Nouveautés

Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG things: Alzheimer’s and a 42 year-old Indian elephant called Sinbad. Mick and his elephant become overnight on-the-run, anti-hero legends when Mick, an old rebel with a cause, takes matters into his own hands.

Nora, Ross e Penny si rincontrano dopo anni davanti alla polverosa vetrina di una piccola libreria sul Lago Maggiore, grazie alla quale le loro vite - e i loro amori - tornano a intrecciarsi irrimediabilmente. E così, tra libri e sogni, i loro cuori ricominciano a battere all’unisono, grazie alla forza invincibile dell’amicizia. Ombre Rosa è una collana e insieme un viaggio alla riscoperta di un’intera generazione di scrittrici italiane che, tra gli anni Settanta e gli anni Duemila, hanno posto le basi del romanzo rosa italiano contemporaneo.

Liz Millanova has stage four cancer, a grown daughter who doesn’t speak to her, and obsessive memories of a relationship that tore apart her marriage.

Due migliori amici. Dieci viaggi insieme. Un’ultima occasione per innamorarsi. Poppy e Alex. Alex e Poppy. Non hanno nulla in comune. Lei è una ribelle, lui un precisino sempre perfetto. Lei ha un’incontenibile voglia di viaggiare, lui preferisce stare a casa con un libro. Eppure, da quando molti anni prima hanno condiviso la macchina per tornare a casa dal college, sono diventati amici per la pelle. Per la maggior parte dell’anno vivono lontani - lei a New York City e lui nella loro piccola città natale - ma ogni estate, per un decennio, si sono concessi una gloriosa settimana di vacanza insieme.

Young Irish nurse Ellen arrives at May Day House, tasked with helping the men there rehabilitate. But there’s something strange about the house, surrounded by water, on its own island in the Thames. And then there are the men: traumatised by their experiences of war, and subject to troubling methods in a desperate race to get them back to duty. As Ellen gets drawn into the world of May Day House, she starts to realise this will be no place to hide away from her own troubles…

When Maggie Carpenter left the seductive glitz of London for summer break in her small South Carolina hometown, she walked away from the most intense encounter of her life. But now that she's returned to the International School—and sexy, privileged Samir Khouri is once again close enough to touch—she can't help but remember the attraction, the drama…the heartbreak.

Jo Waterstone knows what you should read next. She’s honed the skill of sizing up a person and recommending their next book in the decades she’s worked at Bruebaker’s Books. Her life has been shaped by the store, the bustle of customers exploring the stacks, and managing the eager staff. She can honestly say it’s the best job she’s ever had. Then the store’s elderly owner, Mr. Bruebaker, suffers a stroke, and just like that Jo’s perfect job is on the chopping block. Mr. B’s daughters and the bookstore’s icy CEO think the time is right to close for good, and they order Jo to lock up.

De volkstuingebruiken – de tuincontrole­commissie, de fancy fair, de strijd tussen "geitenwollen sokken" en "tuinkabouters" – worden door Hendrik op hilarische wijze beschreven Als Emma Quaadvliegh na het overlijden van haar man oude papieren opruimt, vindt ze een vergeten inschrijving terug voor een tuinhuisje bij 'Rust en Vreugd'. Ongemerkt is er elf jaar wachttijd verstreken, ze kan nu elk huisje krijgen dat vrijkomt.

Zwei Frauen. Zwei Welten. Eine Freundschaft – der Longseller endlich als Hörbuch. Konstanze ist die wandelnde Perfektion: Die Herzchirurgin, Ehefrau und Mutter hat ihre Familie, ihren Alltag, ihr Bindegewebe, den OP-Plan und sogar das Unkraut im Garten fest im Griff. Die viel zu hell blondierte Glitzernudel Jacqueline dagegen improvisiert sich mehr schlecht als recht durch ihr Leben zwischen vier Minijobs und drei Kindern. Ausgerechnet diese beiden Frauen werden Zimmergenossinnen in der orthopädischen Rehaklinik. Eine explosive Mischung in körperlicher Ruhelage. Während die Knochen heilen, verändert sich in Zimmer 233 alles.

Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the tiny village of Little Warby. Having settled in with a rescued dog and a pet pigeon, she manages, despite her anti-social instincts, to have surprising effects on her new neighbors. But her biggest challenge will likely be the twelve-year-old runaway who shows up at her door.

Bequeathed a century-old house, four estranged friends return to their hometown, Calingarry Crossing, where each must stay for a season at Dandelion House to fulfil the wishes of their benefactor, Gypsy. But coming home to the country stirs up shameful memories of the past, including the tragic end-of-school muck-up day accident twenty years earlier.

Frances Mathews doesn’t get out much since her husband died, but that doesn’t stop her from jump-starting a campaign to create a hedgehog highway in Hilltop Place—feeding stations, holes at the bottoms of gates and fences, and wild garden areas for hibernation. To Frances’s delight, her neighbours are on board. Mostly.

Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin. But Joe is far from nothing. Joe is a good friend, good at his job, good at making things and at following rules, and he is learning how to do lots of things by himself. Joe’s mother knows there are a million things he isn’t yet prepared for. While she helps to guide him every day, she is also writing notebooks of advice for Joe, of all the things she hasn’t yet told him about life and things he might forget.

Eliza has lived two lives–one before she fell into an obsessive teenage friendship with Eric and Maggie, and the one after it was destroyed in a single afternoon. To Eliza, Eric and Maggie were irreplaceable, so she hasn’t. Instead, drifting through life alone, she spends every morning diving into her memories as she swims in Hampstead Ponds, her guilt never far below the surface. Twenty years might have passed, yet Eliza still can’t help searching for Maggie everywhere.