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Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, literary voices of the Vietnamese-American diaspora, as well as Vietnam-based authors, speak to the experience of those who left and those who stayed in THE COLORS OF APRIL, a collection of new short fiction curated by award-winning translators and editors Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran.

Die Bestsellerautorin Christina Hillesheim zeigt ganz konkret, wie man seine Angst besiegen kann. Im Sommer 2016 erleidet Christina Hillesheim einen Burn-out und steht mit 34 Jahren plötzlich ohne Job und Perspektive da. Daraufhin wird sie auf unbestimmte Zeit mit der Diagnose Burn-out mit generalisierter Angststörung krankgeschrieben. Während ihres jahrelangen Heilungsprozesses lernt sie gemeinsam mit Ärzten, Psychologen und Psychotherapeuten, wie und warum Ängste entstehen und – das Wichtigste: wie man sie wieder loswird!

Falling for the boy next door wouldn’t have been so bad for Eliza, if the object of her affection wasn’t also the son of her father’s rival. Eliza is willing to risk everything for a shot at true happiness after she had given everything to the magnetic future Earl of Craven. Until he sleeps with her and then breaks her heart, that is, and shows up years later, as if nothing has happened. Can Eliza forgive and forget? Or will love be her undoing once more?

Dane Rockport is a hot-tempered cowboy who rides the rodeo circuit when he’s not running the Bear Spring Ranch and commanding Alpha over his clan. He’s content with the hard, lonely life. It keeps people breathing, alive, unlike his grizzly. That’s why his world collapses around him when he’s informed by council that he must take a mate in order to remain Alpha of the Bear Spring Ranch.

Manchmal braucht man … nichts als Liebe. Macy führt ein Leben, in dem sie keine großen Gefühle riskieren muss. Sie ist mit einem netten Mann zusammen, den sie heiraten wird, und versinkt in ihrer Arbeit als Kinderärztin. Dann läuft ihr Elliot über den Weg – der ihre erste Liebe war. Schon bald bekommt Macys sorgsam errichtete Fassade Risse. Denn einst bedeutete Elliot ihr die ganze Welt – bis er ihr für alle Zeiten das Herz brach.

Nie wieder wollte ich in meine Heimat zurückkehren. Doch das Schicksal lässt mir keine Wahl. Nachdem in letzter Zeit einiges aus dem Ruder lief, bin ich nach Juno Mountain zurückgekehrt. Hier will ich ein neues Kapitel in meinem Leben aufschlagen und schließe mich den Ice Wolves an - einem chaotischen Haufen Eishockeyspieler mit dem Herz am rechten Fleck. Ich bin nur hier, um wieder auf die Beine zu kommen - nicht, um mich zu verlieben. Doch dann treffe ich Alyssa, die neue Physiotherapeutin unseres Teams. Sie ist klug, schlagfertig und wunderschön.

Hochzeiten sind romantisch, stilvoll und alles andere als der passende Anlass für eine Wette. Oder? Die Eishockeyspieler der Portland Devils sind für ihre Wetten bekannt. Je verrückter, desto besser. Das gilt auch für die Einsätze. Dass die Jungs ausgerechnet auf der Hochzeit ihres Goalies Toby eine veranstalten, ist mehr als gewagt. Diese Tatsache ist dem Flügelspieler Durand durchaus bewusst, trotzdem hält ihn das nicht davon ab, mitzumachen. Schließlich stehen seine Chancen zu gewinnen überraschend gut. Dumm nur, dass die hübsche Brautjungfer Melody all seine Pläne durcheinanderbringt.

Out of all the swains she collected, Miss Lily Ellsworth knew Mr. Gilbert Wright was the one she would choose in the end. Rich, well-connected, dashing, daring, he was exactly the sort of man to turn heads, even if he hadn’t much of one himself. Lily didn’t mind—a dim husband would be more easily controlled than a clever one. And after seeing how her father chose his several wives, Lily sometimes doubted clever men even existed.

In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become lovers and discover a dark truth. Vicente Barrera, a salesman who swept into the lives of women who both hated and revered him, spends his last days tied up like a mad dog. A morgue worker, Salvador, gets lost in the desert and hallucinating from heat and thirst, mistakes the cactus for the person he loves.

A girl who must kill a kraken to save her people. A ruined civilization seeking a new and unknown shore. A boy investigating a mysterious sighting at an aquarium. A mermaid determined to rob a sea dragon’s hoard.

Somerset, England, 1808. Elfrida Hapgood keeps her eyes on the prize. Born to a penniless squire, she's determined to follow common sense and marry an upstanding and steadfast gentleman. So when her brother-in-law's handsomely rakish sibling attempts to woo her, she rigidly ignores the flutter in her chest.

With her two older sisters married, managing family affairs has fallen to capable Miss Margaret Hapgood, leaving little time for thoughts of marriage. But a trip to Bath to find her uncle a wealthy bride throws her in the path of a handsome recuperating soldier, who is equally determined to keep his mother's fortune out of grasping hands.

At age thirty, the kindly and helpful Miss Rosemary DeWitt assists the vicar with the parish school, burying her disappointment that life seems to promise nothing more. But a chance encounter with an unknown, brooding gentleman sets her on a new path—one which might lead where her heart never dreamed.

Elodie Perry is poised to be the small screen’s newest “It Girl”. Following the mega-success of the last time they worked together, it’s a no-brainer to bring her back in front of a camera with Shaw Bridges. The audience had plenty to say about their smoking hot chemistry on-screen, but their real-life romance was kept strictly behind the scenes.

It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. When she asked her seventy-year-old father, Eberhard, what this could possibly be about, he stalled, deflected, demurred, and then wept. He knew this day would come. The Kuehns, a prominent Berlin family, saw the rise of the Nazis as a way out of the hard times that had befallen them. When the daughter of the family, Eberhard’s sister, Ruth, met Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels at a party, the two hit it off, and they had an affair.

Louisa hatte nicht vor sich wieder zu verlieben. Doch als Ben mit seinem Fahrrad in die Auslage ihres Blumenladens kracht, ist das Chaos perfekt. Die beiden verbindet sofort ein besonderer Zauber, bis Louisa begreift, mit wem sie das Schicksal eigentlich zusammengeführt hat – dem erfolgreichsten Popstar des Landes. Hat ihre Liebe wirklich eine Chance?

Aliyah, a secretly powerful mage, has always been cautious with her deepest desires. Her most heartfelt wishes tend to come true—sometimes in ways she never imagined. But one full moon changes everything. When her long-dormant magic surges, it brings her gift from her long-distance paramedic boyfriend to life: a giant stuffed teddy bear. Yet this is no ordinary bear. He transforms into a captivating, sensual man devoted entirely to fulfilling Aliyah’s every longing—no matter how wickedly indulgent.

Odysseus Johnson dreams of musical stardom for his three sons: Roman, the rebel, more interested in being a teenager than a performer; Rocco, arguably the most talented of the bunch, but different in a way the world doesn’t understand; and dutiful River, the youngest, who dreams of fame just like his dad. Driving back from another failed audition in Detroit, the Johnson boys come upon the ghost of Christmas Jones the Third, an ebullient, if lonely, young Black orphan who carries the scars of a horrific past as a minstrel sensation.

Can Reggie the Saxon, and his best friend Rufus the Eagle, defend their peaceful village from an evil foe? Even if this evil foe possibly loves carrots more than any rabbit could! Find out in this all-new exciting adventure, brought to you by the same creative team who wrote The Companionship in a Case Of O.C.D., Soap Box Derby, Wags Wd: Episode 1 The Beginning, and many, many, more!

Cautious Claire Shelton, employee at a Maine antique shop, is surprised when she’s recruited to catalog the treasures of reclusive Hanna Reeves, sole descendant of the state’s most colorful shipbuilders and industrialists. Hanna’s retreat from society years ago is just one of many mysteries behind the walls of Rose Hill, her fabled estate.