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Shanghai, with Extra Soy Sauce is a heartfelt, hilarious tale of friendship, cultural collision, and personal growth. Through every wrong turn and right moment, Ben discovers that sometimes the best classroom is the world itself—and the greatest lessons come when you’re totally out of your depth.

From Grant Ginder, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a novel of impending millennial middle age that is part love story, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of two decades bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we can run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death.

Seeking release from their small-town existence, two teenagers drive north on a vaguely plotted road trip. Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind. But they carry with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date. As the pair’s journey progresses, the mood fluctuates as each of them sets out to prove himself. The dynamics of their friendship begin to unravel, culminating in an act of devastating – and all too familiar – violence.

The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time. Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren’s father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won’t be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models—and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.

When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they’re bombing at a dive bar in their hometown. Since the tragic death of their manager, the band has been in a downward spiral and Theo has been dispatched to coax a new—and successful—album out of them, or else let them go. Immediately, Theo is struck by Hannah, the group’s impetuous lead singer, who’s gone off script by debuting a whole new sound, replacing their California pop with gut-wrenching rock.

Weil die Medizinstudentin Dawn ihrer schwerstkranken Tante Sterbehilfe geleistet hat, fliegt sie von der Eliteuni – und verliert den Rückhalt ihrer Familie. Vorbestraft und verschuldet sucht sie verzweifelt einen Job und eine neue Zukunft, doch niemand will sie einstellen. Bis der charismatische MMA-Kickboxer Landen ihr einen Job in seinem Trainingscenter anbietet. Unerwartet findet sie in Landens rauer Welt aus harter Arbeit und Kampfsport etwas, das ihr lange gefehlt hat: Offenheit und Vertrauen. Zwischen Dawn und Landen knistert es vom ersten Moment an.

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting). He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person).

Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honor to stop being a people pleaser and start figuring out what she wants out of life.

Wren and Thessaly collide when they land coveted jobs at a glamorous New York City boutique wine importer. Hardworking, by-the-book Wren comes from a modest background and has everything to prove, while Thessaly hails from a family of prestigious California growers—but she is plagued by self-doubt. Thrown together at work, where they’re expected to have exquisite palates, endless tolerance for alcohol and socializing, and the ability to sell, sell, sell, they regard each other with suspicion.

‘Down among the women. What a place to be!’ So says Wanda, a former radical who left her husband and raised her daughter Scarlet to be as liberated as she. But twenty-year-old Scarlet, with an abortion already behind her, is about to discover real liberation – as a single mother in Fifties’ London. Yet Scarlet’s not alone. Meet her friends: Sylvia, the born victim; respectable Jocelyn, willingly trapped in a dull, bourgeois marriage; Audrey, bristling to break free of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant – and very doomed.

Yorkshire teacher Ellen Fenwick has never been abroad. But when her mother dies, this young woman finds herself taking a position as governess to an English girl in Florence in the summer of 1933. Little does Ellen realise how this girl, Juliet, and her family will claim her. For as the summer passes, Ellen falls so in love with Italy and her new home that she cannot bear to leave – even when her own hopes of love are cruelly thwarted.

Niezwykła opowieść o dwóch różnych kobietach z dwóch różnych światów… „Moja praca w liniach lotniczych to nie tylko źródło utrzymania. To styl życia, który mnie zupełnie pochłonął, pozwolił mi zbudować pewność siebie, dał ogromną satysfakcję, nauczył mnie podejmować ryzykowne decyzje niezależnie od tego, co powiedzą inni, oraz godzić się z porażkami. Pomógł mi znaleźć pomysł na siebie, odkryć nowe pasje i radzić sobie w trudnych momentach, niekoniecznie tylko na pokładzie" (ze wstępu autorki). Czy zastanawiałaś się, jak szczęśliwy musi być człowiek, gdy jego praca staje się pasją?

Where the Coffee Gets Cold is a quiet, heartfelt story about grief, connection, and the gentle ways strangers can save each other. Every evening after work, 29-year-old Liam retreats to a small café tucked in the corner of the city—not for the coffee, but for the silence, the familiar faces, and the sense of being seen without explanation.

Ecco, Cristina è proprio in uno di "quei momenti": per una diabolica serie di coincidenze nel giro di ventiquattr'ore perde il lavoro, la casa e il fidanzato. E se pure non c'è dubbio che certi fidanzati è meglio perderli che trovarli, scovarne uno decente dopo i trent'anni sembra un'impresa più disperata che ottenere un lavoro.

Edward Michaels' gripping novel unfolds a tale of morality, friendship, and consequences against the backdrop of London. At the heart of the story are four friends, each thriving in their professional lives, who are secretly drawn into the orbit of an underground organization fighting terrorism through unconventional and dangerous means. By day, they maintain their respectable careers, but by night, they orchestrate covert operations to dismantle terrorist groups through staged 'accidents.'

Octavio und Amador sind zwei junge Freunde, die die Geheimnisse des ökologischen Landbaus und die Kraft der Teamarbeit entdecken. Während sie nachforschen. Sie tauchten in die Geheimnisse der Bodenanreicherung mit Bananen ein und versuchten herauszufinden, ob das Vergraben von Bananen ihren angeschlagenen Garten wirklich verändern kann.

It's 2007, and Mr Sidhu is the sub-postmaster of the local post office in Richmond. He's grieving the passing of his wife and is preoccupied with honouring his final promise to her: to make sure his two grown-up children are settled and comfortable, which means helping Raju buy his own place and seeing to it that Meenu finally marries her long-term fiancé, Craig. But Mr Sidhu is thrown off course when he begins developing feelings for his co-worker Rose, and everything begins to change, including his relationship with his children. And then Mr Sidhu's weekly accounts begin reporting a loss.

When I quit my job, my boss threatened that I'd never work as a lawyer again . . . I figured he was a fossil with an elevated sense of self-importance, but two months later, I have to admit he has reach. Only one firm is interested in giving me a job, and there's been a slight misunderstanding. One of the partners saw me with my best friend's sister, Ruthie, and her daughter, and now they think I'm a family man. To my mind, wedding bells only lead to misery, but it seems to be the only reason they want to hire me. So I play along.

Die neue Buchreihe für alle Fans von Carrie & Co.! "Eine für alle, alle für Eine" sind für das Freundinnenquintett um Joanna kein leeres Motto, sondern die Fünf leben es seit Highschoolzeiten. Und obwohl inzwischen ganze Staaten zwischen einigen der toughen jungen Frauen liegen, ist es für alle eine Selbstverständlichkeit, aus L.A., San Francisco und New York anzureisen, als die Erste von ihnen auf Key West heiratet. Vor der wunderschönen Kulisse des Inselparadieses tun sich dabei nicht nur attraktive neue Bekanntschaften auf, sondern eine Überraschung bringt alle völlig aus dem Häuschen.

Not Her First Choice is a poignant tale of unrequited love and self-discovery set against the vibrant backdrop of Manhattan’s bustling ad agency scene. Dean, a sensitive copywriter, has quietly loved his best friend and colleague Lucy for years, only to watch her return to her ex after a fleeting, wine-soaked night that changed everything.