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Die 90-jährige energische Maxine ist aus dem Seniorenheim ausgebüxt, um ihr Ableben selbstbestimmt zu regeln. Der schüchterne Student Alex hat Liebeskummer und braucht frischen Wind. Das Schicksal führt sie über ein Mitfahrportal zusammen. In einem uralten Twingo brechen sie zu einer Fahrt durch Frankreich nach Brüssel auf. Als Maxine von der Polizei gesucht wird, beginnt ein atemloses Abenteuer - mit Blick auf die grandiose Vielfalt des Lebens.

Deutschland in der Zukunft. Die Küsten sind überschwemmt, weite Teile des Landes sind entvölkert, und die Natur erobert sich verlassene Ortschaften zurück. Berlin ist nur noch eine Kulisse für Touristen. Regierungssitz ist Frankfurt, das mit dem gesamten Rhein-Main-Gebiet zu einer einzigen Megacity verschmolzen ist. Dort, wo es eine Infrastruktur gibt, funktioniert sie einwandfrei. Nahezu das gesamte Leben wird von Algorithmen gesteuert. Allen geht es gut - solange sie keine Fragen stellen.

When Australian expat Simone moves to London to start a career, getting pregnant is not on her agenda. But she's excited to start a new life with her baby and determined to be a good mother. Even though her boyfriend Paul's cold and grey apartment in the Barbican Estate seems completely ill-suited for a baby. Even though Simone and Paul have only known each other for a year. Even though she feels utterly unprepared for motherhood. The arrival of Paul's cousin, Rachel, in the flat should be a godsend.

Wafting around with his stinky best friend Burp, Fart couldn't be happier. But sometimes Burp wishes people wouldn't say "yuck" and "gross" and "pee-yew". Could being smelly ever be a force for good? A super stinker of a tale that proves anyone can be a hero. Listeners who loved Zoe Foster Blake's ABIA award-winning and best-selling No One Likes a Fart will love this companion book as Fart and Burp decide to make difference in the world whether people love them or not. They'll make some friends along the way and even get capes!

Poor Finn is looking forward to drifting off to sleep in his cosy warm bed, when Mummy appears wanting a drink. Finn resettles her and has just fallen asleep when he's woken again...this time by Daddy, who's had a bad dream. And so it goes. Just when Finn has one parent back to sleep, the other wakes up! When will these two sleep through the night? A clever, playful, laugh-out-loud story that celebrates the ups and downs of family life. Kids and parents will enjoy sharing this gorgeous bedtime story.

Four years have passed since Caia Alman rejected Cedric Lincoln, Alpha of the Sacred Shadows pack, as her mate. Since then, she has rebuilt her life in a new city, chasing her dreams that have never, not for a second, involved being a Luna. She thought her connection to the Alpha would have died with her rejection. But, when Cedric comes into her office, she is horrified to see that the Moon Goddess has other ideas.

Simone plans to spend her postgraduation summer painting, taking care of her great-aunt, and working in an art gallery - not mud wrestling and giving her first time to the yard boy. In this new adult contemporary romance with sex, of innocence lost, Simone discovers the real meaning of high class and how her feelings can sweep her away. The glamorous artist or the down to earth hunk who makes a living cutting grass?

What if you have been a Harvey Girl for several years but you really wanted to be a teacher? And then you fall in love with a cowboy? Sabrina has enjoyed being a Harvey Girl even though she would have preferred to become a teacher. Soon after her friend Jo marries a local man, Sabrina wonders if she will ever be able to have the opportunity to have a family. But she resigns herself to the fact that she will probably be a Harvey Girl for many more years, after all, she is starting to be considered an old maid.

Summer Watson seems to have it all. Twenty-five years old, beautiful, a rising local TV reporter, she attends a birthday party around a backyard swimming pool for one of the wealthiest self-made CEOs in St. Louis...as his son's date. She doesn't intend to fall in love with his 50-year-old father.

Christmastime In The Snowtime With Coco The Sand Girl! is about how a boy named Kolby who lives in Miamitown, finally gets his wish to see snow for the very first time. While celebrating with his cousins and new friends, he experiences another unexpected, magical, and amazing moment during one of the last days of the "Silver Season!". Zoe invites listeners to experience Christmas in the snowtime as Kolby does.

What if you were given the opportunity to travel with an orphan train to be adopted by a new family? Anna travels on an orphan train with 18 other children to a small town in Texas. She is taken in by an older couple that owns the town’s General Store. Even though her new family isn’t cruel to her, they expect her to work for her keep, and they definitely don’t give her the love she desperately wants. When she is an adult, she answers a mail-order bride ad she sees in the local newspaper, and agrees to marry a rancher, the oldest of three brothers.

Christmastime in the Sunshine is about a boy who lives in Miami who wishes to see snow at Christmastime for the very first time. While hanging out with his friends, an unexpected, magical, and amazing moment happens during one of the last days of the "Golden Season"!

Stephanie Collingsworth has made the decision to pack up her apartment in Denver and move back to her family ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, one of the many life-changing decisions that has happened to her. Over the next few weeks, she not only agrees to be the housekeeper and decorator of the ranch’s new buildings, but she also experiences health problems that could change her entire life. As she struggles to adapt to all the changes in her life, she starts to get to know Bridger, the man who her brother hires to be over all the construction on the ranch.

Josephine is expected to marry Matthew, a man she has known since she was a child. When he is given the opportunity to go to college to become a doctor, Jo decides she also wants to have an adventure. She decides to become a Harvey Girl while Matthew is gone. Over the next few years, Jo enjoys her new job and loves to explore parts of America she never thought she’d have the opportunity to see. She also meets Dalton Jackson and becomes good friends with him and his adoptive family. As she gets to know Dalton, she realizes she is planning on marrying Matthew only because it is expected of her.

At 20, Savannah knew it was time to leave the orphanage and allow another girl to take her place. She decides to become a mail-order bride and starts to write Austin, a man who lives in Iowa. Austin owns a farm he inherited. He loves working the land, but he is lonely and wants a wife with whom to share his life. After following advice from his best friend, he brings Savannah to Iowa to marry. But soon, the unthinkable happens, and he loses his wheat harvest in one day. Austin decides he needs to leave and find a job so they can make it through the winter months.

Introducing a brand new series by best-selling author Zoe Matthews about six cousins who were raised by their grandparents on a large Montana ranch.

Emily is suffering the ultimate trial. Her husband and best friend was killed in a bank robbery soon after they were married. A few weeks later, she discovers she is pregnant. After her daughter is born, Emily does everything she can to be a good mother, but her sister and her husband have other plans for her child, and they don’t include her. In order to support her baby, Emily makes the hard decision to become a Harvey Girl. She meets the local sheriff, Samuel Montgomery, and he comes up with his own plan to help Emily keep her baby.

Lydia finds out at her father’s deathbed that he has arranged for her to marry the son of an old family friend to cancel a debt. At first, Lydia rejects the idea, but then circumstances suddenly make it so she feels she needs to honor her father’s last wishes, and she travels to Texas to meet the man her father has chosen.

Introducing the first of a six-part western romance series about six siblings who work together to turn their family cattle ranch into a dude ranch that is located deep in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. They each choose a job that they are interested in, and along the way, they each find love and romance. Sierra has been a widow for two years. She has been busy raising her twin daughters on the family ranch when her father is killed. As their family attorney reads her father’s will, she learns that each member will receive a large inheritance, but there is a catch.

Between 1850 and 1930, around 250,000 abandoned and orphaned children traveled from the East Coast of the US to various cities and towns throughout the nation on what would be known as the orphan trains. Most came from New York City. Posters were placed around town advertising "Homes Wanted for Orphans"; usually a committee was formed to help facilitate the adoption. These children were supposed to be adopted and treated as family members, but this was not always the case however, and sometimes they were placed in less than ideal circumstances.