, Adelaide Faith encapsulates the great vulnerability, difficulty, and joy of being a person and of being alive.

Eine neue Perspektive auf die Geschichte der Menschheit Morgane Llanque zeigt, wie vielfältig unsere Welt schon immer war und wie historische Dynamiken unsere Sicht auf Normalität prägen. Was Geschichte ist, wurde lange von Männern aus dem Westen entschieden. Hier setzt Morgane Llanque an – denn was heute »normal« und als »schon immer so« erscheint, war vor nicht allzu langer Zeit vielfältiger, diverser und Sie erzählt von römischen Kaisern, die sich die Beine rasierten, von muslimischen Gelehrten am Hof von Friedrich II., von Bündnissen zwischen weißen Südstaatlern und den Black Panthers und von Frauen in den Anden, die in der Steinzeit jagten. So entsteht in globaler Perspektive eine andere Geschichte von Geld und Macht, Patriarchat, Sexualität, Hautfarbe, Glaube, Klasse und Gerechtigkeit. Llanque hebt in ihrer großen feministischen Menschheitsgeschichte Gemeinsamkeiten statt Unterschiede hervor und zeigt, wie unsere Gesellschaft so geworden ist, wie sie ist – und warum es auch ganz anders hätte kommen können. Für alle, die verstehen wollen, warum die Menschheit schon immer vielfältig war.

Zamonien in einer anderen Wo das Hören zum Abenteuer wird Nach einem Sturz durch ein Dimensionsloch erwacht Qwert, der Gallertprinz aus der 2364. Dimension, in der Parallelwelt Orméa. Irritiert stellt er fest, dass er im Körper und der Rüstung eines attraktiven Ritters steckt, den er aus Trivialromanen Prinz Kaltbluth. Kein Wunder also, dass er zunächst eine gefesselte Schönheit befreien muss, die von einem dreiköpfigen Ungeheuer bewacht wird. Mit Hilfe seines unsichtbaren Degens Tarnmeister gelingt die Befreiung – doch die Gerettete entpuppt sich als gefährliche Janusmeduse, die alles Leben mit ihrem bösen Blick in Stein verwandeln will. Von nun an hat Prinz Kaltbluth eine ritterliche Er muss Orméa von der entfesselten Meduse erlösen. Ungünstig nur, dass er sich gerade unsterblich in sie verliebt hat. Walter Moers schickt uns auf eine rasante Reise durch eine wahnwitzige Welt, die aus nichts als Abenteuern, Spannung, Ritterromantik, dialoglustigem Humor und reiner Fabulierlust besteht. In diesem atemlosen Pageturner, wo nichts ist, wie es scheint, und immer alles anders kommt, als man denkt, kreuzen sich die abenteuerlichsten Ideen und Bilder unserer Kultur, von antiken Mythen und Ritterromanen bis zu Fantasyfilmen; von den Nibelungen und der griechischen Sagenwelt über Don Quichote und König Artus´ Tafelrunde bis hin zu Monty Python. Wie auch alle in Zamonien angesiedelten Romane erzählt »Qwert« eine in sich geschlossene Geschichte, die Neueinsteigern so unterhaltsam wie mühelos den Weg in den Moers'schen Kosmos bahnt. Folgende weitere Hörbücher sind bislang von ihm Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär Ensel und Krete Rumo & die Wunder im Dunkeln Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher Der Schrecksenmeister Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher Prinzessin Insomnia & der alptraumfarbene Nachtmahr Weihnachten auf der Lindwurmfeste Der Bücherdrache Die Insel der Tausend Leuchttürme Auß Das Einhörnchen, das rückwärts leben wollte