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With Prejudice is a romantic yet harsh action story of runaway soldier Michael Carver and a young Cherokee woman called Little Deer who find each other when their worlds collide in 1838 America. Amid the destruction of the Native tribes and their forced migration out west to the new Indian Territory, Michael becomes disillusioned with the army and the treatment of the indigenous people and decides to leave it all behind and return to his farm in Virginia.

Hay muchas maneras de decir adiós, hay instantes únicos en los que la ficción y la memoria se hibridan y enraízan en una misma página para exhibir la red de una despedida. De este umbral doloroso germinan las historias encadenadas con las que Clara Obligado nos acerca a tres mujeres y sus profundas pérdidas, a los diversos espacios y tiempos en que les tocó vivir.

Una ragazza è seduta su una ruota di scorta bucata, in mezzo al nulla della campagna novarese. I suoi capelli, un tempo rosa zucchero filato, ora sono un garbuglio di colori improbabili. Pochi riconoscerebbero in lei Cloro, celebrità di internet con milioni di follower in tutto il mondo. Insieme a lei, a tentare di riparare un'auto che ha macinato migliaia di chilometri, c'è Leo, trentaquattrenne disilluso, che dalla vita non ha avuto nulla di ciò che si aspettava - e dire che non si aspettava molto.

Questo memoir, scritto nella lingua ispirata e inconfondibile di Tea Ranno, si apre con un risveglio in ospedale: Tea ha quarantacinque anni ed è appena stata operata d'urgenza per un'infezione che, partita dall'utero, è arrivata a infuocarle l'intestino, il fegato, i polmoni. Soffre di endometriosi da quando è giovanissima. Ma questa volta ne è quasi morta. L'endometriosi è una malattia cronica che colpisce molte donne. Le cause non sono ancora del tutto chiare, la diagnosi spesso è complessa e non esiste una cura definitiva.

"Kannst du mir dein Herz zeigen?"– Ausgerechnet diese Frage muss die junge Anthropologin Paula beantworten, nachdem sie im Amazonas lebensgefährlich von einer Giftspinne gebissen wird. Geschwächt trifft sie in einem fernen Urwalddorf auf das wissbegierige Mädchen Aya, die schnell zu einer wertvollen Freundin wird. Dort lernt sie auch den Stammeskönig und schließlich eine weise Schamanin kennen. In nur wenigen Tagen erkennt sie, dass tiefe Verbindungen zu anderen Menschen die größten Abenteuer von allen sind und dass diese Verbindungen nur mit offenen Herzen entstehen und wachsen können.

The stakes are the highest they've ever been when fate decides now is the time for me to start a wild phoenix chase... I'm still not sure I'm meant to be Relic Keeper but the work is never-ending. What's on the agenda now? A call for help from Phoebe that sends me and my trusty sidekicks into action. The Emberflare phoenix clan is missing a very important relic. And while the circumstances are mysterious at best and nefarious at worst, the most important thing is that we retrieve it. And this is no ordinary knick-knack. It's the Phoenix Flame itself!

Caffè in der Wüste: Giulia Caminito erzählt vom italienischen Leben in Eritrea, von einer starken, übergroßen Mutter – und von einer jungen Frau, die sich ihre Freiheit erst nach und nach erkämpft. Ein historischer Roman von herber Schönheit. Die Lombardei im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die Menschen suchen Zuflucht vor ständigen Bombenangriffen, deutsche Besatzer jagen Partisanen, das Essen wird rationiert. Die 13-jährige Giada wohnt bei ihrer Tante, einer gläubigen Faschistin, Gewalt und Entbehrung prägen den Alltag.

Unlucky in love, Julia takes a radical step and travels solo to a spiritual retreat in Kefalonia. With an agenda to avoid men, work on healing her inner rage, balance her chakras and eat lots of Greek food, the Mediterranean heat is exactly what she needs. But before she leaves the airport, Julia meets Vincent, a handsome Spanish architect, who challenges her spiky aura in more ways than one.

Elenore struggles to heal emotionally from an accident years before that killed her boyfriend and uses substances to get through. When she becomes pregnant and her current boyfriend beats her, she flees to a man who has just been biding his time, waiting to make her life a living nightmare of which she sees no way to escape.

Hochsommer auf Usedom: Sonne. Meer. Tod! Vor der Ostseeinsel Usedom wird im Fangnetz eines Kutters ein Toter gefunden. Zunächst sieht es so aus, als sei der Fischer ins Wasser gestürzt und in die Schiffsschraube geraten, doch schnell stellt sich heraus, dass er ermordet wurde.

In a world ravaged by climate change, a mysterious time travel agency known as the Program sends carefully selected Heroes back in time on missions to prevent environmental damage before it happens. Sloane Burrows secretly longs to be a Hero and restore the natural world of her childhood—a world she can envision with absolute clarity because of her superpower memory. But her father raised Sloane to believe her “freak memory” is a shameful flaw that should be hidden from the world. Sloane stuffs her dream of being a Hero and conceals her memory to the point of making herself sick.

In the murky underbelly of the Spanish criminal world, a brutal battle rages for control of the cocaine trade. Caught in the crossfire is Joseph, a boy who's deaf and haunted by a strange gift - the ability to communicate with the dead. Torn from the only life he's known, Joseph's English mother, sends him on a perilous journey along the Camino de Santiago, to her estranged father, Fish - an ex-squaddie and Chief Warder of the Tower of London, a fortress, like Fish, steeped in history and dark secrets.

O verão chegou e, com ele, a temporada de casamentos em Nantucket, uma ilha paradisíaca localizada em Massachusetts. Véus e grinaldas preenchem a praia junto com o pôr do sol no azul do mar. É nesse cenário de sonho que acontecerá o evento mais aguardado do ano: a união de Benji Winbury e Celeste Otis. E ela promete ser inesquecível, afinal a família milionária do noivo não poupou despesas para receber os convidados em sua enorme propriedade à beira-mar.

In the dawning of summer, the rugged landscape of rural Alaska sets the stage for a tale of determination and dark secrets. Headstrong Bunny O'Kelly arrives on the sprawling expanses of Buck Miller's horse ranch with the fiery ambition to make a name for herself. Against the backdrop of wild horses and unchecked wilderness, she embarks on a grueling journey to prove her worth, not just as a ranch hand, but as a woman in a world that doesn't want her.

34-year-old Willa is a successful hairstylist in Orlando with great friends, a supportive mother, and a lovely home. Everything is fine in her life, but for her, fine doesn't seem like enough. She feels caught in the clutches of the routine. Something needs to change, so she embarks on an adventure to clear her mind and learn how to live a life that is truly happy.

Grace’s life in the Anderson household is predictable and painful but not without merit. She is one of five slaves owned and stabled on the beautiful, sprawling estate. She’s well-fed, housed, even allowed to be intimate with other slaves. But she knows her best friend is nearby. She saw her on the street.

In einem kleinen Waldstück bei Vimmerby, mitten in der schwedischen Provinz, wird eine weibliche Leiche gefunden. Sie hat weder Handy noch Papiere bei sich. Die Ermittler Marten Henriksson und Lena Wallin - einst glücklich verheiratet - übernehmen den Fall und kämpfen währenddessen mit ihrer gemeinsamen Vergangenheit.

Cinco antiguas amigas de un internado vuelven a reunirse quince años después de su graduación. Ahora son mujeres muy bellas de treinta años con buena posición social. Tres de ellas se han casado y las otras dos solteras han logrado por méritos propios un envidiable status: una como...

Soley hat alles, was sie sich je erträumt hat: Erfolg, Geld, einen gutaussehenden Freund. Doch obschon von den Fans bejubelt, fühlt sich die Sängerin auf der Bühne so allein wie noch nie. Als nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter Rose auf dem Familienanwesen das Ölgemälde einer Frau auftaucht, die aussieht wie sie, glimmt eine Sehnsucht in ihr auf. Sie muss herausfinden, wer diese Frau war und was sie mit ihr zu tun hat. Auf eigene Faust folgt sie den Spuren des Bildes nach Island, und sie taucht ein in die Geschichte eines Landes, mit dem sie tiefer verbundener ist, als sie es je hätte ahnen können.

Elsa, una joven pintora, se ha visto obligada a abandonar su casa ante unas amenazas de muerte de las que desconoce la razón, y se traslada a otra ciudad a vivir con su abuelo. En un clima opresivo, Elsa redescubre las relaciones humanas, y se mueve entre la historia familiar, plagada de...