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As your future doctor, Maureen Miller is getting the best 21st century medical education post-financial crisis America can buy. Her profession's in flux, her life's sometimes a mess, but if she doesn't know how to solve any of her problems, at least she can search for answers online: Do you get a good cell phone signal in the hospital? How do you help solve the financial crisis in American health care when you have a hard time finishing a premed problem set?

Born during the Cuban revolution in 1959, Yocandra learns that for a woman to survive in the world of communist machismo, she must use all her assets - her body, her wits, and most importantly, her ability to transform disillusionment into wonder.

When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time. Although he had lived little in nature Levin had always loved it, and the sense of having done the right thing in leaving New York was renewed in him."

Driving home after being kicked out of college, Tucker meets and picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. Infatuated, and with nothing better to do, he ends up with her in St. Louis, where he gets a job as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Even though he’s a gwai lo—a foreign devil—his cooking skills impress the Chinese patrons of the restaurant, and his wooing skills impress Corinne when she joins him there as a waitress.

Sarah Anderson has found her dream job: Clerk of Court for the District of Columbia Night Court. Dream job, that is, until she’s attacked in the open courtroom by a vampire defendant. And until she’s forced to take self-defense lessons from her boss, the enigmatic vampire James Morton. And until she learns that she can’t share the truth about any of that with her best friend, Allison Ward – even over delectable cupcakes from the Cake Walk bakery.

A longtime contributor to Field and Stream, Bill Heavey knew more than a little about hunting and fishing when he embarked on an ambitious project a few years ago to see how far he could get eating wild. But Heavey knew next to nothing about gardening or foraging, and he lives in northern Virginia, close to Washington, D.C. The rural wilds, this was not. Is it any surprise that his tasty triumphs were equaled by his hilarious misadventures?

The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia - with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.’s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he’d rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal.

Back in January 1995 in Los Angeles, California, a Singaporean pornstar named Annabel Chong took cultural rebellion to an extreme, on terms that had never been negotiated before. She was filmed having sex with a long receiving line of men, servicing them 251 times over a ten-hour period to set a new world record: The World’s Biggest Gangbang.

Whether you are sending an email, twittering, or just wondering if it’s appropriate to answer your phone, here are the answers to all your communication questions. Covering phones, the Internet, television, and much, much more, this accessible and lively handbook provides up-to-date information on all your modern electronic needs. Written by the founders of the National League of Junior Cotillions, this book provides the listener with access to information sought after by hundreds of people.

It’s the 1st of December and Milly Arnold is facing a miserable Noel. Newly single, the last thing she wants to do is join her settled sister and her young family for the first of their traditions: the writing of the Christmas lists. However Milly’s nephews have other ideas and insist she write a list of her own (with illustrations to help Father Christmas decipher her terrible handwriting). Milly duly makes a request for a bunch of roses, some chocolate and a new pair of shoes. She doesn’t expect to get any of it. However, that very day, a box of chocolates appears....

From fireflies and hummingbirds to alligators and sharks, this collection of 50 brief essays combines witty prose and vivid illustrations to reveal the secret lives and oddball behaviors of North American creatures both familiar and little known. In Grizzled, science journalist Jason Bittel taps into current research about the behavior of key North American mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, from insects to urchins.

Despite being son to Don Allesandro Fugue, AKA Big Al, AKA The Al Mighty, AKA King of the Denver streets, Tommy Fugue has never had much interest in the family business. But when his father assigns him the “summer job” of mastering digital money laundering, Tommy figures he can list some fake projects on FunFunder, pledge them with zombie accounts, and clean a dirty $20,000 in time for college in the fall.

Terra di nessuno è ambientato alla fine dell'agosto 1937, nei giorni precedenti alla Battaglia di Belchite durante la guerra civile spagnola, ma non si tratta assolutamente di un romanzo di guerra. È un avvincente romanzo d'avventura ricco di humour che ha come protagonisti Alex Riley e il suo inseparabile amico Joaquín Alcántara che, senza volerlo, si vedranno coinvolti in una temeraria missione di salvataggio proprio sotto il naso dell'esercito di Franco.

Es hat doch alles so gut angefangen, damals vor dreißig Jahren. Mit vollem Haar und Lederjacke füllte Tommy zusammen mit seiner Band die Konzerthallen in der südschwedischen Provinz. Der Plattenvertrag war nur noch Formsache, und mit Martina hat er seine absolute Traumfrau gefunden. Die ganze Welt hätte er erobern können! Doch dann kam das dazwischen, was man Leben nennt... Und nun steht Tommy vor den Scherben seiner Träume: Martina weg, Job weg - und für die Musik war schon lange keine Zeit mehr gewesen.

Nach der langjährigen Beziehung mit ihrem Jugendfreund möchte die souveräne Immobilienmaklerin Mackenna Heard erst einmal das Alleinsein genießen. Diesen Plan hat sie jedoch ohne ihre Freundinnen gemacht. Deren Meinung nach hat sie reichlich Nachholbedarf in Sachen Sex und sie nötigen Mackenna daher zu einer To-do-Liste der besonderen Art. Was als Spaßprojekt beginnt, wird umso reizvoller, als Blake in ihr Leben tritt und sie unbeholfen von einem Abenteuer ins nächste stolpert – Missverständnisse und Komplikationen inbegriffen.

Au Spa Alfonso, niché au cœur de l’Andalousie, une équipe de professionnels de la santé prend soin d’une clientèle cosmopolite grâce à des techniques vivifiantes. Marie-Claude Le Goff, sexagénaire active, énarque et autoritaire, y rumine sa rage d’avoir été plaquée par son mari. Elle se lie d’amitié avec une autre curiste, Isabelle Kurland, veuve inconsolable, rêveuse et romantique.

Der junge Spitzenkoch Ben arbeitet in einem Delikatessenladen am Chiemsee. Als Seelentröster für das Freundinnen-Trio Anna, Ilona und Zoe ist er unersetzlich. Nach einer gescheiterten Beziehung hat er die Nase von der Liebe gestrichen voll. Doch bei einem Auftrag für eine schwierige Kundin steht plötzlich der Astrophysiker Florian vor ihm – und nun liegt es an den drei Freundinnen, ihrem Ben auf die Sprünge zu helfen, damit er sein Glück findet.

Dalla fine della primavera molti italiani entrano in una strana agitazione e non solo per le scadenze fiscali: è il momento di affrontare la questione delle vacanze estive, almeno per gli imprevidenti che non si sono organizzati prima e al netto di restrizioni pandemiche e mascherine varie. Sbiadito il mito del low-cost, bisogna fare i conti col carovita e in qualche caso ricorrere al mutuo balneare, pur di non apparire "sfigati" sui social, dove postare le foto delle vacanze è ormai un obbligo.

A pesar de que en treinta años de vida no lo conoció, Trinidad Ríos necesita encontrar a su padre. Tiene miedo de ser rechazada, aunque el miedo no le es inusual: toda su vida, desde la madrugada que quedó huérfana en la salvaje jungla de Madre de Dios, en la selva sur del Perú, hasta que tuvo que escapar a la ciudad de Lima, ha tenido que luchar contra tratantes de mujeres, mineros ilegales, trabas machistas y una sociedad extremadamente racista.

Em um dos programas, Lucas resolve debochar de uma astróloga, Dandara. Acontece que ela não é uma astróloga comum e, como punição, joga uma maldição no apresentador: pelos próximos doze dias, daquele até o dia do aniversário de Lucas, ele despertará com as piores características de cada um dos signos. Se não conseguir se tornar uma pessoa empática até lá, o ciclo da maldição se repetirá para sempre.