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In a market in Buenos Aires, a spirited young Australian woman meets a Peruvian artisan who crafts traditional jewelry. The year is 1995, and she has left home for the first time, determined to travel for as long as it takes for her bones to bend her into a new shape. Leigh has a desperate need for love, second only to her desire for escape. She is spellbound by the artisan, Gabriel. But she’s about to travel Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru with her friend Emily and leaves Buenos Aires, vowing to return.

Seventeen-year-old Evren was born for one purpose: to serve as a vessel for the Leviathans, an alien species hidden in global dragon lore. She longs to join the secret society who concealed them in history—and as last of the 12 prophesied Paladins, she needs to. With the world in ruin, their unification will signal the Leviathans’ return to Earth to protect humans from their worst enemy: themselves. But Evren’s ambitions are dashed when a Paladin is found dead. The murder sets her world ablaze and now she must stop the saboteur, or risk destroying a plan millennia in the making.

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Esta es una novela sobre falsificadores y falsarios, con personajes reales que parecen de ficción. La narradora, una crítica de arte que trabajó para una tasadora por cuyas manos pasaban obras falsificadas, relata una historia singular. En el centro de la trama hay un personaje llamado la Negra, que falsifica lienzos de la pintora Mariette Lydis, retratista de la alta sociedad bonaerense. Aparecen también un lugar llamado Hotel Melancólico en el que viven varios artistas, y una película de culto sobre beatniks bonaerenses en la que asoma la Negra.

Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River. They’re tethered to a disquieting past, and with nowhere else to go, nothing can part them from their family home. Not the maddening creaks and disembodied voices that rattle the old walls. Not the inexplicable drownings in the area, or the increasing number of bodies that float by Anna’s window. To stave off loneliness, Anna has a podcast, spinning ghostly tales of Chicago’s tragic history. But when Anna captures the attention of an ardent male listener, she awakens to the possibilities of a world outside.

Natalie loves being a wife and mother in suburban Canada and takes pride in it, but she wants more than carpools, dance recitals, and football games. Now, several years into her second marriage, she feels as if she is drowning in the expectations that society has shackled to her. She wants a part of her life set aside for herself without the traditional rules and expectations of marriage and motherhood. She wants to be married yet feel the self-discovery of singlehood in New York City, and she dares to bring that about.

No two people could be more different. She was working-class, raised on a rough council estate, flamboyant, and a bad influence. He was a royal prince, straitlaced, and a strict rule-follower. He didn't want her teaching his daughter. She didn't want anything to do with him. Falling in love was completely out of the question.

Этьен Лантье приезжает в городок Монсу, где начинает работать на шахте. Там он влюбляется в Катрин, дочь шахтёра. Условия жизни и труда в шахте стремительно ухудшаются, и рабочие объявляют забастовку. Этьен надеется, что сможет изменить жизнь работников к лучшему, однако забастовка только усугубляет ситуацию.

Taking off with four guys was the best decision I’ve ever made. Trust me. I’ve made enough bad ones to know when I’ve made a good one. They are the best thing to ever happen to me. We’re learning and growing. We’re building a life. The best part? We’re doing it together. I’ve never felt so wanted before, and it’s something I won’t let go of. The guys bring out parts of me that I didn’t know existed. Our life is like a fairy tale, and they are my happy ever after. There’s only one problem. Someone is trying to kill us.

When Rhea gets stood up by her best friend, before an important doctor’s appointment, she rushes to her car in tears. There, in the parking lot, she is met by a gorgeous man on his motorcycle. While he tries to help her feel better, she doesn’t give in. She doesn’t trust men. She never has. But Jason isn't the kind of man to give up. His charm and tenacious spirit win Rhea over - until Rhea finds out about a secret that might ruin what they have, and change their lives forever.

She is a reporter for the New York Globe. He is the heir to the British throne. They don't like one another very much. Upsetting the Prince of Wales by publishing untrue statements about him causes American journalist, Martha Kennedy, to immediately be in his cross-hairs, but to then post a message on Facebook that has the whole of the UK up in arms, almost loses her her job, and angers the prince so much that he confronts her. She sees him as a player, as a privileged man who shies from commitment - using women shamelessly, and using his position to take what he wants.

My alien is engaged. Yeah, I’m still trying to wrap my head around that one. Apparently, Kade and his fiancée are desperate to have a baby, and that’s where I come in. Except the longer I’m around the couple, the more I’m not so sure this is arrangement is a good idea. Or that the happy couple is even happy... There’s a part of me that wants to get pregnant as soon as possible so I can be left in peace. However, each of Kade’s gentle touches and soft kisses compel me to change my mind.

Newly trained and ready to rock her first assignment, Gwynn Reznick goes undercover posing as an accountant for the Prudell Energy Company. After fending off the unwanted advances of a company executive, she stumbles on a murder scene staged to look as an accident. Then she learns another employee died in a suspicious oil well accident and a large quantity of oil is missing from the Cisco field.

Victor Morgan’s entire life has been in the limelight. Groomed by his fierce mother as a piano prodigy, intent on using him to build a legacy for the Morgan name. But legacies require the utmost in care. Any little disaster can cause a mountain of problems.

Country singer Lincoln Best had made a name for himself playing sold-out stadiums across the US. Fearful he’s lost his roots, Linc helps a stranger and takes a job as a ranch hand, hiding his fame. Alyssa Beach needs to win the barrel-racing championship, or else she’ll lose another piece of her family’s legacy. Alyssa’s determined to save the only home she’s ever known. When she brings home a drifter, she is oblivious to the star in her life. Will the secret between Lincoln and Alyssa detonate their romance, or will love bring both their dreams to reality?

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees.

Twenty-nine-year-old Holly Franklin had recently moved from Florida to Colorado. The move allowed Holly to work with her boyfriend Josh in the same branch office of the bank they’d worked for in Florida. Sooner or later, Holly knew Josh would propose. On a rare autumn weekday off, Holly decided to go for a four-hour hike in the mountains. The trail was a loop, and she would be home by afternoon. But Holly took a wrong turn and came to a dead end. Trying to cut across to the right trail, Holly got lost, and as the sun began to set, a snowstorm started.

Dean Nelson had every detail of his heist planned to perfection. He’d made a flawless getaway and was patiently waiting for the right moment to dig up the money that was buried late in the night without any witnesses. Or at least any witnesses that he knew of. Katie’s life as a park ranger is centered around one mission: Protect the park. On most days, the threats are nothing more than off-leash dogs and illegal campfires, but one night, she realizes something is afoot. Somebody has been digging in her park.

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born.

I don’t know what I expected to happen when I took off with four guys I met at a motel, but finding out they aren’t human was not on my list of possibilities. Everything was going so well, too. They’re hot and hot...and did I say hot? I’m a mess, I know. So, here I am sitting in a park in an unfamiliar town with nothing but the clothes on my back. Do I go back and risk my life? After what I saw, I can’t be sure I’d come out alive. I’ve known these guys for a week, so naturally when I walked in on - gah! I can’t even talk about it - I ran.