Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Romance - General

Anna Hollis believes she has a happy marriage. A schoolteacher in Sydney, Anna juggles her busy life with a daughter in the throes of first love and increasingly demanding aging parents.

When Anna's husband of twenty-five years leaves her, on Christmas morning, without warning or explanation, her safe and secure world collapses.

Marcus King returns to Australia from the USA, leaving behind a broken marriage and a young son.

When he takes up the position of Headmaster at Anna's school, they form a fragile friendship through their mutual hurt and loneliness.

Can...

After experiencing the perils of fighting as a soldier in the Civil War, Serena Barlow now faces something far more frightening. She must return to the beginning--a home she did her best to leave behind. Without Sam she is left to confront the past: the painful memories of Caleb's loss, a mother she hardly knows, a father whom she has deceived sorely, and, worse yet, a father-in-law who knows her secret. Impending motherhood overwhelms her even more, and without Sam at her side, she hardly knows who she is anymore.

When word comes that Sam has been captured and is wasting away...

An unruly and stubborn helicopter pilot takes on a mercenary contract flying medical/famine relief aid and armed protection for the UN and a demanding Irish Nun in war-torn East Africa.

What could possibly go wrong?

An awkward and humorous tale of unrequited love.

The story is about a man's search for love barren of emotions from almost a parentless child hood to never feeling wanted from such an early age to his life becoming a most successful stock broker with international acclaim to finding out his heritage to the Van Horn dynasty, a house of money. To realising love in his life to becoming a slave to money and a company that would not set him free, a trilogy of many part. Murder, deceit, deception, romance, family, betrayal, revenge, hope and despair. Read as this book twists and whines to a dramatic conclusion. A man's journey to find...

The story is about a man's search for love barren of emotions from almost a parentless child hood to never feeling wanted from such an early age to his life becoming a most successful stock broker with international acclaim to finding out his heritage to the Van Horn dynasty, a house of money. To realising love in his life to becoming a slave to money and a company that would not set him free, a trilogy of many part. Murder, deceit, deception, romance, family, betrayal, revenge, hope and despair. Read as this book twists and whines to a dramatic conclusion. A man's journey to find...

Based on the author's own experience, Agnes Grey explores the position of women in Victorian society through the story of a young woman forced to work as a governess when her father is ruined financially. It is a classic not just as a result of the subtle and ironic force of Anne Bronte's prose, but also because of the passionate indictment of social injustice which animates it.

Benjamin Matthews, nEe Benjamin Pollock, is a successful businessman marketing the slimming formula "The Daisy Effect." He is preparing for a new life with his wife Rebecah and their twins, Luke and Lucy, moving from England to the United Arab Emirates, where Rebecah just got a job as a nurse.

Ben's unfortunate white lie (that his name is Pollock) leads him to discover just as he is about to fly out of the country, that his origins are not all that they seem. The confusion over his real last name gets him stopped at the airport, whilst he watches his wife and children fly away...

Every college has an it girl, and at Hale University, it’s Lux Van der Valise. A beautiful junior who wants to be unforgettable, Lux is about to learn about a school tradition: a secret society that everyone believes is fake.

The Rite of Passage Girls recruit one girl who must pick seven boys on campus and make each of them fall in love with her, without letting any of the others know she’s hooking up with all of them—and without falling in love herself. Lux is thrilled to be invited to join the society, but the decisions she now faces are endless. Still, the boys...

"The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year." --Sjon

A passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and Lars Von Trier.

Emotional and visceral, the novel drifts through time and space, relating the lives, loves, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple: the woman's former husband, who holds the family at gunpoint; her daughter and her lovers, who include a boy who...