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1923. Diana Gold, owner and impresario, throws open the doors to the most opulent new hotel in London. As the champagne flows and the chandeliers shimmer, millionaires and gamblers rub shoulders with film stars and royalty. Everyone who’s anyone is here. Everyone, that is, except two guests due at midnight. Powerful and dangerous, they’ve dragged Diana from the gutter and taught her all she knows. Her fate rests in their hands. If everything goes right, a whole new life awaits. One mistake will cost her everything.

A veces el amor no es suficiente para mantener con vida una relación. ¿Qué pasa cuando el final comienza a anunciarse como una tormenta gélida que no da tregua?

How many of us have at some time wondered 'Am I Normal?' And yet, our society is set up in such a way that there is very little room for difference or quirks or for us to question what normal really is. In this powerful, honest, and ultimately comforting book, mental fitness advocate and former A&E doctor Dr Alex George explores what it means to be "normal" in a society that often fails to embrace any kind of straying from the accepted path laid out by the expectations of others.

Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest to access a pool of magic that can heal, grant wealth, or extend life. First, she must survive the Culling, the king's deadly competition to choose his fifty challengers. Starside is deadlier than it seems. With a blade most would kill to claim, Aris can't trust anyone.

La tensión entre Oro y Grim ha acabado desembocando en una guerra entre los reinos. Mientras tanto, Isla tendrá que luchar contra un corazón dividido en dos y enfrentarse al aterrador futuro que le mostró la profecía. Sabe que tiene el poder de la destrucción absoluta, pero también de la única posibilidad de salvación ante lo que se cierne sobre ellos: una amenaza nunca antes vista.

For twenty years, strategos Dexios has led the phalanx of Thena against its enemies, pulled from one battleground to another in a relentless cycle of war and bloodshed. Now, finally, he has found the courage to leave that life behind. To relinquish his officer’s sword and return to the verdant slopes of his vineyard with his wife and son. Peace, however, is fragile and capricious. When Thena’s northern allies bring word of an enormous tauran horde gathering on their borders, Dexios has no choice but to answer the call to arms one last time.

"Honor is the true measure of a man." On this principle, I built a powerful empire, united disparate lands, and destroyed the greatest threat to our world. I died as a true warrior should: in battle. But instead of being granted a well-earned rest, I awoke on the border of a foreign kingdom, in the body of a noble-born outcast—with a noose around my neck.

Audrey Hincher, a middle-aged woman, with a mundane job and an unremarkable home life suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day on a busy street in the centre of Hastings. Boyd and his team are not immediately concerned for her welfare, but as the days pass and questions start to surface about her husband ... Boyd and Okeke begin to suspect foul-play. As evidence builds, both begin to suspect they may now be looking for a body...

Es sollte ganz einfach sein. Die Wahrheit aufdecken, die Drachen retten. Das war, bevor wir erfuhren, aus welch perverser Quelle die Macht der Priester stammt. Und was unsere Feinde alles tun würden, um sie zu bewahren. Unsere Feinde wollen uns nicht nur töten, sie wollen uns kontrollieren. Um das zu erreichen, sind sie bereit, unsere Körper, unseren Verstand und unsere Herzen zu zerstören. Die Liebe ist unser Band. Unsere Rettung. Unsere Macht. Aber wird sie ausreichen? Das Leben aller Drachen hängt davon ab.

For twenty years, strategos Dexios has led the phalanx of Thena against its enemies, pulled from one battleground to another in a relentless cycle of war and bloodshed. Now, finally, he has found the courage to leave that life behind. To relinquish his officer’s sword and return to the verdant slopes of his vineyard with his wife and son. Peace, however, is fragile and capricious. When Thena’s northern allies bring word of an enormous tauran horde gathering on their borders, Dexios has no choice but to answer the call to arms one last time.

Coaching can be transformational for ADHDers - especially for the late-diagnosed, when the new discovery can be really overwhelming. This guide demonstrates how integral coaching is to understanding who you are, by reframing challenges through an ADHD lens, and achieving self-validation through a strengths-based approach.

A wizard puppeteering a body made of earthworms tries to solve his own murder. A talking cat with an appetite for dragon brains investigates the disappearance of his mistress and other magicfolk. A soldier must grudgingly train three griffon cubs to fend off a looming invasion. A tailor's apprentice seeks revenge against a cruel and mad wizard. Embark on four interconnected tales of magic and adventure from the land of Caracal.

Trois ans après la mort inexpliquée de son fiancé, la célèbre actrice Bianca Salo est persuadée qu’il est revenu la hanter. Un spectre ? Un imposteur ? Une mise en scène macabre destinée à l’effrayer ? Alors que la troupe s’apprête à rejouer Macbeth, pièce maudite entre toutes, les incidents inquiétants se multiplient au sein du théâtre.

Peut-on questionner le système dans lequel nous vivons ? L’élection offre-t-elle réellement le pouvoir au peuple ?? En l’état, ce procédé ne nous condamne-t-il pas à donner le contrôle à des puissances financières colossales, lesquelles ont d’une part les moyens de financer les campagnes électorales des candidats qu’elles veulent voir élire, et d’autre part de s’acheter les médias à des fins de propagande et de pilotage desdites campagnes électorales ?? Mais lorsqu’on se pose ces questions pourtant essentielles, l’étiquette “ complotiste “ tombe rapidement.

The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making is the guide you need. Backed by cognitive science and grounded in real-life examples, this hands-on workbook helps you outthink bias, avoid manipulation, and make better choices in every area of life.

When Olivia Reed comes home to find her boyfriend Callum gone — not just missing, but vanished without a trace — her life begins to unravel. His clothes, his photos, every sign he ever existed… wiped clean. It’s as if Callum was never real at all. But Olivia remembers. She remembers his touch, his voice, the way he made her feel safe. So why can’t anyone else remember him the same way? And why do the fragments of his past seem to crumble under scrutiny?

Sara und Jay stehen vor ihrer bisher gefährlichsten Mission: Die Sisterhood beauftragt sie, eine Journalistin aus einem russischen Straflager zu befreien – inhaftiert wegen eines brisanten Artikels über ein entführtes Kind. Nach der riskanten Rettung lässt der Fall Sara nicht los. Sie überzeugt Jay, das Kind aus dem Artikel aufzuspüren und es sicher zurück zu seiner Familie in der Ukraine zu bringen.

The Apothecary of Belonging is a magickal journey through each of the four seasons with plant allies as our guides and companions. Alexis J. Cunningfolk explores how to know ourselves as land and as beings who deeply belong to the land and one another. Learn about the energetic foundations of traditional western herbalism that flow through the seasons within and around us and explore ways to map your inner landscape.

Die Passagiere dachten, das Flugzeug bringt sie nach Hause. Doch die Pilotin hegt einen tödlichen Plan … In freudiger Erwartung besteigen Jill und ihre Kollegen nach einer Vorstandssitzung den Privatjet ihrer Firma, um nach Hause zu ihren Familien in Portland zu fliegen. Das Wetter ist gut, die Sicht klar, Turbulenzen sind nicht zu erwarten. Doch kurz nach dem Abflug meldet sich die Pilotin über die Lautsprecher. Anstatt Jill und ihre Kollegen zu begrüßen, hat sie den Jet aufs offene Meer hinausgesteuert und stellt den Passagieren ein schockierendes Ultimatum.

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old ‘dog’ ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their transformed world, as they become divided, as each struggles with their new existence.