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Texas, 1921. Passada a Grande Guerra, uma nova era de abundância parece surgir no horizonte. Mas, para Elsa Wolcott, considerada velha demais para se casar numa época em que o matrimônio é a única opção das mulheres, o futuro parece sombrio. Até a noite em que conhece Rafe Martinelli e decide mudar o rumo de sua vida. Com sua reputação em ruínas, ela acaba tendo que se unir a um homem que mal conhece.

A year has passed since Lisa Rae Robbie won the Paragon Games and told all the worlds that she is the famed Agapéd Bearer—the possessor of the most powerful magic in existence. Her journey as a Kingdom Hunter and phantasmal flame wielder has begun on planet Kalm, but something bigger has taken precedence: love. Lisa is falling for her best friend, Caelum, only his father is King... and he does not approve.

Als Connie "Zuhause" in das Navi im Auto ihres Mannes eingibt, wird sie an einen Ort geführt, der ihr vollkommen fremd ist...

When seventeen-year-old Isla Richardson is killed in a hit-and-run incident, a community’s lives are thrown into disarray. For Isla’s mum, Abby, it is her second devastating bereavement, having lost her husband five years ago. As Abby begins to uncover secrets about Isla’s life, she’s forced to rethink everything she thought she knew about her family.

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.

Emma Townsend can sum up her situationship with hot-as-hell romantic red flag Finn Hughes in one word: almost. They almost dated in high school. They almost hooked up after college. They almost took things too far one magical night. Their whole story is one series of “almosts” and “nearlys,” and now they just kind of can’t stand each other. Like, at all. But this weekend, one of their mutuals is getting married...and Emma and Finn will have to pretend they don’t remember how disastrous it was the last time they were in a room together.

Francia, 1939. En el tranquilo pueblo de Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac se despide de su marido, Antoine, que debe marchar al frente. Ella no cree que los nazis vayan a invadir Francia, pero lo hacen, con batallones de soldados marchando por las calles, con caravanas de camiones y tanques, con aviones que llenan los cielos y lanzan bombas sobre los inocentes. Cuando un capitán alemán requisa la casa de Vianne, ella y su hija deben convivir con el enemigo o arriesgarse a perderlo todo.

Much-Afraid begins her journey, crippled and disfigured, with the cry, "Oh, if only I could escape from this Valley of Humiliation altogether and go to the High Places." She leaves her Fearing relatives behind, and presses on to the Realm of Love. As the Chief Shepard explains, no Fears can live in this realm, because "perfect love casts out fears and everything that torments".

L'homme se tient sur une brèche, dans l'intervalle entre le passé révolu et l'avenir infigurable. Il ne peut s'y tenir que dans la mesure où il pense, brisant ainsi, par sa résistance aux forces du passé infini et du futur infini, le flux du temps indifférent. Chaque génération nouvelle, chaque homme nouveau doit redécouvrir laborieusement l'activité de pensée. Longtemps, pour ce faire, on put recourir à la tradition. Or nous vivons, à l'âge moderne, l'usure de la tradition, la crise de la culture.

Commissioned by Audible and written especially for audio format this collection brings together six crime stories through the themes of discovery, destination and arrival. Top narrators bring these gripping tales to life acknowledging the Scandinavian tradition of oral storytelling.

Angry. Wild. Loose cannon. As one of college hockey's most feared defensemen, I've been told I'm all those things and more. The ice is the only place where I can take my anger out on other people and get applauded for it. The rougher I play, the dirtier I am, the more praise I get. I suppose the same could be said about me in the bedroom. I'm not the dude you want your daughter bringing home to meet you. Because your angel? Well, I'll make sure her halo is crooked by the time I'm done with her. I've met my match.

When Aurora Bennett witnesses a murder by a ruthless Los Angeles crime boss, she ends up stuck in her apartment like she’s the one who committed the crime. Then a sexy new neighbor moves in, and he’s just the sort of bossy, broad-shouldered male that makes her crazy—in more ways than one. Devon Whitestone can’t tell his neighbor Aurora the truth—that he’s actually a personal bodyguard hired by her brother, the owner of Bennett Security. Rule number one: don’t touch.

Sinnlich, erotisch, anders ... Gracie rückt ihrem Ziel jeden Tag etwas näher: Einem Date mit Louis Rogers. Doch vorher muss sie noch einige Prüfungen bestehen, die sie an ihre persönlichen Grenzen bringen und sie immer wieder zweifeln lassen, ob Rogers diesen Aufwand wirklich wert ist. Ayden hat indes seine ganz eigenen Probleme. Sein Onkel will das Geld, das er ihm schuldet, und um es aufzutreiben, kehrt Ayden zu einer alten Leidenschaft zurück, und das sind illegale Undergroundfights. Gracie wiederzusehen wäre dabei nur eine unnötige Ablenkung.

Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, carefully posed at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into shock and turmoil. Local police detective Ben Chase is assigned to the murder investigation, but when the victim is identified as a student from a prestigious nearby school, tensions rise.

Anya heeft nooit willen vertellen wat er tijdens de oorlog is gebeurd. Maar haar geheim is het enige wat haar dochters weer bij elkaar kan brengen. Een hartverscheurende oorlogsroman van de auteur van De nachtegaal. De zussen Meredith en Nina zijn erg verschillend van aard. De een bleef thuis om haar kinderen op te voeden en het familiebedrijf te runnen, de ander volgde haar droom om fotojournalist te worden en reisde de hele wereld over. Wanneer hun vader ziek wordt beseffen ze dat ze hun krachten moeten bundelen. Hun afkeurende moeder Anya is zelfs nu niet in staat troost te bieden.

Oakley Hutton, the hockey prodigy. The guy ready to grab the sports world by the balls and finally live his dream. Octavia Layton, the girl unable to move beyond her broken past, fearful of her childhood betrayal following her through her new adult life. Two polar opposites with only one thing in common. Their inability to stay away from each other. Two people pushing the other in ways they've never experienced, forcing them out of their comfort zones and making them forget how different they really are after all.

The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together 18 essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with 36 poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance.

Sind Sie glücklich über Ihre Schwangerschaft und voller Vorfreude auf Ihr Baby, aber die Geburt macht Ihnen Angst? Oder haben Sie bereits eine schwierige Geburtserfahrung durchlebt und möchten sich diesmal mental gezielt auf dieses Ereignis vorbereiten? Kopfsache Geburt ist das Schwangerschaftsbuch für alle werdenden Mütter, die ihr Kind angstfrei und selbstbestimmt zur Welt bringen möchten. Dabei spielt es keine Rolle, ob Sie eine Hausgeburt planen oder in einer großen Level-1-Klinik gebären wollen.

From best-selling contemporary author, Hannah Lee Kidder, Little Birds is a collection of glimpses into some of the darkest corners of our lives – the lies we tell ourselves, the ways we hurt others, the painful truths we pretend to face. From single-line microfictions to full narratives, each story is a raw, unflinchingly human experience.

'A glorious love story' – Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Extraordinarily daring . . . a remarkable novel, an almost visionary celebration of the death-defying power of the women’s love' - Sunday Times, Book of the Year From a 19th-century Prussian village to the dusty plains of...