Jojo Moyes
1) After you
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How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, a sensational collection featuring the title novella and eight other stories. Quintessential Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to anywhere--before. Everyone knows travelling abroad isn't really her...
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Me before you volume 1
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"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family
“Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does.” —Jodi Picoult
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall...
“Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does.” —Jodi Picoult
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall...
5) Still me
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Me before you volume 3
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Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...
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"When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo-hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood-she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must juggle horsemanship with school and hospital visits. Natasha, a young lawyer, is reeling after her failed marriage: her professional judgment is being questioned,...
7) One plus one
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"One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus One, she's written another contemporary opposites-attract...
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Liza McCullen weiß, dass sie ihrer Vergangenheit nicht entfliehen kann. Doch in dem beschaulichen Örtchen Silver Bay an der Küste Australiens hat sie für sich und ihre Tochter Hannah ein Zuhause gefunden. Die unberührten Strände, der Zusammenhalt in der kleinen Gemeinde und die majestätischen Wale, die in der Bucht vor Silver Bay leben, bedeuten ihr alles. Täglich fährt sie mit ihrem Boot raus aufs Meer und bietet Walbeobachtungstouren an....
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"Du sollst wissen, dass du mein Herz in deinen Händen hältst."
Die Journalistin Ellie durchforstet das Archiv ihrer Zeitung nach einer guten Geschichte - und findet einen Brief aus den 60er Jahren: Ein Mann bittet die Liebe seines Lebens, ihren Ehemann zu verlassen und mit ihm nach New York zu gehen. Der Brief berührt Ellie zutiefst, denn sie ist selbst unglücklich in einen verheirateten Mann verliebt. Wer hat diesen Brief geschrieben? Was ist...
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Aufbruch in ein neues Leben
Die Konzertgeigerin Isabel Delancey hat ihr erfülltes Leben immer für selbstverständlich genommen. Doch als ihr Mann plötzlich stirbt und sie mit einem Schuldenberg zurücklässt, sind sie und ihre beiden Kinder gezwungen, ihr Haus in London zu verkaufen und aufs Land zu ziehen. Das Anwesen, das Isabel überraschend von einem Großonkel geerbt hat, ist eine Ruine, und schnell sind auch ihre letzten Ersparnisse aufgebraucht....
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Alles, was zählt: Freundschaft. Liebe. Literatur.
1937: Hals über Kopf folgt die Engländerin Alice ihrem Verlobten Bennett nach Amerika. Doch anstatt im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten findet sie sich in Baileyville wieder, einem Nest in den Bergen Kentuckys. Mächtigster Mann dort ist der tyrannische Minenbesitzer Geoffrey Van Cleve, ihr Schwiegervater. Neuen Lebensmut schöpft Alice erst, als sie gemeinsam mit vier anderen Frauen für die...
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Ein Hörbuch über Mütter und Töchter und das, was manchmal zwischen ihnen steht
Als Kate jung schwanger wurde, floh sie vor der Enge des irischen Landlebens nach London. Mit ihren Eltern hat sie seitdem kein Wort gewechselt. Doch nun, Jahre später, wachsen ihr die Probleme als alleinerziehende Mutter über den Kopf und sie schickt ihre sechzehnjährige Tochter Sabine für eine Weile zu den Großeltern. Nur langsam schließt Sabine die raue irische...
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Australien 1946. Sechshundert Frauen machen sich auf eine Reise ins Ungewisse. Ein Flugzeugträger soll sie nach England bringen, zu ihren Verlobten und Ehemännern - englische Soldaten, mit denen sie oft nur wenige Tage verbracht hatten, bevor der Krieg sie trennte. Unter den Frauen ist auch die Krankenschwester Frances. Während die anderen zu Schicksalsgenossinnen werden, bleibt sie verschlossen. Nur in Marinesoldat Henry Nicol, der jede Nacht...
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Sarah und ihren Großvater Henri verbindet die Liebe zu Pferden. Einst war Henri Dressurreiter, bis das Schicksal seine Karriere beendete. Täglich trainiert er Sarah und ihr Pferd, doch als Henri einen Schlaganfall erleidet, bleibt seine Enkelin allein zurück. Natasha und ihren Mann Mac verbindet nur noch wenig. Die Ehe des einstigen Traumpaars ist gescheitert, doch bis das gemeinsame Haus verkauft ist, müssen sie sich arrangieren. Als zufällig...
15) Ein Bild von dir
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Separated by a century, bound by the struggle for love.
While the First World War is raging around her, Sophie tries to be strong: for her family, for her husband Édouard, who fights on the side of France. There is only one painting left to remind them of their happiness together. A portrait that Édouard once painted of her. And that should save him now ...
A hundred years later in London: Liv is still mourning her husband David. He died four...
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France, 1916. Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything -- her family, her reputation, and her life -- to see her husband again. Nearly a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young husband shortly before his...
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In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she agreed to marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme, her parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years, rumors had begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty-five years later, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her notorious mother's legacy....
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In 1960, Jennifer Stirling wakes in the hospital and remembers nothing--not the car accident that put her there, not her wealthy husband, not even her own name. Searching for clues, she finds an impassioned letter, signed simply "B," from a man for whom she seemed willing to risk everything. In 2003, journalist Ellie Haworth stumbles upon the letter and becomes obsessed with learning the unknown lovers' fate--hoping it will inspire her own happy ending....
19) Night music
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"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most. The Spanish House is a mixture of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It's known to locals as an architectural folly. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece, Isabel. Recently widowed,...
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"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...