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Als Vaughn Harding sein Leben in der Stadt aufgibt, um den Rennstall seines Großvaters zu retten, ist das Letzte, an was er denkt, sich zu verlieben. Doch Billie Black, die er anheuert, um seine Pferde zu trainieren, stellt ihn auf eine harte Probe. Billie ist talentiert, klug und vorlaut - und verdammt verführerisch. Schon bei ihrer ersten Begegnung geraten sich die beiden in die Haare, und doch kann Vaughn nicht aufhören, an sie zu denken. Aber Billie ist seine Angestellte und die Einzige, die ihm dabei helfen kann, den Ruf des Stalls und dessen Finanzen zu retten.

Die Gestaltwandlerin Pia Giovanni hat sich stets die größte Mühe gegeben, ein unauffälliges Leben zu führen. Doch als ein Erpresser sie zwingt...

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

A sizzling new standalone contemporary romance by New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katy Evans. A bad boy with something to prove. A woman with a mission. The race of their lives. The love of a lifetime. I don’t think his parents expected him to live up to his name—Racer...

Das Ocean Race ist der härteste Teamwettbewerb im Segeln: Über sechs Monate auf sieben Etappen führt das Rennen um die ganze Welt, und die längste Etappe umfasst unglaubliche 23.000 Kilometer, von Kapstadt über Kap Hoorn nach Itajaí in Brasilien. Der deutsche Weltklassesegler Boris Herrmann und sein Team Malizia sind mit der neu gebauten Yacht "Seaexplorer" gegen vier andere Teams angetreten: fünf Menschen auf engstem Raum, die sich aufeinander verlassen, jeder Handgriff muss sitzen, bei Sturm wie bei Flaute.

Detective Isaac Bell returns, in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than...

Hercule Poirot will sich auf einer Kreuzfahrt erholen, als plötzlich die reiche und schöne Linnet Ridgeway ermordet wird. Der Mörder kann nur auf dem Luxusdampfer sein, und Poirot muss ihn überführen, bevor die Fahrt zu Ende ist.

Trotz ihrer Schwangerschaft begibt sich Pia Giovanni, die Lebensgefährtin des Wyr Dragos, auf eine weite Reise, um mit den Elfen zu verhandeln. Doch als die Gespräche zu scheitern drohen, geraten nicht nur Pia und ihre Liebe zu Dragos in große Gefahr, sondern auch das Volk der Wyr selbst.

Things heat up on and off the track when the first female driver in Formula International history goes head-to-head with one of the sport’s biggest names. Formula Dreams is a high-speed enemies-to-lovers standalone romance. Francesca Accardi is rewriting the record books at Titans Racing. With the first female team owner in her corner and the weight of history on her shoulders, she knows the only way to silence doubters is to win. Every lap. Every race. Ronan Barnes dominates on Sunday and dares the world to judge him on Monday.

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense - one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The book explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. For the first time, Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their own fate.

Thomas Sowell is one of America’s leading voices on matters of race and ethnicity. In his book, Inside American Education, he surveyed the ills of American education from the primary grades to graduate school with “an impressive range of knowledge and acuity of observation”, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now, in his book Race and Culture, he asks the question: “What is it that allows certain groups to get ahead?” and the answer will undoubtedly create debates for years to come.

Um das Leben eines Freundes zu retten, geht der Wyr-Krieger Rune einen Pakt mit der Vampirkönigin Carling ein. Als er seine Seite des Abkommens erfüllen will, muss er feststellen, dass die Königin unter einer gefährlichen Krankheit leidet und zunehmend den Verstand verliert. Rune, der sich unwiderstehlich zu Carling hingezogen fühlt, riskiert alles, um ihr zu helfen.

In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned argument on her blog about her deep-seated frustration with the way discussions of race and racism in Britain were constantly being shut down by those who weren't affected by it. She gave the post the title 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'. Her sharp, fiercely intelligent words hit a nerve, and the post went viral, spawning a huge number of comments from people desperate to speak up about their own similar experiences.

The Endurance Artist is an all-access pass to the world’s most grueling races and the mastermind behind them. Gary Cantrell, better known by the nom de guerre Lazarus Lake, has been described as a “hillbilly genius” and the “Leonardo di Vinci of pain.” His Barkley Marathons is considered the most difficult ultramarathon ever devised, a fight club in the wilderness run in secret. With books hidden in the woods, a cigarette-start, and elevation gain that amounts to summiting Mount Everest twice, the Barkley defies convention.

With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff—with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.

Chase, Marshall, Skye, and the rest of Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol are all revved up for the Adventure Bay 500! Can these pit-crew pups keep the cars on the track while stopping a plot to ruin the race?

Keeping things professional with my employees has never been an issue. Until she waltzed onto my property. Billie is talented. She's mouthy. And she's so damn tempting. I can't stop thinking about all the ways I could take her down a peg. I can't stop thinking about her, period. We clash from the moment we meet. And in a small town, on an even smaller farm, it's hard to keep your distance. It's even harder to keep that friction from turning to fire. But keeping my distance? That might be the biggest struggle of all.

The Secret Race is a definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong—by former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle. Over the course of two years...