Julie and Julia / Powell, Julie

Paperback / 2009 / Kartonierter Einband (Kt)

The film adaptation of the national bestseller- about a woman who spends a year learning French cooking with the help of Julia Child's cookbooks-is scheduled for US release in March 2009. Amy Adams will portray Julie Powell and Maryl Streep will take on the role of Julia Child.

The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson / Jones, Melissa

Paperback / 2010 / Taschenbuch (kartoniert)

Engaging novel about a young woman's struggle to find her own way in 19th century Boston, London and Rome.

Captivated / Roberts, Nora

Paperback / 2009 / Kartonierter Einband (Kt)

Screenwriter Nash Kirkland becomes obsessed with self-proclaimed witch Morgana Donovan, but is her really in love or just bewitched? Robert's has sales of over $5 million in the UK. 'A storyteller of immeasurable diversity and talent' "Publisher's Weekly"

Do You Want to Know a Secret? / Carroll, Claudia

Paperback / 2009 / Kartonierter Einband (Kt)

Discovering the secret of the universe Vicky realises you have to be very careful what you wish for... Vicky Harper is single and it's been a long time since she had a date with that elusive species - the decent single man so she decides to put the laws of attraction into action. All she has to focus on is thinking her wildest fantasies into reality. A bit like Pollyanna except with a magic 8 ball, a mortgage and a lot of vodka... so along with her best friends they vow to project manage ...

Last Night in Twisted River / Irving, John

Hardback / 2009 / Fester Einband

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the boy and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER - Irving's twelfth novel - is written with the historical a...

A Mercy / Morrison, Toni

Paperback / 2009 / Kartonierter Einband (Kt)

Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest "New York Times"-bestselling masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences.

The Last Song / Sparks, Nicholas

Hardback / 2009 / Fester Einband

#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love.Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington ...

Little Bird of Heaven / Oates, Joyce Carol

Paperback / 2009 / Kartonierter Einband (Kt)

<p> Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, romantic, and captivating tale, set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York--the territory of her remarkably successful "New York Times" bestseller "The Gravedigger's Daughter." <p> Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America returns to the emotional and geographical terrain of ...