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Lane Benjamin never believed in fairy tales. Once upon a time, she had big dreams, but they never seemed to come true. Divorced, disappointed, and still a barista at 27, she feels like she's had an anti-Fairy Godmother. Then one day, the devastatingly handsome and much too old for her Abe Fujikawa confesses his feelings for her. Simultaneously, the chance to become a full-time artist drops in her lap. Has her luck changed? Is there a Fairy Godmother after all?

Das Mittelalter. Genauer gesagt: Erlenburg, im Juni 1390. Der Küchenjunge Hannes und seine Freunde Agnes und Jakob fiebern dem großen Kirschenfest entgegen, zu dem jedes Jahr unzählige Händler und Gaukler in die Stadt kommen. Das ist ein Höhepunkt des Jahres, ein turbulentes Fest mit seltenen Leckereien und spannenden Gästen. Doch die Vorfreude endet jäh, als Hannes in den Verdacht gerät, einen Sack mit schwarzem Pfeffer gestohlen zu haben.

Across the bottom of the screen the ticker tape announced in large black letters 'Governor Reynolds Murdered'. Apparently his body had been discovered earlier that morning, lying in his garage. He had been shot twice. One shot to the upper chest, the other hitting his shoulder. 'Police believe that the weapon used was a 38 revolver,' the reporter said. Kendall froze. Anthony Shaw had also been killed by a 38 calibre bullet. Kendall was not quite sure of what it all meant. What connection was there between Anthony Shaw, and the State Governor, and the business mogul, Ian Duncan. And what about Senator Mackenzie? Where did he fit in? And who or what was Latimer?

Unge Catherine Corder har netop afsluttet sin skolegang i Dijon og er vendt hjem til Yorkshire. Da hun en dag er ude på en ridetur i omegnen, møder hun for første gang den unge mand Gabriel Rockwell, søn af den lokale baron, der bor på slottet Kirkland Revels i udkanten af Yorkshires hedeområde. Det er kaerlighed ved første blik mellem Catherine og Gabriel. Det bliver gift, og Gabriel fører sin brud til Revels.

Decades after the Vietnam War and Toby’s life-changing summer with Zachary Beaver, Toby’s daughter, Rylee, is at a crossroads - her best friend, Twig, has started pushing her away just as Ben, a new kid from New York, settles into their small town of Antler. Rylee befriends Ben and learns that Ben’s father was a first responder on 9/11. The two unlikely friends soon embark on a project to find Zachary Beaver and hopefully reconnect him with Rylee's father almost 30 years later.

On 5 September 1984, 18-year-old Geoff Holt dived into an idyllic tropical sea and his life changed forever. A broken neck cut short a promising career as a yachtsman and left him paralysed, with his horizons reduced to an uncertain future in a wheelchair. On 5 September 2007, after a journey of 109 days and 1,445 miles, Geoff Holt crossed the finish line in the Solent and reached the summit of his Personal Everest – the first quadriplegic yachtsman to sail single-handed around Great Britain.

Colleen Hawthorne does everything right. She got the sensible degree, landed a career in Denver, and an apartment downtown. She calls her parents once a week and visits on Christmas. So when she loses her job and is forced to move back home to Goodland, Kansas, Colleen feels like a failure. Her mother criticizing her weight only make it worse. Colleen wants to curl up in bed with the romance novels she loves to read - and occasionally write - but first she has a plan. She's going to take the freelance marketing world by storm and nothing is going to stop her.

He wasn’t supposed to think about her. He shouldn’t even remember her. But ever since Abe Fujikawa visited Cristo’s Coffee, he can’t get the beautiful barista out of his head. At 42, he’s too old to date someone in her 20s. She wouldn’t be interested in him anyway. Abe has too much baggage left over from his sham of a first marriage. Someone so free and young and unburdened wouldn’t want to take on a middle-aged man and his teenage daughter.

Lykkejaegeren Thomas Tamsin har alle dage jaget regnbuer, og da han dør i jagten på den største regnbue af dem alle, guldminerne i Australien, efterlader han sin moderløse datter i sin arbejdsgivers varetaegt, Charles Herrick. Charles søn, Stirling, ankommer til England for at eskortere Nora, der er vokset op på en kostskole, tilbage til Australien. På rejsen stopper ved en landejendom kaldet Whiteladies, og Stirling synes at have en besynderlig besaettelse af huset og dets beboere, en besaettelse der skraemmer Nora.

Hvad skete der egentlig med den nittenårige Helena den syvende måneds nat, hvor den drillesyge Loke ifølge sagnet strejfede om i de tyske skove? Seks dage af hendes liv var forsvundet for hende - det var i hvert fald, hvad hendes omgivelser forsøgte at overbevise hende om. Men i løbet af disse seks dage havde hun oplevet sit livs største eventyr sammen med den charmerende Maximilian, der havde vaeret som en af fortidens helte. Havde hun lidt af hallucinationer, sådan som hendes venner sagde?

A happy workforce is a productive workforce. At the moment, the Wizard's employees are neither. The goblins are upset with their working conditions, the dragonslayer has thrown a hissy fit over his medical insurance (or lack thereof) and everyone is upset about the terrible canteen coffee. Yet the Wizard hasn't got time to worry about revolution in the workplace - he's about to see his brilliant business plan (based on entrepreneurial flair and involving one or two parallel worlds) disrupted by a clueless young man.

Lanie Burrell had heard about group sex, but how would she handle being thrust into the middle of a hot Saturday night party? Lanie Burrell was shocked to discover the reason Cody Hawkins was the only other neighbour on their private little cul de sac. He needed the privacy for the swinging parties he hosted featuring the kind of uninhibited group sex she read about in the erotic books she reviewed. At the moment they were the most exciting part of her sex life.

The Marinski Affair began as a dull, mundane case involving a missing husband. Okay, so he was a rich missing husband, but he was nonetheless, still only a missing husband. The case soon developed into one involving robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder. But was there really a kidnapping? All is not as it seems. Tom Kendall, private detective, had the task of solving the mystery. He was usually pretty good at solving puzzles, but this one was different, somehow. It wasn’t that he didn’t have any of the pieces. It was just that none of the pieces seemed to fit together.

Meet "Sweetwater" and "Sundance" — two of the most outrageous and daring jet jockeys ever to sit behind the controls of an F-14. Assigned to the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, these boys are living life to the fullest: harassing Russian recon planes...raising hell on shore leave...testing the limits of their jets, their commanding officers, and their own reputations as the Navy's best.

Tom Kendall, a down-to-earth private detective, is asked to investigate the death of a young newspaper reporter. The evidence shows quite clearly that it was an accident: a simple, dreadful accident. That is the finding of the coroner and the local police. Furthermore, there were two witnesses. They saw the whole thing. But was it an accident, or was it something more sinister? Against a backdrop of a viral epidemic slowly spreading from Central America, a simple case soon places Kendall up against one of the largest drug companies in the country.

Kieron Dyer's memoir, Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late, is the first intimate and unsparing portrait of the failures and excesses of the generation of English footballers made rich beyond their wildest dreams by the post-1990 World Cup boom in the game and the explosion of the Premier League. It shares the same brutal honesty and self-awareness of the best-selling No Nonsense by Joey Barton and GoodFella by Craig Bellamy.

'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA 'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance' - SFX Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they'd be insane to be offering to someone...

The Jealous Little Ogre tells the story of a young ogre who lives happily in the forest with his mother and father. When a new family member comes along that could potentially replace him, he begins to have feelings of jealousy and anger. When he realizes he is being selfish, Little Ogre goes to a talking horse, who gives him guidance on how to deal with his negative feelings.

New Evil. Same as the Old Evil but with better PR. Mordak isn't bad as far as goblin kings go, but when someone or something starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms, it puts his rule into serious jeopardy. Suddenly he's locked in an arms race with a species whose arms he once considered merely part of a healthy breakfast.

Der 2. Fall für Capitano Katerina Tapo: Mia Elston, die Tochter eines US-Kommandanten in Italien, verschwindet. Wenig später taucht ein Video auf: Es zeigt Mia nackt und gefesselt, dazu die Botschaft: "Laut den USA ist der Entzug sensorischer Reize keine Folter. Ist sexuelle Erniedrigung keine Folter. Ist Waterboarding keine Folter. Sehen Sie heute Abend um 21 Uhr, wie Mia Elston NICHT gefoltert wird." Capitano Katerina Tapo von der venezianischen Polizei ermittelt - im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.