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It is the winter of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate's law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant. And they are looking forward to spending their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together. For Robert Livingston, the owner of San Francisco's newest grand emporium, the holidays don't look so promising. Not if he can't figure out how to stop whoever is stealing from his department store, the Silver Strike Bazaar.

The world of work has changed. People in previous generations tended to pick one professional path and stick to it. Switching companies every few years wasn’t the norm, and changing careers was even rarer. Today’s career trajectories aren’t so scripted and linear. Technology has given rise...

Wünschen Sie sich, dass es eine Maschine gäbe, mit der Sie die Gedanken der Menschen lesen könnten? Dann wäre es so leicht, das wahre Gesicht hinter der künstlichen Fassade zu erkennen. Das Leben wäre so einfach. Doch leider gibt es eine solche Maschine nicht. Als Menschen tragen wir ständig Masken. Auf der einen Seite wünschen wir uns Authentizität, auf der anderen Seite toleriert die Gesellschaft keine totale Offenheit. Die Wahrheit ist stets willkommen, doch nur wenn sie von der gängigen Meinung nicht zu sehr abweicht.

Killian Everett is condescending, egotistical, and a complete jerk. When I started as the new assistant for the famous rock band Civil Corruption, I thought I'd hit the career jackpot, but I was wrong. With his attitude, bad behavior, and stupid good looks, Killian has made my life a living hell since my very first day. We may fight constantly, but that doesn't make me want him any less. And now I know he wants me, too. He wants to seduce me. He wants to own me. He wants to consume me. And if I'm not careful, I just might let him.

Eine Süsse Geschichte über Kurt, der in der Schule gefragt wird was er einmal werden möchte und Kurt sich entscheidet, Weihnachtsmann zu werden. Aber wie geht das ... ?! Kommt mit auf Kurts Reise, dies herauszufinden.

Le jour de son emménagement à Los Angeles, Mei a le coup de foudre. Tom, son voisin d'à côté, est sombre et sexy, et elle ressent immédiatement pour lui une attirance irrésistible. Hélas, elle comprend vite que rien ne sera jamais possible entre eux. Mei a l'habitude, sa vie sentimentale est un fiasco ! Pas étonnant qu'elle soit toujours vierge à 23 ans. Ceci dit, rien ne les empêche d'être amis. Et puis, c'est moins dangereux... tant qu'on ne se lance pas, on n'a pas le cœur brisé, pas vrai ?

Chaos! That is what greets Miss Calliope St. James when she enters the household of her prospective employer, Lord Winn Hamilton, the Earl of Montgomery. The newly appointed guardian for his nieces and nephew, he’s clearly a man who has no idea what to do with children…and they are children who clearly know when the adults in charge haven’t a clue what they’re doing. But he is handsome. Terribly, temptingly handsome, even when he’s maddening.

Owning It, produced especially for Pride Month in collaboration with the historic live event and podcast Don’t Tell My Mother!, brings Audible Members a collection of uplifting, raw, and hilarious stories from queer actors, comedians, and personalities. Cohosted by beloved actress and activist Alexandra Billings and storytelling maven Nikki Levy, Owning It is a joyous celebration of LGBTQIA+ stories and icons.

In Scholarly Pursuits, the sixth full-length book in the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco mystery series, Locke explores life in University of California, Berkeley campus, in 1881. Laura and her friends face the remarkably modern problems of fraternity hazings, fraught romantic relationships, and fractious faculty politics.

Un micro. Un intervieweur invisible. Trois garçons et trois filles. Six personnages qui, ensemble, incarnent la génération dite des "millenials" - ceux qui sont devenus des adultes au tournant du nouveau millénaire. Qui ont appris à vivre à travers des écrans. Et qui tous, à leur manière, cherchent à comprendre ce que signifie "devenir adulte". Ou plutôt : à garder espoir dans un monde déjà foutu, où la politique ne pourrait plus rien... Qui sont nos héros ? Sonia, l'idéaliste un peu trop naïve. Samir, le garçon un peu trop sérieux.

It’s January 1881, and while the grownups in Annie and Nate Dawson’s San Francisco O’Farrell Street boardinghouse are busy with their own affairs, two boys and a dog find their own adventure. Ian Hennessey, a poor boy from South of Market, who is trying to shoulder a man’s responsibilities, gets in trouble, and his best friend, Jamie Hewitt, does what he can to help. But it is Jamie’s young Boston Terrier, Dandy, who saves the day.

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Mason Keller is broken, destructive, and the only man I've ever loved. I met him when I was just a child, but I knew there would never be anyone else. He lit my world with each smile and warmed my heart just by looking at me. But he was my brother's best friend...Which meant I was off limits. So he let me go and took my heart with him. Now everything has changed, and the obstacles that kept us apart all our lives are no longer in the way. He wants to claim me. He wants to own me. He wants to ravage my world. And if I'm not careful... I just might let him.

Hollywood vs. The Author is a collection of non-fiction anecdotes by authors who’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the development room firsthand - some who have successfully managed to straddle the two worlds, seeing their works morph into the kinds of feature films and TV shows that make them proud, and others who stepped blindsided into that room after selling their first or second novels. All the stories in this collection illustrate the great divide between the world of literature and the big or small screen.

The advice and concepts outlined in Automatic Wealth are best suited for those in their 30s-50s who recognize that their current job will never afford them true financial independence. Rather than encourage readers to quit their day jobs today and launch into a new scheme tomorrow, Masterson shows how to turn your skills and experience into significantly more money within seven to 15 years.

It's the very end of December, 1880, and the servant Kathleen Hennessey expects to spend a quiet week taking care of the O'Farrell Street boarding house while her employers, Annie and Nate Dawson, are off spending the Christmas holidays with Nate's family. However, when she agrees to help out one of her friends, Kathleen discovers that a simple case of a servant being dismissed without notice has turned into a complicated puzzle that she is determined to solve.

Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling delivers her first installment of the Dakotah Treasures series. Ruby, a Crossings Book Club Main Selection, is the story of a young woman who must leave behind the life she has grown accustomed to in order to start a new life in the bleak Dakota Territory.

Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel—already optioned by Sony Pictures—will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon. This is the next must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian. When Leo and Naomi are...

Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling continues the story of Ruby Torvald in book two of her Dakotah Treasures series. Ruby's most recent boarder at the Dove House is schoolteacher Pearl Hossfuss. Avoiding an arranged marriage, Pearl has deserted her home in Chicago to teach in Little Missouri. There she has befriended Ruby and fallen for carpenter Carl Hegland. But her father threatens to take her back home. Ruby must turn to God for the strength to stand up to her father.

In die eigenen Mitte zu finden ist oft ein Prozess mit mehreren Schritten. Die Mitte ist ein Weg eher als ein Zentrum, ein schwingendes Feld eher als ein Punkt, eine Weite eher als eine Begrenzung. Dies ist eine längere Imagination in die eigene Mitte über mehrere Stadien - Entscheidung, Gefühle loslassen, Vision erschaffen, Vision leben, Mitte finden.