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What happens when the Arizona girl takes ski lessons from the super hot veteran almost twice her age? Born and raised in Arizona, I’ve never played in the snow before, much less strapped two death sticks to my feet and thrown myself down a mountain side—but now that I’ve accepted a position in Spring City, Colorado, I feel like it’s time to learn. The overcast skies are less than inviting, and I’m about to skip my lesson when a sexy silver fox introduces himself as my instructor.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax.

In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, and practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.

Zwischen Freundschaft und Liebe ist manchmal nur ein schmaler Grat. Als Kind einer cracksüchtigen Mutter hat Jen nie gelernt, Menschen zu vertrauen. Insbesondere bei Männern fällt es ihr schwer. Einzig mit Jack verbindet sie eine innige Freundschaft, denn beide wissen, dass niemals mehr daraus werden kann. Der Bodyguard und Barbesitzer Jack hat sein Leben im Griff. Seine Gefühle für Jen bringen ihn jedoch aus dem Takt. Er wünscht sich schon lange mehr von ihr, als sie zu geben bereit ist. Das stellt ihn vor die Entscheidung, ihre Freundschaft zu erhalten oder um sein Liebesglück zu kämpfen.

Tomas O'Malley simply wanted to enjoy his 55th birthday with his kids, and maybe a tall McNaughton's. Little did he know a dead body in the shadow of White Sox stadium and a dead CFO in North Chicago would both tie back to Dr. Alan Grove, Chicago's Chief Medical Examiner's husband and President of Manufacturing at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the country.

Ob wir an Krebs, Diabetes oder Depressionen erkranken, ein hohes Alter erreichen, extrovertiert oder schüchtern sind–ist uns all das vorbestimmt, weil es in unseren Genen liegt? Die noch junge Forschung zur Epigenetik hat Revolutionäres herausgefunden: Gene sind kein Schicksal, wir können sie steuern und damit selbst über unser Leben bestimmen.

Havros Nomikos was a dark mafia prince with chilling green eyes and a tattooed body meant of sin. Power and possession were his trademarks, brutal in every way. After an unexpected night of unbridled passion, I discovered he was the subject of my explosive expose. I also learned his soul was as black as his heart. Although I promised myself the one night would never happen again, he wasn't taking no for an answer. He craved control, bending my body to his will.

I had it all figured out. A quiet life, my bookshop, and three cats who may or may not have magical tendencies. Love? That was a closed chapter. Until Caleb waltzed back in after seven years, turning my world upside down with a wink and a smile. Caleb isn’t just any ex, he’s a cupid. But now he’s a fallen angel on a mission, to get back the wings he lost for breaking celestial rules the first time around. With me.

Début XXe siècle, une saga au coeur du quotidien et des traditions des paysans cévenols. Un hommage au courage et au labeur de gens humbles mais dignes, un grand "classique" de Christian Laborie. Il est l'arbre à pain, l'arbre généreux dont le fruit est la ressource nourricière des plus démunis. Il est le châtaignier, celui qui donne son nom au mas isolé du Castanet, propriété d'une famille de paysans huguenots, dans cette région reculée des Cévennes. Les Monteil vivent là, enracinés sur le versant aride de la montagne schisteuse, la Vieille Morte.

Auf Londons einzigem Bahngleis immer kurz vor Mitternacht ein funkenschlagender Geisterzug gesichtet – viel zu schnell, viel zu laut, viel zu groß, und überhaupt: Es dürfte ihn gar nicht geben. Während die einen den Fortschritt willkommen heißen, sind andere mehr als skeptisch – und die Mitarbeiter der Bahn selbst haben Angst: Sind sie das nächste Opfer des Spuks? Oder die Quelle? Emilia und Eric Stewart werden von Constable Stanford von Scotland Yard mit weiteren Ermittlungen beauftragt. Die Polizei kann keine Hysterie gebrauchen, und schon gar keine Massenpanik.

Die neue, große Space Opera von Bestsellerautor CLIFF ALLISTER! Seit dem Aufbruch der Menschheit ins All sind fast fünfzigtausend Jahre vergangen. Die gesamte Milchstraße wurde erforscht und es gibt so gut wie keine unbekannten Regionen in der heimischen Galaxis mehr. In all dieser Zeit ist man nie auf intelligentes Leben gestoßen! Es gibt offensichtlich außer der Menschheit keine andere intelligente Spezies im All - auch keine Artefakte untergegangener Zivilisationen. Wir sind allein! Dies hat philosophische und politische Auswirkungen.

Many parents fall into one of three traps: too soft (just let them express their feelings), too rigid (discipline them into submission), or too busy to really engage. But real parenting? It's about raising kids who can think for themselves, handle their emotions, and take action without turning into fragile wrecks or entitled nightmares. This book gives you the no-BS playbook for doing exactly that.

While attempting to abduct a teenager from her home, sadistic serial killer Victor Brooks meets his match: ten 9mm bullets. In a puddle of his own blood, sprawled across a stranger’s kitchen floor, Victor’s life begins to flash before his very eyes. He sees the living and the dead, peace and carnage, friends and foes, success and disappointment, love and hatred. He sees a life defined by rage, suffering, and despair. The light at the end of Victor's tunnel is red—red with blood. Jon Athan, the author of "The Groomer" and "Are Your Parents Home?

The Girl with a Big Heart is here to help you feel happy…. or sad, or curious, or angry, or creative. In fact, she can help you understand that all your feelings — even the difficult and not very fun ones — are the key to knowing who you are and what you need. In this beautiful book of ten timeless stories, author Jo Smedley magically brings to life the simultaneously simple and complicated nature of what it means to be yourself. Leading by example, The Girl shows that it takes courage and a leap of faith to live life on your own terms.

In a school where the elite rule and wealth hides dirty secrets, a monster stalks the halls daring the brave to play in the dark. An innocent will be drawn out, their secrets exposed. Hidden desires will be brought to light in a game of sin and madness.

Triora, die weltberühmte Hauptstadt der Hexen. Commissario Gallo wird in das idyllische Hinterland der lebhaften Küstenstadt Sanremo gerufen. In einer Schlucht in den malerischen Hügeln über der Riviera dei Fiori ist eine Leiche gefunden worden. Safranplantagen, Olivenhaine und Kräuterpfade säumen den Tatort. Gallo erkennt bald, dass es eine Verbindung zwischen dem Toten und einer vermissten Naturforscherin gibt. Hatte sie gehofft, die alten Geheimnisse der unzähligen Kräuter, Gewürze und Heilpflanzen von Triora zu entdecken, für die im 16.

Still reeling from his battle with Beatrix, retired marine Shane Ryan finds evidence revealing the full extent of the Harvesters’ ghost-stealing operation. He decides he must hunt her down and destroy every deadly spirit she had freed, before they unleash more horrors into the world. Battling one vicious wraith after another, the trail of death and bloodshed takes him to a weathered beach house in Rhode Island, where Shane discovers the dark truth about Beatrix's past—and her malevolent benefactor, known as Mr. Shadow.

For years, ghost hunter and retired Marine Shane Ryan has worked alongside occult expert James Moran. But when Moran survives a vicious attack by the terrifying spirits known as Hounds, Shane finds himself thrust into a decades-old conspiracy involving a mysterious madman named Ezra Deacon, and an entity known only as Mr. Shadow. Working with FBI agent Xander Ventura, Shane and Moran uncover a horrifying truth. Deep in the Vermont wilderness, a crumbling old mansion holds secrets soaked in the blood of hundreds.

Ghost hunter and retired Marine Shane Ryan has faced every form of supernatural terror imaginable, and he’s lived to tell the tale. But there are other hunters out there, and not all share Ryan’s brutal but fair moral code… When a desperate ghost begs James Moran for help, the occult expert calls in Shane Ryan. As Shane investigates the murder of one of Moran’s former clients, he soon finds himself on a collision course with Beatrix, a ruthless rival ghost hunter. And to make matters worse, Beatrix seems to share Shane’s mysterious abilities.

I’m a survivor. A fighter down to my blood. I need the release that comes when I step in that octagon, I crave it. I spent too long being beat down and broken in every sense of the word, and I almost didn’t make it. Fighting saved me though, and then I saved myself. When I am offered a full ride scholarship to a college in the middle of nowhere Alabama over 2000 miles away, I grab the chance with both hands and run like hell.