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I stood looking at him in a mixture of shock, fear, and embarrassment. What in God's name was he doing? I understood that he was lying on his potential death bed in the hospital. But I couldn't believe he had the nerve to bring up the past after all these years - especially in front of my mother (without being specific). I thought he was obviously out of his mind due to the morphine he was on.

Oh, I see. He felt the need to ask for my forgiveness, confess his sins to God, and pray that he still had a chance to get into Heaven.

In my mind, according to the Lord's Prayer, if I don't...

Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman's life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain's leading literary lights--Tessa Hadley--the author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Love and The London Train.

Like Alice Munro and Colm Toibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives--an ability to transform the mundane into the sublime that elevates domestic fiction to literary art.

Written with the...

Therapeutin Lily Brown ermittelt wieder!

• Sie ist intuitiv, sie ist hartnäckig, sie ist clever. Doch zwei neue Fälle bringen Therapeutin Lily Brown an ihre Grenzen.
• Die Canterbury-Fälle beruhen auf wahren Verbrechen.
• Für Leserinnen von Charlotte Link und Elizabeth George

Bei einem Einsatz anlässlich eines Banküberfalls schießt Police Sergeant Martin Gordon seinen Kollegen Clark Jarrett an. War das nur ein Versehen? Nicht zum ersten Mal gab es Konflikte zwischen den beiden Polizisten. Deren Vorgesetzter beauftragt...

The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries. There is only one problem: she's a woman in a man's court.

In her early childhood years, Sarah experienced the death of her mother and her father's subsequent emotional distance, and she came to two conclusions: God does not care about me, and my accomplishments are the measure of my worth.

Catapulted into the center of the Persian court, Sarah is working too many hours, rubbing elbows with royalty, and solving...

A hidden message, treachery, opposition, and a God-given success will lead to an unlikely bounty.

In "Harvest of Gold" (Book 2), the scribe Sarah married Darius, and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is another point she did not count on in her marriage Sarah has grown to love her husband. Sarah has wealth, property, honor, and power, but her husband s love still seems unattainable.

Although his mother was an Israelite, Darius remains skeptical that his Jewish wife is the right choice for him, particularly when she conspires with her cousin...