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Everybody is a kid once - it’s a fact of life. They play and make friends and have fun. Kids live in the moment, going on grand adventures and making dumb promises to each other that never really matter because tomorrow is so far away. But then, they grow up. Work takes over, friends drift apart, and fun becomes a distant, foreign concept. That’s a fact of life, too.

Ever since Britt was a small child, she played to an audience. She had always dreamt of being a famous actress. Her resume was short, but she convinced herself that is was strong enough to break into Hollywood. With her bags packed and the GPS set to Los Angeles, she never expected to meet the man of her dreams stranded in the middle of nowhere on a dark rainy night.

Ed Helquist never asked for superhuman strength, or extraordinary speed, or the voice in his blood that tells him when and where trouble will occur; those things just arose in him one day, calling him into danger and forcing him to help people without knowing why. His simple life is becoming more and more complicated every minute, and a mysterious woman who keeps showing up to cause trouble may hold the answers to everything...if only she she’d stop trying to kill him long enough for him to ask.

A man who receives life-changing financial advice from the talking fruit in his breakfast bowl...a girl whose thoughts incinerate her family over and over again...a house that wants nothing more than to please its occupants, and will do anything at all to make sure they’re happy. From enchanting to troubling to downright disturbing, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things explores the notion that sometimes even the most promising of magic can go askew, through an array of characters whose outcomes can be horrifying, hilarious, or heartbreaking.

Willow Olivia Walker is a newly single Cambridge University student heading home for the summer holidays, following a bitter split with her controlling and manipulative ex-girlfriend, Kristina. Initially dismayed to discover her eccentric parents have hired the beautiful Georgia as a live-in nanny for her two younger sisters, she treads carefully, but slowly, a friendship blossoms that has the potential to bloom into something special.

Thirty-seven-year-old Mia Jacobs is heartbroken following a bitter split from her long term partner, Sarah. With empty bank accounts, a broken down car, and mounting debts, Mia has little choice but to re-mortgage her home in order to survive. Walking home from work one autumn night, Mia finds herself standing opposite a house she has driven by countless times over the years. Desperately unfit, she stops to catch her breath and spies a beautiful young woman in the upstairs window.

Six short tales of life, death and optimism from Luna Harlow. A young woman looks back on a grandparent and the nature of stories. Robots question the meaning of their existence. An old woman time-travels through memory. A young man leaves a party and questions what he wants from life. Thirty-somethings talk about chemistry over brunch.

On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, but one of the Jane Does holds a note bearing the name, “Alice Vega”. The police and FBI reach out to Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, Vega enlists the help of her one-time partner, former cop Max “Cap” Caplan. Despite a case with so few leads, Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and she will stop at nothing to find the Janes’ killers.

Kara and Yasmeen have been best friends since high school. Now in their early 20s, they're as radically different to one another in personality as they always have been. Both have overcome the loss of their respective mothers, in albeit different circumstances which helped cement the bond between them. Kara is a working class, out and proud lesbian, while Yasmeen is a spoiled, yet dutiful middle class Muslim on the verge of an arranged marriage.

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear - and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, 23 talented authors, including New York Times best sellers Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Jody Lynn Nye, have stood on the shores of their psyches and looked out over the ocean of possibility and wondered "What lies beneath?"

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.

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.

Als Callgirl für einen Tag wird eine Frau von der Verführerin zur Verführten... Eine liebeshungrige Dame versucht sich an verschiedenen Hochglanz-Herren... Drei Frauen verhelfen ihrer Freundin zu einem ganz und gar unmoralischen Dreier... Und ein Nachhilfelehrer bringt weit mehr als nur den Popo seiner frechen Schülerin zum Glühen... Lustvolle Geschichten, in denen sündige Fantasien, prickelndes Begehren und herrlich hemmungsloser Sex dafür sorgen, dass stets doch alles ganz anders kommt als gedacht.

La storia dell'Italia repubblicana comincia nel caos. La fine della guerra ha lasciato dietro di sé un paese logoro e diviso, ma soprattutto ha fatto emergere le fratture di lungo periodo che il fascismo aveva oscurato a colpi di propaganda e di retorica nazionalista. Nel 1945 il paese è costretto a fare i conti con le profonde differenze che lo attraversano da nord a sud. C'è squilibrio economico, infrastrutturale e demografico, ma anche divergenza sul piano delle reazioni alla fine del conflitto: la guerra non è stata vissuta da tutti allo stesso modo.

Aria Winters is on a mission to rescue Grace, her little sister. The Nezdek came from the skies and took her, and she won't rest until Grace is safe. Aria talks her way onto a Zoran ship set to explore a distant planet, but she didn't expect to fall for the ship's brooding, tall, imposing alien commander. She tries to resist the growly warrior, but he has his radiant eyes set on her. And what a Zoran wants, he takes....

Was tun, wenn der Zirkusdirektor einfach verschwindet und sogar den Namen des Zirkusses so mir nichts, dir nichts mitnimmt...

Nach sechshundertachtundsiebzig Jahren Beziehung will der Vampir Arthur de Armagnac endlich sein Single-Dasein als freier Mann genießen...

Pias Entschluss steht fest: In der Nacht vor ihrem 18. Geburtstag wird sie ihrem besten Freund Momo folgen und sich umbringen. Man kann ja doch nur die Farbe der Scheiße ändern, in der man sitzt. Doch dann lernt sie Tom kennen, der so ganz anders ist als alle anderen, die sich bloß an Oberflächlichkeiten festklammern; und sie fangen an zu reden - über das Leben, übers Sterben, über ihre verloren gegangenen Träume.

Asher Jenson is an anomaly. He's a shifter who has no interest in finding his fated mate. He's happy with his life and too busy taking care of his patients to add anything else to his plate. When Kingsley Larson, his fated one, lands on his examining table, he's not sure what to do.

Pop quiz: Do you prefer when things go according to plan or when the unexpected happens? Most of us pick control and predictability. Yet research reveals a counterintuitive truth: our best memories are the surprising ones. We feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they're not.