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In the center of a magical world there grows a beautiful and terrible chasm of climbing plants. On one side of the Ivy Wall we find the hell-of-Tyndra, on the other, the heaven-of-Ardnyt. But legend has it that in the middle…lives a preternatural beast that imprisons and tortures the children from both sides. When the war against time begins, Azza will have to cross over the Ivy Wall, something that has never been done before by a living being. But if she does make it through, she just might discover who she really is and how she became trapped in this alternate reality.

Elise Phillips, a doctor in training, has successfully repressed her kidnapping five years prior. The only problem is...she has six and one half days to remember every terrible detail, or a total stranger will die. But to make matters even worse, in order to save this nameless woman, Elise will have to face something that scares her even more than death-intimacy.

Devyn Mitchell has a choice… listen to the voice of her unborn baby - or die - again. After a near death experience, Doctor Devyn Mitchell finds herself not only mysteriously pregnant but able to communicate with her fetus. She has two choices: give in to total madness or surrender to her new reality, which just may be the only way she and her family will survive the obsessions of the Homeless Hunter’s mind.

In a land similar to South Africa, twin brothers are beset by powerful forces beyond their understanding or control in this thrilling blend of science fiction, horror, magic, and dark humor—evocative of the works of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor—from the author of The Prey...

From one of China’s foremost authors, Jia Pingwa’s Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi’an in search of better life.

Maggie had fallen on hard times, and money was running out fast. She could see no way out of her situation until she answered a mysterious advert in the newspaper for participants in a medical trial. With the promise of a large payday, Maggie signed up. Having been drugged to make her more compliant, Maggie now found herself in a milking pen, strapped up to a complicated supporting structure. Kept subdued by a drug added to the contents of her feed - which was available to her through a carefully positioned pipe - Maggie had no idea that she was just one of hundreds of such women participating in the same ‘trial’.

In ihrer idyllischen Kleinstadt führt Hannah ein beschauliches und normales Leben, bis ein schreckliches Ereignis all ihre Wünsche und Hoffnungen für die Zukunft zunichte macht. Nur das Angebot einer mysteriösen Frau, die sich als Erdmutter vorstellt, könnte Hannah ihr altes Leben wiedergeben. Doch will die junge Frau wirklich zu einer der Jahreszeiten ausgebildet werden, um fortan in Gaias Diensten zu stehen? Eine Entscheidung, die Hannahs Leben für immer verändern wird.

Sam takes his first steps into the wonderful world of BDSM, trained by the experienced Miss Raven. But does he have the courage to see his lesson through or will he go crying home to mummy? He'll only know once the punishment starts, but by then it's too late to change his mind....

Maggie has fallen on hard times, recently having lost her job as a secretary at a PR firm. About to resort to desperate measures, she notices a mysterious advert in the newspaper asking for volunteers for a clinical trial. On the promise of a significant pay-day, Maggie agrees to cut off all ties with the outside world, but is she really ready to take on the role of human cow that the mysterious pharmaceutical company have in mind for her? This prologue to the erotic Maggie the Milked Maid series is a must for milk-lovers everywhere.

Mars, the red planet, is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie's extra-terrestrial spiders to Captain Scarlet to War of the Worlds. It has inspired hundreds of authors, scientists and science-fiction writers - but why? What is it about this particular planet that makes it so intriguing? Ancient mythologies defined Mars as a violent harbinger of war, star-gazers puzzled over its peculiar motion, and astrologers defined human personalities by its position and bizarre dance through the sky.

In this book, some of the core principals of NLP will be explained and many of the techniques that are said to make the magic happen will be talked about. The model itself can be viewed as a guide to living a certain way, or it can be used to compliment your own philosophy. You could also use it to convince people of just about anything. The key to using NLP effectively is perseverance. You can try and you can fail, but the positivity that is needed to pick yourself back up again is sometimes a heavy load, so NLP offers solutions for this as well.

Theodore Roosevelt was the president who changed America and molded it into the country that we know and love today. He was the man who took the Presidency to new heights and introduced new powers that were designed to tackle many of the pressing issues of the day.

When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected. Not for London newsman Sam Kerr, hunting a story that will win him the editor's chair, who instead nets one that could wreck his career.

Shocking family news forces Madeline Wetherby to abandon her plans to marry an earl and settle for upstart Manchester merchant Nash Quinn. When she discovers that her birth father is one of the weavers her husband is putting out of work-and a radical leader-Maddie must decide which family she truly desires, the man of her heart or the people of her blood.

What's the harm in a little white lie? Especially when it could carry so much good-a new life for a wounded soldier, catharsis after long years of war, and an opportunity for lady composer Olivia Delancey to finally hear her music played in public. Newspaper publisher Will Marsh refuses to compound the sins of his father's generation by taking money to print propaganda. But with the end of the wars in France and America, he needs something new to drive Londoners to grab his paper first.

Personal style is incredibly important when it comes to how we feel about ourselves; it affects confidence, influence and reception. After all, most of the information we get about ourselves and other people is absorbed visually, and its impact cannot be underestimated. We should all be reinventing our personal style throughout our lives, and not just when there is a big change or a seismic event.

The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has based his latest film starring Christian Bale to be released in 2012. This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in...

Este libro es un crudo relato autobiográfico que se asemeja al bestseller internacional La cruz y el puñal. Casey Díaz llegó a este país cuando tenía dos años, siendo el hijo mayor de inmigrantes salvadoreños que se establecieron en los suburbios del centro de Los Ángeles en la década...

The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imaginative saga begun in Escaping Exodus, in which a society lives in the belly of a beast—and an entire civilization's survival depends on a pair of...

When the twin princesses fall under a dreadful spell, little Betty and her gang must find the cure — oh, and stop a wicked wizard from building a theme park on the island of Little Dollop. The princesses of Wobbly Rock, Pam and Pamm, have swooned into a coma, thanks to a bunch of poisonous daffodils inadvertently given to them by Betty's swashbuckling, moustachioed 11-year-old cousin, Freddy Steady.