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Imagine a simple thing like a round stone underfoot or an unnoticed overhead danger, and how quickly life can take a dramatic turn. For Iain MacLeod, it was a slippery mattress cover. Iain MacLeod's memoir draws us into the experience of those who live with a physical disability, and it speaks to the challenges they must overcome on a daily basis. “Billions of people get out of bed every day without any problem, but when I got out of bed that day, it went horribly wrong,” says MacLeod, a Scotsman with Cerebral Palsy.

You can’t make someone come to you before they’re ready. For two years, I’ve waited, and I’ve watched. Now Thom is ready to leave his abusive ex. An ex who thinks that if he can’t have Thom, no one can. But the ex hasn’t met me. I have a particular set of talents, and I’ll do anything to protect the man I love....

Mac, a retired academic and writer, is working on a new collection of folktales, inspired by local legends, and at the insistence of her only child, Arthur, she hires a young assistant, Lucie, to live in a cottage on her property and help her transcribe them. What Arthur doesn’t know is that his mother is determined to keep the secrets of her past from ever being discovered. And what Mac doesn’t know is that Lucie has a few complicated secrets of her own.

I knew being an omega would get me fired one day, I just never thought hiding it would be the excuse they needed. Irony, you suck. For years I was their best employee, right up until their new alpha hire smelled me in heat. I could’ve kept my job by playing his game, but I’ve spent my whole life running from my biology. I have principles. I also have bills. Which is the only reason my desperate search for a roommate ended with a grizzled alpha veteran, Stefan. Brooding and damaged from years of battle. My biology and I are not on speaking terms now.

A true story of survival and resilience, The Daytime Lives of the Ladies of the Night details the daylight hours of three women surviving while working for a notorious pimp and their trainee, Tee.

Im Jahr 3586 n. Chr. steht die Menschheit im Brennpunkt galaktischer Konflikte: Im heimatlichen Solsystem sind die Loower, die sogenannten Trümmerleute, mit einer großen Raumflotte aufmarschiert. Und in der weit entfernten Galaxis Tschuschik versucht Perry Rhodan mit seinen Gefährten, die Gefahr zu beseitigen, die vom uralten Sporenschiff PAN-THAU-RA ausgeht. In der Zentrale des riesigen Raumschiffs treffen die Terraner auf den einäugigen Roboter Laire, ein kosmisches Wesen mit einer lange zurückreichenden Geschichte.

Are you tired of trying diets and failing? Are you desperate to lose weight and become healthier, but it never seems to happen? Perhaps you’re simply on the wrong diet! If you have heard anything about lifestyle and weight loss over the last few years, no doubt, you will have heard about the Atkins diet. This is a diet which has had its fair share of controversy, but it is also proven to be ultra-effective.

In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth and her brother Lailoken are raised in the Old Way of their ancestors. But in Scotland, a new religion is rising, one that brings disruption, bloodshed, and riot. And even as her family faces the burgeoning forces of Christianity, the Anglo-Saxons, bent on colonization, are encroaching from the east. When conflict brings the hero Emrys Pendragon to her father’s door, Languoreth finds love with one of his warriors. Her deep connection to Maelgwn is forged by enchantment, but she is promised in marriage to Rhydderch, son of a Christian king.

Virginia Collins is not what she appears to be. By all outward appearances the successful uptown psychiatrist is just another beautiful dame who hires a private investigator to find her missing husband: a weird little man who makes fancy umbrella drinks and dresses like something out of an old gangster movie. Collins hides her real motives, along with her tragic past, in order to win the affections of Raffy Rheinhardt, a cynical PI with an equally tragic history; a long forgotten shared incident resulting in damaged psyches and dead bodies.

Cliffe's investigation of a seemingly innocuous crack in the ceiling leads him to a world he would never have believed existed. Andulan Ruskin daydreams her life away on her parents' farm in the Yorkshire Dales. She lives in a world far removed from Cliffe's, in more ways than one. A chance parting of the thin veil that separates their worlds draws them closer together in a way that could not have been forseen and which has far-reaching consequences.

After 20 years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads in her personal life, Jane relishes the chance to lose herself in a challenging investigation. Four years ago, Arlen Quill was found dead in the entryway to his apartment building - leaving no clues, no witnesses, and no leads.

Newly promoted to detective first-grade with the NYPD, Jane Bauer, is back to work after a nearly fatal run-in with a killer. But while she’s happy to be back on the job, her new assignment - another cold case - seems to hold little promise of being solved. Eight years ago, Anderson Stratton, a schizophrenic, was found dead of starvation in his apartment. Nothing on the scene indicated foul play, and although he left no note, the death was ultimately ruled a suicide.

When NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team check in for their new assignment, they reopen a cold case that’s a real killer. Ten years earlier, police responding to a spate of late-night 911 calls from Greenwich Village discovered a young African American undercover cop, Micah Anthony, shot dead on Waverly Place. The killer left no clues, and the murder remains an inscrutable mystery...except for two things: Anthony had infiltrated a lucrative gun-trading operation in the city, and it seemed likely that he knew and trusted the killer.

In 1977, Minch Point Lighthouse on Skye's most westerly tip was suddenly abandoned by the keeper and his family - no reason ever found. In the decade that followed, it became a haunt for teenagers on the hunt for thrills. In 1987, following her success working on a case with Sussex Police, 25-year-old psychic Ness Patterson is asked to investigate recent happenings at the lighthouse. Local teen Ally Dunn has suffered a breakdown following time spent there and is refusing to speak to anyone.

Das Beziehungsende kam unerwartet. Einfach so. Vor ein paar Tagen noch war seine Freundin fröhlich neben Toni Mahoni eingeschlafen und hatte seinen Bauch getätschelt. Nun plötzlich war derselbe Bauch Symbol für Alltag, Trott und mangelnden Respekt. Noch bevor der Liebeskummer so richtig ausbrechen kann, wird Toni von seinem Freund Meta Mallorca überredet, mit ihm auf seiner Lieblingsinsel Urlaub zu machen. Und steht damit am Anfang einer Odyssee.

Sicilia, all'epoca del tramonto borbonico. È di scena una famiglia della più alta aristocrazia, colta nel momento del trapasso del regime, mentre già incalzano i tempi nuovi. Accentrato intorno all'imponente personaggio del principe Fabrizio Salina, il romanzo offre un'immagine del clima di disincanto e di speranze deluse che seguì l'unificazione nazionale.

"Upon hearing that I had to consciously resist the temptation that I had to peek through the drapes to see if I could catch a glimpse of that scoundrel." Double Trouble in York is the 19th in a string of new short stories set in the late 19th century, no fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature...

In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.

Todo hombre fue nino una vez. Y todo nino tiene suenos, suenos grandes: suenos de ser heroe, de vencer a los malos, de hacer proezas audaces, y rescatar a la damisela en apuros. Toda nina tambien tiene suenos: quiere que su principe la rescate y vivir una aventura grandiose a sabiendas de que ella es la bella.