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Wonderfully wide-ranging, original, and enjoyable, The Emotional Embodiment of Stars contains 27 award-winning short stories like "Mortimer", in which an unwanted guest secretly follows a family through their heartbreaking sorrows, and "Crossroads", in which a budding writer is finally preparing to meet the man she happens to exchange greetings with every morning on the way to her office.

It is 1958, and 17-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a Bible with her schoolbooks, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene. Forced to partner up at the school dance, Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years. In the months that follow, Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart....

Jackson Lebak is happy as a small-time college football coach. Until his eccentric grandmother offers a billion-dollar shoe company as an inheritance. The catch? He has to get married before she dies. He doesn't know a single woman he could even imagine such a future with. But he used to know one. Ruth Koopman is working toward her PhD and drowning in debt. She's not thrilled when she runs into her old college flame at the coffee shop. He'd broken her heart into so many pieces, and she is still picking them up seven years later.

Branch Bronson is the richest country music star in history. When his manager betrays him, he needs to get away for a while and goes somewhere he is sure no one will recognize him - rural Maine. Trouble is, he didn't check the weather report first. Daisy Adams is a starving poet embarrassed to be living with her parents. When she picks up a hitchhiker in the blizzard, she has no idea who climbs into her car. It's a good thing, because she hates country music.

Noah Calhoun has just returned from World War Two. Attempting to escape the ghosts of battle, he tries to concentrate on restoring an old plantation home to its former glory. And yet he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met there 14 years before, a girl who captured his heart like no other. But when these distant memories begin to slide into reality, the passion that had lain still is ignited once more. Though so much is in their way, the miraculous force of their love refuses to fade.

Rory and her father have survived the antibiotic crisis that has killed millions, including Rory’s mother - but ingenuity and perseverance aren’t their only advantages. When a stoic and scarred young military veteran enters their quiet life, Rory is drawn to him against her better judgment, until he exposes the secrets her mother and father kept from her, including the fact that her own blood may hold the cure the world needs, and she is the target of groups fighting to reach it first.

Isaac Cooley goes to work and goes home. That's it. He's keeping his nose to the grindstone, trying to make up for a reckless past. Whitney Ames is his housekeeper, and he doesn't even know her name. But he learns it quickly when the chauffeur position opens up and she jumps to fill it. They're just getting to know each other when a little girl shows up on Isaac's steps, claiming to be his daughter, which isn't possible.

This isn't your mother's faerie story....

Speaking Up for Each Other has 24 award-winning short stories by talented young writers. These stories are original, enjoyable, and contain a rich variety of themes and situations ranging from a helpless girl living in fear of her own family to a robot contemplating what's best for its employer.

Created to teach men how to freely choose their life partners and lifestyle, this guide with its practical advice and techniques will give men the confidence to succeed with women and in all aspects of their lives.

Night after night Elena, Matt, and Tima wake at exactly the same time, with no idea why. It's messing up their lives - so they venture out into the dark and find each other. That's when they realise their astounding power: they can communicate with animals. Something is happening over on the industrial estate, something which is emitting sounds that only they can hear, and it's killing any winged thing that crosses its path. There's nobody to fight it but themselves!

Marith Altrersyr - father-killer, dragonlord, leader of the blood-soaked Amrath Army - is keeping his promises. He is determined to become King of all Irlast and take back the seat of his ancestors.Only Thalia, once high priestess of the Lord of Living and Dying, the holiest woman in the Empire, might stop Marith and his army’s deadly march. But she is torn between two destinies - and if she was to return home, what would she find there? A city on the brink of ruin: diseased, despairing, dying?

Jack and Lewis love drawing monsters – and their drawings have a funny habit of coming to life! But now everything is going horribly wrong. The dreaded Dahlia Dawkins has somehow managed to find out their secret – and now she’s created a monster of her own, Bashertaur! With monsters on the rampage in the playground, things are about to get very messy. How are the boys going to get out of this one?

Maria nachts auf einer einsamen Straße eine Autopanne hat, hält ein Wagen an, ein muskulöser Mann mit Schlägervisage steigt aus - und wechselt ihr freundlich die Reifen. Colin Hancock versucht nach einer kriminellen Vergangenheit, sein Leben geordnet zu leben; eine Beziehung sucht er nicht. Doch auch wenn sie sich dagegen wehren, verlieben Maria und Colin sich rettungslos ineinander.

Eine Liebesgeschichte, zart und leidenschaftlich, wie nur Nicholas Sparks, der Autor des Bestsellers "Wie ein einziger Tag", sie schreiben konnte. Sie erzählt von der Begegnung eines Mannes und einer Frau, die beide mit den Schatten der Vergangenheit und dem Verlust eines geliebten Menschen kämpfen und den Mut finden, noch einmal eine neue Beziehung einzugehen.

Jeremy Marsh hat für Lexie, die Frau seines Lebens, New York verlassen und ist mit ihr in ein Provinznest gezogen. Als sich ein Kind ankündigt, scheint ihr Glück perfekt, doch nun quälen ihn Zweifel. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick, aber kennt er Lexie wirklich? ...

Mit 34 glaubt Russell, auf der absoluten Glücksseite des Lebens zu stehen: Er hat eine umwerfende Frau und eine süße kleine Tochter, ein wunderschönes großes Haus und beruflichen Erfolg. Doch dann bricht sein Traum binnen kürzester Zeit entzwei: In der Ehe zeigen sich deutliche Risse, und eine berufliche Neuorientierung erweist sich als gefährliche Sackgasse. Mit einem Mal steht er da, verlassen und arbeitslos, und soll sich alleine um die fünfjährige Tochter kümmern.

Mit 34 glaubt Russell, auf der absoluten Glücksseite des Lebens zu stehen: Er hat eine umwerfende Frau und eine süße kleine Tochter, ein wunderschönes großes Haus und beruflichen Erfolg. Doch dann bricht sein Traum binnen kürzester Zeit entzwei: In der Ehe zeigen sich deutliche Risse, und eine berufliche Neuorientierung erweist sich als gefährliche Sackgasse. Mit einem Mal steht er da, verlassen und arbeitslos, und soll sich alleine um die fünfjährige Tochter kümmern.

Das Schweigen des Glücks ist die Geschichte der bedingungslosen Liebe einer allein erziehenden Mutter zu ihrem Sohn - eine Liebe, die so stark ist, dass für andere Menschen kein Platz zu sein scheint. Bis Taylor in das Leben der beiden tritt.

Jeremy Marsh steht als Wissenschaftsjournalist kurz vor dem Durchbruch: Er hat sich auf die Entlarvung angeblich übernatürlicher Phänomene spezialisiert und gerade erst einen Hellseher vor laufender Kamera entlarvt. Nun lockt ihn ein neuer Fall nach Boone Creek, North Carolina, wo er herausfinden soll, was hinter geisterhaften Lichterscheinungen auf einem Friedhof steckt.