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    El café de los corazones rotos
    El príncipe de Broadway
    The Perfect Lover
    Funny Story
    Les belles apparences
    • Funny Story

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak.Scruffy and chaotic - with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads - Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?But it's all just for show, of course, because there's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiance's new fiancee's ex... right?

      Funny Story2024
      4,2
    • El príncipe de Broadway

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      As the owner of the city's most exclusive casino, Clayton Madden holds the fortunes of prominent families in the palms of his hands every night. There is one particular family he burns to ruin, however, one that has escaped his grasp...until now... Florence Greene is no one's fool. She knows Clayton Madden is using her to ruin her prestigious family...and she's using him right back. She plans to learn all she can from the mysterious casino owner - then open a casino of her own just for women... With revenge on his mind, Clay agrees to mentor Florence. However, she soon proves more adept - and more alluring - than Clay bargained for. When his plans are threatened, Clay must decide if he is willing to gamble his empire on love.

      El príncipe de Broadway2022
    • Les belles apparences

      • 357pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Une romance où la musique rythme la vie, les émotions et les relations des personnages. Rachel Martin est une jeune femme pétillante qui cherche à cacher sa vulnérabilité derrière son humour. Dans le cadre de sa thèse en art-thérapie, elle s'apprête à devenir l'assistante d'un professeur de musique à l'université : Caine West... qui a la réputation d'être froid et antipathique. Lorsque Rachel arrive à la fac, elle découvre avec embarras que Caine n'est autre que l'homme si séduisant qu'elle a insulté la veille dans le bar où elle travaille... l'ayant pris pour quelqu'un d'autre. Bouleversée par cette rencontre, Rachel enquête sur Caine, et découvre que derrière les apparences d'un professeur de musique bien sous tous rapports, se cache un homme sombre qui dissimule un passé douloureux. Pourquoi Caine a laissé tomber sa carrière de rock star pour devenir un respectable professeur de musique ? Que s'est-il passé dans la vie de Rachel pour qu'elle envisage la musique comme thérapie ?

      Les belles apparences2022
      4,2
    • El café de los corazones rotos

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Bienvenido al Heartbreak Cafe. Ven por la comida. Quédate por amor. La madre de Dell Haley siempre decía que había dos cosas de las que un hombre nunca se hartaba: un buen plato y un buen abrazo. Dell es una artista en la cocina, por lo que lo primero está asegurado. En cuanto a los abrazos, su olfato le dice que está recibiendo una buena ración de ellos fuera de casa. Y entonces él aparece muerto. Sin dinero ni estudios, Dell se aferra a lo único que nunca le ha fallado: su habilidad culinaria. Lo arriesga todo para abrir una cafetería en un restaurante abandonado, a la que bautiza "Heartbreak Café" en honor al clásico de Elvis que le cantaba a los corazones rotos. Para su sorpresa, la cafetería se convierte en un centro neurálgico del pueblo, y le depara algunos amigos muy peculiares. Dell se pregunta en cuál de ellos puede confiar para que la ayude a encontrar la verdad que se esconde detrás de su corazón roto...

      El café de los corazones rotos2010
    • Seeking a wife, Simon Cynster woos Portia Ashford, whose childhood rivalry with Cynster proves challenging until Portia, who is being pursued by a dangerous stalker, falls for her unlikely suitor.

      The Perfect Lover2009
      4,0