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Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just eight years old when an unfortunate scientific discovery upends their world—and the world order. The revelation? Extinction, encoded in every creature’s DNA. The expiration date for humans? Only four generations away. A decade later, unsure of what tomorrow holds, Charlie and Maggie enroll as counselors in a government-run human-husbandry program.

There's an unspoken rule in hockey: don't date your teammate's little sister. Dating the coach's little sister might be even worse. Not to mention bro code, which clearly states a best friend's little sister is off-limits. And I'm definitely prohibited from dating the owner of the team. But what if, before she was any of those things, she was the woman who turned my world upside down? What if she's the woman I shared the three best days of my life with, then spent years searching for? Sienna Langfield is all of those things, and now that I've figured out who she is, I can't walk away.

Eine Grumpy meets Sunshine Romance aus dem Cinder & Ella-Universum. Sebastian Monroe, CEO und Dauersingle, hat ein Jahr Zeit, um die Liebe seines Lebens zu finden - ansonsten verliert er die Rechte am Familienunternehmen. Kurzerhand macht er bei der Reality-TV-Show "Marry Me" mit, doch er hat wenig Hoffnung, dort tatsächlich eine geeignete Partnerin zu finden. Vivian Euling arbeitet hinter den Kulissen als Stylistin und hat damit ihren absoluten Traumjob ergattert. Doch als plötzlich zwei Kandidatinnen aus der Show aussteigen müssen, springt Vivian gezwungenermaßen ein.

Blair Scott arbeitet als Journalistin bei einem angesagten Londoner Magazin und wird gegen ihren Willen dazu verdonnert, ein Interview mit Keaton Hill – einem langweiligen und verstaubten Wissenschaftler – zu führen. Doch bereits bei ihrem ersten Treffen wird klar, Keaton Hill ist keineswegs verstaubt und unter seiner nahezu perfekten Fassade auch alles andere als gewöhnlich. Schräg? Ja. Irgendwie ungewöhnlich? Ebenso. Aber ganz sicher nicht alltäglich und schon gar nicht langweilig. Nach und nach kommen sich die beiden näher, bis Blair erfährt, dass Keaton das Asperger-Syndrom hat.

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely.

Belle wants more out of life than the small provincial town of Villeneuve can offer. There she stands out from the crowd with her unique point of view, her strong-willed independence, and her love of books. She longs for travel and adventure, for a life as exciting as the stories she reads. But...

New York Times best-selling author Robin McKinley has won numerous awards for her writing, including the prestigious Newbery Medal. Though her two sisters are beautiful, Beauty, despite her name, is thin and awkward - but she's also courageous. So when her father makes a terrible promise to a Beast living in an enchanted castle, Beauty knows she must volunteer to be the Beast's prisoner.

Lust auf Englisch lernen und entspannen? Dann ist dieser bilinguale Liebesroman genau das Richtige für dich. Eine deutsche Kontextbeschreibung gibt dir dabei den roten Faden. Mit englischen Dialogen übst du schrittweise deine Fremdsprachenkenntnisse. Durch das innovative Konzept lernst du Vokabeln auf einem A2 Niveau so intuitiv wie beim Reisen. Die Handlung: Marie zieht nach der Trennung von Torben, ihrem Ex-Freund und ehemaligen Kollegen, für einen neuen Job nach Stockholm. Sie ist nervös und neugierig zugleich.

Ian Hart is the most wanted fugitive in the country. His gang is linked to the riskiest and biggest heists in the history of the continent. His identity is an enigma to everyone except me. Because, the night he robbed the casino, he set his sights on a different target.

On the eve of her wedding to the heir of Saiturn Manor, the stunningly beautiful Gytha is shocked to learn that her betrothed, a man she barely knew, is dead. Now she must marry the new heir, Thayer Saiturn, a battle-hardened knight known as the Red Devil.... With a face scarred in battle and a heart broken in love, Thayer has no interest in marriage. But not even the Red Devil can break the promise his foster-father made years ago and soon finds himself married to a woman whose exquisite beauty and sweet innocence intrigue him.

Milliardär Lucas Oliver sinnt auf Rache und sein diabolischer Plan beginnt, als Sydney Blake, die attraktive Tochter seines Erzfeindes, an einer Junggesellen-Auktion teilnimmt, auf ihn bietet - und gewinnt. Doch Lucas hat kein Interesse an einem harmlosen Abendessen mit ihr. Er hat Informationen über die Machenschaften ihres Vaters, die niemals ans Licht kommen dürfen und Sydney hat nur eine Chance Lucas' Schweigen zu erkaufen: sie muss auf seinen Vorschlag eingehen und ihn heiraten.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound...

For Nasir, former Special Ops military man and bodyguard, his new job seems like an easy-money gig: Trail a Russian mobster’s runaway wife in Mexico, enjoy the sun, observe, and report. Just one rule: Don’t get too close. But it’s all Naz can do not to watch the alluring dancer’s every move. A closer look is irresistible - especially when she’s in trouble.

Lorraine Heath ends her bestselling Sins for All Seasons series with the hero readers have been waiting for! She wants lessons in seduction Althea Stanwick was a perfect lady destined to marry a wealthy lord, until betrayal left her family penniless. Though she’s lost friends, fortune, and...

In the quiet moments of our lives, when we find ourselves reflecting on the path we have travelled, we often come face-to-face with the profound realization that life is both fleeting and beautiful. It is in these moments of introspection that we recognize the inherent beauty that persists even as we confront the inevitability of our own mortality. This book, Beauty in the Face of Death, is a meditation on that journey—a journey that intertwines love, loss, and the profound significance of our experiences.

Isabel Adamik made me need her. She made me crave her in a way I’d never seen coming. With tempting innocence tinged by that hint of darkness under her skin, she showed me everything I’d never dared to dream mi princesa could possess. A Queen for the devil himself. Nothing exists but the overwhelming need to make her mine in every way. To sear myself into her skin until she admits she loves me.

I’m not that kind of girl. The kind who falls for her wealthy, inexplicably attractive, and totally unavailable male friend. Sitting on the sidelines, I’ve watched women throw themselves at the sexy British bachelor Sterling Quinn, and vowed I would never be one of them. But now the tables are turned. Sterling needs to get married, something about an old-fashioned inheritance requirement. And suddenly I’m not just working PR...I’m thrust into the role of matchmaker.

""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically...

Neither my success as a full-figured lingerie and fashion model nor my street smarts as a born and bred Chicago native safeguarded me against walking into the clutches of a monster. As I try to pull my life back together, I'm brought face-to-face with a man whose wounds mirror my own. Under his protection, I'm gifted the opportunity to find beauty where there has only ever been pain. And yet, danger lurks, as a new evil threatens to bring me to my knees.

In the final volume of Anne Rice’s erotic trilogy, Beauty’s adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voloptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all of Beauty’s encouters...