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I needed money. He wanted my virginity. So I sold it. If I don't pay off my piles of debt, I'm going to lose the one thing I care about - my grandmother. She needs a place to live, people to take care of her, and there's no way I can afford it anymore. But I only have one thing worth any money. My virginity. It was a shot in the dark to put it up for auction online. What kind of person would even bid on something as perverted as this? Pierce Pinewood, that's who. He outbid everyone right away, making it clear he wanted to win.

She was supposed to be mine forever. But the night our fathers were killed, Sydney decided this life wasn't for her. So she ran. She left me, and our club behind. I never expected to see her on my doorstep six years later. With our child. She looks different, but she's still as beautiful as ever. Those hips, her sultry smile, I can't get over her. But she didn't leave the life, and she's got a DEA agent on her tail.

Nach ihrem Jura-Studium in New York ist Veronica Mars wieder zurück in ihrer Heimatstadt Neptune - dem Synonym für Sonne, Strand, Verbrechen und Korruption. Statt in schicken Büros reiche Klienten zu beraten, unterstützt sie ihren Vater, wie früher schon, bei seiner Arbeit als Privatdetektiv. Sie ist zurück im Spiel und bereit, sich erneut den dunklen Seiten der kalifornischen Kleinstadt zu widmen.

Stella n’est pas forte avec Mikaël. Il est une personne qui l’affaiblit. S’il la fait chier, elle se durcit sous l’effet de la colère et pavane sa fermeté devant lui avant de se retirer pour souffrir. S’il est gentil, le pire se produit : elle en est atrocement touchée et se répand en flaque à ses pieds. Rien d’équilibré n’est possible. Pourquoi?

England, 1918: Obwohl das Tragen roten Lippenstifts noch einem Skandal gleichkommt, stellt die junge Leonora in der Apotheke ihres Vaters heimlich Kosmetika her. Als ihr Vater an der Spanischen Grippe stirbt, sucht sie ihr Glück in Amerika und lernt den charmanten Everett kennen - und lieben. Doch um diese Liebe muss sie ebenso kämpfen wie um ihren Traum einer Kosmetikfirma. Denn auch in Manhattan gibt es Widerstand gegen den Wunsch der Frauen, selbst über ihr Aussehen zu entscheiden.

Marshal Howard is a death wish wrapped in mystery. Cold, rude, insanely overprotective single dad. Everyone in our little town warned me to stay far, far away. I didn't listen. I answered the castoff's nanny ad because no one else would. I got too close. I saw through his vicious reputation. He's a man who's turning my heart inside out, making me a fool. If it was just the bad blood with him and my family, maybe we'd work through this. Maybe we'd find paradise. Just me, him, and that adorable little girl. But surprises come in threes. Like the lines on the pregnancy test.

What if you're a suburban mom with a snarky sense of humor and a wild imagination prone to dreaming up disasters? What if you and your friends take your daughters for a camping trip, and while on a quick trip to the nearest country market you see a man being bullied and then beaten? What do you do? Back away quietly? Not if you're Molly Deacon, who, along with her Mittyesque imagination, has a temper not to be trifled with.

“I giorni del Cavaliere Solitario erano finiti; questa era l’età dei milioni di eroi.” Un viaggio intorno al mondo attraverso le azioni di gente comune che combatte il cambiamento climatico: dalle perdite di metano nel Mar Artico, all'Amazzonia resa arida dalla siccità fino alle pianure alluvionali del Gange e al fenomeno del fracking in Texas, tutti quanti sono collegati mediante il progetto Milioni di Occhi, una rete sperimentale che unisce virtualmente le persone quando hanno bisogno di ispirazione e supporto.

Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl's body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. In her signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between men and women, and the cruelties of everyday life.

She was a beautiful, reckless redhead who dared to offer herself as first prize in a college contest. He applied in verse - and won. Quinn Mallory basked in her discovery of passion even as she discovered Will Ingraham's love. He gave her everything - his heart, his soul - but he couldn't sell her his dream of a quiet life in Idaho. She wanted the bright lights, the excitement, and the adventure of the big city. Nothing could tarnish the glory of their love, until Quinn's dream of a television career began to come true.

Country music god Beau Mason has just announced his retirement from the business at age 30, and I've just scored the interview of a lifetime. My network is flying me to Kentucky for his final interview, and at his request I'll be spending a few days with him at his ranch. I should be thrilled. But I'm not. Beau and I have a history, and I haven't seen him since he obliterated my heart at the tender age of 18.

Silvan lebte. Er war entkommen. Und nun würde er mich jagen. Der langersehnte Teil 2 der Mafia-Liebesgeschichte! Spannend. Romantisch. Gefährlich.

1940: Als die Deutschen Paris einnehmen, wird die Haute-Couture-Schneiderin Estella in eine Mission der Résistance verwickelt, bei der sie dem geheimnisvollen Alex begegnet. In letzter Sekunde verhilft Estellas Mutter ihr zur Flucht, und sie gelangt nach New York – mit nicht mehr in der Tasche als einem goldenen Kleid und einem Traum: sich als Designerin in der von Männern beherrschten Welt der Mode einen Namen zu machen. Und dann steht sie auf einmal Alex gegenüber, der mehr über das Schicksal ihrer in Frankreich gebliebenen Mutter weiß, als er preisgeben will...

I'm about to go nuclear. Yet I have to smile and pretend I won't slap him into the next century. James Nobel and I have history. A man like him breaks laws with that suit and that smirk. So how could I ever forget my first? Or pelting an Adonis with crumpled love notes in class? We were young and dumb and lied about forever. Then he disappeared. Maybe I always wanted to know why, but not like this. James, my personal bodyguard. James, who still makes me crave one more night of bad decisions. Worse, we're snowed in with my very important father and his enemies.

I'm on my last nerve. And I'm supposed to marry him to save my skin. Riker Woods might be God's hottest contradiction. Perfectly damaged. Stubborn soul. Moth to flame gaze. Single dad. Fierce protector. Kind...when he thinks no one's looking. Then along came little old me.

I'm no prisoner. And I'm no coward. I won't stay locked away at the clubhouse hiding from those *ssholes, The Devil Saints. So I go to a bar, away from my brothers. I need a break from all the chaos. Until drama walks right through the door. Laiken. The one who got away. Or I pushed away, I can barely remember. She's looking fine in that police uniform. I wonder if she'd let me use those cuffs on her. But we can't be together. A patched member and a cop? No. But you know what they say. The heart wants what it can't have.

The last time my father beat me to a bloody pulp was the night he walked in on me with his woman in his bed. To be fair, she seduced me. And to be honest, I liked it. But to CPS, I was a victim. They shipped me to Utah, where my estranged mother lived with her husband and two sister-wives. And that's when I met her. My innocent, wholesome, perfect step-sister. Well, one of many. But Waverly stood out because just like me, we'd been fighting a losing battle our entire lives. Falling for her was a mistake, but shit, it's not like I ever made good decisions.

Hannah and Kate became friends in the fifth grade, when Hannah hit a boy for looking up Kate's skirt with a mirror. While they've been close as sisters ever since, Hannah can't help but feel envious of the little family Kate and her husband, David, have created - complete with two perfect little girls. She and Ben have been trying for years to have a baby, so when they receive the news that she will likely never get pregnant, Hannah's heartbreak is overwhelming. But just as they begin to tentatively explore the other options, it's Kate's turn to do the rescuing.

Interior designer Fiona McCrae has left fast-paced Manhattan to move back home to peaceful Blueberry Cove. But she's barely arrived before she's hooked in to planning her big sister Hannah's Christmas wedding - in less than seven weeks. The last thing she needs is for her first love, Ben Campbell, to return to neighboring Snowflake Bay....

Shaw Matthews plays to win, and he intends to snag a coveted partnership at San Diego's hottest sports agency by signing America's top athlete. Only one woman stands in his way: rival agent Cassidy Whalen. But eliminating the competition will be Shaw's pleasure when he concocts an ingenious plan to seduce Cassidy and show the beautiful ballbreaker who's the better man for the job. That is until Cassidy turns the tables - and their steamy encounters start breaking all the rules.