Knihy so štítkom contemporary

10 Things That Never Happened
Alexis Hall Sam Becker loves—or, okay, likes—his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn’t exactly glamorous, but it’s good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the viac

100 Days of Sunlight
Abbie Emmons When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. viac

365 Days
Blanka Lipińska The sexy and deeply romantic internationally bestselling novel that inspired the blockbuster movie. Laura Biel and her boyfriend are on a dream vacation in beautiful Sicily. On the second day of their trip, her twenty-ninth birthday, she is kidnapped. Her kidnapper is none oth viac

40 and [No Longer] Fighting It
Ella Sheridan Welcome to Black Wolf’s Bluff, where turning forty doesn’t mean your life is over. It might just mean the spark that can light up everything is right around the corner. He shattered her dreams ten years ago. Claire Taylor’s divorce left her determined to build a new life, a viac

40 and [Tired of] Faking It
Ella Sheridan Who knew life after forty could get more exciting than the sparklers atop her decadent dark chocolate birthday cake? A series of lackluster boyfriends led Lily to the ultimate ex. Not only was he terrible in bed, but he told everyone in their small town that it was her fault. viac

A Certain Kind of Starlight
Heather Webber In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars. Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can’t keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering viac

A Christmas Duet
Debbie Macomber A solo holiday trip inspires one woman to rediscover her passion—and remember that, sometimes, duets are more fun—in this romantic Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Hailey Morgan’s life has always revolved around music. She once had big viac

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
Xiaolu Guo Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of lo viac

A Duke by Default
Alyssa Cole Award-winning author Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series continues with a woman on a quest to be the heroine of her own story and the duke in shining armor she rescues along the way New York City socialite and perpetual hot mess Portia Hobbs is tired of disappointing her fam viac

A Good Time
Shannyn Schroeder A passionate free spirit and a sweet-talking playboy sound like a match made in heaven--until life gets in the way of all the fun and games. . . Indy Adams values her freedom above all else. She works hard to support herself, moonlighting as a waitress while she fights for her viac

A Guy Walks Into My Bar
Lauren Blakely A sexy, passionate, utterly addictive standalone MM romance from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely! Every bartender should follow one simple rule—don't go home with the customers. That’s been easy for me to stick to, until the night a cocky, confident, and sinfully charming viac

A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line
John O’Farrell 'Sometimes you hear people say "Oh I had a nightmare journey on the tube" and you understand that their commute home on the London Underground was more unpleasant than usual. We don't take the word 'nightmare' to mean that in the middle of a packed carriage they literally realise viac

A Killing Cold
Kate Alice Marshall A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods. A whirlwind romance. When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the viac

A Lesson in Thorns
Sierra Simone When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel’s tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enough—keep her head down while she works in the ho viac

A Little Bit Country
Brian D. Kennedy Emmett Maguire has big dreams. He wants to be country music’s biggest gay superstar—a far reach when you're 17 and living in suburban Illinois. Thankfully, his parents are letting him do the next best thing for the summer: stay with his aunt in Jackson Hollow, Tennessee, and perf viac

A Little Kissing Between Friends
Chencia C. Higgins “Triumphantly Black, queer and contemporary… The dialogue snaps and shimmers.” —New York Times Book Review on D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools a viac

A Murder Most Camp
Nicolas DiDomizio Rustic cabins. Lakefront bonfires. A painfully hot lifeguard. And a murder? Summer has never been this camp. Mikey Hartford IV has coasted through his twenties in a distracted blur of yachts and sex and partying. But when his father discovers his latest million-dollar impulse viac

A Novel Love Story
Ashley Poston A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Wh viac

A Princess in Theory
Alyssa Cole Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn’t have time for fairy tales…or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she’s betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete! As a former foster kid, she’s learned that the only things she can depend on are herself viac

A Scatter of Light
Malinda Lo Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Clu viac

A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
Asia Mackay Two former serial killers trying to keep their past buried realize that old habits die hard in this “wildly original, razor-sharp thriller” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestsellingauthor of All the Colors of the Dark). I wasn't smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Lit viac

A Very Merry Bromance
Lyssa Kay Adams 'Tis the season for a Bromance Book Club matchmaking mission! This time, they're pulling out the mistletoe for everyone's favorite country music star, Colton, and his second chance at love. Country music’s golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was wit viac

A Way Out
Tami Lund Maria Hearsy Bernard is a wealthy, recently divorced mom with no plan and nowhere to live. So she hops in her Cadillac and drives from Seattle to LA to spend some quality time with her rock star sister. ...who is in Missouri, planning her secret wedding. A wedding Maria is sup viac

A Worthy Opponent
Katee Robert Once upon a time I was a girl who believed in love and happily ever afters. Now the only thing I believe in is revenge. Unfortunately for me, there’s only one man willing to help me. Hook. I should have known it wouldn’t be out of the goodness of his heart. He doesn’t have viac

Abstract Art
Stephanie Straine This lively introduction tells the ever-evolving story of abstract art, tracing its history from the early 1900s right up to the present day. Emerging out of western movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, abstract art quickly became a global phenomenon, changing the face of viac

Accidental Tryst
Natasha Boyd A new standalone, sexy, romantic comedy! Meet Trystan Montgomery. Suit monkey, commitment-phobic serial dater. No more than three dates, unless he hasn't ... you know. Emmy: What a disaster! I only just made my flight to New York to help my uncle, and the phone I’m holding i viac

Accidentally Famous
Marissa Clarke Jack Winston may be Hollywood’s biggest action hero, but he’s seriously burned out. He can’t even save himself from his PR team’s latest dating a starlet. But when his assistant accidentally tags Cassidy James from Blink, Maine (wherever that is) on social media, the paparazzi de viac

Accidentally Perfect
Marissa Clarke Workaholic Lillian Mahoney has given everything to her job. The hugely popular lifestyle show she helped create monopolizes her time, energy, creativity, and anything remotely resembling a life. But all it takes is the show’s womanizing, egomaniac star throwing a massive hissy on viac

After the Fall
Giana Darling I was settin’ up to live a good life, the kinda life I’d fought hard to deserve. With a good woman––the best woman––at my side, a degree under my belt, and the whole world at my feet, I was livin’ the kinda happily ever after usually denied the rebellious and the criminal. I’d t viac

Aftermath
L.A. Witt Brent Weyland was the life of the party until an injury ended his hockey career. Now he’s retreated alone to a lakefront house, trying to make sense of a life and body that don’t feel like his anymore. Jon Norquist was happily married right up until he wasn’t. Now a single fat viac

Alex in Wonderland
Simon James Green In the town of Newsands, painfully shy Alex is abandoned by his two best friends for the summer. But he unexpectedly lands a part-time job at Wonderland, a run-down amusement arcade on the seafront, where he gets to know the other teen misfits who work there. Alex starts to come viac

All Keyed Up
Tami Lund Cash Torrence, the keyboardist for Demigoddess Revival, has a secret. A big one. If exposed, it had the potential to ruin a lot of lives. So far, he’s been able to operate under the radar, keeping in the background, letting his bandmates soak up the spotlight. But now his band viac

All That Matters
Felice Stevens Nico Andretti knows one thing is true: Love is for fools. Being a tour bus guide in Times Square isn’t his dream job and he yearns for more than living in his mother’s basement apartment, but life is tough in the big city. At least the men on the bus are eye-candy galore, and t viac

All the Inside Howling
Gregory Ashe Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected complication: how to be a good boyfriend. When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, viac

All The Lost Places
Amanda Dykes When all of Venice is unmasked, one man’s identity remains a mystery . . . 1807 When a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the quiet canals of Venice, a guild of artisans takes him in and raises him as a son, skilled in each of their trades. Although the boy, Sebast viac

All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. viac

Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Jenny Han Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad’s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot’s coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding. Bu viac

Always Her Love
Melissa Foster Some fates are too tempting to deny… When single-father Levi Steele offers to help his daughter’s beautiful aunt Tara find a home on Silver Island, their intense connection makes it even harder to resist the one woman he and his daughter can’t afford to lose. Come along for the viac

Among the Heather
Samantha Young He’s a disgraced actor. She’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty. Both are hiding in the Scottish Highlands, but despite their antagonistic attraction, they can’t seem to hide from each other… North Hunter has worked hard to step out of the shadows of his orphaned upbringing in viac

An Unexpected Kind of Love
Hayden Stone Bookstore owner Aubrey Barnes likes his quiet, orderly London life, thank you very much. His shop may be struggling, his only employee is a menace, and his plumbing is one creaky pipe away from disaster, but he can handle it. Maybe. He cannot, however, handle the film company tha viac

An Unholy Affair
Evie Alexander Her perfect man wasn’t supposed to be a male escort. Vicar Eveline Shaw has always dreamed of finding ‘the one’, but her job keeps getting in the way. Only one person has ever made her soul sing – a perfect stranger who walked away without a second glance. Jack Newton h viac

And One Last Thing...
Molly Harper "If Singletree’s only florist didn’t deliver her posies half-drunk, I might still be married to that floor-licking, scum-sucking, receptionist-nailing hack-accountant, Mike Terwilliger." Lacey Terwilliger’s shock and humiliation over her husband’s philandering prompt her to add viac

Apple and Knife
Intan Paramaditha viac

Archer's Voice
Mia Sheridan When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes against hope that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated man who holds a secret a viac

Aria’s Travelling Book Shop
Rebecca Raisin This summer will change everything! Aria Summers knows what she wants. A life on the road with best friend Rosie and her beloved camper-van-cum-book-shop, and definitely, definitely, no romance. But when Aria finds herself falling – after one too many glasses of wine, from a viac

Around the World with My Ex
Maxine Morrey It’s the trip of a lifetime – with just one catch! Aspiring travel writer Mia Walker dreams of covering dream destinations for a living. So when she’s offered the chance to write a romantic travel piece, taking in turquoise oceans, tropical beaches, and a fairy-tale Scottish w viac

Arrogant Boss
Olivia Hayle Julian Hunt is a legend. A tech billionaire and a playboy philanthropist. He’s not someone you meet, not without a six-month wait. Except I did—and not in that sweet, meet-cute kind of way. I wish. No, I manage to run headfirst into Julian Hunt in a nightclub. It’s the spill-my-d viac

Asking for Trouble
Giana Darling An MC romance about a girl hiding from her past and the biker who becomes her unlikely saviour… When four thugs show up at Evergreen Gas Station with cocked shotguns and masked faces, it could have ended in the worst night of my life. Instead, a gorgeous mystery man in leat viac

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
Ashley Herring Blake An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care. For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ag viac

Atlas
Shaw Hart Welcome to Eye Candy Ink... Meet Atlas Warner. He’s the newest and youngest member at the shop and a talented tattoo artist. Neglected by his parents his whole life, he’s finally found the family that he’s always wanted at Eye Candy Ink. He’s happy with his life. He’s got viac