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Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. There is September 11 and then there are the days...

Cat should be afraid of Brigan—the devastatingly gorgeous stranger at a Halloween party whose very presence makes everyone else fall at his feet. But while his supernatural allure drives others to mindless obsession, Cat somehow keeps her wits…even as she surrenders to temptation. When this cursed being realizes she alone can see his true nature, one night of searing passion could break a centuries-old spell—or doom them both.

She’s a badass musician and mechanic given the opportunity of a lifetime, but she has no patience for glitz, glamour, or overinflated egos. He’s a billionaire tasked with wrangling her into submission, and he has no time for drama. Going head-to-head has never been so much fun. Especially since neither one is afraid to play dirty. Fall in love with Sable Montgomery and Kane Bad today!

Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to "open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life."

Isaiah Bently is everything I’m not. Rich and charismatic, with a smoking-hot body earned through years of hauling people out of burning buildings, he’s the kind of guy everyone either wants to be or wants to be with.

WREN HACKERLY refuses to quit. Figure skating has always been her life, but when her ex humiliates her on the ice and her career is on the line, she needs a comeback. With her college team's morale and donations plummeting, she has to find a way to keep people interested. MILES DAVIS is North University's golden boy, famed for his hockey skills and movie-star looks. After a team tragedy, he's the only one still struggling to bounce back, making it hard to even think about hockey when it used to be the only thing on his mind.

Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest.

Hailee DeLuca hat einen Plan: Die Zeit, in der sie sich zu Hause verkrochen und vor der Welt versteckt hat, ist vorbei. Sie will mutig sein und sich trauen, all die Dinge zu tun, vor denen sie sich früher immer zu sehr gefürchtet hat. Doch dann lernt sie Chase Whittaker kennen - und weiß augenblicklich, dass sie ein Problem hat. Denn mit seiner charmanten Art weckt Chase Gefühle in ihr, die sie längst verloren geglaubt hat. Und nicht nur das. Er kommt damit ihrem dunkelsten Geheimnis viel zu naheDie neue Reihe von Bianca Iosivoni: emotional, romantisch, herzzerreißend!

Ash wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als endlich eine eigene Familie zu gründen. Nach Feststellung seiner Sterilität und scheinbar unmöglichen Adoptionen, sieht er sich am Ziel angelangt, als er auf die junge Zoey trifft, die dringend Eltern für ihr ungeborenes Kind sucht – unter einer Bedingung: Sie gibt ihr Kind nur zu einem Paar. Ash ist verzweifelt, denn woher soll er so schnell den Verlobten nehmen, den er Zoey im Affekt vorgegaukelt hat? Zum Glück kommt ihm sein bester Freund Beau zur Hilfe. Er erklärt sich dazu bereit, seinen Fake-Verlobten zu spielen.

Shaylie Beck just wanted to go home. She managed to snag the last seat on a late flight from New York to Denver. No one thought anything would go wrong. Nobody expected the unimaginable to happen. When the plane crashes, Shaylie fights for her life and is one of only eleven survivors. Piper Cole wants answers. Why did her fiance's plane crash? She lost everything that night, and the investigation is taking too long. To help cope with losing the woman she loved, Piper attends a support group for survivors.

Corban Nash ist ein Daten-Nerd und mit seinem sexy Lächeln und durchtrainierten Körper der Liebling aller Frauen. Zudem hat er eine Theorie entwickelt, von der er behauptet, dass sie zwei Menschen dazu bringt, sich ineinander zu verlieben. Nach zahlreichen Tests an Freunden ist klar: die Theorie funktioniert. Leider jedoch ausgerechnet bei Corban nicht. Doch er ist wild entschlossen ebenfalls ein erfolgreicher Beleg für seine Theorie zu werden. Das Problem ist Hazel Kiegen.

Fake-Herzen können nicht brechen,. echte dagegen schon. ---. Das kann doch nur ein Scherz sein!, denkt sich Mason Ashcroft, als seine Penthouse-Nachbarin Sam Johnson ihn bittet, sie als ihr Freund zum Jahrgangstreffen ihres Elitecolleges zu begleiten. Erstens hält er sich aus diesen Kreisen seit Jahren, so gut es geht, fern und will nichts als ein normales Leben führen. Zweitens ist Sam unglaublich attraktiv, aber leider so tiefgründig wie ein Onlinedating-Profil. Und drittens: nein. Einfach nur nein. Sie ist tabu. Aber er hat keine Wahl.

Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend to her roommate, Elodie, Karina always puts the needs of others ahead of her own and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things—whether it’s the house she’s just bought or the fragmented family she works hard to keep intact. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war.

Alexander de la Grip is known in the tabloids and gossip blogs as a rich, decadent, jet-setting playboy who spends most of his days recovering from the night before. With a string of beautiful conquests, he seems to care about nothing and no one. Isobel Sørensen has treated patients in refugee camps and war zones, and is about to depart Sweden for a pediatric hospital in Chad.

Time and again, some women fall for someone who for one reason or another will never return their feelings. The object of their affection may be emotionally unavailable, married, or even pathologically cruel. The woman who routinely finds herself in this situation suffers mightily, feeling rejected, unloved, undesirable. With empathy and compassion, Dr. Marni Feuerman helps women see their situations clearly, understand the historical, emotional, and psychological reasons behind their actions, and most importantly, make better choices for themselves.

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To the small town of Landmark Mountain, Callum Landmark is a man of few words and is considered to be the family grump. Uninvited and unexpected, I crash into his world like a wrecking ball and disrupt the delicate balance of his carefully constructed existence. Forced to live together due to my life's unexpected adventure, I find that the more time I spend with him, the more I see beneath his impenetrable exterior and into the heart of the man that not many are privileged to witness.

When I left for college, I put 1,000 miles between my future and my past. I'd made a choice - I was going to cross back to the other side, to live with the living. I just didn't know how. And then I met Nate Preeter. An All-American baseball player, Nate wasn't supposed to notice a ghost-of-a-girl like me. But he did. He shouldn't want to know my name. But he did. And when he learned my secret and saw the scars it left behind, he was supposed to run. But he didn't.

I wasn't always in love with Colton Calloway; I was in love with his younger brother, Kyle, first. Kyle was my first one true love, my first in every way. Then, one stormy August night, he died, and the person I was died with him. Colton didn't teach me how to live. He didn't heal the pain. He didn't make it okay. He taught me how to hurt, how to not be okay, and, eventually, how to let go.

Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?